ghoward

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by ghoward 4y ago
Hey, what tool are you using for detection? I'd like to run it on my own comments and on my blog posts.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I do this too! [1] It's amazing how well tmux works as a project setup tool. [1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/12/my-development-environment-a...
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by ghoward 4y ago
> I would definitely write (or at least read) a few Bazel rules before writing a new build system that improves on it! You have a point there; I didn't because everything I've seen is that people like the results of Bazel, bu
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by ghoward 4y ago
Er, most of the capabilities of Bezel and Buck just appear. That said, can you explain providers to me? I looked up the docs, and I'm no closer to understanding them. I want to understand them and their uses do that my build system c
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by ghoward 4y ago
I agree. My build system will actually have a command-line option to reverse the dependency resolution. Instead of building a given target, updating its dependencies as necessary, it will build the default target(s), marking the files given
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by ghoward 4y ago
Yes, I'm a solo dev and not looking for contributors. My style is too eccentric to accept outside contributions. Funny you should mention Bazel and Buck; I'm coming for them too! I'm also coming for Nix; I want its advantages
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by ghoward 4y ago
> That's the critical selling point of CMake in my estimation. When I'm on Windows, I can generate a Visual Studio project and use its excellent debugger and code analysis tools. When I'm on Mac, I can generate an XCode pr
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by ghoward 4y ago
Sure, but doing so doesn't mean that the generating build system had to have the same model as CMake. Here's how my build system will do it: the programmer will list default build profiles. Then the build system will generate Visu
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by ghoward 4y ago
Disclaimer: author of a build system that will compete against CMake when it's released. I'm not impressed, for two reasons: * Backwards compatibility for the CMake language is not desirable. It would be better to allow files to
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by ghoward 4y ago
> Your comments in this thread were doing ideological battle on a classic flamewar battlefront. You even used the word "fighting" to describe what you were doing. Surely you can understand how lines like ""wokeists&qu
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by ghoward 4y ago
Please define "perpetuate flamewars" for me because I don't understand how you use that phrase. I didn't attack the messenger, which is the definition of that phrase I usually use. I also very carefully only addressed th
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by ghoward 4y ago
Guilt by association is a logical fallacy. That is not a good argument. The community you love has done damage to the society you depend on. I have no viciousness towards any one of them except where they insist on remaking society in their
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by ghoward 4y ago
Parents seem to like it, though, so I don't see what the problem is. And yes, people other than history faculty do know how to teach history better than history faculty. I don't trust academics.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I do. And like many others, I can also look like I'm experiencing other emotions because I am. But I have a resting angry face, and it gets more extreme the more deeply I am thinking. My wife works in a company with programmers, and th
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by ghoward 4y ago
Because indentation-based languages have very limited formatting they can do. They can't do any indentation formatting.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Because they are.
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by ghoward 4y ago
And the saddest part is that Nix could be exactly there and solve another one of their problems at the same time: content-addressed outputs.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Funny. I've implemented something like this as well, but over `poll()`, and I made it handle child processes too. I could probably change it to use io_uring and kqueue on those platforms, but I wanted to make a POSIX-compatible version
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by ghoward 4y ago
Without standardization, I have to rely on specific compilers. That's not great, either.
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by ghoward 4y ago
My home page could get on this site if I reduce the amount of CSS, but I already have it remove unused items from the CSS. Eh, fun project for another day.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I presume you are being tongue-in-cheek, and I agree, so it will probably be ruled for the cops. But why would police treat a peeping tom differently when they do the same thing? It's so hypocritical.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I think you're right about the end result, and I do not like it. I also disagree with the Riley case: unless you have REALLY good binoculars, there isn't any way someone could tell what kind of plants are in a greenhouse at 400 fe
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by ghoward 4y ago
I really hope SCOTUS smacks down the cops; "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" is pretty clear, and it doesn't matter that the Fourth Am
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by ghoward 4y ago
It is once again time for me to re-read The Mythical Man Month and watch his No Silver Bullet lecture. No better way to respect such a giant.
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by ghoward 4y ago
> Please complain to your representative about that! I have done that. Through all levels of government. But the establishment is going to do what it's going to do, regardless of party.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I'm in the process of building a NixOS-like distro. I'm 90% certain mine will use these.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I'm going to respect human rights. And I'm going to act legally, even if it appears I can't do business in the EU, which appears to be true.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I can't get away from storing PII for signed in users. For non-signed-in users, I think it would be useful to avoid all PII.
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by ghoward 4y ago
> to be honest as you can imagine I am very glad that my representative in the EU didn't back down and protect my rights. I'm the asker of the question that started this discussion. I'm a US citizen. I'm actually on t

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