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By Elijah Newren, author of Git's newer mergeort merge algorithm. ("ort" or "ostensibly recursive's twin" replaced the older recursive merge algorithm.)

1.3 MB download.

Me too. Sad to say just how huge the quality of life improvement from this small tweak.

> why would the Prettier team fund another project!? Less "the team" per se, and more vjeux, I think.

Literally unplayable.

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 t…

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 ple…

Eyeing you jealously from my position at 237,014 on the list... We're almost neighbors, I guess.

> 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 …

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 …

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 desc…

> 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 …

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 a…

Wish the font was a bit bigger on mobile though.

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)…

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 …

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 des…

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 b…

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-specifi…

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 re…

Another Ranger-like that is worth a look is "lf", written in Go, and in my experience faster: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

> 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…

Another nice thing about Capture One is the speed.

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 …

Chrome won't load that without the trailing dot: http://dk .