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clktmr commented on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size jonathancreamer.com/how-w... · Posted by u/kwantaz

atombender · a year ago

Why? You do realize their fork is open source?

The fix described in this post have been submitted as a patch to the official Git project. The fix is improving a legitimate inefficiency in Git, and does nothing towards "embracing", "extending", or "extinguishing" anything.

clktmr · a year ago

Can you imagine their fork extending git with a feature which is incompatible to mainline git and then forcing user's to switch to their fork via github? I can, and it will give them the power to extinguish mainline git and force everything they want on their users (telemetry, licence agreements, online registration...). That might be the reason they're embracing git right now. The fork being open source doesn't help at all.

I'm not saying this shouldn't be merged, but I think people should be aware and see the early signs.

clktmr commented on Accountability sinks aworkinglibrary.com/writi... · Posted by u/l0b0

rougka · a year ago

I remember experiencing this in one of the German airports/airlines and having that exact thought.

It was this fully automated airport, where the checkin is self serviced and you only interact with computers.

Eventually, when I inserted my boarding pass I had a printed piece of paper back that said that they had to change my seat from aisle to midseat

I then tried to find someone to talk to the entire way, but computers can only interact in the way the UI was designed, and no programmer accounted or cared for my scenario

The ground attendant couldn't have done anything of course because it wasn't part of the scope of her job, and this was the part of germany where nice was not one of their stereotypes.

Eventually I got a survey a week later about a different leg of the flight, so could I really complain there? that one was fine? I had a paranoid wonder if that was intentional

clktmr · a year ago

I can provide another POV to that story. We checked in as a family of four, and we're assigned seats in four different rows, with a two and a four year old. Only when entering the plane we had the possibility address this to a human and we were assigned new seats.

So this might be the reason you had to change seats.

clktmr commented on Some of us like "interdiff" code review gist.github.com/thoughtpo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

clktmr · a year ago

I agree in general, but running git bisect on individual PR commits is just doing it wrong. There will always be commits that break stuff temporarily. Run git bisect only on the merge commits instead, which are typically already tested by CI.

clktmr commented on Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1 github.com/jbreckmckye/no... · Posted by u/jbreckmckye

TheMagicHorsey · a year ago

Is there an open, simple, handheld gaming platform that is cheap, and has good documentation so hobbyists and kids can make games for it?

I know people will say pick up a cheap Android phone. And perhaps they're right, but Android is not simple. It has so many things going on that you just can't write a C program and start playing with it. You have to learn a dozen Android quirks and deal with the Android operating system.

Is there something where you can just upload a program to flash and the device just boots into the program and you start playing?

clktmr · a year ago

You might want to take a look at the Analogue Pocket.

clktmr commented on How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? bxt.rs/blog/just-how-much... · Posted by u/janvdberg

tutfbhuf · 2 years ago

Just recently, I did a terminal latency test with Typometer for the following terminals, sorted by lowest latency:

  xterm (389-1) 
  alacritty (0.13.1-1)
  kitty-tuned (0.31.0-1)
  zutty (0.14-2)
  st (master 95f22c5)
  urxvt (9.31-4)
  konsole (24.02.0-1)
  kitty (0.31.0-1)
  wezterm (20230712.072601)
  gnome-terminal (3.50.1-1)
  xfce4-terminal (1.1.1-2)
  terminator (2.1.3-3)
  tilix (1.9.6-3)
  hyper (v3.4.1)

I only tested for software latency (monitor, keyboard and other hardware latency is not included in Typometer benchmarks). I ran the test on Arch Linux with Xorg + bswpwm without compositor. You can find the full results on by blog https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/.

clktmr · 2 years ago

Very interesting! I would propose to add 'foot' to the list, which is also very performance oriented.

clktmr commented on I'm Too Old amazingcto.com/im-too-old... · Posted by u/KingOfCoders

clktmr · 2 years ago

I feel this becomes more and more relevant again:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

Edit: To add on this, I think there is a lot of software that is written in a throwaway fashion (CRUD apps, shell scripts), where using LLMs might beneficial. But anything where correctness actually matters, why would I describe it in natural language only to then check the implementation?

The much more sensible use of LLMs to me is the other way round: creating ad hoc documentation for code that you can even ask questions. But that's probably not fundable by VCs on the same level.

clktmr commented on Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go github.com/monogon-dev/mo... · Posted by u/caust1c

clktmr · 2 years ago

There is also gokrazy[^1], which isn't focused on k8s, but on deploying on a rpi.

[^1]: https://gokrazy.org/

clktmr commented on Thoughts on the Future of Software Development sheshbabu.com/posts/thoug... · Posted by u/rkwz

clktmr · 2 years ago

As long as there is no AGI, no software engineer needs to be worried about their job. And when there is, obviously everything in every field will change and this discussion will soon be futile.