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nickkell commented on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams   iankduncan.com/engineerin... · Posted by u/codesuki
direwolf20 · 4 days ago
JSON or YAML imply a buildkite DSL as there's no standard JSON or YAML format for build scripts
nickkell · 4 days ago
I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language you wish.
nickkell commented on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US   apnews.com/article/europe... · Posted by u/AareyBaba
randusername · 7 days ago
The Zen of Teams is that Teams is so clunky it cannot be Slack.

Without threads, there is no breach of thread-etiquette.

When "channels" are so awkward, nobody uses them. Then there is no constant deluge of middle-age folks creating a Facebook out of work, needing to be reminded that the photos channel is for business-photos, not pictures of their kids.

When emoji support is limited, nobody has to police people pushing the boundaries of what emojis are appropriate.

The software is baffling. But I like it that way.

nickkell · 6 days ago
For the most part I agree with you: there is less functionality and hence less to police. There are also fewer people in chats/channels, as for the most part they are private or undiscoverable.

There are definitely still breaches of etiquette though, e.g. people frequently tagging a whole channel when they have a support question, even though it contains hundreds of people.

nickkell commented on Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide   humanconsumption.live/... · Posted by u/speckx
fooker · 10 days ago
> Most land taken up to grow plants is used to inefficiently feed livestock.

Because it is just not suitable for growing crops that humans can realistically consume. If you can figure out a way to change this at scale, it'll be a discovery on par with Haber's process w.r.t. impact on human civilization.

I think we can eventually get there, as evidenced by billionaires and real estate companies buying up bad farmland over the last decade or so.

nickkell · 7 days ago
Again, this just isn't true. Where are you getting your information from?

Feeding the world is technically easy, there is more than enough space for growing crops. The only reason that it's not done is the desire to eat meat and the lack of any real will to do it.

nickkell commented on Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide   humanconsumption.live/... · Posted by u/speckx
davidmurdoch · 11 days ago
Something interesting to see is a version of if this that displayed a % of total animals instead of absolutes.
nickkell · 7 days ago
What would make it interesting? Most of the animal mass on earth is livestock for human consumption. More animals are reared to replace the ones that are slaughtered.

It might be interesting for wild fish, but I'm not sure if there are accurate numbers for the wild populations remaining.

nickkell commented on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub   forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki... · Posted by u/trms
calpaterson · 7 days ago
Longtime anki user here. I think the thing people never appreciate with flashcards is that deck maintenance is real work. And in many cases, it's not work that you can do yourself as a learner of the material: the deck really needs to be created by someone who knows the material.

Commercial decks, where the deck maintainer is paid for his efforts, make a lot of sense.

And I suppose if they are making money out of the ecosystem, it also only makes sense that commercial deck makers make a contribution to the technology that makes it possible. I suppose I would prefer that be a contribution rather than ownership and custody, but I suppose Anki's license terms (it is AGPL3+ - I think without a CLA) prevents them closing it.

So cautiously optimistic

nickkell · 7 days ago
Is it really beneficial to use a deck created by someone else? I thought part of the learning process is really engaging with the cards - by writing them, thinking about them, and making mental associations with things you already know.
nickkell commented on Git Rebase for the Terrified   brethorsting.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/aaronbrethorst
xlii · a month ago
Allow me (today) to be that person to propose checking out Jujutsu instead [0]. Not only it has a superpower of atomic commits (reviewers will love you, peers will hate 8 small PRs that are chained together ;-)) but it's also more consistent than git and works perfectly well as a drop-in replacement.

In fact, I've been using Jujutsu for ~2 years as a drop-in and nobody complained (outside of the 8 small PRs chained together). Git is great as a backend, but Jujutsu shines as a frontend.

[0]: https://www.jj-vcs.dev/latest/

nickkell · a month ago
I'm a big fan of rebasing to keep the commit history clean and as a form of self-discipline when coding to make sure I'm grouping the changes atomically.

I will try to give Jujutsu a go based on your recommendation!

nickkell commented on Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)   mattlakeman.org/2020/01/2... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
jkestner · 7 months ago
Yeah, I never empathized with Mark and Jez so his thesis falls apart for me. Maybe he’s the baddie?
nickkell · 7 months ago
You don't see any of yourself in the pair? I found a lot of their neurotic behaviour relatable.

Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast... God, life's relentless.

nickkell commented on Migrating away from Rust   deadmoney.gg/news/article... · Posted by u/rc00
morning-coffee · 9 months ago
Expect many more commits like #12. ;)
nickkell · 9 months ago
Awww that's not fair.

C# actually has fairly good null-checking now. Older projects would have to migrate some code to take advantage of it, but new projects are pretty much using it by default.

I'm not sure what the situation is with Unity though - aren't they usually a few versions behind the latest?

nickkell commented on Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures   theguardian.com/world/gal... · Posted by u/tosh
nosianu · 9 months ago
Vertical, as in those incredible never-ending stairs: https://youtu.be/257PMPqPgXE
nickkell · 9 months ago
No need for a gym membership if you climb those stairs often enough!
nickkell commented on Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io   dbdiagram.io... · Posted by u/vseplet
solids · 9 months ago
nickkell · 9 months ago
I use it in my project to document the schema. We keep the markdown file in source control so that we update it whenever we make database changes. We also have an extension that allows viewing it as the diagram in vscode in our .vscode\extensions.json file.

There are some disadvantages however:

1. The foreign key relationships aren't completely clear

2. The diagram became difficult to navigate in vscode as our schema grew in size

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