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by quacker 1mo ago
This landing page is not good. It's mired in out-of-context jargon and implementation detail. (What does "virtualize the worktree" mean? Git already has "effectively free" branching. What does branching "mid-ru
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by quacker 3mo ago
I don’t need “a varied sense of taste” to save money on gas and non-perishables. I don’t need “a varied sense of taste” to budget and do simple math to determine the membership is worth it. Babies don’t need “a varied sense of taste” to use
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by quacker 3mo ago
Right. License pulls happen extremely rarely for digital video games[1] And delisting a game from a store isn't a license pull. Delisting prevents new purchases of the game, but owners of a game prior to delisting can still download an
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by quacker 3mo ago
This more a dig at Sony than a reason Valve can’t also sell their hardware as a loss leader. They are massively profitable from their cut of Steam sales anyway. And part of PS Plus is a catalog of games and monthly games, similar to Gamepas
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by quacker 3mo ago
AFAIK, Golang's module system (mentioned in the article) protects against this. From [1], The revision must be an ancestor of one of the module repository’s branches or tags. This prevents attackers from referring to unapproved change
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by quacker 3mo ago
if you go look at any real Go projects they usually use tons of dependencies and they're usually pinned to random git hashes No, they are usually pinned to a git tag, which is usually a version string representing a released version.
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by quacker 3mo ago
I left the Python ecosystem some time ago. Reasons: The Python 2->3 transition, asyncio package, async/await function coloring, abysmal package management, the GIL and poor performance, breakage from version to version. I'm amb
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by quacker 4mo ago
It is because female mosquitos only mate once in their lifetime.
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by quacker 4mo ago
Ah. So multiple billion actions per month, and probably multiple million dollars per year on their cloud, if they can even support that load (plus, the vendor lock in and etc). Makes sense.
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by quacker 4mo ago
Honest question: Can you use Temporal Cloud? Have you evaluated Temporal Cloud pricing? Ballparking: 200 events/workflow, 200 workflows/per day and assuming 1 event = 1 cloud action[1], that is 1.2M or so actions per month. The $1
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by quacker 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm probably wrong there. GPT OSS 20B is certainly much faster than some other models I've tried. I actually gave GPT OSS 20B a few prompts just now and it seems to respond as fast or faster than Qwen 3.5 9B. But I needed m
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by quacker 4mo ago
I could have used this article before I spent the weekend arriving to the same conclusion! Same laptop, and my contrived test was having it fix 50 or so lint errors in a small vibe-coded C++ repo. I wanted it to be able to handle a bunch of
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by quacker 5mo ago
Well, the TI-83/84 are called a graphing calculators for a reason: you can plot equations and datasets with them and look at them right there[1]. Looking at graphs is huge for learning, or at least it was for me, and school isn't
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by quacker 5mo ago
Writing the code hasn’t been the bottle neck to developing software for a long time. Code may not be the bottleneck, but writing it absolutely does consume time. Especially with solo game dev, I can prototype ideas, try them out, and then
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by quacker 6mo ago
If you’re asking about a population decrease then, no, Austin has not had a declining population count for decades, and not recently either, although growth has slowed. So it’s not a case of decreased demand.
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by quacker 7mo ago
You are comparing it to other Apple laptops but you should be comparing with its competition at a $600 price point. The aluminum enclosure, touchpad, battery life, display, and performance are all best in class (or near enough) at this pric
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by quacker 7mo ago
I mean, let’s at least discuss this in good faith. “Good” bread according to the majority and bread that is specifically up to your standards are probably two very different things. My grocery store’s bakery sells many types of fresh bread:
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by quacker 7mo ago
They don’t because of at-will employment. It’s just sort of the more moral, empathetic, right thing to do instead of leaving them with no income, no insurance, etc.
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by quacker 7mo ago
Good bread is everywhere in major cities in the US. There are bakery sections at grocery stores and there are many local bakeries.
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by quacker 7mo ago
Oh true. Considering inflation, $60 in 2016 is about $80 in 2026 so really the price has gone down in real terms. (Not actually sure about the price history of the family plan or when family was introduced. I was originally on the individua
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by quacker 7mo ago
My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year. I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setu
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by quacker 7mo ago
It's a good idea. There are many studied benefits to (intermittent) fasting, for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11262566/
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by quacker 7mo ago
I don’t agree. She has posted publicly about her condition. He is 25 years old and trying to cope with a hard life event. Let’s not act like it doesn’t affect him. It affects everyone around her and the strong reaction from him is really a
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by quacker 8mo ago
Sort of for sake of argument: National obesity statistics don’t necessarily imply anything about the healthiness of the food, nor specifically about the healthiness of $4 lunches that the article discusses. If the Japanese eat smaller porti
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by quacker 8mo ago
Supposedly there is no data shared with Google when using Gemini-powered Siri: Google’s model will reportedly run on Apple’s own servers, which in practice means that no user data will be shared with Google. Instead, they won’t leave Apple
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by quacker 8mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Is it about the lunches being specifically healthy ? A rice bowl at Chipotle, for example, is not unhealthy (rice, beans, meat, vegetables). Plenty of restaurant food in the US is perfectly healthy (or
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by quacker 8mo ago
This needs more detailed data that normalizes for the amount of food (price per calorie or price per weight or something like that). Yes, a bowl at chipotle in the US might be 2x the price (more, probably) of a Japanese bowl, but it matters
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by quacker 8mo ago
Agree to disagree I guess, but IME, git history is good for low level detail, not for high level information. Git history is a poor source for understanding architecture, code organization, and other aspects of the codebase. More often, git
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by quacker 8mo ago
Using git history as documentation is hacky. A majority of feature branch commit messages aren't useful ("fix test case X", "fix typo", etc), especially when you are accepting external contributions. IF I wanted t
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by quacker 8mo ago
Right, but they are referring to configuration on a GitHub repository that can make squash merge automatic for all pull request merges. e.g. When clicking the big green "Merge pull request" button, it will automatically squash and

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