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by bulatb 20d ago
Ninja edit, sorry. I'm glad we got to salvage this from where it might have gone. I can't keep writing now but I will try to organize some thoughts and come back later.
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by bulatb 20d ago
> humans do have that capacity, but our system is explicitly set up to give the most power to the greediest among us My argument is that we don't have that capacity. The system that we have is what we have because it's what h
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by bulatb 20d ago
I am saying human nature is the reason "just coordinate" has not resolved this problem, and denying human nature keeps us from coordinating on this problem doesn't help. Ugh, this is like my catchphrase now, but: "If eve
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by bulatb 20d ago
Of course, and I'm not saying that. Coordinated action is so stupidly effective that it barely even matters what you do, and long as you all do it together. That doesn't mean it's possible for every problem. There's al
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by bulatb 20d ago
On no other issue would this type of wishful thinking be accepted. If I pour some water in a bucket and come back to find it's all leaked out, and do this every day for all of human history and always get the same result, I don't
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by bulatb 20d ago
The brightest minds in STEM are often loudly, proudly, confidently wrong on every single thing except their narrow specialty in STEM. Many of the people still rejecting climate change are scientists and engineers whose egos make them obli
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by bulatb 20d ago
I think they meant "no way," but maybe it's a joke about the Norway problem? YAML famously confuses Norway's country code ("NO" or "no" without quotes) with unquoted "no" meaning Boolean fa
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by bulatb 2mo ago
Yay! I've argued this a few times here and it's been, uh, perceived as low quality. I think "objective quality" can always be re-framed in terms of fitness. "Quality" is just not anything the fitness function m
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by bulatb 2mo ago
Quality is what we call the difference between what succeeds and what we wish succeeded. It's a measure of how closely the opinion of the person saying "quality" aligns with what is actually rewarded by the fitness function t
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by bulatb 2mo ago
My point to the OP is the same thing I'm saying to you. "I understand the thing and think it's fine" does not imply that nobody who understands the thing can think it isn't fine, or anyone who doesn't like the
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by bulatb 2mo ago
I'm sorry (like actually sorry) if I'm getting into counter-condescension here, but, like... > all you have to do to make is pleasant This is an assumption about what I find unpleasant and why. I take it you think "readi
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by bulatb 2mo ago
Let me eat the crow of getting drawn back in and cap this conversation with a summary. I think this is important because criticizing Git's UX is always like this. OP: No one should be worried about using Git to do a thing. bulatb: I&#x
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by bulatb 2mo ago
I understand how rebase works and use it many times a day. Thanks for trying to explain but I won't respond further.
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by bulatb 2mo ago
Such as moving down a fixup during interactive rebase when it's going to conflict with parents, or I've added more commits mid-rebase, or the rebase started in a tool and now I need to think about the tool's command and under
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by bulatb 2mo ago
I can fully understand a conflict, know it's coming, and fear it anyway because I'll have to deal with Git's behavior to fix it.
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by bulatb 4mo ago
> nothing in the stack wants you to do that Meaning treat semantic markup as a principle. Most modern tools are not that interested in 2010s ideas about separation of design and content.
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by bulatb 4mo ago
HyperText Markup Language is semantic. You're marking up a document to show what information it contains, where it contains it, and how it relates to other documents or information. Reading markup causes browsers to display things, but
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by bulatb 4mo ago
Too late to edit now, but I should mention putting titles in a list like that isn't valid. It's just to shorten the example.
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by bulatb 4mo ago
A <ul> is a list of things whose order makes no difference to its meaning. Rearranging a <ul> would change the presentation, not the information. Rearranging an <ol> would change both. <ul> Players <li>
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by bulatb 8mo ago
We're taking about different things. To take responsibility is volunteering to accept accountability without a fight. In practice, almost everyone is held potentially or actually accountable for things they never had a choice in. Some
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by bulatb 8mo ago
There's nothing to prove. Responsibility means you accept the consequences for its actions, whatever they are. You own the benefit? You own the risk. If you don't want to be responsible for what a tool that might do anything at al
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by bulatb 8mo ago
"People don't learn lessons" is a lesson that people don't learn.
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by bulatb 11mo ago
It can. SQLAlchemy has good support for types since 2.0, which helps a lot.
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by bulatb 11mo ago
You would have an API that makes the query shape, the query instance with specific values, and the execution of the query three different things. My examples here are SQLAlchemy in Python, but LINQ in C# and a bunch of others use the same i
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by bulatb 1y ago
The US government controls who gets .gov domain names, but the websites are available to anyone.
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by bulatb 1y ago
Someone invented the two-sentence clickline. Now even blogs do it.
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by bulatb 1y ago
At the risk of becoming that guy from the tabs vs. spaces meme: Why not both? Name folders by domain or topic and files by role, if you can. app/ iam/ orgs/ models.xyz roles/ models.xy
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by bulatb 1y ago
It looks like this is only for accounts created after June 22, 2022. Mine are older and their emails have been going out before and since. I never even heard about this. https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/smtp-restricted
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by bulatb 1y ago
Just a heads-up if you haven't seen it: Overriding lazy-loading options at query time can help with overfetching. class Author(Model): books = relationship(..., lazy='select') fetch_authors = select(Author)
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by bulatb 1y ago
The answer to your needlessly aggressive questions is, no, of course not. None of that is anything I'm saying. I'm genuinely sorry if it's frustrating, hopefully not, but I'm exiting this conversation now.

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