Shish2k

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by Shish2k 6mo ago
I tried Sapling (Facebook's fork of mercurial with more polished git-compatibility layers) and never looked back for any of my own projects. I recently started a new job where the vanilla git CLI is the only git frontend installed on c
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by Shish2k 6mo ago
Funnily enough I'm looking at getting a new phone because my pixel 6 battery no longer lasts 9am until 6pm without a mid-day charge -- I looked at the latest pixels (10) and they looked neat, but expensive; so took a look at the 9&#x27
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by Shish2k 6mo ago
It asks "do you really want to run this?", you click yes, it runs and never asks again?
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by Shish2k 8mo ago
> When every variable that represents a byte quantity ends in _size and every item count ends in _count, a reviewer can spot dimensional mismatches almost mechanically At that point I'd rather make them separate data types, and have
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by Shish2k 8mo ago
I do love jetbrains for its nice-to-have features (eg highlight a few lines in the middle of a spaghetti function -> right click -> extract to new function) and was paying for it out of my own pocket for several years; but had to swit
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by Shish2k 10mo ago
That behaves differently (eg if collection["key"] = 0)
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by Shish2k 10mo ago
I'm a small time webmaster and I haven't "set up" any automation - for my shared-hosting sites, the host has it built in; and for my self-hosted sites, the web server has it built in
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by Shish2k 1y ago
Each planet has its own gimmick which throws a spanner into standard builds in its own unique way - one planet is essentially a farm where your factory is growing and processing fruits, which will rot and spoil if they aren't processed
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by Shish2k 2y ago
My modest homelab is currently running 42 unique images, and it seems "checking for updates" counts as a pull even if it doesn't download anything, and the hourly limits will kick in even if I only run `docker compose pull` o
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by Shish2k 2y ago
You can rewind a conversation in case you accidentally pressed the "skip" button and missed some important plot point
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by Shish2k 2y ago
I'm happily using zed with autocomplete in rust / python / php / javascript / go -- I forget which ones were built-in and which were a one-click "I see you're opening an X file, would you like to download
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by Shish2k 2y ago
An unfortunate side effect of github being extremely user-friendly, while debian's reportbug tool still greets "novice" users with "please enter your SMTP host" (I dread to think what questions it would have asked m
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by Shish2k 2y ago
I've been using the Sapling CLI frontend with GitHub as a backend for all my open source projects for a few years now (I've also used mononoke and eden at work, but IMO those only apply to people with hundred-gigabyte monorepos).
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by Shish2k 2y ago
> Sapling supports cloning, pushing, and pulling from a remote Git repo. jj also does, and it also supports sharing a working copy with a Git repo, so you can use jj and git interchangeably in the same repo As a minor update - sapling no
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by Shish2k 2y ago
Hack is only PHP in a very ship-of-theseus sense - it has PHP _vibes_ but they replaced the language, the runtime, the standard library, and all of the infrastructure (and all of them much improved over PHP IMO - especially XHP [equivalent
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by Shish2k 2y ago
After 10 years of startups and 10 years of FAANG, I’m thinking of maybe going this route too - can one do it while primarily focussing on the work though? I’ve always had the impression that starting one's own company is an even mix of
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by Shish2k 2y ago
> they'e always unable to be honest in their headlines To call this “odd” implies that other news-sources are well known for their headlines accurately representing the body of their articles?
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by Shish2k 2y ago
I’ve read that page, and I see the part where a third-party will upload their own data to google so that google can target ads more precisely; but I missed the part where a third-party gets access to a user’s data
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by Shish2k 2y ago
> when did these folks start legislating Just making sure I’m understanding the situation correctly - these folks have gone beyond “controlling the output of their own APIs”, and they are now using government power to limit what you can
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by Shish2k 2y ago
> Git is just blobs, trees, commits, and refs By this logic the entire computing industry is so simple a toddler could understand it - “It’s just ones and zeroes” Unfortunately the complexity of a system is greater than the number of its
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by Shish2k 2y ago
Is there any open-source remote desktop that forwards the full desktop experience (not just pixels, but also audio, input devices beyond keyboard & mouse, with high refresh rates and low latency)?
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by Shish2k 2y ago
Given how reliably VC investment leads into the cycle of enshittification, I’m not sure games like stardew / factorio would survive investment :(
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by Shish2k 2y ago
Having used both sshfs and vscode-remote for many years, I can assure you that vscode has a lot more features, with better integration; and even the features that sshfs does have, vscode-remote does the same thing better :) (You can kiiii
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by Shish2k 2y ago
Will the replacement API work with all google account types? I have had to switch from fitbit to garmin, because new fitbit devices require a google account, but apparently my google account isn’t good enough (I signed up to their busines
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by Shish2k 2y ago
those give you access to modify remote files - vscode gives you remote search, debugging, building, testing, port forwarding, reproducable self-contained disposable environments, ...
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by Shish2k 2y ago
some aspects (not all aspects) of creating (not using) emulators are not illegal by way of copyright laws (but may be illegal by way of other laws such as trademarks, patents, DRM) in the US because of Sony vs Connectix.
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by Shish2k 2y ago
It was very hacky and no guarantees of it working for anybody else, but a quick dump of the project folder :) https://github.com/shish/esp-ping-leds/
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by Shish2k 2y ago
> Imagine a conversational interface with much less latency With current models the latency comes from processing, not from the network — going from a high-power remote server to a low-power local phone is likely to increase latency more
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by Shish2k 2y ago
I made a glowy box that takes up 1U in my homelab rack and represents my home internet reliability - an esp32c3 (risc-v, experimenting with the rust support) which pings 8.8.8.8 every minute and shows the past 30 minutes of results on a str
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by Shish2k 2y ago
I do wonder how long until the average consumer starts considering “VC-backed” as a curse rather than a blessing. Is there merit in advertising my small-scale tech services as “Not vc-backed. Our business model is to serve you, not to sell

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