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nuerow commented on Git techniques riskledger.com/blog/git-b... · Posted by u/jamescun

mrinterweb · 4 years ago

I feel that having a default merge strategy to squash and merge all commits in a branch is a version control anti-pattern. This discourages thoughtful and frequent commits that express the intent of a change because all the commits are just smashed together anyway so why bother. I think context and intent is lost when looking through git history of large smashed commits.

I prefer using a precommit hook to automatically prepend a Jira ticket number to each commit so when you look at the history you'll see multiple commits grouped together with the same ticket prefix, but the commits still retain the intention of the commit. Knowing that commits will not be squashed promotes devs to make meaningful commits. I still advocate for cleaning up and squashing your own commits as you see fit with an interactive rebase before your branch is merged. Having discrete commits can also help when running git bisect to find when a bug was introduced so you identify the specific commit instead of a feature being merged.

nuerow · 4 years ago

> This discourages thoughtful and frequent commits that express the intent of a change because all the commits are just smashed together anyway so why bother.

This is only the case if said squashing just bundles commits without context or consistent logic. If merges to a mainline branch consist of feature branches whose pull request was already approved after a couple of iterations then the end result is a cleaner commit with it's history thoroughly audited. In practice it's equivalent to a fast-forward merge of a single-commit feature branch that just happened to be nearly lined up with mainline.

nuerow commented on NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain erickhun.com/posts/nft-mi... · Posted by u/greenSunglass

vmception · 4 years ago

The people that make separate higher standards for crypto are ignorant about how the thing they respect works too.

nuerow · 4 years ago

> The people that make separate higher standards for crypto are ignorant about how the thing they respect works too.

Not really, it's actually the other way around. Whataboutism aside, crypto proponents somehow try to maintain a cognitive dissonance of how crypto is designed to be unregulated and out of government's reach and at the same time show a kneejerk reaction to any comment on how crypto is used to perform transactions not allowed by regulation controlled by governments such as securities fraud and money laundering.

nuerow commented on Methane plume seen by satellite over Alabama mystifies experts bloombergquint.com/busine... · Posted by u/marc__1

kcplate · 4 years ago

Well, now I’m concerned that European satellites could be counting my farts. Great…

nuerow · 4 years ago

> Well, now I’m concerned that European satellites could be counting my farts. Great…

You only have anything to worry about if you're gunning for at least the fifth largest ever recorded in your part of the country.

nuerow commented on The Frenchman who pioneered the modern mercenary industry nationalinterest.org/blog... · Posted by u/1cvmask

LurkingPenguin · 4 years ago

> For example, do you feel it's appropriate to blame race

Where did I "blame" race? And for what?

People who are white have done horrible things in Africa. People who are black have done horrible things in Africa. It is, however, a simple fact that the people who are white came to Africa from other places.

Looking at the history, I don't think it's difficult to make a strong argument that, on the whole, the arrival of white Europeans on the continent has hurt the (black) people who were already there more than it has helped them.

That's not blaming white people for all that ails Africa. It's also not disingenuously dismissing the malign influence white Europeans have had on the continent.

Again, let's look at the statement the OP took issue with and suggested was racist:

> Men like Denard but perhaps a little less theatrical—many of them South Africans—took the next logical step. They founded businesses with boring-sounding names but a deadly purpose: to fight Africa’s nastiest conflicts on behalf of corrupt, inept governments, and for profit

Where's the racism in this? Is this not true?

nuerow · 4 years ago

> Where did I "blame" race? And for what?

Please don't play dumb. You accused, and I quote, "it's disingenuous to dismiss historical facts about what white people have done in Africa on the basis that it hurts white people in Africa's feelings."

> People who are white have done horrible things in Africa.

Please don't play dumb. You know very well your racist comment was a blanked accusation targeted at entire ethnical groups.

