Their website says 2014. Amazon says 2018. But definitely not 2024, unless I am missing something.
Readit NewsKingEllis commented on Show HN: A minimalist web timer for focus and time tracking iamlockedin.com/... · Posted by u/StephenAlvin
I would not use this because of the distracting stuff on the borders. Hardly "minimalist".
KingEllis commented on The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge adeeplookbydavehook.wordp... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Can someone explain this? One three occasions in the essay, including the title. he adds a cryptic "2001 Tor". What does that mean? It does not exist in the many other mentions of the same book title. Also, Amazon believes the publication year is 2002. What is "2001 Tor"?
You haven't been much around C++ people, have you?
Well, either no, or I would not know, as the point is C++ programmers are not nearly as self-congratulatory.
KingEllis commented on What Is the Future of the DAW? djmag.com/features/what-f... · Posted by u/sowbug
KingEllis commented on FakeToxicityPrompts: Automatic Red Teaming interhumanagreement.subst... · Posted by u/xwn
Can I guess, from one not in the field, and no one bothering to define it? "Large Language Model"? I don't think it is a "a graduate qualification in the field of law". JFCFFS
KingEllis commented on “The Suck” (Learning Anything by Writing It Out by Hand) scottscheper.com/letter/4... · Posted by u/for_i_in_range
This article does not suck, but it is long. In my opinion, it is very good advice: write more to learn more.
About a minute in, I could not figure out if satire or self-absorbed. I stopped reading.
KingEllis commented on Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging pypi.org/... · Posted by u/zbentley
This survey is the literal definition of leading question. Found about 2 boxes I could tick, before being forced to order a list of the designer's preferences according to how much I agree with them. The only data that can be generated from a survey like this is the data you wanted to find (see also Boston Consulting Group article earlier today). I cannot honestly respond to it
The only question I have is, what grant application(s) is the survey data being used to support?
The absence of the go binary as a tool (i.e. "go get ...", "go install ..." etc.) is odd, considering that is what has been eating Python's lunch lately.
KingEllis commented on Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines dagger.io/blog/public-lau... · Posted by u/shykes
This seems interesting.
But, I wish there was some code to show me what makes it so radically different. It seems like this is targeting developers (or is it devops team?) and I'm excited about the new language here, but I don't see any examples of code. Code engages both my head and heart.
I am reusing a lot of code in my CI jobs. I have an upload script that I reuse. I have a DEB package script that I reuse across many projects. So, that assertion rings false to me, and seems to indicate there is an unhealthy wall between devops and the developers that prevents shared code. Maybe I misunderstand.
The thing that always bites me is that I have trouble debugging a job that depends on the artifacts from a prior job. My e2e job is flakey, and I'm loathe to fix it, because I have to re-run the entire pipeline, test -> build -> installer, etc to get the final artifact used in the e2e job. I've not figured out a way with "gitlab-runner exec" to run a job later in the pipeline and somehow pass in my own artifacts locally. This would be something (albeit very specific to gitlab) that would make me very excited.
Another starting point: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/ci
To be fair, that single key is used rather excessively compared to the rest.