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git question, addressing everyone's responses 

Unfortunately it's part of a build system, so I can't rename it - it has to be stack.yaml

I can't set it to work on both because I need these lines on my system:

nix:
enable: true

and those lines don't work without nixos.

I can't use the global gitignore because I have stack.yaml in other repositories that use stack, and I have to commit the file in those.

and the .git/info/exclude file doesn't seem to work

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git question 

I'm working in a repository made by someone else, and it includes a build file.

This build file should NOT change upstream, however in order for it to build on my system I needed to make some OS-specific changes to the file.

Is there a way to tell git "hey, don't commit this file, and just leave it the way it is" without either removing my modifications to the file or sending my modifications upstream?

organisation stuff 

I think the organising sheet turned into a todo list, and todo lists never work

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organisation stuff 

Well the organising sheet (first image) didn't work out – I didn't use it for a month.

But the "fill in a dot when you successfully do a task" sheet (second image) has been working well

(no image descriptions because I don't have the energy right now, and they're very visual organisation systems)

mastodon bug 

Sometimes, this happens: one post repeats itself into my feed forever, until it's all full up

hjdskghsdjkghksd

image description: A site which says "One day you will find here a user guide"

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wait hold on, there's not even a manual, these are compiling instructions

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*goes to a website for a piece of software*

What does it do?

*website has download links, a manual, a history, installation instructions... but no description of what the program is for*

meta 

I'm unfollowing all non-mutuals for the next while, my timeline is too much right now

useful bash/zsh/fish command you might not know 

If you want to delete an empty folder, you might be tempted to use

rm -r

but this is dangerous - you could delete the wrong folder by accident and loose a lot of files.
Luckily, there's this command:

rmdir

which allows you to delete an empty directory, and will refuse to do anything if it's not empty!

doctor who, music 

oh my gods

I'm watching clips from Series 10 – it's the only modern series I haven't seen (it was broadcast last year).

And there's a point where they meet missy, and she's playing Erik Satie on a piano

aa

someone is going to h*ck for this
(no listed source from my source)

bad joke, thanks to PowerShell default aliases 

the man wondered how to get help
so they asked their friend, knowing that they used PowerShell the friend had an great response.

man Get-Help -online

they found all the wisdom they needed that day, in their browser of choice too!

(Get-Help is aliased to man by default, the online flag opens the page using system defaults)

Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ] 

Did you know: they didn't copy the footage from the previous week's cliffhanger scene for the start of the next episode. They re-performed the scene, on a new tape.

Earlier on, this was very obvious, but it's been much less obvious with the last 2 seasons!

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Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ] 

The villain in The Invasion has a huge moving wall that hides a secret machine, and the wall takes several seconds to open or close. I'm surprised he hasn't been caught with it open

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Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ] 

"yes, we saw 2 women walk into the building - one fair, one dark"

heck, you wouldn't hear that nowadays – people would think you're describing their skin colour!

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I'm excited for Doctor Who next week...

(even though I'm 31 seasons behind in my watch through)

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