Maybe they are not fans of American citizens being shot in the face?

Which specific incident are you referring to? Not the one where the American citizen tried to run over the ICE agent with her car, right?

the usual flipfloppers who support both the Jan 6 riot and the killings of anybody not agreeing with their dear leader

You're either not American or are much less in tune with what's happened than you think.

By the way. "Iran is a bad government" and "I don't want an avoidable, illegal hot war with Iran" can coexist.

Clearly that one although it is unclear if she really wanted to run him over. That was a sorry event on all sides from the 'professional protesters' who think they can just interfere with police operations without running any risk themselves - the woman's partner screamed 'why did you use real bullets' - to the policeman who, having been dragged along by an illegal several weeks ago was clearly hair-triggered when it comes to vehicular assault.

The lesson to be learned here is that a) protesters should realise that they are bound by the same laws as all others no matter how virtuous they consider their causes to be and that interfering with police operations comes with real risks and b) the combination of such actions by protesters with the experiences police officers have had during encounters with their targets can make them react in ways which it can be assumed they'd normally not have done. Shooting that woman did not reduce the risk for the police officer, at all. It actually increased the risk of damage to him or others because wounded or dead people behind the wheel can turn vehicles into unguided projectiles.

A balanced statement. But unwelcome in these unreasonable times where you're supposed to pick one crowd or be treated like an enemy.

“I have had it with these anti-matter protons on this anti-matter truck!”

Or something.

If it’s not five nines then I’m not interested.

This sounds like a job for <ta-ta-ta-taaaa> contrib-directory-man!

So your solution to “I’d be interested in having a small ready-made tool and try this out” is “spend a bunch of time to get acquainted with the code base of something you may not even like, create a separate tool, and submit it without even knowing if it’ll be accepted”?

That’s like having someone looking at a display of ice cream in a supermarket saying “I’d be interested in trying a few samples before committing” and then getting a reply like “here are the recipes for all the ice creams, you can try to make them at home and taste them for yourself”.

I know I could theoretically spend my weekend working on a CLI tool for this or making ice cream. Every developer knows that, there’s no reason to point that out except snark. But you know who might do it even faster and better and perhaps even enjoy it? The author.

Look, the maintainer owes me nothing. I owe them nothing. This project has been shared to HN by the author and I’m making a simple, sensible, and sensical suggestion for something which I would like to see and believe would be an improvement overall, and I explained why. The author is free to agree or disagree, reply or ignore. Every one of those options is fine.

You’re not wrong, but you probably could have built the thing with Claude in the time it took you to write this comment.

You could likely have written that tool in the time that it took to write that comment.

If it would be useful to you, and to others, then why not?

And if it is not accepted then publish it yourself. Stop your whining.

I have explained why up the thread. I gave three reasons. Why are you feeling the need to be unnecessarily combative to a stranger on the internet? The author already said they think it’s a good idea and that they’ll work on it over the weekend, you’re being rude over nothing.

Someone gave you a constructive suggestion.

> (which I don’t enjoy) > (which I avoid) > (which I don’t want)

You are quite the negative Nelly.

> The author already said they think it’s a good idea and that they’ll work on it over the weekend

Did you even say “thank you”?

Am I talking to the secret HN account of JD Vance right now?

I upvoted. Comments saying just thank you aren’t the norm for HN. No need to furiously send multiple replies to the same comment, either. There’s a link to the guidelines at the bottom if you need a refresher.

Source?

American propaganda.

Genuine question - was your fair consideration prior to or after J6?

Both.

Interesting

As I recall that changed the size of the (vector graphic) icons in the window.

Though it has been twenty-odd years since I last used an SGI box so open to correction!

Yes, it was essentially a "zoom" wheel.

Here in the UK the leader of the opposition frequently refers to herself as an engineer.

She was a software engineer. LOL.

(I speak as someone with a degree in Computer Science and Software “Engineering”, and an inglorious past as a Chemical Engineering student)

UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has both an engineering degree (computer systems engineering) and a law degree. Best of both worlds?

Touché!

!

Reminds me of the apocryphal story of Victor Hugo asking his publisher how his new novel was doing with a single “?”. The publisher replied “!”.

Do your boss could still save themselves 50% of the work.