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Re: Trainwreck Design

#42
If your disk is mounted at root ("/"), which is the case of most default distro installs, you can run "df -h /" to get only your disk info:

    user@hostname:~$ df -h /
    Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdc       1007G   49G  908G   6% /

Re: Trainwreck Design

#43
I love the idea of hive design. Any examples of large projects where it continues to be a principle?

I can think of a load of small ones like Hare, Suckless tools, etc. But no big ones (not necessarily an argument against it working though- could just be me not knowing any)

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#44

A webpage that uses numeric identifiers for external references that are found only when scrolling to the very bottom of the page and show their URLs as plain text. Now that is a train wreck. Hyperlinks are the cornerstone of the web. Don't be afraid of using them!

I did like the little CSS animation, though. The fish bounces without JavaScript!

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What about governance in The Hive? For Cathedral and Bazaar, it's simply the two opposite corners: control everything, or control nothing. Just like we use binary because it's the min and max of voltage: it's simple. We don't use intermediary voltages. It costs energy to maintain that.

To align with the colorful analogies in the article, governance in The Hive is 'draw the rest of the fucking owl' here. Ahem, what is distributed consensus?

I have quite a few ideas about that, but they remain to be tested (Define a voting pool, let everyone vote for everyone, run a PageRank, publish the top 20 Queen Bees, let singleton decisions be taken in Queen Bee committees, decay votes for renewal). Let's call it "Human Staking"? Surely some research has already been done about that.

Re: Trainwreck Design

#46

This is why I quite like Phpstorm over vscode. Yes, vscode and plugins can do everything. But Phpstorm integrates everything into one coherent package. Too many random directions is more annoying. In terms of software dev, it's quite hard to get a good app wide experience. There's just so many people working on the project. Without someone to make sure things are aligned, things fall apart into random wild patterns e…

not everything ... just plain remote work over sftp or ftp seems to be impossible. You always work some sort local and than it's pushed. There is no real "remote client" out there. Atom did have plugin which worked quite well accomplishing this task.

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A webpage that uses numeric identifiers for external references that are found only when scrolling to the very bottom of the page and show their URLs as plain text. Now that is a train wreck. Hyperlinks are the cornerstone of the web. Don't be afraid of using them!

Agreed. And having the link at the bottom as https://archive.is/XYABC without information about the link to also a questionable choice.

Re: Trainwreck Design

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post #36

This complaint about df/mount/etc. recurs with noticeable frequency. Another ugly spot is iproute2's ip link/addr. Between containers and VMs and their virtual interfaces, link bonding, virtual bridges, macvlan/tap, etc., the list of "interfaces" proliferates. Trying to find an actual physical interface is difficult, and interpreting what is there is a challenge. Improving this stuff isn't happening because no one is…

A single \n would improve ip link/addr. There is no easy way to visual grep the right interface. ifconfig is much better in this regard, but has obvious downsides.
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