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by jcgl 2mo ago
But that doesn't work if the indentation carries semantic meaning; you can't change the indentation without changing the meaning. Maybe you can correct syntactically-incorrect spacing (e.g. change 3 spaces to 4 spaces), but not mu
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by jcgl 2mo ago
Edit: s/economics/ergonomics/
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by jcgl 2mo ago
Agreed. DNS is, afaik, the very best naming system we've got. But there's plenty left to do to make it better for human beings. Legally encoded rights to DNS names paired with easy-to-use GUIs for non-technical users would be near
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by jcgl 2mo ago
Tightly coupling identity to cryptosystems should be entirely dismissed for anything that is supposed to have broad adoption. First off, these systems always require indefinitely-lived secrets. To rotate keys (or the whole cryptosystem—thin
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by jcgl 2mo ago
Thanks for trying to summarize. > - you and other guy believe non-technical people can't build technical things because its still too hard and you need to know the technical things Pretty much. Though maybe I should more softly phra
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by jcgl 3mo ago
And I'm glad that works well for you! But this is the context of the thread: >> most people don't need cloud backups > What world do you live in? As put by another commenter: > Most People™ do not have the technical kn
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Even just by narrowing to some definition of "product people," you've cut out the vast majority of the population. > Why does someone who says “I pay -$x for Google Drive, how much can we make our own clone for?” need to k
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Technical people, maybe. Even if we hypothetically grant that vibe-coded backup systems can be trusted, deploying, using, and maintaining are still hurdles. And there’s absolutely no way that’s all tractable for the vast, vast majority of t
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Not my area, but isn't it really only because glibc doesn't maintain stable interfaces across versions? If it did, you absolutely could use the same ld.so with different glibc versions. But it doesn't, so here we are.
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by jcgl 3mo ago
First of all, techy nerdy people like things to be easy too. They're just somewhat more likely than other people (on average) to overcome not-easiness. Second of all, how long is IndieWeb supposed to cook for before it's supposed
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by jcgl 3mo ago
What Linux distros do you think would exclude on the basis of closed door/cathedral-style development? I’ve never heard of this.
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by jcgl 3mo ago
You mean a few customers? Yes, I think that’s perfectly reasonable to expect that changes made to a very expensive product are well-documented for those customers to whom that matters.
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by jcgl 3mo ago
This is the first I've heard anyone claim higher throughput for Go than Rust. Any articles you'd point to to learn more?
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by jcgl 3mo ago
What's the history and status of ASPA? As far as I can see, it's a fairly active draft with the IETF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-ver... It says it's on the standards track,
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Huge fan of jet. It lets you just write SQL, but in your Go. I basically can’t imagine using anything else now. Why is that better than writing plain SQL like in sqlc? My main reason was being able to dynamically construct queries and reuse
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by jcgl 3mo ago
> Poor writing is not a new thing, of course. Most of the moderation mechanisms that it uses were perfected a quarter century ago when sites like Slashdot were popular as a defense mechanism against bad user behavior. Bad user behavior i
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by jcgl 3mo ago
That's definitely the pragmatic choice when working with shell and what roughly everyone does. But it's is also a UX compromise that, if needed anywhere other than the Stockholm Syndrome-ridden world of unix, would be routinely de
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Tl;dr: Plain text's bad composability forces the dichotomy that you identify between --sort and sort . I agree with you that --sort often can be a sensible UX choice regardless, but losing out on composable middle ground is strict
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Oops, yes, I don't know why I mistyped a question mark. That's exactly what I was wondering, thanks.
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by jcgl 3mo ago
There is some cool stuff here. I like using column to format the table. Appending it to alloyed's command fixes their header problem. The stdbuf to multi-command block (term.?) is a neat trick. Although, one time when I ran this, I
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Yes, the point was about doing it in a pipeline. The pipeline is the basis for composition of plain text in the unix shell. If something as basic as sorting a table is hard to do, it should make us question just how good the unix shell&#x2F
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Ooh, I was so hoping someone would take up the challenge! This is a far shorter answer than I had honestly thought was possible. More readable too, somehow? Great use of tee that I would never have come up with (though I hear what you say
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Great example! How do you like using elvish? Even though I am a proponent of structured data and like PowerShell a lot (mentioned in a nearby comment of mine), I use fish as my regular shell. Big fan of fish's careful focus on user exp
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by jcgl 3mo ago
I think you're mistaking text-with-structured data for structured data itself. Because unix shell is irrevocably text-oriented, kludging in something like JSON is basically the best that can be done when you start to want to do structu
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by jcgl 3mo ago
> Isn't that what you want on that platform? ADCS even supports issuing remote-attested TPM certs via EK, no need to reinvent the wheel. This is really cool. Did not know about it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us&#
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Just as importantly, they have little to no alternative. And then they are given every opportunity to learn—at school, by parents, and so on.
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by jcgl 3mo ago
Sure, I take your point that the smell-test works reasonably well for domains related or adjacent to one's own. But (not speaking about your use specifically here) many people (most, I'd wager) use LLMs for many things beyond thei
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by jcgl 3mo ago
> bad info becomes apparent, almost immediately Can you elaborate on this? I suspect that you’re thinking mostly of cases in which you already have a fair bit of domain expertise. But in the general case, this seems to be very untrue.
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by jcgl 3mo ago
No? ORMs don’t preclude writing raw SQL, so it’s just making the easy parts easier while leaving the difficult parts the same.
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by jcgl 4mo ago
Agreed. That would make this way more insightful. Otherwise most searches will basically be a version of https://xkcd.com/1138/ during periods of site growth.

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