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Found this gem in one of the config files for Fedora Sway:

"This horror has to exist because...there are actual implementations that take this seriously..."

Oh Fedora Sway, you so sassyyyyy

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An overly dramatic programmer writes a useful comment explaining their implementation? I like it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Did I just hear a trumpet?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Found a typo on line 172: quesiton -> question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google Chrome has lots of oddball issues. I've got a personal gripe with Chrome animations. Chrome animates elements on page load occasionally. Animations can and do de-sync in that weird state for some ungodly reason. What I love about this particular bug is that the bug ceases to exist when you use the built-in animation debugger. So Chrome got an animation debugger, but that animation debugger changes the state of animations to an extent that it becomes useless to troubleshoot animations in some situations. Mind blowing.

Edit: Lemmy doesn't let me post the code snippet for some reason. But it boils down to a temporary class that nullifies animations. When Chrome fires the page load event, the code removes the temporary class.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

The more I program, the more I realize hacks like these are the direct result of someone doing something wrong somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had to compile perl from source once and the whole make process was pretty amusing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Congratulations, now I want to compile perl out of curiosity