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trenchpilgrim

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    Comment #45950261

    > it was pushed all at once For some of my projects I develop against my own private git server, then when I'm ready to go public, create a new git repo with a fully squashed histo…

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    Comment #45950248

    Do you have any criticism of the content, or just "I don't know the author"?

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    Comment #45949170

    I tell it to do something. It changes behavior. Isn't that a way of learning?

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    Comment #45948996

    Started using an Ergodox EZ with a custom map after I shattered one of my wrists in a vehicle crash, have stuck with it since.

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    Comment #45948988

    The largest country on the planet is chasing solar and electrification

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    Comment #45945393

    Using AI you can write a naive scraper in minutes and there's now a market demand for cleaned up and structured data.

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    Comment #45945226

    My Apple Sillicon macbooks are the coolest running computers I've had in decades. Something might be wrong with your cooling system.

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    Comment #45942106

    > Which joint issues? Pretty sure it's rheumatoid arthritis. > Have you tried evil mode? This was like fifteen years ago and I just went back to my working Vim setup I was already …

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    Comment #45942085

    The big banks (unless they do fraud again), health insurance companies in the US, the major telecoms, Airbus, Bayer, Tyson, JBS SA, Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, Carg…

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    Comment #45941990

    This would have been great when I was learning Lisp in school! I tried emacs but due to joint issues the keybinds were painful to use, so I gave up and did the course in vim+SBCL's…

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    Comment #45938431

    > better nulability checks In development: https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway

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    Comment #45937763

    > Where would one take a machine to dynamically reconfigure envoy? How would one configure it? When I worked in this area a while back - Ingess Controllers and Ingress / a custom t…

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    Comment #45937711

    Thanks, I'll try this in Zed!

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    Comment #45936034

    My group's repos enforce strict rules, theirs does not.

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    Comment #45935730

    I'm still trying to convince the scientists I work with that they should format their code or use linters. Making them mandatory in Go was a good decision.

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    Comment #45934419

    TLS is basically SSL 4. They only changed the name to signal the backwards incompatibility.

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    Comment #45927650

    Being able to e.g. hook up Claude Code to any webpage would be killer for both web development and task automation.

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    Comment #45927141

    If you had a really good team, hours. At most companies, days to weeks. At worst, months. With a well managed Kubernetes, around 5-15 minutes. Not a theoretical time, I have person…

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    Comment #45924129

    Whisper runs so well locally on recent hardware, I've embedded it directly into hobbyist applications to provide STT-based commands.

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    Comment #45924119

    Envoy is designed with the intent that a machine is dynamically reconfiguring it at runtime. It is not designed to be configured directly by a human. The tradeoff is that you can d…

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    Comment #45923514

    Looks like the founder passed away a few years ago, perhaps this was easier for his inheritors.

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    Comment #45923448

    Do you have a repo or example somewhere I can look at? Thanks

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    Comment #45918180

    Ironically, their hard dependency on Docker is a showstopper for me - none of my systems run Docker Engine, they use containerd and Podman, neither of which are supported.

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    Comment #45915150

    The main responsibility of the CEO of a large company is to set the company's culture and make top-level decisions about what the company does and does not choose to do. Depending …