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by rmunn 3mo ago
Good point, that's no more ceremony than moving a branch. I guess I've just gotten "branches are movable tags" so deep into my hindbrain that I absorbed "tags are hard to move". But that's not actually tru
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I have so many branches named `temp` or `before-rebase` for exactly that reason; I'm using them effectively as tags, but branches can be moved around with less ceremony than tags (since tags are designed to be for things like v1.2.3, p
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Unless E remained untouched because it was not rewritten, and ended up staying parented on B instead of getting reparented onto B'. Which is usually not what you want; most of the time you want E', which is E reparented onto B
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Probably to take a series of commits and decide "this one goes on branch A, this one on branch B", e.g. if you intermingled fixing bug A and B in the same branch, you could more easily go through and assign each commit to a new br
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I suspect large companies vs. small companies is another big part of the problem. What I mean is that in small companies, there's usually only one or two layers between the owner(s) and the lowest-level employees. Which means that usua
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I'd be happier if that gist had been actually written by a human. As it is, I have very little way of verifying, until someone else can confirm the findings, that the AI tool that produced that report didn't hallucinate part or al
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Excellent idea; it's good practice to do that with APIs, so why not with command-line tools as well?
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by rmunn 3mo ago
From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in t
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by rmunn 3mo ago
> Honestly, what's the difference between a wheelchair and prescription glasses? Taking the silly question seriously for a moment: the difference is that with prescription glasses, you can function just exactly like someone who doe
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Where does that 15% number come from? Because I would have to assume it is using a very broad definition of disabled, which would include invisible disabilities. Certainly it's not true that 15% of the people I see are in a wheelchair,
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by rmunn 3mo ago
That's not what the comment you were replying to (I'm going to avoid using terms like "parent comment" in this particular discussion as they could easily be ambiguous, heh) was saying. You may have missed the part about
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by rmunn 3mo ago
This (experiments only designed to confirm a hypothesis and not trying to falsify it) is also part of the reason why so many studies can't be reproduced later, the "reproducibility crisis". One of my relatives, a medical doct
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by rmunn 3mo ago
> ... by reading the textbook* on it [ADHD], it kinda seems I do ... There's a reason why most of the books I've read on ADHD have mentioned "Don't self-diagnose; get an expert to diagnose you." Short version: ma
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by rmunn 3mo ago
https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl lists some concurrency packages, such as https://github.com/sionescu/bordeaux-threads and https://github.com/sharplispers/lparallel
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Since my job involves a lot of Unicode stuff, I personally would have been confused if it had been called the CLDR, thinking that it was referring the Common Locale Data Repository. (I have to look something up in the CLDR about once a mont
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by rmunn 3mo ago
https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/UNOFFICIAL/docs/cffi/doc/Tuto... has some pointers (which might be harder to understand unless you have read the rest of https://www.quicklisp.org/beta
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I've seen issues ignored for a lot longer than 3 months because maintainers didn't have time, then when they did have time they addressed the issue. Heck, Svelte recently did a PR fixing a bug report from about 4 years back. I&#x2
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by rmunn 3mo ago
The GitHub issue was "closed as not planned" due to stalebot auto-closing it, not because the maintainers actually said "we don't plan to do it". IMHO stalebots are an anti-feature in an issue tracker, and do more h
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I also had an Epson ink-tank printer (I don't think it was an Ecotank model name, but similar idea) for several years, battled print head clogs all the time. Found that Windex worked pretty well for dissolving the clogs. (The dad from
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Which part of Zig development (I'm not asking about Go or Python right now) do you consider to be radiator fluid in the fuel tank, in this analogy of yours?
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Autocomplete is making me lazy. If I don't see what I'm about to type within two or three characters, I feel like the IDE isn't doing its job of helping me. So being able to type `db.Cust` and autocomplete Customers is really
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by rmunn 3mo ago
That's the most important thing, really. The geography — that America extends the width of a continent — is secondary. BUT the geography is, in part, what allows all those single houses on large plots of land. Because American suburbs
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Yes, but by that time you're driving the truck around neighborhood streets, getting up to 25 mph at most before you stop at the next stop sign. Not nearly as much force being applied as making turns at 55 mph. During the long drive fro
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I had heard the same thing from (if I'm remembering correctly about who told me) someone who has driven a UPS delivery van for 30+ years, so he has loads of experience with truck-packing. If he thinks it's true, I'm willing t
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I have been told, by (if I'm remembering my source right) someone who has worked as a UPS driver for 30+ years, that Amazon does that on purpose. Because the variable they're optimizing for is not "are we wasting cardboard&qu
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by rmunn 3mo ago
You're right, I was misremembering "it takes all day to drive across Texas from east to west" (or west to east) as 24 hours, when in fact it's about 12 hours: on Interstate 10 (going from the southeastern corner of Texas
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Starlink's best value proposition is competing with other satellite services, or DSL over copper wire, in remote areas where those are the only feasible choices. Which describes much of rural America, as well as many other locations...
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by rmunn 3mo ago
It appears the author lives in Germany. In my experience, Europeans who haven't visited the US (I don't know if he has or not) often have a hard time grasping just how HUGE the country is. It literally spans an entire continent ea
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Here's some data. Well, technically anecdata, I suppose. My phone has been powered on but inactive all night; I charged it to 80% before going to bed, then unplugged it and left it where I can reach it from my bed, as is my habit. (I&#
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Reading through Steam's list of what's allowed or not, it all seems very reasonable: * Up to 6 people can share games in a family account * Each account can join as an adult or a child * No age verification done, the person who cr

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