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xaedes commented on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit... · Posted by u/linhns

damethos · 2 months ago

I was using SmartGit for many years and was very happy with it, until they made it subscription based and had to switch to SourceTree. It works but I do not find it very smooth at all. It hangs every now (using MacOSX) and in general the experience is not as smooth as it was with SmartGit. I am surprised that you are saying that you haven't come across any better tool.

xaedes · 2 months ago

For a few minutes after reading this I was worried about smartgit losing its way. But it seems they actually still offer perpetual single-payment licenses, where you purchase a few years of updates, usable after update period ends.

xaedes commented on End of Japanese community support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg

alwa · 2 months ago

I did as you suggested with respect to “nemawashi.” I read about that and “ringi,” and I’m glad I did. Even to get just the gist of what I’m sure is a thin interpretation: that nemawashi refers to a “laying-the-groundwork” process of circulating a proposal between peer-level counterparts, before formalizing it and proposing to act on it.

Much less crashing in with it in the form of a “SumoBot,” as Mozilla seems to have done to its non-English communities… (with the disclaimer that I have zero insight into Mozilla’s process here outside of this writer’s account).

It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change, that seems humane (and effective) in any culture—leave it to the Japanese to have a specific term for it…

xaedes · 2 months ago

> It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change

When reading about nemawashi I immediately thought about its usage in software refactoring.

This is something you often intuitively do when making bigger refactors. Lay the foundations before actually doing it. Affected code parts and stakeholders should not be surprised by one big change. Instead they should be consulted before hand, building consensus, modify the planned big refactor itself and preparing the individual parts for it by small changes. Otherwise you will encounter a lot of friction, introduce bugs, etc.

It is very nice to have a proper term for this.

xaedes commented on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/stalfosknight

xaedes · 2 months ago

In my opinion it is plain fraud: intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly.

xaedes commented on Wu Wei zettl.blog/2023/12/wu-wei... · Posted by u/freediver

xaedes · 2 years ago

There is this concept of the "Four stages of competence":

- unconscious incompetence

- conscious incompetence

- conscious competence

- unconscious competence

At first you are unable to do something, but you don't even know it. Then you learn about your incompetence and begin to work on it. Eventually due to conscious effort you achieve conscious competence. Doing it long enough you don't need to spend conscious effort to be competent - you just do it, and you do it well.

I think this unconscious competence is very similar to Wu Wei.

xaedes commented on EU’s plan to digitising travel documents might affect you edri.org/our-work/how-eus... · Posted by u/type0

LatteLazy · 2 years ago

1. Again, that's your opinion, others like me disagree. Either cover WHY you think that is true you are sort of saying "I don't like it and I don't have a reason"

2. This is about the smallest imaginable amount of your life being added to the digital realm. All the data in question is ALREADY in there, on government computers when you get a paper passport and that is what is actually used at border crossings. No one cares about the paper passport except as a receipt for a DB entry. So nothing is actually being moved digital. We are just turning off some printers...

xaedes · 2 years ago

That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone.

Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think humans should be able to do basic life actions without a smartphone.

xaedes commented on Flashing elements alienate users astralcodexten.substack.c... · Posted by u/feross

nl · 3 years ago

More than half (55%) of the people surveyed don't notice them or find them only a little annoying.

xaedes · 3 years ago

I read the pie chart as this:

Only 11.5% barely notice them or can completely tune them out. 88.5% are annoyed by them with varying degrees of annoyance.

xaedes commented on Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh stanmed.stanford.edu/turm... · Posted by u/coopernewby

bsder · 3 years ago

I seem to remember that it was also a switch to a different citrus fruit which had way less vitamin C in it so the processing was much mroe important.

However, since the switch corresponded to the rise of steam power (ship trips were much faster), nobody noticed that that they weren't protected from scurvy anymore.

It wasn't until the artic expeditions that scurvy protection got tested again.

xaedes · 3 years ago

They believed the scurvy protection came from the sourness of lemons, so they switched to lime which is even more sour than lemon, but contains less vitamin C.

xaedes commented on All EU Members are committed to achieving full climate neutrality by 2050 ff55.info/about/... · Posted by u/doener

Fordec · 3 years ago

Europe has a much more fleshed out freight rail system and the vast majority of European countries have ocean access, so long range haul can be done by the cheapest form of transport of all, boat.

xaedes · 3 years ago

It is estimated that the full electrification of all railway tracks in Germany will be completed not earlier than 2070.

But maybe I am confusing "Deutschlandtakt 2070" and the electrification of the tracks.