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by sfink 11mo ago
Except that the outage would still have happened without that .unwrap(). So go ahead and build those features, they sound useful, but don't think that they'd save you from a failure like this. As the poster here said, the place to
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by sfink 11mo ago
Heh, good question. In the limit: did you fix 12 bugs, or did you fix 1 bug 12 times?
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by sfink 11mo ago
What kind of kitchen are you working in where bugs are a concern??!
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by sfink 11mo ago
Disagree. Software development requires a lot of expert knowledge that executives won't and can't possess. If you're not employing that expert knowledge to benefit the company you're a part of, why are you even in the fi
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by sfink 11mo ago
> Software has something, which no engineering discipline has. Encapsulation. If you are building a car, a plane or a train everything affects everything. In other engineering disciplines, a lot of work goes into preventing everything fr
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by sfink 11mo ago
> Surely you can give an actual example of a business not formed to make money? Why? That was never claimed. The claim was that businesses can have other reasons for existing in addition to making money. Furthermore, those other reasons
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by sfink 11mo ago
I know of no business that does not involve making money. I know of many businesses for which making money is not the primary reason to exist. And the majority of businesses do not try to maximize profit at all costs, even when their primar
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by sfink 11mo ago
>> But in the real world, the Web is a pile of auto-generated and auto-assembled fragments of slop > There are parts of the web like that but your assertion seems to rely on this being universally true. It clearly and obviously isn
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by sfink 11mo ago
It could still be at risk as collateral damage. If the AI bubble pops, part of that would be actual costs being transmitted to users, which could lead to dramatically lower usage, which could lead to any AI integration becoming irrelevant.
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by sfink 11mo ago
This article is annoying. It's not wrong, but it also doesn't come across as terribly relevant without suggesting some vaguely plausible alternative. The closest it comes is that everyone should go back to using "regular&quot
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by sfink 11mo ago
I have heard of such things. The signal is not persistent over time, since it's dependent on eg heat and concurrent operations. But it's there, to some degree, and can be correlated over time somewhat. We've made our world a
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by sfink 11mo ago
I'd like a "Firefox + uBlock Origin" column on that page. (But then you'd have to consider filter lists enabled...)
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by sfink 11mo ago
> Sites demand subscription? blocked. Odd. In the midst of a (well-deserved) anti-ad rant, you throw in the primary non-ad alternative and discard it. > How much longer before advertisers realize how much they're getting ripped o
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by sfink 11mo ago
That's tempting, but I still don't think it should. There would still be the quest to go viral. "Quality" would still be determined in the aggregate, which means that your income depends on appealing to the widest audien
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by sfink 11mo ago
Homeschooling, and more generally schooling, and more generally raising kids. They're hot-button topics that bring out the strong opinions and searing anecdotes, and the resulting "discussion" always seems to be depressingly
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by sfink 11mo ago
This is a great point, and I'm sympathetic to the problems raised, but it's not a great post. It's pushing the view that the relevant question is how much regulation there should be. That's just mechanism. Better questio
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by sfink 11mo ago
By "doing many different things", I meant that everything disagrees on what should be config and what should be data. People will disagree with any division you pick for something with as varied types of data as a web browser. And
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by sfink 11mo ago
Firefox already had the benefit with respect to cache files. They've been in ~/.cache/mozilla for at least 7 years now. Your point is valid for config/data split, but that seems to be a judgement call and many applicatio
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by sfink 11mo ago
Firefox Nightly has about:keyboard (as I just found out from the comment thread on phoronix). Hopefully it sticks. It's bare-bones but functional and I like it that way.
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by sfink 11mo ago
...and you can? try-catch is usually less ergonomic than the various ways you can inspect a Result. try { data = some_sketchy_function(); } catch (e) { handle the error; } vs result = some_sketchy_function
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by sfink 11mo ago
> What they want is to kill training, and more over, prevent the loss of being the middle-man between events and users. So... they want to continue reporting news, and they don't want their news reports to be presented to users in a
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by sfink 1y ago
If you cover up the part of the Figure 3 graph past "now", it kind of fits a sine wave. https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/Figure%203.jpg Universe gong.
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by sfink 1y ago
It may be unclear since I screwed up the formatting of my post, but that's why I didn't end there. The rest of jj's capabilities change when and how I use it. The absorb command originated in mercurial, which is where I'
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by sfink 1y ago
This is only absent from git because you said "easily". ;-) git can certainly handle doing this, it has more than enough functionality for it. But you're kind of fighting against the grain to do it. Yes, jj very much supports
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by sfink 1y ago
If you're me, it's still useful because the ones I make up on the spot aren't great. "S-T-E-V-E @ gmail.com, S as in sun, T as in taste, ..." "Got it, fpeve."
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by sfink 1y ago
"Chromia" has a nice ring to it. "OpenAI just increased the number of Chromia by one."
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by sfink 1y ago
Before jj came along (or rather, before it reached my threshold of awareness), I was such a person. Started with git, switched to mercurial, wanted to work against github so tried sapling, loved it and started telling people about it. I pro
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by sfink 1y ago
Depends on what you mean. "Checking out" is ambiguous, and in fact isn't jj terminology. As git terminology, it could mean switching branches or showing file contents or going to a detached HEAD or resetting file contents. If
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by sfink 1y ago
My data point is the Mozilla monorepo. My .git directory is 5.5GB, so half of what you're talking about. jj speed has not been a problem at all. Some thing are sped up a bit by enabling watchman, but I didn't bother for the first
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by sfink 1y ago
I read that more as "aw, fuck it, I'm starting over". Then, given what it's doing, "fuck it" -> "fuckgit" makes sense. But hey, it's not my alias. I'm just saying that the way I read it d

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