SBArbeit

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by SBArbeit 29d ago
Ex-Microsoft, ex-GitHub, laid off nine months ago, not going to violate any agreements, but I will give some context. A lot of this applies to any large engineering org, really. Hilarious that this entire thread is people speculating on thi
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by SBArbeit 1mo ago
I can name lots of things I can't stand about MacOS and iOS and Apple hardware, but that wasn't the point of the comment. Some of the things I can't stand about Apple are things that people used to Apple's stuff don&#x27
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by SBArbeit 1mo ago
Easy workaround for this: 1. Install uBlock Origin in Edge. 2. Start Edge, browse to MSN Weather. 3. Click the "Add an Application" button in the address bar to get a Start Menu icon for the page. 4. Delete the in-box Weather app
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by SBArbeit 1mo ago
Super interesting; it's been exactly the opposite in my experience. MacOS/iOS users put up with whatever Apple is telling them they should love - Liquid Glass, right? App Store restrictions, right? Lousy AI, right? - whether it&#x
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The AWS SDK for .NET: A Code Quality Wake-Up Call(dotnettips.wordpress.com)
3 points by SBArbeit 7mo ago|2 comments
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by SBArbeit 7mo ago
This SDK is widely trusted, but it carries significant technical debt: Performance risks Memory leaks Design flaws Maintainability issues Popularity does not equal quality.
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by SBArbeit 1y ago
Avalonia. https://avaloniaui.net/platforms
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by SBArbeit 1y ago
I know that OpenAI has made computing deals with other companies, and as time goes on, the percentage of inference that they run their models on will shift, but I doubt that much, if any, of that has moved from Microsoft Azure data centers
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by SBArbeit 1y ago
Everything about the title of this article is frightening.
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GitHub Copilot coding agent now uses one premium request per session(github.blog)
3 points by SBArbeit 1y ago|0 comments
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Visual Basic 6, in the browser, written in C# with Avalonia(github.com)
4 points by SBArbeit 2y ago|1 comments
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
You can see it deployed as a web site at https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ .
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
This is brilliant. Thanks for building it.
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
The fact that most of your Git commands are local-only is an artifact of how Git works, but I expect that ~100% of the time, you have an internet connection, so the fact that Grace needs to be connected to the cloud just isn't a thing
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> Any plans to assimilate the build system as well? No plans, not at all. One of the design questions I've had in mind the entire time I've worked on Grace is: "What belongs to Git, and what belongs to GitHub?" (or Gi
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
Eh, I'm not really an Elvis fan... One of the problems that GitHub and GitLab are going to face in the coming years, as Git gets supplanted whatever wins, is that "Git" is in the company name. Those names are going to sound t
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
It's totally cool. It's not a product yet, it's a one-person project so far. I'm not asking anyone for any money. I expect one day that it will be a product. It's still an alpha (see the highlighted note towards the
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
I'm a long-time C# dev who got into F# about five years ago. F# is so awesome, I hope that if Grace catches on, that more people will pay some attention to it. And .NET is so fast. No-brainer.
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
Thank you, I appreciate even the one data point. I'm a Windows user (and former Windows network administrator). I only use Linux as a target for containers, and rarely use a Linux terminal, so I know I'm not the right person to un
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> Hi - can Grace support partial commits somehow? Not at the moment, and probably not for v1.0 unless that bubbles up as a huge blocker. You could accomplish it with something like: - Make the changes in your branch - Make a new branch o
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> My bet is it will be forgotten in a year. How much? ;-)
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> This doesn't really make any sense. Most people are not "large Git hosters" I do work for GitHub, so I do know what it takes. Most people don't run their own Git servers, they use GitHub / GitLab / Azure D
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
Thank you. <3 I do ignore them. There's no way to build something with an intention as big as "replace Git" that won't invite knee-jerk reactions. I know I'm building the thing that aligns with my creative and te
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
Not with something like GitHub Secret Scanning monitoring things, or we could imagine a local ML model automatically checking every save before it gets uploaded. This is an easily-solved problem. And in case one slips through, versions are
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
Don't get hung up on what GPT-4 can do. That's irrelevant. Even Sam Altman calls GPT-4 "mildly embarrassing". "Don't skate to where the puck is, skate to where the puck is going." In 2028, for instance, wi
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> inadvertently committing secrets Devs already do this all the time. That's why GitHub has Secret Scanning. The need for that kind of service doesn't change if the VCS changes. > temporary large files Saves in Grace are eph
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
"Cloud-native", to me, means "built to scale up well". I find that's the connotation that most people associate with it. Git, or any file-server based software, is not built to scale up well in today's world. L
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> It sounds like Linux is not a priority now? The "probably Linux" line was when I was thinking of using .NET MAUI for the GUI, and they were considering adding Linux support. My bad, I need to change that. .NET MAUI has decide
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
When I hear "cloud-native" I think "built to scale up well". As opposed to "built to run on file servers" which means "doesn't scale well at all". Is that just me? Also, [1]. I start by saying it
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by SBArbeit 2y ago
> I think you're trying to fabricate problems where there are none. No, I'm not. The problems with Git's UX are well-documented, and have spawned many projects over the last 10+ years trying to deliver "Git, but easie

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