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by alexhornby 3mo ago
Atari ST, Jason Bourne in the hacker space
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by alexhornby 4mo ago
keyd is great, I use it to have mac-style bindings
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by alexhornby 2y ago
Few examples I’ve come across: hashing, float summation, reproducible serialisation
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by alexhornby 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525 has previous discussion on why windows filesystem is slow
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by alexhornby 3y ago
If you change a core lib CI will build and test relevant code, which will be a lot, but it will scale over a massive CI plant. Still best to run unit tests locally first of course!
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by alexhornby 3y ago
loved the dust theory. really stuck with me, bit like the dark forest from three body problem
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by alexhornby 3y ago
EdenFS Linux building now as well, problem was some minor python 3.8 incompatibility in a test
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by alexhornby 3y ago
Check GitHub actions. Mononoke OSS currently builds and EdenFS did a month or so ago. Not claiming it’s perfect, but the OSS versions are buildable
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by alexhornby 3y ago
yep both extended it and have versions that can work against GitHub/git servers. sapling scm from meta has I think the best cli and VS code UX https://sapling-scm.com/ jj from google is also mercurial derived with very
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by alexhornby 3y ago
https://crates.io/crates/directories is a good crate for handling cross platform config locations for rust based tools
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by alexhornby 3y ago
> git-lfs, as in the binary, CLI application is the only (open) implementation in existence. There is nothing else. There’s at lease one in sapling and Mononoke. https://github.com/facebook/sapling/tree/mai
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by alexhornby 3y ago
same, KDE has great global menu support
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by alexhornby 3y ago
reviewstack is the thing now, adds some parts of phab UX ontop of github apis. Been enjoying using it for oss stuff oursite meta and fixed a limitation of it recently, https://reviewstack.dev/facebook/sapling/pull
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by alexhornby 3y ago
reviewstack adds the missing stack and versioning phab UX on top of github apis, been enjoying using it outside meta for some oss stuff, and fixed a limitation of it recently in https://reviewstack.dev/facebook/sapling
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by alexhornby 3y ago
As a MacOS user wanting global menu on linux KDE is definitely better at that than GNOME. I agree GNOME looks a bit better in default config, but I suppose thats subjective. I use KDE with mac-like shortcuts and menu and like it a lot
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by alexhornby 3y ago
“the house that vanished” may sound like a father Ted episode but actually happened on Tory island https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57720152.amp
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by alexhornby 3y ago
KDE has option to swap ctrl and meta or ctrl alt and meta depending on your keyboard. If you then map meta to ctrl in the kconsole settings things are very mac like. KDE even has good global menu
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by alexhornby 3y ago
my sister tests all her recipes, takes her ages! https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Cook-How-Jane-Hornby/dp/071485...
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by alexhornby 4y ago
Been been enjoying using this. Great for regular repos as well despite monorepo in the tag line
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High velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git(github.com)
4 points by alexhornby 4y ago|1 comments
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by alexhornby 4y ago
Why the described CTC algo instead of querying bazel graph to deduce targets to build given changed files? e.g. https://github.com/bazel-contrib/target-determinator