cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pinkEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Python does have a year option that they are not using.

    No, it doesn’t:

    help(datetime.timedelta) 
    Help on class timedelta in module datetime:

class timedelta(builtins.object)
 |  Difference between two datetime values.
 |
 |  timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)
 |
 |  All arguments are optional and default to 0.
 |  Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?English
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    2 months ago

    How exactly do they hope to lock devs in github??? That’s absurd, there’s no way they can achieve that. I can always take my projects elsewhere and there’s nothing they can do to stop me.

    I can’t tell if you’re joking? If not, what do you think “lock-in” actually means?

    It doesn’t mean that it is impossible to leave, it means that there is substantial switching cost. And, that is certainly the case for github-hosted projects: all active contributors need to make a new account somewhere else, issues and discussions need to be migrated, CI workflows typically need to be rewritten, and good luck finding something that gives as much free compute for CI as github does. Yes, it’s easy to mirror a git repo onto another service, but github is much much more than just git repo hosting and each of their features have their own switching cost.

    Also, OP actually said “lock devs in” rather than “lock projects in” - I actually am forced to have a github account if i want to contribute to projects which refuse to move their issues off of it 😢 … and the difficulty in creating new accounts anonymously these days prevents me from contributing to several things (lemmy, for instance) which i otherwise would.

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