imiric

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by imiric 11mo ago
Poe's law strikes again. But really, there is no way to tell you weren't serious, considering the commenter you replied to most certainly is. I mean, look at this abomination: https://github.com/denys-olleik/a
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by imiric 11mo ago
That's your prerogative, but a) conventions are not "hacks", and b) the main benefit of CCs are their visibility. If most code forge web UIs and standalone tools don't make this information visible, it's not of much
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by imiric 11mo ago
What I don't understand is why you would object to having more metadata attached to your commits. That is essentially what CCs are: additional metadata. Just like the author, date, Co-authored-by, Signed-off-by, and other trailers. I
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by imiric 11mo ago
But regular application code also contains libraries. Type information is useful even if you're the only user of those APIs. My point was more related to the level of expressiveness required of a type system in order to allow a program
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by imiric 11mo ago
I wasn't aware of Blendle, but I'm not surprised that it failed. Advertising is ubiquitous on the web. Integrating it into web sites is simple, it works well for generating revenue at scale, and users have been conditioned from ev
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by imiric 11mo ago
I'm surprised to read that someone not only finds no value in conventional commits, but actively hates it. Wow. A few reasons to care about CCs: - The first few characters of a commit message tell you immediately the type of change y
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by imiric 11mo ago
You're right, but that begs the question: does a type system really require such complexity? I'm aware that type theory is a field in and of itself, with a lot of history and breadth, but do developers really need deep levels of t
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by imiric 11mo ago
I was expecting a tool like this to exist. Kudos for actually caring about commit messages. As you can see from some of the comments here, there's a growing cohort of developers who simply don't, which is a shame. I like the imple
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by imiric 11mo ago
Eh, I wouldn't say it's a waste of bytes. Conventional Commits are useful for many scenarios. This metadata could also be added via trailers, but most Git UIs don't show them prominently, or at all. So prefixing the subject i
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by imiric 11mo ago
This thread makes me weep for software engineering.
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by imiric 11mo ago
That's a false dichotomy. I can't speak for all web sites, but I reckon a combination of factors could explain why such a solution hasn't been deployed: 1. Advertising is ubiquitous, easy to integrate, and provides a safe rev
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by imiric 11mo ago
How do you track ad impressions?
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by imiric 11mo ago
The fact that advertising is more profitable doesn't mean that the PPV model is not viable. It could certainly be so. Every site could set their own price, or specific tiers, which users can agree to, just like they do with subscriptio
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by imiric 11mo ago
Brave Inc. gets a lot of flack, some warranted, but their Basic Attention Token allows for exactly this. Users can add credit to their wallet by either consuming privacy-friendly ads or topping it up manually, which then gets distributed
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by imiric 11mo ago
It's great to see Qtile still going strong. I used it briefly many moons ago, and enjoyed how easy it was to extend, given it is configured with Python. Sadly, I experienced crashes, which soured the experience, and moved on to bspwm,
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by imiric 11mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by imiric 11mo ago
I don't think it's coordinated. The animosity and competition between companies and governments couldn't possibly get them to agree on anything of this scale. Rather, Occam's razor suggests that their interests simply al
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by imiric 11mo ago
> If we had a regulatory system that could move fast to experiment with creative new technologies, we’d live in a world where our environment gets cleaned up faster, where awesome new hardware was constantly improving our lives by making
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by imiric 11mo ago
... and has a tendency to disagree past the Peak of Inflated Expectations.
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by imiric 11mo ago
Wonderful! This is the type of visualization that would captivate me for hours on end on Encarta in my early teens. Granted, those were a bit more polished and engaging, but the right mix of edutainment was fascinating to my developing mind
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by imiric 11mo ago
> How exactly do you differentiate between ... By the popularity of the software; by how pleased people are to use and contribute to it; by the impact it has on its product category and the industry at large; and many other qualities tha
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by imiric 11mo ago
It's remarkable to me that in both of your comments you emphasize the role of the license, when my point was precisely that software, and particularly open source software, is much more than its code and license. You may disagree with
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by imiric 11mo ago
Whether they're directly doing business with data brokers or not is not the point. They're indirectly profiting from the profiles they build by selling access to them via their advertising platform. It's just a roundabout way
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by imiric 11mo ago
That's right, but it's not just products that they can "sell" you. It's all about your data, which is worth much more than any upsell opportunity. Whether the user pays for YouTube Premium or not, they still have ac
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by imiric 11mo ago
Well, that's a bummer. Despite the sentiment on this forum that EU regulations are hindering tech progress, Europe is one of the few places in the world that actually tries to keep tech companies on a leash. We need much more of that,
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by imiric 11mo ago
Do you really think that clicking on any button on cookie consent popups actually does anything? It's just an illusion of choice. The reality is that these sites will still track you, whether that's via cookies or, more commonly t
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by imiric 11mo ago
You're being deceptively dense. PII has a very clear definition. Posts on a public forum are not part of it.
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by imiric 11mo ago
I've read this sentiment often on this forum, and I suppose it shouldn't surprise me given that most people here share the entrepreneurial mindset. But it still rubs me the wrong way, and I'll write about it again. What I don
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by imiric 11mo ago
Or—hear me out—we actually build services that leverage the native distributed infrastructure of the internet, so that we don't need down detectors. What a concept.
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by imiric 11mo ago
> The agentic spam is exhausting. I just wanted to code. Ditto. And we still can. I've yet to use an "agent", and still use a chat UI to an LLM in Emacs. I rely on these tools for design discussion, rough prototyping, and

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