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by jdpage 12d ago
Yeah, I don't see myself using this for Git (where it's very easy to see what you're adding, but not obvious and high-cost if you're missing something), but it's my standard approach for Docker images (where it&#x27
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by jdpage 12d ago
It interactively shows you each change that would be added and lets you decide whether it should be staged or not. Down to the hunk level, so you can partially stage a file if you so choose.
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by jdpage 4mo ago
Reminds me of a (perhaps) more fanciful risk of fictional encyclopaedias: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...
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by jdpage 5mo ago
A few years ago I had a Windows box where I pointed XDG_CONFIG_HOME et al to the corresponding-ish Windows paths (AppData subdirectories, mostly) so that the many Linux-derived CLI programs I was using wouldn't clutter up my userdir, a
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by jdpage 6mo ago
I don't know what the official policy is, but glibc uses versioned symbols and certainly provides enough ABI backward-compatibility that the Python package ecosystem is able to define a "manylinux" target for prebuilt binarie
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by jdpage 7mo ago
The canonical Boolean values in FORTH are 0 and -1 (that is, all bits set). IIRC the point of that is to unify the bitwise and logical operators, though, not detect bitflips. Also, at the machine code level, a Boolean controlling a branch o
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by jdpage 9mo ago
There's a new, professionally-published book version of "There Is No Antimemetics Division" out as well[1], if you want to support Sam's work that way. I have print copies of both the self-published V1 and the new V2. I&
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by jdpage 9mo ago
I don't think it's that the lawyers are undifferentiated; some are better than others, in the same way some real estate agents are better than others (source: people complaining bitterly about theirs). The problem is that there&#x
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by jdpage 9mo ago
Good to know! At previous jobs, that information wasn't available to me (and it didn't matter because the customer bases were small enough that every customer was top priority), so I assumed it was considered more sensitive than i
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by jdpage 9mo ago
Tangential, but I wonder if the given example might be straying a step too far? Normally we want to keep sensitive data out of logs, but the example includes a user.lifetime_value_cents field. I'd want to have a chat with the rest of t
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by jdpage 9mo ago
I have had many people use it when I try to either push for a private option ("please message me on Signal") or explain why I won't use a service.
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by jdpage 9mo ago
Yes, the understanding is that trans people were always trans. It may have taken time for them to understand that and perhaps more to decide to adopt that identity publicly, but they're not "not trans" before that. Other quee
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by jdpage 9mo ago
Bear in mind, the terminal goal doesn't actually require unbiased numbers; the way most TTRPGs work is that you're trying to roll over or under a target number to get a weighted, unpredictable outcome. The idea is that while playe
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by jdpage 10mo ago
No, it's trained into the model weights themselves.
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by jdpage 10mo ago
This strikes me as a rather uncharitable view. I think it's okay for people to be proud of their work on a difficult project, and want to have their names on it.
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by jdpage 10mo ago
Fedora makes it pretty approachable, and some distros (e.g. Nobara, Bazzite) just straight-up ship the driver. IMHO, stuff is moving fast enough in the Linux gaming world that any distro built around taking its time to update things (i.e. D
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by jdpage 10mo ago
A better measure, assuming that pennies facilitate value exchange[1], would be whether the cost to mint a penny exceeded the marginal increase in GDP[2] due to having that additional penny available. [1]: This assumption may not be true; if
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by jdpage 10mo ago
... argument withdrawn. I suppose if I want to use the word to mean the original sense, I need to include clarification that that's what I'm doing. I'll have to think of how best to do that without coming across as judgy or c
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by jdpage 11mo ago
Hmm. I am tentatively holding to my position, because I think it's useful to have a separate word, but I'll go track down the episode and see if he elaborates on that further. Thanks!
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by jdpage 11mo ago
Point of order: "enshittification" does not mean what the author's using it to mean. It does not just mean "the product got worse". It means "the product was purposefully made worse in order to capture addition
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by jdpage 11mo ago
Each company is a system, though. And they exhibit certain behaviors common to their type.
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by jdpage 11mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by jdpage 11mo ago
I'm not a croissant expert, but I do like the Costco ones. I just need to convince 2-3 friends to split them with me, and then eat multiple per day, in order for them to make sense as a purchase.
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by jdpage 11mo ago
Oh, for sure, being a minister of any religion is a tough job that involves a lot more work than many people might assume. That's the role GP was clearly referring to, there, though. More usefully, GPs point, or something adjacent to i
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by jdpage 11mo ago
Seminary, then becoming ordained as a priest, at the very least.
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by jdpage 11mo ago
A reminder, RSA (the cryptosystem) is not a product of RSA (the security company); the cryptosystem predates the company by a decade and was also independently invented by a GCHQ researcher a few years before, but it remained classified the
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by jdpage 1y ago
The Ocaml 5 effect system is based on delimited continuations, and its new effect-based IO library, Eio, seems to be getting more and more popular all the time.
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by jdpage 1y ago
One thing that's very cool about 1Password is that they expose a lot of their more enterprisey features even on regular subs. I'm able to use 1Password for secret storage on my at-home k8s cluster without any kind of special busin
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by jdpage 1y ago
I might be wrong here, but based on the context, I read the "I don't want to know about your names or your company" as CYA for both parties: "I can't be legally obligated to disclose things I don't know, so ple
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by jdpage 1y ago
I, also, would like a Star Trek tricorder. I was going to come in with a set of reasons why these wouldn't sell, but... I think they could! Air quality fits neatly into Apple's health push, though I could see them making that a Wa

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