Spivak

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by Spivak 9mo ago
You wouldn't be the one paying for it, like PyPi you would upload your package to them. When you bootstrap your package ecosystem using git forges for hosting there's no index at all so I'm not really sure what the argument i
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I'm not really sure I get the value of these being remotely hosted. We're writing code on super powerful machines with hypervisors built in. My libvirt setup does this right now, I have a little dumb cli I wrote that lets me creat
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Well yeah it's basically Windows' version of a swap partition where they can dump the OS state when hibernating. You can get even more of your hard drive back by limiting the size of Windows' page file. I'm actually a bi
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I say go one step further and learn to fish harder and don't use any of these scripts. I can't even imagine trying to debug an issue on my machine after running one of these "makes arbitrary changes" scripts. Do it all m
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by Spivak 9mo ago
If you mean org mode as it exists within the software emacs then yeah it's no contest. No markdown editor even comes close. But if you mean just the file format as it's used by say like Github to render README files then yeah mark
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I've used those apps and the problem is that they only support a tiny subset of the format, and they can't support any of the features that require the rest of emacs to be present which is a lot of of the value. If you're oka
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I mean it's not like I've done any formal benchmarks but like I've used a bunch of plug-in managers and antidote, sorry antibody is the old one, it's just so much faster than all the others.
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Oh shit you're right it is actually antidote, God why do they have to name them the same things. Even their websites are similar.
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Well yeah, you need antibody https://getantibody.github.io/ and then whatever plugins you desire. Been using it for years and it's never been anything other than fast and reliable.
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I mean you can't make people read an email but I feel like you would have a much higher success rate if the content was in the email itself. You're competing with the other work that people have to do and actually get graded on, w
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I would ignore the haters, keeping Orion proprietary makes the most sense for being able to successfully charge for it as a commercial product. You can't sell an OSS product, only supporting services, as many many startups have realize
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Everyone says this but is there even a single example of any TV manufacturer including a cellular chip or partnering with an ISP for this kind of access? Yeah sure eventually the "don't give your TV network access" might stop
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I really don't understand the hate around this one. 1. Spotify made a playlist that's "Chill Jazz To Study To" that's really popular. 2. They realize that listeners don't actually care about the specific artist
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by Spivak 9mo ago
It's so funny reading this in 2025 when this is exactly how TV works. You would literally put on the SciFi channel. How far we've come.
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by Spivak 9mo ago
They're not even thinking creatively if they want to be trolls. Be super strict about the sticker rule and offer commemorative passes for double the price without his face on it where the proceeds go to "organizations keeping Amer
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by Spivak 9mo ago
You, hopefully. I mean if you're an individual then I can see it but at work we do a monthly billing review to catch things like this. I hope you're not treating AWS entirely like a black box money pit and actually look to see whe
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I don't think Google's gonna be hurting for this one given the fact that hitting the skip button gives Google a strong signal that a real human just watched the ad and it didn't just play to an empty room.
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by Spivak 9mo ago
And it's not even good I can't understand what they're trying to do. I press the button occasionally just to mess with it and it has zero access to my data to do anything useful. Copilot in Outlook can't read my email, i
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by Spivak 9mo ago
It's weird, users will happily accept Google Docs and Sheets as replacements for Word and Excel despite the considerable differences but are more reluctant to give the LibreOffice suite a try despite arguably being more capable. But at
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by Spivak 9mo ago
libvirtd really is such a quality piece of software making local VMs so trivial to spin up and manage. Hyper-V and Virtualization Framework wish they were so user friendly.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Money and resources suddenly materialized once someone realized that there was profit in it is pretty much the expected way this goes. OpenTofu happened not because of some OSS force of will but because a group of companies needed it to exi
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I knew I should have also put the (in terms of memory safety) on the C++ paragraph but I held off because I thought it would be obvious both talking about the borrow checker and in contrast to Rust with the borrow checker. Yes, when it come
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by Spivak 10mo ago
How are we still having the same trade off discussion being argued so black and white when reality has shown that both options are preferred by different groups. Rust says that all incorrect programs (in terms of memory safety) are invalid
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I think the narrative is that once developers have the option to tell all of their users "we only support Chrome, just install Chrome" then any support for Safari will dry up. Unfortunately I don't think we will see if this i
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by Spivak 10mo ago
> But it is a new coat of paint over the ones from 10 or before It's not, which is the point. They're trying to get people off the old way of extending the shell. If they just wanted to reskin the right click menu to look &quot
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by Spivak 10mo ago
You can still judge them evil even if the parent was accurate as to the motivations for their actions. Villains are more interesting when they're sympathetic. You're in the planning meeting discussing this feature, you ask "H
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Yeah, I'm not really sure how this became news. It's not weird at all for event security to have a discretionary rule for if you don't know what it is and its purpose isn't obvious then feel free to not allow it. This ju
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by Spivak 10mo ago
> Run postgres on a $5 VPS and have everybody accept it as single-point-of-failure Oh how times have changed. Yes, maybe run two $5 VPSs behind a load balancer for HA so you can patch and then put a CDN in front of it to serve the reposi
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by Spivak 10mo ago
> Statically typed programming languages cannot be deployed nor can they run with a type error that happens at runtime. This is so completely untrue that I'm confused as to why anyone would try to claim it. Type Confusion is an enti
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Infra person here: you will need external monitoring at some point because checking that your site is up all over the world isn't something you want to do in house. Not because you couldn't but because their outages are likely to

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