partdavid

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by partdavid 1y ago
I'm extremely interested in pushing along these fronts even in a performative way, because I don't want to get bogged down in "switch away from Emacs" conversations with coworkers. I've done a lot of modernizing on
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by partdavid 1y ago
Since the jargon we've invented in technology has derived from natural language, it's often repurposing common terms as terms of art. In my opinion this leads to ambiguity and I sometimes pine for the abstruse but more precise jar
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by partdavid 1y ago
Can you say more about which prior art you think overlaps here? We have a similar use case to Figma and are implementing a similar solution. I'm not particularly concerned whether the path we're following is novel but I am particu
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by partdavid 1y ago
I think you're agreeing with GP, not disagreeing.
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by partdavid 1y ago
I'm assuming "crash"--it's a mild malapropism based on some varieties of English phonetics that I've seen before.
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by partdavid 1y ago
I get what you're saying, but what's interesting to me is that this case is a mild signal that a subsequent developer could take the same erroneous implication. "Id" does in fact imply to me that entries are indexed by &
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by partdavid 1y ago
Accusations are often confessions.
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by partdavid 1y ago
The shallow analogy is like "why worry about not being able to do arithmetic without a calculator"? Like... the dev of the future just won't need it. I feel like programming has become increasingly specialized and even before
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by partdavid 1y ago
I've done okay with copilot as a very smart autocomplete on: a) very typical codebase, with b) lots of boilerplate, where c) I'm not terribly familiar with the languages and frameworks, which are d) very, very popular but e) I don
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by partdavid 1y ago
A non-forking prompt command is an absolute requirement for me and always has been, so I did this in pure shell. It's not a lot of code but it's a little tricksy. If I still used bash, starship would be a non-starter for me, in pa
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by partdavid 1y ago
My earliest background as a shell user was as as system administrator (back in "the day", let's say), and forks are always potentially expensive, and often the reason you're opening a shell session in the first place (to
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by partdavid 1y ago
It strikes me as very much a current aesthetic in younger companies or smaller startups, maybe highly influenced by Notion. No one makes a list or page or calendar invite in my current company without choosing an emoji for it.
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by partdavid 1y ago
I suppose (strictly speaking it's easier to C-x o into the terminal frame or Alt-tab to the terminal window; but it's negligble either way), but the "cost" is not really about invoking it, but learning it for an unclear
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by partdavid 1y ago
I'm also an emacs user in the habit of using the shell for file management, and I just deal with this mismatch. It hasn't been annoying enough for me to solve by switching to something else. But then again, I guess I don't do
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by partdavid 1y ago
It sounds right, and this is the kind of thing I'd expect if developers are baking configuration into their app distribution. Like, you'd want usage rules or tracking plugins to be timely, and they didn't figure out how to ch
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by partdavid 1y ago
We have already been through some generations of this rediscovery an I've worked at places where graphql type importing, protobuf stub generation etc. all worked in just the same way. There's a post elsewhere on HN today about how
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by partdavid 2y ago
My Boox is pretty crap. My use case is Libby for library books and the display refreshing and other things make it almost unusable. Feels super cheap, unsupported.
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by partdavid 2y ago
The rulebooks (or videos) as well, do often omit this. But even when the overall goal is either obvious or explicitly stated, it's very common for none of the described options or actions to provide a motivation for the action or optio
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by partdavid 2y ago
Because it's attempting mythisimilitude, not verisimilitude.
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by partdavid 2y ago
How does this replicate Postgres data? I glanced at the code and saw that it exports to a CSV file then writes out an Iceberg table for an initial snapshot--does it use Postgres logical replication?
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by partdavid 2y ago
And not just restricted to English; it's a very common experience in the U.S. for native speakers of, e.g. Spanish, to end up in Spanish-language courses with non-native Spanish teachers, with modest Spanish skills. I assume it's
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by partdavid 2y ago
Yeah, it's hard to do a direct comparison, because bash needs a bunch of other utilities to be useful and they also take up space. In theory you can pick and choose but woe be to you if you want to use bash without sed, awk, cut, etc.
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by partdavid 2y ago
Oh, it's not dismissive at all. It's not just a real consideration, it's an overriding one. I switched my "daily driver" shell to powershell but I still write CI/CD scripts in bash, and docker entrypoints, and
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by partdavid 2y ago
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I can see a lot of similar cases especially for sysadmin things (systemctl, ifconfig, etc.). One thing that was nice about my adopting Powershell as my daily shell is that for the most part, I could just
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by partdavid 2y ago
I agree, this is a place where the desired features are in tension. I will say that it took me a while to find it, and I don't find it limiting now that I understand it, but it was a real gotcha when I encountered it.
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by partdavid 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point regarding having to look at the output of commands to know how to use them. At least with Powershell you have tab-completion suggesting your object members; you have to at least look at whatever fla
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by partdavid 2y ago
This is the opposite of how I see it. There's really nothing universal about flags, especially short ones, in different random utilities (what's -n mean? -f? file, filter or force?). Whereas in Powershell since there actually is s
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by partdavid 2y ago
For what it's worth, I've had the opposite experience, maybe because I work in a different domain. Personally, I still think using Powershell functions and treating lines as string objects is an improvement over bash and its mini-
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by partdavid 2y ago
Many takes in this thread are people not realizing this and having a really narrow view of what people are shaving, and why, and what might or might not work for them--inappropriately generalizing their own constraints and desires to others
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by partdavid 2y ago
It would be awfully nice to have, or just a functional hcl2json that you can actually use, and doesn't barf on very common cases. Introspecting Terraform (or another HCL language) is something I've often wanted to do and support i

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