babarock

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by babarock 4mo ago
The tweet is criticizing over-reliance on the "agents will fix it anyway". The fact that we can fix things faster now doesn't mean that we should throw away caution and prevention. The specific point of his tweet is that we&#
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by babarock 4mo ago
Matt Might's website has taught me so much over the years, going all the way back to ... I want to say 2008-2009? From programming languages to Unix-fu to a huge amount of topics in-between. I'm super glad to see his writing still
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by babarock 6mo ago
I don't understand the rush to be "the first". Facebook isn't the first social media, Google isn't the first search engine, iPhone is not the first smart phone, Microsoft is not the first OS, the list goes on. Clear
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by babarock 7mo ago
> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn
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by babarock 7mo ago
The way I experience this is through unprecedented amount of feature creep. We don't use AI generated code for all our projects, but in the ones we do, I see a weird anti-pattern settle in: Simply because it's faster than ever bef
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by babarock 8mo ago
> Open Source is not the absolute social good we delude ourselves into thinking. Historically the term "Open Source" was specifically developed to divorce the movement from the "social good" ideas that were promoted b
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by babarock 8mo ago
I don't know if you're "wrong", but I do feel differently about this. I've written a ton of open source code and I never cared what people do with it, both "good" or "bad". I only want my code to
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by babarock 8mo ago
Are you suggesting I should pick the markup format for my private files according to the perceived popularity of another format? I'm not sure what's your point. Are you telling people who use org-mode that they shouldn't?
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by babarock 8mo ago
I think this is moving the goal post. Cloudflare isn't challenging the need to restrict access to some websites, it is challenging who has the right to decide. Quoting the tweet: > We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right t
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by babarock 8mo ago
What he's saying is that the grandparent (top-rated as of this writing) comment claiming that agribusinesses are hiding the benefits of "community gardens, local food, farmers markets, grass fed, free range..." because they d
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by babarock 9mo ago
You're not wrong, however the issue is that it's not always easy to detect if a PR includes proof that the change works. It requires that the reviewer interrupts what they're doing, switch context completely and look at the P
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by babarock 1y ago
"breaking the licenses"? "without attribution"? Did we read the same article?
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by babarock 2y ago
TAS: Tool-Assisted-Speedrun. A kind of speedrunning, where control inputs aren't given by humans, but are carefully pre-programmed into a bot that will replay them. This allows to do things that would otherwise be veeeeery difficult (a
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by babarock 3y ago
You get better at it the more you do it, and naturally with experience you'll notice it takes less and less time. That being said, I agree with you, it does take a lot of time. To me, the switch occurred when I stopped considering this
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by babarock 3y ago
Agreed. I pull it out undercooked so I have time to add enough pasta water in the pan and let it reduce. If it's already al dente by the time it's added to the pan, then I find I have to rush through the mixing.
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by babarock 3y ago
The answer is... complicated: - Using butter for pasta is something that is typically reserved for people with upset stomach (understand diarrhea). It's not scientific at all, but just something that is commonly done. - Fettucine Alfre
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by babarock 3y ago
The main reason for tagliatelle/pappardelle is to get "fresh" pasta. "Pasta Fresca" or "Pasta all'uovo" is made of different ingredients than spaghetti. It's usually soft wheat and eggs versus ha
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by babarock 3y ago
Some suggestions, take it or leave it: - delay the boiling of the pasta until after you added the tomato sauce to the pan. Tomatoes enjoy spending a bit more time on the stove, it makes a difference. - when adding the pasta to the mix, ad
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by babarock 3y ago
> Your other option is to purposely undercook the pasta by a few minutes before adding it to the sauce to let it finish. This is super important. I don't know why the article presents it as optional. It is a vital step for success i
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by babarock 3y ago
Didn't mean to insult you. It's really meant as a friendly advice. I'm sharing experience. I do read code. A lot. I'm not the only one. I know many people who do. I know people who print source code on paper to read on t
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by babarock 3y ago
Python/Flask on the server, and javascript in the browser (if requested) to do markdown->html conversion client-side
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by babarock 3y ago
I wrote my own blogging engine back in 2015. I am fairly certain I'm the only user. I actively use it to maintain two small websites. Ask Me Anything :)
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by babarock 3y ago
> I would say the difference here is that no one is going to read it and see the code. As much as people fantasise about reading code, few actually do it and those that do are broadly wasting their time. You'd be surprised how much
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by babarock 3y ago
It's not about "sympathy". It's about crime. If you left your front door wide and I robbed you, I'd have committed a crime. There's no "but the front door was open" defense.
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by babarock 3y ago
It's spelled _Hors d'œuvre_ in French, using the weird ligature of o and e[1]. According to the Wikipedia article: > A number of words written with œ were borrowed from French and from Latin into English, where the œ is now rar
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by babarock 3y ago
> but how long should we pay for digital assets that have already been created? That's a mis-characterization of what's going on here. Red Hat makes RHEL. Then it (used to) goes *the extra step* of debranding RHEL, removing tra
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by babarock 3y ago
You writing "in before" doesn't make it less true. We don't call free-clone users "freeloaders". At the very best, "freeloader" is a term used by someone internally, but I've never ever heard it
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by babarock 3y ago
Think about it this way. If you as a Red Hat customer redistribute the source code, Red Hat won't sue you. You didn't do anything illegal, you are doing what you are allowed to do. Nothing in the GPL entitles you to future support
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by babarock 3y ago
Different ISO ;)
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by babarock 3y ago
People who still write C, honest question: Why? C is full of quirks. From cryptic "undefined behaviors" to a type system that isn't really a type system (more like "size hints for the compiler"), the language doesn&

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