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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
That's nonsense. Git is the best version control history of all time. It has some regrettable UX difficulties, but as far as the system itself, there is no better decentralized development tool. There's a reason git came into exis
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
If you squash into a single commit upon merge, ignoring for the moment the fact that as a blanket rule that's a bad pattern, you've now eliminated one of the core arguments against rebasing. The merge commit adds no value if the b
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> Since moving to this workflow I’ve had zero issues losing data due to a confusing git situation. Nobody who understands git will ever lose data, because once committed you can never lose it (it's in the reflog). Indeed, even just
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Using interactive rebase in that way is a great tool, but we're talking about people that are against rebasing in general, so it's not the most relevant point IMO. i.e. the anti-rebase people are usually of the "never rebase&
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Because then you're going to merge in the ugly commits and make everyone who needs to look at the history in the future have to work that much harder to understand what's going on.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
It's ironic that the "history is sacred" crowd contains the people least likely to actually look at and use the git history to aid their contextual understanding of the codebase . Why do I say that? Well, because once you&#x
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> As a really simple example, one of the most frequent things I see from juniors using git GUIs is adding files to a commit that they didn't intend to (say stuff that's not in the .gitignore, but doesn't belong in the comm
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Yes, you're missing out. Rebasing isn't about reducing the number of items in history, although it can do that too. It's about having a sane, readable history. If you write two commits in your local feature branch, then pull
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
I am deeply suspicious of people who claim to have never rebased. I've never met such a person who didn't have absolutely disgusting commits: either (1) no commit body to explain the context of why a chance was made, for patches t
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Not if it's the remote for your own dev branch. It only matters if the remote branch is being (actively) used by other people. Unfortunately I've met far too many who have your "remote" superstition. I remember arguing t
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> How could cheating help her when he still had a reasonable chance of pulling either a straight flush, flush, or a pair in the river? Because her call was +EV. Not knowing Garrett's cards, it was an insanely stupid call that threw
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
She specifically said she put him on ace high at one point, at which point Garrett retorts that (paraphrased, despite the quotes) "if she thought he had ace high why would she call with jack high?"
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> She had the losing hand at the time she called by a few percentage points. This tells me you don't understand the basics of poker. Which is fine, but you might want to be clear about that before opining :P While the expected perce
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Just to give context to others, it sounds like you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter associated with prediction of reward (aka desire/craving/addiction). Serotonin is very complex (in humans) but more about social-emotional processing. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter you’re thinki
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
I loved the feel of the keyboard (contrary to some) but durability and redundancy were god-awful.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> I heard that the flu vaccine is also around 30% effective. The flu vaccine is so ineffective that if we actually applied evidence-based medicine standards to it / actually looked at a real cost:benefit analysis, we would never be
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
I'll take this one. The vast majority of COVID risk is stratified in the very elderly and/or those with diseases of modernity / metabolic syndrome type conditions. Both of those categories (age & diseases of modernity) ar
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> Supporting abortion rights doesn't mean killing babies. There is something very revealing about the GP's attitude though. They literally interpret someone wanting to avoid killing a baby as being the exact same thing as oppos
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
I think a common utilitarian way of thinking is years of life left. A baby has a far greater expected value of remaining years and thus is often assigned higher moral value by people. For me it was a no-brainer to kill the old people, altho
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
So should the same bill also make vaccine requirements federally illegal? “Bodily autonomy” is a vague and nebulous concept. And it’s also another way to show one’s bias because to a pro-life person abortion is a violation of the unborn chi
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
But it might be that they get a buzz as an evolutionary strategy, similar to why humans find sugar so appealing (it signifies caloric density). So the cats certainly get a high but maybe they get the high because of the insect repellent act
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
It's also a tempting but dangerous idea to think that it's just a problem of "education". Not nearly as many issues are solvable by "education" as people think, IMO.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> It's too bad you see it that way when in a lot of cases it's explicitly about giving equal consideration to everyone rather than giving anyone more favorable treatment. Not every case, obviously, but that shouldn't inval
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> Personally, I think this slow moving inflation disaster is the result of the US government's inability to raise taxes I'd argue the opposite. We print absolutely insane amounts of money, which is an indirect tax via inflation
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
The "economic impact payments" in the US, clearly
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> it's hard to preserve things and the code is usually pretty crappy and the data is often unintelligible without a lot of help from whoever was processing it Which is a huge part of why the replication crisis is such a thing (besid
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> You can call it the paradox of the old white guy: Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
I live in California, where it's illegal to have a magazine that can hold more than 10 bullets (a standard Glock 17 holds 15+1). It's also de-facto illegal to own an AR-15, since you have to neuter the gun in all sorts of crazy wa
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Okay, may have been my bad but it sounded like you thought that the same manager who fired the IC also was the one to offer to re-hire or something. Although your clarification about a firing theoretically needing approval from higher up sh

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