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by swaits 9mo ago
Keeping things in perspective, no, there is no reasonable concern of this happening in the US in the near term. The places where this happens, like Iran now, are in extremely different situations than anything in the US, or any other Wester
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by swaits 9mo ago
This unlocks some really nice stuff in the future!
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by swaits 10mo ago
Unfortunately seems to be too old to include coverage of FSRS and the associated optimization algorithms. Would love to see Gwern’s updated thoughts on this.
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by swaits 10mo ago
`jj` isn't new. It's definitely not *very* new.
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by swaits 10mo ago
Definitely let your keybinding keep you from trying out and using a fantastic tool.
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by swaits 10mo ago
Frankly, this is a rather poor, uninformed excuse. Most people who try it grok the concepts in days. And they feel right at home in weeks. That's when you start hearing, "I'll never go back."
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by swaits 10mo ago
Google is definitely your friend here. Plenty of tutorials online.
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by swaits 10mo ago
This is one I'm okay with. Git submodules are absolutely awful. I recognize that some folks are stuck with it, and yeah, in your case jj probably just doesn't make sense. Stay tuned though.
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by swaits 10mo ago
Pragmatic is using the best tool for the job. Certainly subjectively, and arguably objectively, jj is the better tool in many ways. My advice is to try it. You should like it, if you're in the majority of folks to give it a sincere sho
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by swaits 10mo ago
This isn't going to be a very HN-like comment. But it's rooted in fact: That is complete nonsense.
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by swaits 10mo ago
Every time I see one of these nifty git tricks or workarounds I find myself wondering, “why not just use jj?” You get a nicer, significantly simpler interface. You don’t need any tricks. You don’t have to google how to work yourself out of
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by swaits 10mo ago
I know what you’re trying to say. That Proton IS Windows at some level. And so MS gets some credit for that. But they don’t. A lot of actual work went into Proton and into making games work therein. MS is a slow, lumbering, monoculture that
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by swaits 10mo ago
Mmmmkay then.
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by swaits 10mo ago
And the entire Quake series runs very well on Linux+Proton as well. In other words, I’m not sure why this is impressive on Microsoft’s part. The online games have depressingly (to me) small communities. But they’re still kicking.
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by swaits 10mo ago
It’s not luck. To assume so, let alone say so, is uninformed and quite rude. Getting into these roles requires a ton of hard work. Yes, it’s a grind. If you feel it’s only achievable with luck, I suggest you’re selling yourself short.
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by swaits 10mo ago
You’re understating it. Meshtastic is horribly designed. If you designed a wireless mesh network making all the worst possible choices, with the most shortsighted design decisions imaginable, you’d get something a little better than Meshtas
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by swaits 11mo ago
It’s some mixture of luddites, denial, ignorance, and I don’t know what else. I’m not sure what these people are NOT seeing. Maybe I’m somehow fortunate with visibility into what AI can do today, and what it will do tomorrow. But I’m not do
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by swaits 11mo ago
Nobody is saying it out loud. But as always, it’s probably about money.
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by swaits 11mo ago
Go definitely popularized concurrency for the modern era, but coroutines themselves are ancient tech. Melvin Conway coined the term in 1963 and Simula had them by '67. It’s also worth noting that the specific 'coroutine' mode
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by swaits 11mo ago
PHP is fine. If the site sucks it’s not because of the language.
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by swaits 11mo ago
It’s pretty common sentiment with senior level Amazonians that Uncle Jeff was a great leader. Many lament his departure and loathe his replacement. Lifestyle distractions aside, Bezos playing any kind of CEO role is probably a good thing.
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by swaits 11mo ago
Oh that sounds quite nice, thanks for sharing!
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by swaits 11mo ago
MeshCore is a huge step in the right direction. Especially over Meshtastic which is very poorly designed. However MeshCore makes one fundamental choice which is severely limiting. It uses a single LoRa discriminator and channel for all node
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by swaits 11mo ago
Probably referring to the mailing list from https://hackernewsbooks.com
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by swaits 11mo ago
It is almost certainly deterring many more than the 66 who were aggressively deterred.
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by swaits 1y ago
Bring it up with the author then. To the rest of us, what you're saying is senseless.
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by swaits 1y ago
Don’t just back away slowly . Run for your life! Prediction: this is the part of the AI boom that goes bust.
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by swaits 1y ago
This is 100% how it works at Amazon. It is said you have to do the job (of Principal Engineer) to get promoted. But most Principal Engineers are doing a different job than the job you have to do to become one yourself. Signed, PE@Amazon for
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by swaits 1y ago
Slackware’s last release was 2.5 years ago. Look at Fedora (if you like RPM distros) if you’re after something pretty nicely put together that stays reasonably well up to date. Very well maintained. Influenced by Red Hat (or “led by” or eve
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by swaits 1y ago
Also PairDrop, which doesn’t require installing anything.

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