sgbeal

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by sgbeal 3y ago
Many. Everything i create which is not specific to my own I.T. infrastructure gets posted at < https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/ >.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
How did this not get more thumbs? Certainly it wasn't just poor post timing?
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> you can actually go into the sqlite db and change stuff _Nothing_ history-relevant can be changed via manipulation of the Fossil db. In terms of db records, as opposed to space, the db is about 80-90% a transient cache of data which is
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> “Oh my gosh, I’ll have to press 1 extra key now ... " is a genuine usability tragedy for folks who have 25+ years of muscle memory involved. There are no small number of emacs users, myself included, who fall into that category. &
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Rewriting your teammate’s code without a discussion is a huge blow to your ability to effectively collaborate on a codebase together. It's a mistake to believe that the code belongs to any one teammate. Code in a shared project is
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Using a function to query a fact about a string does not imply that the string should change, ... then there's nothing implementation-quirk about that. Fair enough when considering only the string value. My ill-expressed point wa
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> There’s a huge nuance worth mentioning: with JSONB you lose key ordering in objects. JSON never guarantees any ordering. From json.org: > An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs. If you depend on a given implementatio
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by sgbeal 3y ago
CoastalCoder is right - the name "makemake" has been in use for 20+ years by at least one other project, and a quick google reveals that many projects have used that name.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> If it's important, they'll submit a proof-of-work voicemail. If you don't use voice-over-phone, why keep voicemail enabled? i disabled mine in 1999 when i discovered that certain colleagues would use it to pass work task
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> However, I wanted to hear the case against wasm, if any. FWIW, i don't believe there is a killer case against wasm. Yes, it has some rough corners and things to work out, but it's otherwise a godsend and what's currently
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Most people having a peeep tone tinnitus including myself can experience complete silence for a few seconds (up to 30) by listening to a tone at the specific frequency of their Tinnitus. What "works for me" but your kilometra
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Bonus points if I can let the tool ingest season 1 or an OVA of said material where a season 2 is never going to come (looking at you "No Game, No Life") At long last, _Firefly_ Season 2 is within our grasp!
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> What "green flag" questions do you like asking? Though it wasn't a direct question i asked, i once turned down what would have otherwise been a dream job because the interviewer claimed that they worked at "an athle
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Apprehension toward containers is a red flag. Unqualified statements like that are unqualified B.S. Not all environments gain anything from containers, and if you have "ultra-stability" requirements like, e.g., those found in
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I know it's probably the least efficient way to store code changes Not at all. Fossil's own repository (sqlite) database currently (as of this moment) has an overall compression ratio of 101:1, packing a total of 6.7GB of dat
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> C is very performant, and hard to code in, so people just use python as a abstraction layer over C. C is a way of life. Those of us who code exclusively, or nearly so, in C cannot stomach python's notion of "significant white
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Whatever the Humble Bundle is selling DRM-free. Currently the _Rick and Morty_ comic book series.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Not a book, but an article: Herb Sutter's "What's in a Class?" completely changed the way i thought about OO programming and still holds up today. < http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill02.htm >
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by sgbeal 3y ago
i used Mint on a 2012-era 8gb laptop from 2015 until it died a couple of months ago and never had any performance issues after replacing the original HDD with an SSD.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I supposed these are unrelated. Correct. Same name, different implementations. > Too bad people couldn't agree on a standard. This is a case of making internal optimizations for performance and space, and standards always have
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by sgbeal 3y ago
FWIW, potentially, possibly, maybe, perhaps considering to do something isn't anywhere near the same as doing that thing (especially when it's a "said to be" (i.e. 100% rumor)). We see this in many software development-r
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> How do you get around requiring everyone to be an expert in all things? i simply hope for them to make their own choices. If that choice means following a doctor's advice, that's fine. (Admittedly, 9 times out of 10 or more,
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> There was a podcast with the author of SQLite explaining pretty much why he doesn't use anything by anyone else. To summarize, his (Richard Hipp's) definition of freedom is "being able to take care of yourself." Tha
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I just personally think that can be in many situations an unhelpful way to think about what a VC is at a fundamental level; The Devil's Advocate in me feels compelled to point out that git is (to the very best of my fallible knowl
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I'm curious, which values were those? In this context, deciding for oneself instead of blindly accepting what one is told they should do.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> ... but without taking them you were basically a second class citizen "If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies." -- Jon Stewart
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Tip to aspiring authors: never, ever, EVER presume to know (A) what your readers know or don't know ("10 things you didn't know about Topic X") or (B) what your readers should feel or be ("you should be a vegetaria
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> (Also Stackoverflow helped a lot. There isn’t a day I won’t Google how to do basic things in Git.) Back in 2011 or 2012 i once had one of the libgit developers sitting at my workstation for a full hour trying un-hose my local checkout
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> the best alternative I've seen is Fossil and (opinion me) I think Fossil makes more mistakes than Git does. The fossil developers (myself included) would be interested in hearing what those mistakes are. We're open to improve
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Re. large files: fossil inherits sqlite's limit of 32-bit signed integers for blobs, so 2GB. Fossil's own developers (myself included) have never come anywhere near that limitation in everyday SCM use.

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