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That's an entirely bullshit statement by the twitter user.

WW2 generals were very arguably some of the greatest military minds the world has ever seen. They rapidly adopted what was radically new military technology at the time and figured out how to use it extraordinarily effectively through understanding it.

Eisenhower, Montgomery, Rommel, MacArthur, Patton, Bradley would immediately understand drone strikes.

I guarantee their questions would be vastly superior in every regard to what I just watched at the hearing today.
I don't get these two points:

> Built-in Web Interface _and_ Self-Contained

Is this different from `git instaweb` ?

> Simple Networking (no git://, just HTTP and SSH)

So out of 3 methods git supports they support 2?
Anyone moved to BitKeeper now that its open source?
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"I'll get back to you" was essentially "On the advice of council, I would like to exercise my fifth amendment right". It was like a Chapelle skit at times.
> The branch name is not preserved in commits.

This is technically correct, the best kind, but it's not the whole story.

The default merge commit message does contain the branch names.
Unless it's a fast-forward, in which you maintain linear history, so there are no problems.
Someone who had no skin in the game.
There are degrees, I think. Consider the choice between:

- Working a job that requires intense physical labor for $30/hr. and benefits, cons include significant physical impairment starting in your late forties and high risk of serious injury

- Working a job that is largely sedentary for $20/hr. and benefits, cons include serious health risks

- Work a third shift part-time job for $40/hr and no benefits, cons include inconsistent weekly hours, practically no career advancement, and considerable disadvantage to your retirement (no 401k matching), huge risk if anyone in your family needs medical care (definitely put off having kids)

- Go (back, sometimes) to school, cons include significant debt and opportunity costs, coupled with the risk of no career options (went into welding, factory closed, etc.)

Many people in America have no real "good" options, so while yeah, their choices are always kind of "voluntary", there's almost always a big asterisk next to it.
What's the cliff? Widespread successful, productive collaboration?
But then, on that page, explain that the author wasn't happy with Git and wrote their own. It's as if I post an article on why LibreOffice is better than Microsoft Word and it turns out I'm the founder of LibreOffice or something. Of course I'd think it's better and of course I know just the right things to mention to convince everyone, because I was there to build them or check them in.
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Tons of such GUIs exist already. Branch visualization is excellent in SmartGit (one of the best apps I've ever used, really) and many other apps have similar visualizations.
I mean, they have to. HN has a perpetual license to our comments because otherwise they couldn't host them.
I am going to look very silly doing this, but by golly I'm going to give it a shot.
In fact "GitCoin" was one of the levels in Stripe's distributed systems CTF in 2014: https://github.com/ctfs/write-ups-2014/tree/master/stripe-ct...
What questions could Congress have asked Zuckerberg, if you were their staff?
We were trying to build an iPad with 1992 technology. http://arno.org/arnotify/2010/01/penmac/
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This was what I was trying to get at.
I mean to contrast with the Vancouver experience - lots of empty units, or units empty for many months of the year. When they go to Vancouver to visit, it's just for fun. They don't need to work, and don't work. You might meet them in public spaces and make friends with them, and find it surprising that they have so much money without needing to work.
SourceTree is one of the few products I use where things have got a lot buggier as time moved on.
The fact I have to do that shouldn't be necessary. I've been scarred by too many long compile time projects to know eventually entropy takes over despite the best of optimization efforts.

The fixes need to be in the compiler & dev tools itself, or it needs to be a very obscure feature or obviously surfaced build time problem highlighted by the compiler.
> it still has lots of assumptions and gaps that are not tested

Agreed. I didn't mean to imply that dark matter is a solved problem. In fact, I'm pretty sure I implied the exact opposite when I said it "doesn't necessarily make them wrong."

> Dark matter may be popular but only because it is currently the best theory that fits

Exactly. That's a pretty good reason to favor one theory over another.
Whoops, I conflated Cointracker.io (https://www.cointracker.io/tax/plans) with Cointracking.info. Sorry!
This all sounds very familiar, even down to the supplements...

