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by dxdm 6d ago
I don't want to stop you from providing your opinion, and looking back, I shouldn't have questioned it the way I did. I didn't consider, after my own experience switching from the time of CVS and then SVN to git, with the sub
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by dxdm 6d ago
Well, then I'm sorry. Your issue seems not so much that tools have shortcomings, but rather, that you seem to focus on these shortcomings so much that everything looks like crap. Maybe not in general, but at least in relation to VCSes,
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by dxdm 7d ago
I don't think jujutsu is proprietary (unless you want to redefine that term). Source is freely available, and it uses Apache License 2.0. While you're right about the disadvantages of git, pretending that it became ubiquitous beca
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by dxdm 11d ago
There's -i for interactive, lets you add, patch and reset (unstage).
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by dxdm 16d ago
I agree that requirements need to be kept in check to avoid over engineering. However, I think it's hard to decide for other people far away what their requirements ought to be. So I don't agree that you can call mrb's basic
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by dxdm 16d ago
Of course you can call things over engineered, but seem to want to include questioning the requirements, specifically also those of the example we're talking about. Once you start that, you also need to stop somewhere. For example, we
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by dxdm 16d ago
Where would you draw the line for a sufficiently simple implementation of sufficiently simple requirements? A door knocker? A door?
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by dxdm 1mo ago
Gotta keep up with pitch inflation! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch
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by dxdm 1mo ago
With pleasure. There was a boy A very strange, enchanted boy They say he wandered very far Very far, over land and sea A little shy and sad of eye But very wise was he. And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of man
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by dxdm 1mo ago
Love the pedantry here. I'm currently at: no op code does anything, it's all fancy effects in the hardware that can be described in arbitrary detail, which somehow allows me to cause these letters to appear on your screen.
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by dxdm 1mo ago
I agree. What I meant to say is that the Wikipedia article tells you upfront where it is going. In TFA, you need to push many little paragraph cards across the screen before you get an idea what you are going to learn.
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by dxdm 1mo ago
But Wikipedia tells you in the first paragraph what it's all about. A "Pareto front represents the set of solutions where no solution outperforms any other solution in the set at every objective, and every solution not in the set
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by dxdm 1mo ago
Thanks a lot for the link! I appreciate your work to make this topic accessible in an interactive format. Somehow, in this case, it's too much for me. I think the ratio of information to interactivity is too low. It's like I have
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by dxdm 1mo ago
Is there a version I can just read as text without having to push every paragraph out of the way with my fingers across an unevenly colored background that shines through? I get that this form of presentation may be great for many people,
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by dxdm 1mo ago
There is clearly LLM-prose involved, but it's pretty well done. Here's one example: "The reallocations were real, but they were never the bottleneck." LLMs love this pattern. Whether one put it into this text, or the aut
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by dxdm 1mo ago
That's a good point. They're not selling progress, they are claiming to enable progress by selling you (tokens in -> tokens out), making it your responsibility to connect the two. Filling that gap is part of your expertise that
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by dxdm 2mo ago
Easy for you to say, but who says they're looking for a way out? It's often easier to find a reason to stay where you are, and easiest to not even need one.
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by dxdm 2mo ago
Well, first, we don't have enough context to judge what the "load-bearing seam" was used for in this case ("The key structural point first: the only load-bearing seam is [...]"), so we don't know if it was mean
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by dxdm 2mo ago
It's a clunky metaphor, and it's used clumsily: not for the sake of its clunkiness, but by mixing two decent individual parts in an attempt to have them reinforce each other, but ending up with something weaker. It communicates an
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by dxdm 2mo ago
As of recently, there is a strong correlation between use of em-dashes and a verbose, bloated style of writing that uses many words to not quite get to multiple repeated points. Not well written, in other words. The combination of both I us
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by dxdm 2mo ago
Nothing wrong with browsers using resources to do useful work. I'm just not a fan of bloat that eats resources because they're assumed to always be available. That's what this thread is about, I thought.
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by dxdm 2mo ago
Waste the cycles, everyone has too many cycles, is it even waste if the cycles would just go unused, GPUs are expensive, they better do their bit, who's got no GPU, go play somewhere else without your GPU, pal. It's all a game, an
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by dxdm 2mo ago
(I replied to the sister comment to yours, because it was there first, but it's essentially a reply to you, as well.)
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by dxdm 2mo ago
I understand the apprehension, and I agree that rules should be as clear as possible and not be applied inconsistently. Hoewever, I take exception to the suggestion that the mere existence of a rule means that it will be applied wrong. Ther
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by dxdm 2mo ago
I don't think that the rule should regularly be broken. That's not what they say, and it's not what they mean. The strongest interpretation is: err on the side of not acting surprised at people's questions, because it te
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by dxdm 2mo ago
There's no rule against being surprised, and especially not against _ever_ being surprised. They are asking people not to express surprise, real or not, when responding to a question, as a courtesy to the person asking. Like: Keep your
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by dxdm 2mo ago
The social rules page links to the code of conduct, which contains a rule about the roof. The most sensible interpretation to me is that OP wanted to comment on both, possibly forgetting that they had to follow a link to the roof rule, or m
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by dxdm 2mo ago
The transparency of this information is a public good in itself, so it is in the interest of the public that this information can be requested as freely as possible. Of course there should probably be a way to limit waste, but putting all f
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by dxdm 2mo ago
Generations, presumably.
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by dxdm 2mo ago
Interesting, thanks for mentioning that. I've always wondered about the origins of the name, never found anything, but now with your mention of "mineral" I was able to find this: > (Hipp) How do I pronounce the name of the

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