In what situations does this solve a problem?

In our projects we only enable squash merge in GitHub and the PRs can have any commits you want. The squashed commit includes link to PR, and PR has detailed summary (which wouldn’t be practical in the commit message).

Agreed. It's been a decade or more since I and the teams I worked with did anything other than squash-merging a feature branch into main. The PR body becomes the commit body for the squash, and we're done.

Developers can be as f'n messy as they want on their branches, no one cares because it never hits main.

Admittedly git absorb solves a smaller problem. Because if you do squash merges and leave the history in GitHub you have much bigger problems.

Since I can't reply to a dead comment:

As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure.

Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines.

Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.

The following goes a long way:

    setopt PROMPT_SUBST
    HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history
    HISTSIZE=100000
    SAVEHIST=100000
    PROMPT='%B%(?..%F{red}%?%f )%F{blue}%~ %F{green}%#%f%b '
    RPROMPT='%B%F{red}$(git branch --show-current 2> /dev/null)%f%b'

And if you want autosuggestions:

    brew install zsh-autosuggestions

Then add the following to your ~/.zshrc:

    source /opt/homebrew/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

Hey, I must have copied something similar from somewhere but yes my first base setup of my shell is

  PROMPT='%{%F{red}%}%~ %{%F{yellow}%}% › %{%F{reset_color}%}%'

Anything after (besides the path and the GPG setup) that is an add-on that I can remove and still function well. I've learned to live without Git info. But this is very personal and I have not been into active development for quite a while.

It's ridiculous. If we measured all past without nuance and with the fleeting standards of some people of today, everything would be abhorrent. I'm sad to see this way of thinking permeate so deep in our culture.

And some gay men.

If straight guys talked seriously about astrology they'd immediately get clowned on.

It's about emotion-based cognition. I think straight guys would do well to be more insightful about how deeply entangled emotions and cognition are. Don't get me wrong, astrology is most definitely bunk. Still people can get some reflection out of it that wouldn't be available trying to be very rational and clinical about everything all the time.

What should an open-minded nonbeliever do to maximize the chance of seeing what's behind the curtain and find the peace you describe?

You don't need to eat the whole cake at once. It's astonishingly tough to give advice on this sort of thing. A couple of starting points which might work for some people:

1. Dwelling on the utter absurdity of the universe appearing from nowhere without the intervention of a power well beyond our means to understand is a good start.

2. Try to move from the dominant paradigm of scientific analysis (nothing wrong with it, in its place!) which breaks things down into smaller things, to a narrative or holistic view of the world. They're both equally valid, and both can be considered fundamental. There are things happening in the world and to you. Those things are all imbued with meaning. Nothing is meaningless. What is the story of your life, what is your mission? If the events of your life were trying to tell you something, what would that be?

Alternatively, the fact that we don't yet know how the universe came to be doesn't imply that there has to be some great power that created it. Things are happening all the time, of course, but there is no need to see meaning anywhere. Humans have a strong need to seek meaning, and will even go so far as to make it up where it does not exist.

> doesn't imply that there has to be some great power that created it

Ah but it does! There's lots of modern apologetics around this, not in the least the Kalaam argument, which go into it.

This is one of the ontological arguments for the existence of God. Any intelligible first cause must have a prior cause. Therefore the first cause is unintelligible. The thing which caused the universe is beyond our understanding.

Life is absurd. Why anything exists at all is absurd. So absurd in fact I find it unconvincing that life is nothing but a large deterministic automaton without initial cause. Maybe religions are a coping mechanism for deluded people, but I hope they point to some deeper truths that we may never fully grasp.

In any case, pain and other conscious beings are as real as it gets, so no matter how brief one lifetime is, you can have a real impact by making it better for those around you.

Exactly. Until proven otherwise, the only sane assumption is that this is all one big joke.

What you wrote reminded me of one of my favorite quotes:

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

- Alan Watts

Here's one of mine:

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say: "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." ... and we kill those people. Ha ha, "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as ONE. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

- Bill Hicks

Well, I certainly don't want to starve and then be not alive. Not a dig at capitalism specifically, just saying that maybe there'd be a lot more of "just living" if there wasn't so much pressure to do draining stuff for a while per day. On the absurd end, sometimes I wish I could walk through a vast meadow or something and sleep beneath the sky, without being affected by hunger, tiredness, or anything else. Just seeing and walking.

I don’t use Reddit much anymore, but I liked the official app. Curious what’s considered bad about it?

In my experience it's the instability (YMMV on that, for me in manifested in videos not working more than they did, heavy stuttering while scrolling. Not issues I have in RIF), low content density, significant number of trackers. Obviously I don't like all the ads being shoved in the middle of my feed, but I'm not against monetization.

I mean inlined ads for one thing - we're talking paid marketing posts masquerading as user-created content, some of which are utterly obnoxious (e.g. the 'he gets us' jesus ads)

Same as the redesign, it's optimized for consuming images in a platform I came to to read discussions. And it does a horrible job facilitating text for long form discussion. It's trying to be instagram, I don't want instagram.

Also, I don't think it's at all controversial to suggest the video player is one of the worst I've used. I dread trying to load up native videos on desktop (new or old design), I can't imagine it being better on the app.

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those are the biggest issues that will never be reconciled. Others include features you probably don't care about unless you're a power user. Ability to filter posts/users. favoriting certain subs, various mod tools that STILL have no alternative (even on desktop), proper responsive design for tablets, an actual other discussions option, visible flairs etc. I could go on all day with nitpicks (each of which I requested to reddit at some point years ago. Some of which were promised but never realized).

Have you used any alternative? The biggest issue is visual noise and ads imo.

I low-key like some dress codes, as it gives me an incentive to dress well without looking like a dork, and that I can brush off as "oh it's just the company rules".