If you are honestly interested in learning about the crimes against humanity committed within the scope of imperialist agendas, you'll learn very well that the root cause is very specific. If on the other hand you're just invested in mindlessly spewing racist comments then you should really take a look at what you are doing.

nuerow commented on NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art jacquescorbytuech.com/wri... · Posted by u/iamacyborg

superbaconman · 4 years ago

If Nvidia provided an nft for every graphics card they sold, and every online marketplace like ebay required that you provide that nft to resell the card, then that truck of stolen graphics cards becomes much harder to move.

nuerow · 4 years ago

> (...) then that truck of stolen graphics cards becomes much harder to move.

That sounds like a convoluted and impractical solution looking for a problem. Mobile service companies and hardware vendors managed to implement services that support activation and bricking without getting any crypto-related buzzword in the way.

nuerow commented on NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain erickhun.com/posts/nft-mi... · Posted by u/greenSunglass

e9 · 4 years ago

Universe rewards creativity

nuerow · 4 years ago

> Universe rewards creativity

What? That means nothing at all.

nuerow commented on NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain erickhun.com/posts/nft-mi... · Posted by u/greenSunglass

folli · 4 years ago

I mean, as the article mentions, you could store the image on the chain. Or at least a Hash of the image to prevent a bait-and-switch.

But it would cost too much of added gas fees and the average user wouldn't understand the difference.

nuerow · 4 years ago

> But it would cost too much of added gas fees(...)

If your goal was honestly to just buy art, why would "gas fees" matter? They only matter in a scenario involving wash trades and high rates of transactions involving small deltas in price.

nuerow commented on NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain erickhun.com/posts/nft-mi... · Posted by u/greenSunglass

e9 · 4 years ago

I think a lot of it is to just support artists. A kind of charity from universe for artist to continue doing what they are doing. People who are making big money on NFT are already established artists. With physical art, artist sells it once and has no idea where it is. With NFTs, artists can set up royalties for every sale. With block chain, if you can verify address of artist then as a buyer you can guarantee that you are buying original work and also ensures that all (or some during resale) money goes to artist.

nuerow · 4 years ago

> I think a lot of it is to just support artists.

To me that assertion, albeit convenient to paint a rosy picture, doesn't make any sense. No one needs a convoluted technical scheme to support artists as donating cash is easy and effortless. Buying the rights to a work from an artist also does not require a convoluted technical scheme, and considering that NFTs haven't been used to enforce any right then that hypothesis is also highly dubious.

What NFTs offer is the ability to perform transactions, and ones which don't have any artist or provenance in consideration.

nuerow commented on It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere bridgewater.com/its-mostl... · Posted by u/knasmai

rsj_hn · 4 years ago

> I'm not sure if you're just expressing your personal concerns over what you believe can hypothetically happen, or whether you're grossly misinformed.

So do you have an argument to make, or just a stream of ad hominem followed by smoke and mirrors?

You point out that oil and gas prices are high all over the world with a price gap between gas prices in the US and the rest of the world -- because gas is shipped overseas in LNG form and it's a separate market, thus there is generally a gap between world gas prices and domestic gas prices -- to address this we do things like build pipelines from cheap gas countries (like Canada) to other countries and we build more liquefaction plants. But you take this price gap as some sort of vindication of U.S. policy, that perhaps Biden is keeping gas prices low?

So let me spare you the trouble. The facts that Biden has restricted Oil and Gas drilling, cancelled one pipeline and is about to cancel another, and is trying to discourage oil investment by taking away the investment tax credits from this industry -- these increase gas prices, and gas prices have been increasing. Just not as much as in other parts of the world. That is true even if there is there is structural gas price gap vis-a-vis the rest of the world and even if prices are not at the level they were before the fracking revolution caused them to tumble and be truly affordable to many.

nuerow · 4 years ago

> So do you have an argument to make (...)

I already did. You made an unsubstantiated claim, and I pointed out your personal assertion was wrong and baseless, and provided a time history of gas prices as evidence, including the fact that not so long ago they were over 3 times higher than the current market price.

If you have a problem with the facts feel free to point out what exactly leads you to believe that justifies the discrepancy between your personal beliefs and the facts.