matttproud

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by matttproud 3mo ago
Conventional Commit messages have big https://goomics.net/361 energy. Or at least the mechanisms that repositories use to programmatically enforce their use. (I can't believe nobody has pointed this out yet.)
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by matttproud 4mo ago
I lived there, and I am familiar with that. I would be happy if they did away with all of it, including the state-administered lottery. But this is a great start of low-hanging fruit.
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by matttproud 4mo ago
Good on Minnesota.
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by matttproud 7mo ago
Piggdekk in Norway are equivalent to North American studded tires. When I lived in the northern parts of the U.S., I had a set of these for times around freezing rains. Beyond the questions of winter weather properties, there are adjacent
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by matttproud 7mo ago
Driving discipline, culture, and rules in North America are Mickey Mouse. The reality of car dependency there means that there are people driving and owning cars who can't really afford to do it properly, nor do they know they need to
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by matttproud 7mo ago
Yeah, it was interesting to see some above-ground-to-the-premises power delivery in some of the smaller Norwegian villages above the arctic circle. Things looked rather robust, though. I lived in the Oklahoma and in Minnesota, and the diff
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by matttproud 7mo ago
Short version is this: If you are going to get into the business of introducing order dependence to test cases through global state (see my other reply on the parent), you will always want the cleanup to work correctly. 1. Using (testing.TB
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by matttproud 7mo ago
This is often the path of pain: https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/best-practices#global... .
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by matttproud 8mo ago
Method signatures in gRPC present a pandora's box of questions: https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/grpc-method-discipline.htm... . The questions aren't unique to gRPC, however; gRPC forces you to confront
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by matttproud 11mo ago
Another similar naming rabbit hole (hyper-local to Switzerland): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanisch_Brötli .
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by matttproud 11mo ago
As an American living in CH, I say send all of the (bland) Emmentaler to the U.S.; I wouldn't miss it! ;-) Inländervorrang for the rest!
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by matttproud 11mo ago
Maybe better put: Bazel (and its predecessor) do support Go, but they don't support the traditional directory structure-to-import path semantic that we've come to expect in the outside world. And even then, the terminal directory
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by matttproud 1y ago
One of the worst things a developer accustomed to Bazel (and its relatives) can do with a modern language (say Go or Rust) is to model code and organize it through the Bazel concept of a build target ( https://bazel.build/con
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by matttproud 1y ago
Seriously. I don't know if folks remember this Java desktop research project from 25-some years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass . To say that it was slow was an understatement (it was a r
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by matttproud 1y ago
Gentoo and Linux from Scratch (LFS) were a great way to learn back in the day (yes, 20-some years ago) — and support relatively custom operating environments through USE flags (e.g., which flavor of Motif did I want to use). I found Gentoo
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by matttproud 1y ago
He's spent too much time huffing Alexander Dugin's flatulence. It's no different to how revanchist parties in the United States these days characterize their battle against their (domestic) enemies. Just a rhetorical foil.
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by matttproud 1y ago
Those of us who are U.S. citizens who live outside of the U.S. suffer a LOT because growing disallowances like these.
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by matttproud 1y ago
I presume this is hat a based on the ribbon. Note: That link's (actual) photographs seem to suggest that the topic was not adequately researched or generatively produced. Namely the photo with the caption "The Origin of Swiss Trad
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by matttproud 1y ago
I don't have anything against ZSH or similar shells. I think they are great, but they are not my thing. Latency is a deal-breaker for me, and this is where autocompletion engines generally introduce surprising user-interactive pauses.
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by matttproud 1y ago
Coming soon (again) to a Florida near you: Liberty of Contract and Lochner Era jurisprudence.
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by matttproud 1y ago
Don't think for a minute I want human drivers anywhere near bicyclists or pedestrians or assume they are anywhere better for general-purpose driving. Human drivers are awful, but I'd posit the behavior of these automated vehicles
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by matttproud 1y ago
A vehicle that becomes blocked in a crosswalk is unsafe for pedestrians who want to use that crosswalk if it forces the pedestrians to walk around the blocking vehicle. There are crosswalks in SoMa that provide for 45 seconds or more of cr
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by matttproud 1y ago
I was just on a business trip to San Francisco for a few days, and I observed the near opposite of this from the Waymo fleet in SoMa: * Waymo vehicle creeping into the pedestrian crosswalk (while the pedestrians had right of way to cross),
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by matttproud 1y ago
Give the U.S. ten years and "clientelism" will have become a household word.
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by matttproud 1y ago
IIS: Talk about a throwback.
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by matttproud 1y ago
If you are an American who lives abroad, you still need to file a tax return and possibly pay an obligation (two countries do citizenship based taxation: U.S. since Civil War and Eritrea). To properly file taxes when living abroad, you usua
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by matttproud 2y ago
Talk about taking declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to a whole new absurd level. (Or more like putting the manager back in the management plane.)
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by matttproud 2y ago
One of the original Quake I implementations — as in authored by Carmack and Taylor themselves — used SVGAlib as a backend. I remember this because of having to configure my mouse to co-exist with GPM in some file in /etc for svgalib.
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by matttproud 2y ago
The American people by and large do not know how government operates, who has power and authority over what, etc. Blame and reward usually is attributed to the President who has high visibility.
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by matttproud 2y ago
At a hospice literally right now for a loved one (who is sound asleep). The nurse working there quoted something like this: ca. 95% of the people admitted will die of dehydration since they can't take in fluids after a certain point.

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