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by wincent 2mo ago
By Elijah Newren, author of Git's newer mergeort merge algorithm. ("ort" or "ostensibly recursive's twin" replaced the older recursive merge algorithm.)
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by wincent 2y ago
1.3 MB download.
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by wincent 2y ago
Me too. Sad to say just how huge the quality of life improvement from this small tweak.
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by wincent 3y ago
> why would the Prettier team fund another project!? Less "the team" per se, and more vjeux, I think.
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by wincent 3y ago
Literally unplayable.
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by wincent 4y ago
Even then, Apple took enough care about every aspect of design, materials, and manufacturing that they could non-ironically show a high detail photo of the back of the machine on the back cover. Not only is it delightfully quirky; it's
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by wincent 4y ago
I've been blogging, albeit not consistently, for 25 years or so. I don't even know how many readers I have, because I don't do any analytics. When I write, it's for me, for the pleasure (and sometimes pain) of ushering
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by wincent 4y ago
Eyeing you jealously from my position at 237,014 on the list... We're almost neighbors, I guess.
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by wincent 4y ago
> Maybe it's Ok to be a little hungry. This is the key. On evolutionary time scales, human beings have only very recently come to inhabit a world where regularly being able to eat to full satiation (and beyond) is commonplace. Being
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by wincent 4y ago
Towards the end: > In addition to vertical partitioning to move database tables, we also use horizontal partitioning (aka sharding). This allows us to split database tables across multiple clusters, enabling more sustainable growth.
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by wincent 4y ago
Linked in the article is this other one, "Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale" ( https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relation... ). That describes how there isn't just one
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by wincent 5y ago
> I get annoyed because I have to work around C's warts to do what I want, and that is only happening because I think in my language You "just" have to get to the point where your compiler is written in your own language.
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by wincent 5y ago
I think poster is saying turn _off_ "Automatically install updates" but leave _on_ "Check for updates [Daily/Weekly/Monthly]". That way you at least become aware that updates are available, and can assess them
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by wincent 5y ago
Wish the font was a bit bigger on mobile though.
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by wincent 5y ago
It always bugged me that the proof went on the profile itself and not on a mere comment like it does for other identities (Twitter → tweet, Reddit → a post in /r/KeybaseProofs etc).
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by wincent 5y ago
You can have it clone your dotfiles repo automatically and run a set-up script: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes... I also have a very bespoke dotfiles config that predates Codespaces (
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by wincent 5y ago
GitHub isn't forcing anybody to use a web IDE. The most broadly used access interface is VSCode. Then there are heretics like me who choose to ssh in so we can use Vim. This is described in the article.
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by wincent 5y ago
Best part of the article is the footnote, where the author characterizes his own papers: > This paper is bullshit, this paper (a NeurIPS oral) is bullshit, this paper is complete bullshit, this paper is mostly good science but also has a
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by wincent 6y ago
I'm trying to work through this lately and finding it hard: findings so far — https://wincent.com/wiki/Modifier_keys Biggest hurdle is finding a clean way to do application-specific overrides, because even if you
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by wincent 6y ago
Some related discussion from a few months back (specifically, a critique of hooks): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995928 FWIW, I think the single tweet that sums up the reason why hooks are the way they are is this
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by wincent 6y ago
Another Ranger-like that is worth a look is "lf", written in Go, and in my experience faster: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
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by wincent 6y ago
> I think the most dangerous distractions are the ones that feel productive but don’t actually work toward your goals. For example, browsing hacker news. Browsing HN has never felt productive to me. At times useful, entertaining, informa
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by wincent 6y ago
Another nice thing about Capture One is the speed.
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by wincent 6y ago
I had a similar set-up and did some screencasts on it a few years back (link below). It worked well, and was the least-sucky thing out there for plain-text email, but in the end I just got fatigued at continuously having to switch to anothe
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by wincent 6y ago
Chrome won't load that without the trailing dot: http://dk .
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XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers(blog.trendmicro.com)
175 points by wincent 6y ago|53 comments
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by wincent 6y ago
I don't know about how the photo was originally presented, but the tweet that I linked explicitly says the frame is "17 30-second images of the comet added up", so it's hardly disingenuous. The impact of Starlink on astr
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by wincent 6y ago
This photo was doing the rounds a few days back showing starlink interfering with ground-based space photography: https://twitter.com/djulik/status/1286053695956881409 Also: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by wincent 6y ago
pg: What's your HN username? ta1234567890: ta1234567890 pg: Hm, doesn't ring a bell... [looks awkwardly into cocktail glass]
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by wincent 6y ago
I really wanted to switch to Firefox, but after several weeks the thing that pushed me back was janky scrolling. It seems like a trivial thing, but it absolutely drove me first up the wall, and then back to Chrome.

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