Freedom of speech rarely makes "tactical sense", which is why we as citizens need to continually fight for it.
The irony of freedom of speech, much like democracy in general, is that it can destroy itself.
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How do you get caching of build steps with this approach? Or do you just not?
Even just makefiles have 'caching', provided you set dependencies and output correctly.
A good makefile is really nice to use. Not nice to read or trace unfortunately though.
fireflash38 commented on I prefer human-readable file formats adele.pollux.casa/check-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Which you might not be able to do after it’s been broken silently.
That's still an issue with binary files too, and you can't even look at them to fix.
fireflash38 commented on I prefer human-readable file formats adele.pollux.casa/check-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
> Unlike binary formats or database dumps, these files don't hide their meaning behind layers of abstraction. They're built for clarity, for resilience, and for people who like to know what's going on under the hood.
Csv files hide their meaning in external documentation or someone’s head, are extremely unclear in many cases (is this a number or a string? A date?) and is extremely fragile when it comes to people editing them in text editors. They entirely lack checks and verification at the most basic level and worse still they’re often but not always perfectly line based. Many tools then work fine until they completely break you file and you won’t even know. Until I get the file and tell you I guess.
I’ve spent years fixing issues introduced by people editing them like they’re text.
If you’ve got to use tools to not completely bugger them then you might as well use a good format.
If you're reading in data, you need to parse and verify it anyway.
someone asked this already to the CEO: https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1819610286036488625
The bots are coming from inside the house
That's a very sad and lonely way to live.
But I can send my personal shopper and you'll be none the wiser.
And you can be trespassed and prosecuted if you continue to violate.
fireflash38 commented on Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth ft.com/content/cfb77a53-f... · Posted by u/hhs
Trump uses wild % amounts as a negotiation tactic. Is it the best way to do it? I don’t know. You can’t argue though that it does force the other side to come quickly to negotiation table to talk about the deal. So, if the goal is to get the deal now, then it’s effective. If the goal is something else, then it’s not a good tactic.
I do not have enough information to definitely say whether it’s good or bad. Most of the things in life are neither because they have good side effects, and bad side effects to them. So, I think looking for a “good only” solution is a loosing strategy.
You're talking out of both sides of your mouth.
You say we need tariffs to bring manufacturing back. Then you turn around and say the tariffs aren't the point, it's the deal. You even said it was silly to bet on announced tariffs elsewhere.
If the tariffs are necessary to bring manufacturing back full stop, then you don't need to "make a deal". If it's just a tool to make a deal, then they're not necessary!
You just keep moving those goalposts.
I've also found it good at catching mistakes and helping write commit messages.
"Review the top-most commit. Did I make any mistakes? Did I leave anything out of the commit message?"
Sometimes I let it write the message for me:
"Write a new commit message for the current commit."
I've had to tell it how to write commit messages though. It likes to offer subjective opinions, use superlatives and guess at why something was done. I've had to tell it to cut that out: "Summarize what has changes. Be concise but thorough. Avoid adjective and superlatives. Use imperative mood."
This is insane to me.
Review your own code. Understand why you made the changes. And then clearly describe why you made them. If you can't do that yourself, I think that's a huge gap in your own skills.
Making something else do it means you don't internalize the changes that you made.
fireflash38 commented on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow bower.sh/you-might-not-ne... · Posted by u/elashri
Often TMUX it's for tasks you woudn't suspend. And, if any, you can just use kill -STOP and kill -CONT among other signals from another tmux pane.
Or if you want to stay in same pane, (chord, I still use C-b), :, "send-keys C-z"