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by couchand 3y ago
Here to point out that Lincoln said "six hours to cut down a tree... four hours sharpening", and I think that ratio is better. He wasn't the first to observe the general principle, it's at least as old as the Bible[0]. [
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by couchand 3y ago
That really depends on the audience. On this topic there are broadly-speaking two types of people: those who want the conclusion first and the details later ("managers", if you will), and those who want the details first and the
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by couchand 4y ago
Technically correct, but you're missing the point. Eventually you do need to be able to commit some sort of transaction and get confirmation from the counterparty.
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by couchand 4y ago
That all makes it sound like it would be a leading indicator for the industry as a whole.
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by couchand 4y ago
Despite what many think, lack of fingers-on-keys is not what's keeping those bugs, todos, and features unbuilt.
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by couchand 4y ago
thanks for the vocab word! "nowt", from "naught", meaning "nothing" (clear enough from context...)
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by couchand 4y ago
I've been very happy with SourceHut (git.sr.ht). It's fast and slick. Does what you need, none of the cruft. Among other things, I really like: I can push to any URL under my username and it creates a repo automatically, and that
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by couchand 4y ago
and yet you participate in society
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by couchand 4y ago
> There's no third axis for fallibility, because Dart chooses to comprehensively use exceptions for operations that fail (which I quite like). Can you catch exceptions? Can you catch them when thrown iterating an Iterable, awaiting
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by couchand 4y ago
This is exactly the subject matter that using a chat bot is incredibly dangerous for. The difference between "looks good but fundamentally broken" and "logically sound" in security arguments is very small. The consumer
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by couchand 4y ago
it's not uncommon to see some computational elements in games on public servers, but building a real stored-program computer requires at least the clipboard patch if not direct savegame manipulation. (or incredible patience, i suppose)
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by couchand 4y ago
I'm constantly in one phase or another of a variation of this loop: 1) Play OpenTTD as a transportation game. 2) Get obsessed with the signalling possibilities. 3) Use the logic train mod to build basic logic gates &
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by couchand 4y ago
Yeah, if you're needlessly burning dinosaurs in a warming planet it's wrong.
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by couchand 4y ago
As you said, they were sued for discrimination and lost. Also, differential insurance coverage tends to be one of the worst ways that systemic racism is perpetuated.
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by couchand 4y ago
It's worth noting that "worse decisions" is from the point of view of the insurance company, which would prefer to act racist if only that pesky law didn't stop them, and will continue to do so to the extent they can get
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by couchand 4y ago
And medical care! Nobody should have to worry about food, housing, or medical care. Our greatest failing as a society is viewing those three things as individual problems. It was not an accident, it is a very profitable social failure.
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by couchand 4y ago
The true story of the Luddites is just one more chapter in the long history of state repression of the working people any time they organize together to improve their lot. The law shouldn't protect the status quo, it should protect hum
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by couchand 4y ago
You must be joking? It's obvious if you actually care to look that leftist governments value the arts much more than liberal ones.
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by couchand 4y ago
Scale, here, could also mean decommodifying our time so that we feel more free to spend it with those we love.
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by couchand 4y ago
> isn't it crazy no, it's not
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by couchand 4y ago
I suspect you're being intentionally obtuse, but it bears repeating that there are plenty of simple activities that are forbidden by policy, and it would be just silly to argue that there shouldn't be any.
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by couchand 4y ago
I've seen people suggest that white tape should only be 1.5-2 but yellow should be 5 or more, do you have thoughts on that? Is there a difference in usage or is it the same overuse pattern on both?
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by couchand 4y ago
Or wanting to operate in New York State as of this week!
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by couchand 4y ago
There is nothing special about the main branch! This is the recipe to collaborate in git: - Pick a shared branch to work on. - Work. - If you complete within a day, push to shared branch. - If you need to hold onto it longer, make a new br
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by couchand 4y ago
There are two distinct possible problems: 1) The merge auto-applies cleanly, but the merged code is wrong. This is pretty niche, usually, but happens in certain edit patterns. I've never seen this produce a syntactically-valid, seman
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by couchand 4y ago
It's not really destructive, though! That's not really the main difference. The main difference is that a merge sticks around in your repo forever, a commit that people assume has no real code changes in it but actually sometimes
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by couchand 4y ago
If you're stocking up for survival purposes throw away the straw filters and get a case of chlorine dioxide tabs.
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by couchand 4y ago
We're talking past each other. You're describing issues that come up during the git workflow. I'm talking about production bugs.
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by couchand 4y ago
Always surprising when folks are confused about how to collaborate on git branches... I'd expect the recursive solution to be more obvious! > The "proper" solution is the one that allows me to get stuff done. Yeah, but the
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by couchand 4y ago
> A rebase and a merge result in the same code. If done correctly, that's true, but it's beside the point. The reason to prefer one over the other is the failure mode. > A rebase is more error prone though. On what metric?

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