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kitplummer | 1 month ago | on: Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

I had a few different issues getting the CI broker working the way I wanted to (don't even remember what the issues were, but it had to do with catching patches) so wired up my own way but simply polling via Git - using a thing I built a while back called goa (gitops agent) for another project.

The tricky part was getting the output from what ever do with the code, back into the Radicle patch. But it works.

https://revolveteam.com/blog/goa-radicle-ci/

There are some caveats - mostly security related - given this is potentially executing commands on a host node.

kitplummer | 3 years ago | on: Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?

The raw point is valid. Sure this a poorly edited article and lacks the best research - can we agree that like almost everything, we've engineered these things to be commercially short in terms of life-span, let alone not super-sustainable in terms of manufacture or maintenance? Aside from the continuously performance-oriented standardization shifts, the specialization of bicycle types is doing a disservice to sustainability. Also, the "electrification" of bicycles is a completely separate argument - from all angles: manufacture, maintenance and longevity; one that is no different that all EVs. TBH, this article reads like a ChatGPT dialog.

Unfortunate that we've missed another opportunity for healthy dialog around the benefits of the bicycle.

kitplummer | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

That exists, it is just hidden right now. If my intent was to offer this up and a for-the-public-good I'd turn it back on. But like most of the other comments here, at some point it just doesn't make sense for me to foot the bill to run it. It would be one thing if it was a simple front-end, with a simple back-end. But processing this insight is a little bit resource intensive which creates a cost burden. Academically it wasn't a big deal to run this in a true HPC, the costs have already been covered. Commercially is a different calculus.

kitplummer | 3 years ago | on: Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir

Absolutely both.

But...the issue is packaging/distributing a CLI built with Elixir. Comparatively to building a CLI in something like Rust, there is a lot of overhead that comes with a VM-based language and framework. Especially if you want to target multiple OS and processor architectures (or distributions). Not to say that it is impossible, just maybe not as simple. It is one thing to run Mix tasks, or access the Owl API from REPL, it is another to run an Owl-based app on macOS, Linux and Windows and get it there.

kitplummer | 3 years ago | on: US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)

I worked on a DARPA project a few years before this - where we were using CBE as the core for a polymorphic processor (one with an FPGA attached to every IO). We were also gutting PS3s to make mission computers for early unmanned systems - running Ubuntu on top. USAF wasn't the only one - not only were there commercial supply challenges with the PS3, various components were being horded by various nation states. We were pretty sure they didn't even no what to do with the parts, but was a basic attempt to prevent projects like this from getting off the ground.

kitplummer | 4 years ago | on: What if Git worked with programming languages?

I'm just a bit more "generally" curious. Is `git` being the _only_ DVCS a good thing? Not to say that `hg` or `darcs` don't exist, just that the hub on top of git has pushed us in a singular direction.

I would like to see, at least academically, something more.

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