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811.
by gwd 3y ago
The main reason Linus didn't go with Mercurial was that Mercurial just wasn't efficient enough to do operations on the Linux repo with what Linus considered a reasonable speed. (I think it was maybe written in Python at the time?)
812.
by gwd 3y ago
The Xen Project chose Mercurial to replace Bitkeeper (the proprietary but free-as-in-beer-to-open-source-projects-for-a-while VCS that Linux used before it became no-longer-free-as-in-beer) as well. There were things that were nicer about
813.
by gwd 3y ago
A bunch of creators I liked on YT were advertising Nebula, among other things talking about not dealing with "The Algorithm", so I tried it out. I liked not having the ads, but it turns out "The Algorithm" is actually a
814.
by gwd 3y ago
...and the fact that rules for testimony and cross-examination have been developed and challenged adversarially for hundreds of years; so if the really are as absurd as they think, they probably already would have been changed; and in any c
815.
by gwd 3y ago
You're not really listening. No, you can't be asked to do cartwheels. But you can be asked to read something relevant to the case from a document that's been submitted as evidence (and thus already been vetted as relevant t
816.
by gwd 3y ago
That's what the judge and your lawyers are for. As you say, you can't randomly ask people to read something. It would have been a document that he wrote, or approved, or something -- something already admitted into evidence. Th
817.
by gwd 3y ago
> You’d think this MIT graduate would wise up, but he never did. I think there were potentially two problems. First, for the previous 10 years, lying and taking massive risks actually did work for him: Even if some people became disillu
818.
by gwd 3y ago
> maybe you forgot it but here goes what they told me in middle school: The first time I remember hearing that theory was as an adult in a public lecture by an astrophysicist at a local university. (It sounds like I may be a decade or
819.
by gwd 3y ago
It's interesting that you changed the question, because if you had education answer the same question, it would be a lot less compelling: > In education: "The earth accumulated matter together after a previous supernova."
820.
by gwd 3y ago
> That fact alone increases the value of your attention. OK, but does it increase my value to more than $150/year? I mean, just how much are people willing to pay for me to see ads? I mean ultimately, if someone is paying $5 to sho
821.
by gwd 3y ago
> There is no context where a rational businessman would choose not to advertise to you. ...except, the businessman wanting to show me an advert doesn't have a choice. The website chose DoubleClick; I'm paying DoubleClick not
822.
by gwd 3y ago
I certainly understand the perverse incentive, but that's already the incentive we're working under. And how do you propose we fairly compensate people for the value they've created when making content? How can we support
823.
by gwd 3y ago
> The problem is that for YouTube to get that payment, I have to give them, and other ad networks a major view in to my whole life. Wait... does that mean, Google could offer "DoubleClick Premuim", where I pay to not see any Do
824.
by gwd 3y ago
Right; so could we compare trying to get people to stop saying "hallucinate" to trying to get people to stop saying "tidal wave"? (My understanding is that people the use the word "tidal wave" to mean the wave
825.
by gwd 3y ago
This is exactly the problem: I'd heard the word "confabulate" before, but has a weird 19th-century feel to it, and didn't know that it was specifically about memory reproduction errors. I think that humans actually confa
826.
by gwd 3y ago
> Are there go-specific reasons for that? In general , the reason you use a compiled / typed language like golang at all (instead of, say, perl) is to "left shift" your bugs: A bug caught when you first spin up your appli
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by gwd 3y ago
Personally I use ad blockers not because I demand free content without ads, but because on the vast majority of the internet, paying for ad-free content isn't really a practical option, and the ads are over-the-top obnoxious: they mass
828.
by gwd 3y ago
I don't get it. If you watch YouTube and don't want ads, just... pay for a subscription? It's like one Big Mac meal a month or something.
829.
by gwd 3y ago
> I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play. I'm not a doctor either, but it looks like there's been some promising studies regarding combining fasting and chemotherapy: > Preclinical studies in r
830.
by gwd 3y ago
For one thing, most GUI mail readers will automatically convert the `>` into nested block quotes. For another, it's not common to see more than 2 levels of `>` (your text, the thing you're replying to, and the thing they&#x2
831.
by gwd 3y ago
Well yeah, replying in-line to the patch to make comments is definitely a requirement. :-) You always reply with quotes; and you always reply inline, below the thing you're replying to. Quoted material is typically indicated by '
832.
by gwd 3y ago
One thing this is missing is cover letters for longer series. Last time I checked that was the biggest pain: the fact that there's no real convenient way to store the cover letters; `git send-email --cover` will expect you to compose
833.
by gwd 3y ago
git send-email --dry-run <commitish> will show you the mail headers it would have generated (including subject lines, To: and Cc: fields). git format-patch -o<tempdir> <committish> will create a separate
834.
by gwd 3y ago
Our project inherited a patchbomb-based workflow from Linux. Many of the individual members have also contributed to gitlab/hub based projects, and appreciated a lot of the automation available, as well as recognizing the lower barrie
835.
by gwd 3y ago
See, this is the attitude I don't understand. I'm not going around adding extra spaces after your periods; why are you so intent on removing mine? Who appointed you the textual aesthetics police? Let people add spaces according
836.
by gwd 3y ago
I learned two spaces in typing class. I think having two spaces after the period looks better and makes more sense, both in fixed-width fonts and in variable-width fonts. I've never heard an argument against it that wasn't based
837.
by gwd 3y ago
> The strstr() signature is probably the shortest example / explanation why. To implement strstr(), you have to hack the const away to create the return value. It seems to me the "hacking" is exactly the side-effect that i
838.
by gwd 3y ago
This is why (according to lots of videos I've seen on youtube) there are two "tracks" for body-building competitions. One "track" has rules that prohibit steroid use, and do regular testing to enforce the rules. T
839.
by gwd 3y ago
I think the technical term is "editorialized". The title should be, "VisionPro will require Apple Silicon", which is far less interesting.
840.
by gwd 3y ago
Come now; imagine a world where nobody could ever be convicted without mathematical verification of all components of evidence. Nobody could be convicted of anything, since even if we had 10 people and three 4k video cameras all see someon

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