Comments like yours miss the point. In fact worse, they just serve to stagnate FOSS because it pushes the assumption that the software is always right and users are idiots, without taking any time to understand what those users are actually trying to do.
There are hundreds of good reasons why someone might want to overlay a vector shape on a bitmap image. The desire to draw shapes on bitmap isn’t something weird that I’ve just invented for HN. It’s been a staple feature such graphics packages since the inception of bitmap graphics editing. And it’s been a staple feature of Gimp since I first switched to Linux in the 90s.
But that’s all moot because I was just making an arbitrary example.
And as an aside, I do use vector drawing software too. So I’m fully aware of their existence.
I get it, and when Photoshop changed this default, GIMP followed with changing this workflow. It used to be different in older versions of Photoshop and Gimp.
Advanced user usually know exactly what they're doing, and opening a PNG or JPEG file, changing a few pixels, and saving it, should require as few key presses as possible.
I don't want the UI to get in my way when I open->edit->save.
'Opening a JPEG' is creating a new image and importing the JPEG to it. ctrl-e on first use will establish the export setting. It's two clicks if you really want to overwrite the original. I think it would be very easy to accidentally and destructively overwrite the original image file if it was different, when ctrl-e is in muscle memory.
> I mean I don’t have to remember the horrible git command line anymore
Every time I see a comment like this, I have to wonder what the heck other devs were doing. Don’t you know there were shell aliases, and snippet managers, and a ton of other tools already? I never had to commit special commands to memory, and I could always reference them faster than it takes to query any LLM.
The point I’m making is there are tons of solutions. Deterministic, fast, low-energy, customisable. Which is why I said “I have to wonder what the heck other devs were doing”. As in, have you never looked for a solution to your frustration? Hard to believe there was nothing out there before which wouldn’t have improved your Git command-line experience. Like, say, one of the myriad GUI tools which exist.
> Because it’s custom there is no standard curriculum you could point me to etc.
Not true. There are tons of resources out there not only explaining the solutions but even how different people use them and why.
If I sat with you for ten minutes and you explained me the exact difficulties you have, I doubt I couldn’t have suggested something.
> keep trying because really deep down they just don't know how nice you're being by giving them a chance to talk to you.
I don't fathom what kind of trauma would lead you to take this positive, light-hearted advice to connect to fellow human beings, and to spin this into such a vile, evil, anti-social narrative.
I'm well aware of what the comic implies (and explicitly says--note that both the comic and the tooltip are about demonstrating and explaining, not just going "diet coke and mentos" and then dinging people for not understanding what that implies), but I can't mind read the intent of the person who posted it and what they intend to tell me by doing so. My original complaint here was about just posting a link without commentary, and the same applies to the XKCD comic link ... and even to your own comment, which is pure ad hominem.
I suspect, but can't know, that people misunderstood my use of "10,000"--the XKCD meaning was used above by tmtvl, which is why I said to read the thread because it's not clear that people were aware of that oblique reference to the XKCD panel--my use of it was a riff, using the same number in a different, even opposite, way ... it's a rhetorical device (derived from a musical one).
