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A lot of the reason Chinese goods are cheap has to do with their technical competence, low labor costs and a streamlined industrial system, but they also use a lot of subsidies, cu…

https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs

In the Haskell community I’ve seen the second kind called “space leaks.” I don’t see it used much outside that community but I like the term and use it when talking about other lan…

Server costs actually matter quite a bit at the scales of the incumbents in this space. Also, speed can be an important part of UX. Scaling horizontally won’t help if the engine it…

> I do like being able to use X over the nextwork but that is a problem that can be solved. And in fact has been: https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs

I will absolutely eat a whole bag of oranges in a sitting.

Sperm whales arguably farm by always dedicating at the top of the water column and measurably increasing the fertility of the seas they swim in. It seems possible that is deliberat…

China turning the corner on emissions has far more to do with their desire to get out from under the possibility of an oil blockade locking up their economy than green pressure fro…

TPUs do give Google a unique structural advantage on inference cost though.

Since the financial crisis the US economy has kept on trucking, while the EU has stagnated. This isn’t all because of the euro, but it’s definitely a disaster and I think it is rea…

Since the pandemic, enforcement of traffic laws has fallen off a cliff, with a corresponding increase in traffic deaths. That is the result of a specific policy choice. Women who g…

Yeah reconnecting from different terminals is a pretty tricky problem to solve (and in fact can't be solved in general because of potential skew between the terminfo db on the clie…

Yeah I was expecting a lot of that, which is why I found that survey data so surprising.

Not trying to be a window manager is pretty much the reason it exists!

If you’re using a tiling window manager your window switch keybindings necessarily conflict between the manager and tmux, since if you configure the same one and then press it whil…

Well potentially some, but definitely not tiling and screen splitting.

You can definitely use it in production, it is deployed internally at Google and we have a bunch of users. It doesn’t currently work on MacOS, but one of my colleagues is currently…

Oh, thanks for catching this. I'll clean it up https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool/pull/43

It's definitely not a complete alternative, but a surprising number of tmux users are only in it for the session persistence. We did a little internal (criminally underpowered and …

You definitely don't need the in-memory terminal emulator to handle resizes or allow attaching with multiple local terminal emulators, since dtach does both and does not have an in…

tmux does support scrolling and copy-paste, but they often work subtly differently than the way they do in a native terminal. For example, when I try putting `set -g mouse on` in `…

Oh thanks for mentioning EternalTerminal. I should add it to the comparison section in the README. It looks like it is similar to mosh in that it does stuff at the network level wh…

Yeah that's a good point, "lightweight" was probably not the best term. I meant lightweight in terms of the cognitive overhead of picking up a new tool, not really in terms of perf…

Screen is discussed along with tmux in the [comparison section]( https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool#tmux-and-gnu-screen ) of the README. For most of the section I just say `tmux`…

shpool is a terminal session persistence tool developed internally at google to support remote workflows, which we have open sourced.