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The "perceived benefits" of being able to see more things at once might really be an illusion if they're just a firehose of distractions. Less so when the things in question are "a…

VisiData: https://www.visidata.org/ WeeChat: https://weechat.org/ fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

The reMarkable is a very impressive piece of hardware with unfortunately bad software and a business model that looks to be deteriorating (see recent moves to subscription services…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes

The single most reliable way to come to a loathing of the software development process is to engage in it for a living.

The thing is, I don't want these experiences. Am I allowed to stop having them now? Turns out: Not if I want to keep doing my job. Burn Slack to the ground is my considered stance …

> I also noticed that while they do appear to use pylint to enforce good standards, almost all source files have at least one check disabled... I haven't touched any of the Circuit…

> In one of this paper's experiments, for instance, a computer split a pot of money between itself and a human participant; this person was led to believe the computer was also a h…

Version control for a genuinely long-lived project is a problem that often outlasts: - Dominant version control and code review system(s) / paradigms. - The current configuration o…

> You think we could develop a unified data model that covers source code, static files, documentation, project management and community management as a single unified thing? Reali…

Yeah, from that angle and from the perspective of 2005 it's a reasonable design, and I think what I describe above as a massive deficiency only really becomes visible in the light …

We are not going to use reCAPTCHA.[0] [0]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation/Discussio...

> To clarify, is your GitLab-based job system done with configuration-as-code and does it share definitions of jobs across repos? We announced our decision to migrate to GitLab on …

We recently conducted an extensive evaluation of CI options[0], concluding at the time that GitLab could meet our needs but didn't make a whole lot of practical sense unless we als…

> I think git in general should copy the approach of Fossil and include issue management and wikis along with the repo, to keep things consistent and avoid vendor lock-in. A few pa…

Given that very nearly the entire software industry has either acquiesced to or actively abets practices like these, the real answer is generally "desperate enough to be seeking a …

I sort of want to engage with this. I understand that people have good-faith qualms about the fairness of hiring practices intended (implicitly or explicitly) to increase diversity…

Yeah. As I've asserted a few comments over, there's an ample body of detailed, firsthand observation available to men who are sincerely interested in the problem. It's also possibl…

No.

I don't mean this to sound overly harsh, but I think treating this situation as some sort of mystery is part of the problem. All that one really needs to do to understand why the f…

It's unfortunate that the actual content of PCI is an incoherent and actively counterproductive mess.

FWIW, I tend to use mod-z to switch to last-used workspace with toggleWS, which seems to cover a lot of those cases pretty well.

> And I have no comments. This is probably a feature.

Eh, I'm not really the target audience, being neither a (this decade) user of Apple's platforms nor a developer for same. Still, I thought it was interesting enough to justify the …

While echoing the "pick a static site generator" advice in the rest of the thread, my actual personal favorite is still: Write your own! That's what I did somewhere around 2000 or …