smallpipe (u/smallpipe)

smallpipe commented on Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/clcaev

foobarian · 16 hours ago

Think of it as the scripts that run on CI/CD actions running unit tests. If a unit test fails, the test artifacts are uploaded to an artifact repository, and then, get this - the test runner instance is destroyed! But we don't think of that as unusual or nefarious.

smallpipe · 16 hours ago

No one dies when your unit test fails. Different stakes, different practices, what are all the Tesla apologists smoking here?

smallpipe commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa

0cf8612b2e1e · 17 days ago

The quality of subtitles implies that almost no effort is being put into their creation. Watch even a high budget movie/TV show and be aghast at how frequently they diverge.

smallpipe · 17 days ago

A good subtitle isn't a perfect copy of what was said.

smallpipe commented on When we get Komooted bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan

smallpipe · a month ago

I see a lot of love for Komoot but for me that died when their "top 10 ride in <region>" had a bunch of auto-generated routes linking points of interests, that tried to take me through horrible paths or 4 lane roads.

smallpipe commented on Don't animate height granola.ai/blog/dont-anim... · Posted by u/birdculture

alterom · a month ago

So, after all the optimization, they're using 6% of the CPU to display what amounts to a tiny animated GIF that 1990s PCs would have no problem with.

But it's vector graphics!, you might say. Yeah, like Flash, which ran fine on Pentium II, with plenty CPU cycles to spare.

Pardon me, and I don't say it lightly, but... WTF?!

smallpipe · a month ago

Yeah author congratulating themselves at the end because their note app is only using hundreds of millions of cycles every seconds, to do essentially nothing...

smallpipe commented on Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com/posts/... · Posted by u/airhangerf15

smallpipe · a month ago

A shame the ruling party is indistinguishible from the Tory they were voted in to replace.

smallpipe commented on Repasting a MacBook christianselig.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/speckx

smallpipe · 2 months ago

I remember doing it on a thinkpad. I didn't break any cables, I didn't need a guide, and it got significantly quieter afterwards. Macbooks are pretty, they've got a great CPU, but the repairability is just rubbish

smallpipe commented on Slack's 57MB 404 page a.slack.com/archives/b/c... · Posted by u/lecarore

guappa · 2 months ago

My org hasn't moved away but I use localslackirc to connect via my preferred IRC client.

I get perks like not seeing reaction emojis, gifs, and being able to mute the constant flow of @channel notifications by configuring a list of people or channels from which I am not interested in getting these generic notifications.

Also most importantly, since my company recently shifted from treating us like adults to telling us we must only work on the assigned tasks and for no reason go out of task, I configured it to not join general discussions channels where people ask for help and such things. In theory I'm on them, but from the point of view of my IRC client I'm not.

It re-joins automatically if someone mentions me specifically. Unfortunately it won't fetch the history when this happens so I might need to open the real slack to get the context before I can answer.

Anyway, it has worked mostly fine for me… I can have decent battery life and I don't get most of the useless notifications.

smallpipe · 2 months ago

That looks cool. I do like to see reactions to my messages, but other than that it sounds great

smallpipe commented on Slack's 57MB 404 page a.slack.com/archives/b/c... · Posted by u/lecarore

smallpipe · 2 months ago

Slack is a constant garbage fire where clearly all the devs have a fast desktop and don’t care about performance or battery use in the slightest. I wish my org would move away from this junk.

smallpipe commented on Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022) tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/Delgan

b0a04gl · 2 months ago

haha wait do you actually read long commit messages( more than a line) all the way through? like line-by-line, imo commit msg = tweet, git note = blog post.

smallpipe · 2 months ago

In my line of work a bug could cost multiple millions. I do read them. I write long ones. I would love if my colleagues started writing longer ones too.

smallpipe commented on Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022) tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/Delgan

b0a04gl · 2 months ago

i use git notes pretty heavily in my current role. started as an experiment to keep track of internal code reviews without flooding the commit message or making PRs for everything. i tag every commit with context what tickets it maps to, infra constraints, links to incident threads if it's a fix. all lives in the repo. this avoids the need to grep slack or jira just to know why a line changed. nce you start using it at scale, you realise how little you need the platform UI at all. we keep talking about reproducibility in builds, but never in intent. maybe this is where that starts

smallpipe · 2 months ago

Shouldn’t that be the commit message ? Or is the goal to also link forward in time, such as “we realised this commit introduced bug #123” ?