diegs's comments

I used git5 from when I started in 2011 to when I left in 2017.

I'm going back starting on monday, so I'm curious to try out jj.

In the past 10 years it's all been github and gitlab, and their code review tools are so painful, specifically w.r.t. tracking discussions across revisions. I never felt excited to try out jj because I was afraid it would that situation even worse.

I agree, I've fantasized about an editor with a truly pluggable editing model which is decoupled from the other parts.

Yi was kind of designed like this, I believe. You could compile in an emacs-like model, a vim-like model, or presumably make your own model.

I've used Helix and Kakoune in addition to Emacs and Vim, but dealing with the limitations/featureset/plugin treadmill gets a little tiring.

I have been following Zed, and it seems that they have rearchitected things to enable adding Helix mode and making the editing model a bit more modular, but it's still fairly new. They are fixing bugs pretty quickly. I will have to try it again.

They have a nice discussion here:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447

They reference Ki, which also looks cool, and they out some of Helix's inconsistencies in their comparison: https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/docs/comparisons/

I prefered Kakoune to Helix (it was more consistent). But to your point, being able to swap these things out more easily would let you choose an editor based on features, and not tradeoff between features and an ergonomic editing model.

Ironically you can use Ki inside of VSCode (and I know you can use Vim that way too), but VSCode is so darn bloated and slow...

I thought they vastly improved user-space wireguard performance?

https://tailscale.com/blog/more-throughput

Not sure if the kernel implementation pulled ahead again, I don't really follow these things.

Also not defending tailscale, I respect them but I agree they are a one size fits some solution.

This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti_(software) which was a content-addressible filesystem which used hashes for de-duplication. Since the hashes were computed at write time, the performance penalty is amortized.

That's wild. My dentist was in that building for quite a while as well.

+1 to 0.3mg, larger doses can lead to nightmares and other issues.

It also may take longer to have an effect than is commonly said. For me, it's ~3-4 hours. I'm a natural night owl but 0.3mg melatonin at 6pm has me falling asleep on the couch at 9:30-10pm.

And then you have Go, which won't even let you compile code with an unused variable...

Yeah, they are generally better but Ring and Alexa Skills are better than their Google counterparts (at least the last time I checked).

I actually have a few old Nest hubs sitting in the basement…

Sadly they’re just part of the app. I run adblocking DNS on my home network, but it doesn’t make a difference with this.

I wish I could pay money to hide amazon ads on our echo show devices and not auto-opt-in to each new "experience" pane they add. They let you do it for Kindle ads and now for Prime, maybe it'd be a nice cash injection for the faltering Alexa org?

Really, I just want our smart displays (which I paid real money for) to show our family photos and do smart home things. It's exhausting to repeatedly have to open up the settings panel and uncheck whichever new screens/"experiences" they've added each time they start popping up. There are dozens at this point--talk about shipping your org chart!

Hopefully Matter will mature at some point and Apple will ship some smart displays of their own, and then we can toss our Alexas in the bin.

Which brand do you use? I couldn't find an exact match via web search :(

Weird, I asked our TS admin to disable "override local DNS" and he claimed the option was disabled out, seemingly due to magic DNS being enabled or something. I'll see if I can get access myself to try and change it. Thank you for the reply!

Is this still incompatible with split horizon DNS? Whenever I'm connected to my corporate tailnet I can no longer resolve hostnames that are registered on my personal, DHCP-assigned DNS server, breaking access to my home network. This also leads me to believe that all my DNS requests are being routed through the magic DNS server which is not cool IMO.

Better living through chemistry, until we’re all filed down into featureless automatons.

This feature turned on for me today, and ignoring the problematic 1984-ish implications, it’s also nudging me very hard to change my writing style.

I’m not a perfect writer or close to it, but I’m not bad. Part of my word choice is what makes something written by me distinct from something written by someone else. I’ve accepted and even embraced some of these idiosyncrasies. Hilariously the system seems to have a hardcore vendetta against the word “sophisticated” despite it being a perfectly cromulent word in the context I was using it IMHO.

I’m just ignoring the suggestions (as a google PM would certainly suggest in defense of this feature) but I’m sure many people won’t, and all our writing in docs will start to look and sound the same.

Aaron Swartz wrote a great book review of Moral Mazes[1] which touches on this.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bizethics

IANAPOSE (I am not a philosophy of science expert) but I think a happy medium is to observe, collect data, and look for things that are interesting, and then perform properly formulate experiments to test those hypotheses.

I think that focusing on either side alone can lead to biases and problematic science, and focusing on both is actually the most "fun"

Interesting. I've used gopter a lot for property-based testing, though it's very complex (and impressive), and can get slow or require hacks for complex types.

I'm glad this is being made, but like many other things that have been added to Go, it shows the limitations of the language that you can't just build this inside the language. (I might be wrong, as I haven't had a chance to look at the design docs/implementation yet, but the installation instructions imply that's the case).

Yeah, I think this is a major design point behind Fuschia/Zircon; they have a stable driver ABI to address this specific problem

Ctrl-f supercharger, found nothing.

I agree that VW and other manufacturers are going big on EV platforms and cars, but (in the US at least) until there is a viable competitor to the supercharging network, I will go with a Tesla.

It's like iPhone vs Android in the early 2010s. "It just works" is actually worth a lot, vs all the quirks you'll have to deal with for the non-Tesla alternatives.

Damn, that's a serious bummer. I hope mine doesn't break anytime soon.