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by tottenhm 6mo ago
In Scotland, they close an issue by taking a vote of "OK", "Broken", or "Not Proven". I believe they also have attorneys. Perhaps that's how Apple could make bug-tracking more effective -- hire a prosecut
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by tottenhm 8mo ago
> In 56% of eval cases, the skill was never invoked. The agent had access to the documentation but didn't use it. The agent passes the Turing test...
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by tottenhm 10mo ago
Frequently use both `github.com` and self-hosted Gitlab. IMHO, it's just... different. Self-hosted Gitlab periodically blocks access for auto-upgrades. Github.com upgrades are usually invisible. Github.com is periodically hit with the
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by tottenhm 1y ago
Same basic question -- at the price of $100k/ea, it does seem cheaper to build-out more satellite offices. But there's a parallel push around taxing American firms using foreign labor ( https://www.moreno.senate.gov&#x2F
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by tottenhm 2y ago
I enjoy this metaphor of the cow and the papier-mâché. Presumably, there is a farmer who raised the cow, then purchased the papier-mâché, then scrounged for a palette of paints, and meticulously assembled everything in a field -- all for th
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by tottenhm 3y ago
Yes. But look at the bottom. There's an image with the PR review screen. There's one change: * Normally, the big green button says "Merge pull request" * Now, the big green button says "Merge when ready" In a l
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by tottenhm 3y ago
One should make a distinction between: * The general idea of mixing together filesystems+folders to achieve re-use/sharing/caching. * The "Dockerfile" approach to this - with its linear sequence of build-steps that map t
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by tottenhm 5y ago
The whinging hits everyone. Look at any HN story involving the Bay Area, and you'll see a dozen subthreads about how it's a post-apocalyptic hellscape. (But it's home, you know.) Speaking as an elitist left-wing hippie-busine
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by tottenhm 5y ago
I can’t wait to watch Integration Test Email #2 at the same time next week.
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by tottenhm 5y ago
> What are we ejecting? Ourselves, it seems. A Javascript framework is like a jet, and we are the human payload. You can stay in the jet, zooming over the constantly changing landscape. But if you get tired of this zooming around (or if
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Franciscans, Codermen, Lend Me Your Screens (An Elegy for Richard Stallman)(ghostbin.co)
4 points by tottenhm 5y ago|0 comments
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by tottenhm 6y ago
In case anyone is interested in that recall effort: https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/
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by tottenhm 6y ago
In fairness, it does give choices -- https://www.php.net/manual/en/spl.datastructures.php
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by tottenhm 6y ago
Right, sprinkling #if's across a dozen downstream codebases sucks. Consider an analogy to shell-scripting -- there are different shells ("bash", "dash", "zsh") which have substantial overlap (insofar as th
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by tottenhm 6y ago
Yeah, in the long run, breaking compatibility is totally understandable for a fork. And generally... power-to-them in publishing a free/open/quality SSL implementation. But... the article also says: > ... it is not possible to
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by tottenhm 6y ago
I can't speak to MDN's tooling or culture, but... it sounds like the transition that many FOSS projects made from wiki-workflow docs (Confluence/Mediawiki/etc) to PR-workflow docs (ReadTheDocs/Github/mkdocs&#x2
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by tottenhm 6y ago
I don't buy it. "Worker rights" and "unions" aren't the drivers of globalization or deindustrialization. Let's make an example. Suppose a "rational investor" in a globalized market is considering
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by tottenhm 6y ago
Oooh, I see how I misinterpreted! Thank you for clarifying. Cheers.
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by tottenhm 6y ago
> This guy is apparently "alt-right"... Yeah, no. I mean, I don't know this guy from Bob, but the above has neither citation nor argument, and everything I've seen disagrees with that assessment. Skim the list of the
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by tottenhm 7y ago
A thought experiment... which probably doesn't change the big picture... but it's interesting... Suppose the initial implementation chose an ill-suited/fast/cheap hash (like MD5). The developer facepalms appropriately, c
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by tottenhm 7y ago
This comment confuses me. It makes it sound like some authoritative figure came in and said, "Nix shall not support OS X because Apple is evil." But to my eye, this is not at all borne out by the thread. There's one or two ea
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by tottenhm 7y ago
Yeah, this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612033 links to an article on the Register which gives a lot more substance to the concerns/reactions. That deeper story helps to show where the mistrust comes
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by tottenhm 7y ago
I think it's fair to see private equity as red-flag, and I feel ideologically aligned with the folks raising the alarm here. OTOH, the concerns raised include a lot of speculation (in the form of "could do bad" or "has t
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by tottenhm 7y ago
The same concern definitely crossed my mind as a reader, but I think the coloring of the critique should be less #000000 and more #888888. A lot depends on the technical goals of the "P++" variant - and on the culture among the la
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by tottenhm 7y ago
"Semantic" looks pretty neat. Are there are previous threads or announcements about Github's goal in developing it (i.e. services for which they plan to use it)?
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by tottenhm 7y ago
> Somehow they never even define "SOA". What? "SOA" means "microservices for Gen X'ers". "Microservices" means "SOA for millenials". I don't know what Baby Boomers called it.
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Show HN: Loco, a docker-compose-style manager for nix-shell(github.com)
2 points by tottenhm 8y ago|0 comments
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by tottenhm 8y ago
> Whether by genetics or through childhood, I'd bet people tend to cluster onto the line separating "agreeable and lax" and "rude but firm" (as a sweeping generality). We often label people who are all smiles whi
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by tottenhm 9y ago
(Full disclosure: I published https://packagist.org/packages/totten/ca-config several years ago. I like how `paragonie/certainty` will do a better job of staying up-to-date in badly configured systems. But
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by tottenhm 9y ago
> Worst of all, these products exist in a marketplace where cynicism reigns: "Why did you build that? We already have three hundred of those. Quit reinventing the wheel!" I've been sitting on a bit of rhetoric in case tha

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