> Do you still not believe most email is formatted at 78 characters?
> Do you still not believe most email is formatted at 78 characters? Really? I've stated my reasoning, you haven't refuted that or explained any alternative. You've essentially stated that you don't know either (you haven't really read your users' emails, have you?), and I have explained why it doesn't matter anyhow, so I don't see any need to refute anything. > No, we've already discussed why they're worse and you haven't even attempted to rebut it. No, we haven't. > they not representative of common email use cases (a) Yes, they are - are you maybe confusing use cases (what it's for) with workflows (how it's applied to that use case)? (b) How exactly is that even relevant? Because linux kernel developers are not representative of email users, it's fine to break email in a way that doesn't work for linux kernel developers? I mean, kinda my whole initial point was that exactly that is terrible engineering. > for the same reasons I have mentioned earlier Actually, you haven't. > which you have not refuted in any way. As such, there is little to refute. > They do, but displaying email is a critical part of email clients. so? > Another part of email list etiquette: Part of that is that you sincerely try to understand the other side's position, don't quote out of context, don't misrepresent, don't just repeat talking points without actually considering and addressing the other side's arguments, question your own implicit assumptions, ... - that avoids the frustration that you are seeing there.
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Legit what one of our clients problem was.
sounds painful, just searched on "how can i get ms office running in linux using wine" and the results included a containerised windows v...
Appreciate MCP server availability, will help integrate with Claude.
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and...
Why is there no write through unionfs in Linux?
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes https://github.com/embeddedkafka/...
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes.
I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.
> Do you still not believe most email is formatted at 78 characters?
> Do you still not believe most email is formatted at 78 characters? Really? I've stated my reasoning, you haven't refuted that or explained any alternative. You've essentially stated that you don't know either (you haven't really read your users' emails, have you?), and I have explained why it doesn't matter anyhow, so I don't see any need to refute anything. > No, we've already discussed why they're worse and you haven't even attempted to rebut it. No, we haven't. > they not representative of common email use cases (a) Yes, they are - are you maybe confusing use cases (what it's for) with workflows (how it's applied to that use case)? (b) How exactly is that even relevant? Because linux kernel developers are not representative of email users, it's fine to break email in a way that doesn't work for linux kernel developers? I mean, kinda my whole initial point was that exactly that is terrible engineering. > for the same reasons I have mentioned earlier Actually, you haven't. > which you have not refuted in any way. As such, there is little to refute. > They do, but displaying email is a critical part of email clients. so? > Another part of email list etiquette: Part of that is that you sincerely try to understand the other side's position, don't quote out of context, don't misrepresent, don't just repeat talking points without actually considering and addressing the other side's arguments, question your own implicit assumptions, ... - that avoids the frustration that you are seeing there.
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