There is still the Old Farmer’s Almanac https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st...
Readit Newsmarkphip commented on A Fond Farewell farmersalmanac.com/fond-f... · Posted by u/erhuve
markphip commented on Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools dayvster.com/blog/why-zig... · Posted by u/dayvster
"All it took was some basic understanding of memory management and a bit of discipline."
The words of every C programmer who created a CVE.
Came here to add the same comment. Had it on my clipboard already to post. You said it better
markphip commented on Crossing the USA by Train blinry.org/coast-to-coast... · Posted by u/chmaynard
It's amazing to me that someone can be around 50 years old and on a train for the first time.
But others might be amazed that I'm around 40 years old and have never owned a car.
Probably referring to me? I live 2 hours from the closest airport. There are no trains near me. Barely any buses. And I am not counting trains within a city just taking a train to travel between cities.
I do not live that far from an Amtrak station but there is only one train a day, it takes forever, and does not go anywhere that I am typically traveling.
markphip commented on Crossing the USA by Train blinry.org/coast-to-coast... · Posted by u/chmaynard
Am I the only one who finds it surreal to see long distance trains in the US? Don’t get me wrong - I know they exist. It’s just that I feel like they never get depicted anywhere in the media. I also don’t think I know a single American who has gone to another US city by train.
You've obviously never watched a Hallmark Christmas movie. Train travel is pretty much the norm in that world :)
markphip commented on Crossing the USA by Train blinry.org/coast-to-coast... · Posted by u/chmaynard
My daughter recently moved to Vancouver. I was in Seattle for a work trip so decided to take Amtrak to visit her for the weekend. This was my first real train travel. Overall, it was pretty good and probably is what I will do in the future in the same situation.
The train moved at a frustratingly slow speed (< 10 mph) for probably 30% of the trip, but aside from that I liked the more relaxed atmosphere of the travel and it was overall more comfortable.
The train itself was a bit bumpier than I expected and the wifi was not very good. Those things and the slow speed would mean I could not imagine taking a much longer trip than this one. With the extra time and hassle of dealing with an airport, this one balanced out as probably only being slightly slower travel but it was less expensive and more relaxed. If it were Seattle to San Francisco, as an example, the slowness would be too much for me. The comfort and amenities like wifi and food would have to be a lot better than they are.
markphip commented on Infinite Git repos on Cloudflare workers gitlip.com/blog/infinite-... · Posted by u/plesiv
I wonder if they considered or looked at using JGit? https://github.com/eclipse-jgit/jgit
It provides client and server API. The latter is used by Gerrit for its server. https://www.gerritcodereview.com
Not sure what the Java to WASM story is if that is a requirement for what they need.
markphip commented on Spray-foam insulation makes homes unable to be mortgaged theguardian.com/money/art... · Posted by u/vasco
This is shocking and confusing. In the US if you watch HGTV and Mike Holmes, who works in Canada, all they do is talk about how great spray foam is and that is the gold standard. To the point I have had major FOMO for years because I do not have it.
Reading this article and the comments here ... I do not want to think, other than being glad it was too expensive to consider.
Decentralized version control systems were popular before Github and even Git. Github didn't create a market, it captured it.
The market GitHub created was Social Coding and the idea that there were network effects to be gained by having all OSS in one place. This is the same thing that makes it difficult today for OSS projects to move off GitHub. If anything, GitHub deemphasized the "D" in DVCS.
My point, since you replied to my post, was simply that prior to GitHub, none of the other sites for OSS were trying to achieve the same goal. The goal was to establish a specific OSS community for a set of projects. SourceForge was a bit of an outlier in that a lot of projects used their distribution network, if they were not part of a foundation like Apache or Eclipse that had extensive mirrors setup.
SourceForge was never the main development and collaboration site for any of the major efforts happening around OSS.