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by trixie_ 7y ago
People are definitely looking at history when running git blame on a file. We want to know exactly who, when and why a change was made. Squashing down a PR to a single commit erases all of that history and we have no idea when the change wa
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by trixie_ 7y ago
It's not a mess at all, very clear actually. We enforce commit messages to be prefixed with the ticket number which makes it easy to query git log for all changes related to any PR with full history of who, when, and why each change wa
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I agree with Linus, "you really shouldn't rebase stuff that has been exposed anywhere outside of your own private tree" I have no problem if you want to locally squash your commits. Just don't rewrite public history. It&
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I'm in the camp that rebasing is unnecessary and useless for large projects. I work in a code base with 50 other devs, no one is reading the commit log line by line, there are 100 commits per day. We use JIRA and have to prefix our c
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by trixie_ 7y ago
"your boss should be able to tell you exactly why you're paid less." 'Why' is a qualitative measurement. You will never agree. The debate will never end. It will always be well be, "he did X, I did Y, I thin
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I’d be frustrated with my colleagues to know how much they make and they’d be frustrated with me. Job titles jr, 1, 2, sr are frustrating enough. I’m always surprised when I learn a great engineer is only a 1. Management uses grades like a
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Kind of expected an article titled 'How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet' to tell us how 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet. Even I could of told you, 'the engineers at the time picked 1500 bytes'.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Makes sense.. borders aren’t some universal truth, they’re relative to the observer. Especially when you get down into the weeds, every country has border disputes.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
is 200k too low? The data clearly shows the problem is mostly income agnostic.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Not just autopilot, but regular people too where confused by the road, "In the three years before the Tesla crash, the device was struck at least five times, including one crash that resulted in fatalities."
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Coming from C# to Java, checked exceptions are the worst. There are so many layers that can fail even in a simple API call - network, database, permissions, memory, etc.. We're not going to handle each of those cases differently, if we
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I kinda felt like this at first, but now I'm so fast by the time the cashier looks up, the terminal already beeped and I'm out the door. You can double tap to pay even before the reader is ready, so that once it is, the transactio
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Same. I've had the same OneNote for over 10 years now. My life is in that OneNote lol
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by trixie_ 7y ago
The problem of IP and one-use is exactly the problem that subsidization solves. The company can develop medicine, even sell it for cheaper internationally because the r&d costs were covered by the government.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
If the people want's vaccines, then the government should pay these companies to develop them. No different than the people/government/military wanting new planes and paying defense contractors to develop them. There's a
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by trixie_ 7y ago
A recent trip to Europe and the cars, trucks, highways, roads, etc.. everything feels smaller. Parking garages are the worst, so narrow you can barely see if you're going to scrape a wall or car. You really have to use the force.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
The author's example is a trivial corner case that can be easily avoided. It is nowhere close to important enough to fuel the question of 'Is TypeScript Worth It?'
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Agreed things are way better now than ever before. One thing that is rarely brought up though is nuclear weapons. It feels like the problem is so big and old that we feel like we can't deal with it. In reality the risk is very real an
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Energy (or more accurately power) is a scarce resource. If it's not being spent to keep the organization or individual going, then it could be argued that the energy is wasted. As it requires functioning organizations to acquire more e
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Wouldn't you be paying for all the R&D that was required after using the genetic info to develop a treatment. If the treatment ends up costing $100k, the genetic info you provided resulted in a discount from infinite dollars to an
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by trixie_ 7y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-airforce/...
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Just flew from LA to Boston on JetBlue. Woo free WiFi. Boo everyone is on it, literally unusable. Then I flew NY to LA on Alaska. Woo WiFi that isn’t free so there’s bandwidth. Boo it’s $40 for the flight. How’s 20 bucks sound?
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Inflation ensures the status quo is never good enough. This drives technological progress to achieve better efficiencies. Good regulations provide the constraints of the game - maintain clear air / water /power etc... What you cal
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by trixie_ 7y ago
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I kinda wish there was a NASA equivalent for nuclear that would be given 10s of billions of dollars per year to R&D safer, next gen nuclear power plants. The organization could build/run those plants around the world in order to pr
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by trixie_ 7y ago
This is a really good point. Hard for others to make fun of your fancy tree hugging electric truck when it looks like that.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
You were the guy who 10 years ago said electric cars and reusable rockets would never be practical. Meanwhile SpaceX is on their way to building a global internet constellation, have a working full flow combustion engine, and has multiple p
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I laugh out loud at armchair engineers who think they have any real insight into a massive engineering development program like Starship. SpaceX has proven themselves over and over again of being more than capable of achieving their goals i
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Multiple orders of magnitude? Do the rockets/engines today look anywhere close even to a single order or magnitude better than before? The computers are much better yes, but not good enough yet to obviate the need for real engine testi
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by trixie_ 7y ago
100% agree. In the future public transportation will look inefficient compared to autonomous personal transportation.

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