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joshkel commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

Eric_WVGG · 13 days ago

Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns.

I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully predicted and hoped for an exodus from Github to GitLab or something back when it got acquired — I'm from the Microsux generation.

joshkel · 13 days ago

For Git? Maybe not. For GitHub? IPv6 support would sure be nice: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

joshkel commented on The Whispering Earring croissanthology.com/earri... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS

djoldman · 17 days ago

> It is not a taskmaster, telling you what to do in order to achieve some foreign goal. It always tells you what will make you happiest....The earring is never wrong.

> There are no recorded cases of a wearer regretting following the earring’s advice, and there are no recorded cases of a wearer not regretting disobeying the earring. The earring is always right.

> ...The wearer lives an abnormally successful life, usually ending out as a rich and much-beloved pillar of the community with a large and happy family.

> Niderion-nomai’s commentary: It is well that we are so foolish, or what little freedom we have would be wasted on us. It is for this that Book of Cold Rain says one must never take the shortest path between two points.

The piece implies that

1. at least occasionally one should choose to do something one will regret.

2. not knowing what will make one happy is part of what makes one free.

I'm not sure I agree with these (it seems that 1. is a paradox) but it is an interesting thought experiment.

joshkel · 17 days ago

> at least occasionally one should choose to do something one will regret.

Not necessarily. My take was that the practice of choosing may well be more valuable than the harm of the occasional regretted choice.

joshkel commented on React Still Feels Insane and No One Is Talking About It mbrizic.com/blog/react-is... · Posted by u/mbrizic

paulryanrogers · 2 months ago

If by 'nicer' one wants to avoid the flash of blank between clicks, then I don't see how you'd avoid recreating an SPA

joshkel · 2 months ago

The View Transitions API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...) is intended to let you control transitions between clicks.

joshkel commented on US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab

klipt · 3 months ago

Better hope this bill that house republicans have passed dies in the senate, since in effect it lets Trump override the courts: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-provision-in-t...

joshkel · 3 months ago

I'm not sure how much difference that bill's clause makes in practice. As I understand it (courtesy of the "Advisory Opinions" legal podcast, but any misunderstandings are my own), the problem is that, if the executive branch is going to ignore the courts, then they're going to ignore the courts. A court can recommend prosecution for contempt, but prosecutors are part of the executive branch. A court could try and appoint their own prosecutor, but then the court is both judge and prosecutor - which goes against the US system's goal of an impartial and independent judiciary. The court could issue a fine for contempt, but then the government is paying a fine to the government? It could issue a sentence of jail time, but the executive branch administers the prisons and has the pardon power.

I'm disgusted with the executive branch's actions and congressional GOP's enablement. And, since the administration at times seems to want a fig leaf of legality, maybe the bill would make a difference after all by giving them more coverage. But, overall, I'm not sure that it's the "game over" step change that some commentary makes it sound like it is.

I could be misunderstanding - comments / counterarguments welcome.

joshkel commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo

poincaredisk · 4 months ago

>“I don't consider the bloody ROI.” He said that the same thing about environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas where Apple is a leader.

...and you believed him? I'm sorry, I'm trying to be less cynical in life, but he said exactly what people - apple fans - want to hear.

Is he above lying? We were just discussing how one of the apple executives straight up lied in court.

joshkel · 4 months ago

Belief within limits, yes. At least, I can only think of a couple of possible explanations for the event:

1. Cook only cares about pursuing profits, but at a shareholder meeting where shareholders were pressuring him to pursue profits, he lied to them (and had the presence of mind and acting chops to pretend to be uncharacteristically angry about it), because he believed that the story would get reported on and Apple fans would want to hear it, and he made the calculation that that would be more beneficial to his bottom line than being honest (or at least more politically neutral) with his shareholders.

2. Cook really does believe about accessibility, environmental issues, and worker safety, and he tries (or at least likes to think that he tries) to take steps toward those causes at the expense of profits, but he's also a complex and flawed mixture of motivations and is capable of compromising his values (and/or of letting those under him compromise their values) to varying degrees in the face of financial rewards or the pressures of the capitalist system.

#2 seems more likely and is more consistent with my view of humanity in general.

joshkel commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo

drooopy · 4 months ago

Apple is a for-profit business, and like most such entities, its primary concern is its bottom line. If promoting privacy aligns with that objective, so be it. However, the company does not have an inherent inclination toward acting ethically beyond what serves its business interests.

joshkel · 4 months ago

That's not universally true, at least. From https://www.macobserver.com/news/tim-cook-rejects-ncppr-poli...:

> “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he said, “I don't consider the bloody ROI.” He said that the same thing about environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas where Apple is a leader.

> As evidenced by the use of “bloody” in his response—the closest thing to public profanity I've ever seen from Mr. Cook–it was clear that he was quite angry. His body language changed, his face contracted, and he spoke in rapid fire sentences compared to the usual metered and controlled way he speaks.

More broadly, I know that for-profit businesses are concerned with their bottom line, and I know businesses regularly throw other values under the bus in pursuit of profit. But I'm not sure it's possible to build a successful business (in terms of maintaining consumer trust, attracting and motivating decent employees, etc.) without some values beyond what's immediately quantifiable on the bottom line.

joshkel commented on Apache ECharts echarts.apache.org/en/ind... · Posted by u/tomtomistaken

XCSme · 5 months ago

How does it compare to https://www.chartjs.org/ ?

joshkel · 5 months ago

The biggest difference I'm aware of is that ECharts has an add-on for 3D charts (echarts-gl). Chart.js doesn't have any 3D functionality.

(Our project mostly uses Chart.js, so I'm more familiar with it.)

joshkel commented on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead marcan.st/2025/02/resigni... · Posted by u/Shank

yaro330 · 6 months ago

The warning argument is silly. It just means that your code is not up to par with the modern standards. -Wall is a moving goalpost and it's getting new warnings added with every release of a TC because TC developers are trying to make your code more secure.

joshkel · 6 months ago

I mean, yeah, I said it was easy enough to work around. But it's an issue I've seen raised in a discussions of C code maintenance. (The typical conclusion is that using `-Wall -Werror` is a mistake for long-lived, not-actively-developed code.) Apologies if I overstated the case.

joshkel commented on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead marcan.st/2025/02/resigni... · Posted by u/Shank

cornstalks · 6 months ago

As long as you compile with the version specified (e.g., `-std=c11`) I think backwards compatibility should be 100%. I've been able to compile codebases that are decades old with modern compilers with this.

joshkel · 6 months ago

In practice, C has a couple of significant pitfalls that I've read about.

First is if you compile with `-Werror -Wall` or similar; new compiler diagnostics can result in a build failing. That's easy enough to work around.

Second, nearly any decent-sized C program has undefined behavior, and new compilers may change their handling of undefined behavior. (E.g., they may add new optimizations that detect and exploit undefined behavior that was previously benign.) See, e.g., this post by cryptologist Daniel J. Bernstein: https://groups.google.com/g/boring-crypto/c/48qa1kWignU/m/o8...

joshkel commented on Murderbot, she wrote wired.com/story/murderbot... · Posted by u/lastdong

dartharva · 9 months ago

Have you read the later entries in the series?

joshkel · 9 months ago

Yes. I don't remember Murderbot using the Rin disguise / persona later on.