> Like most people, I sometimes go through periods of a week or two where I just have no motivation to do anything (I suspect it may have something to do with nutrition). This sucks and always seems to happen at inconvenient times. I have not figured out what to do about it besides wait for the fog to lift, and to trust that eventually it always does.

I experience this and believe it is allergy-related (or at least inflammation-related). It seems to happen around certain times of the year and allergy medication usually clears it up temporarily.
Because this would be at least 5 times slower to transfer compared to regular image formats, and on mobile a lot of energy goes to power the screen (while user is staring at a blank one, waiting for data) and radios (which now have 5x more work to do).

JPEG XS has severe restrictions of realtime encoding and a 30-line buffer, which are necessary for its goals, but make it a bad choice for anything that doesn't have such limitations.
SmartGit is extremely useful, i'd recommend something like that instead of using the CLI if you have trouble.
Well, if you mean an air gapped transformer in the garage with .001 inches separation from the vehicle winding to transfer many KW of energy over a short time, it is doable, but far more expensive then a simple plug in.

If you want antennas on highway poles, transmitting to vehicles beneath - forget it, cube law and power density defeats you. This is the sad truth Tesla failed on. Easy to light fluorescent lamps at 2% of rates - looks bright at night, but he failed. Semiconductor science will not help. This is a hard task
Sadly, it never turns out well. The most talented Indian developers already live in first world countries.
I emailed Craig about that and they are gone now.
> that's some serious growth in maturity

My issue is that Zuckerberg has been apologizing about privacy lapses at his firm since the inception of the firm. His company's business is built on sharing the data of the users.

I am a reluctant user of FB. I have stopped posting new content to my feed and do not plan to do so in the future.
Thanks! I'll give the most simple and effective technique for me.

On a day-to-day basis, I usually have a pretty good idea of what I should be working on.

My issue is actually doing it. I can work hard for a full day, but not seemingly get anything done.

So one technique is to chunk the tasks up. Pretty well established technique. But I'll chunk smaller and smaller until I get momentum on what I need to do. That could mean picking a goal that only takes a minute.

Sounds laborious, but it's more about building momentum than building a plan. Maybe I want to start a newsletter. So I set a goal of setting up a Mailchimp account. And by the time I get to that... I pick something else.. eventually momentum kicks in and I start getting it done.

Works for me anyway!

Looking at the long term is important too! But I do that infrequently, and usually big, big picture instead.
I also had John Deere in mind with the issues of them blocking farmers out of repairing their own equipment.
I remember a reading about an activist that had all of their online accounts wiped by this vary mechanism. They had 2FA protecting everything, but someone called their cellular carrier and switched their account over to a new SIM. They then did password resets on all the accounts and wiped them.

Every alternative way in is a larger attack area.
They don't maintain the branch name, or even the history of the branch: they just tell what are the parent commits of the commit; as mentioned above, this history can be a "lie". Fossil's history is immutable — once the commit is there, it's there forever (although you can prevent an artifact from being synched or displayed with "shunning").
If it's a critical product/relationship, the biggest thing that I look for is an intelligent statement around third party access to my data/use of the application.

There are three possible outcomes:

1.) The privacy policy does not mention third party access. This is bad because frankly, so many third parties (ie - Google Analytics) provide an incredibly useful service. If third party access is omitted, it means they either have no plans of getting the benefits of a third party (which I think means they're less likely to stay in business), or they haven't even thought through the privacy implications of using a third party (which again means I think they're less likely to stay in business).

2.) A vague statement about third parties. My favourite example is "from time to time, this Service may contract to send application data to a third party in order to improve the Service. When we do use a third party, your data will be kept in accordance with their privacy policies." From a corporate point of view, writing a statement like this makes a lot of sense, but from a user point of view, I like to see evidence that the company thinks about third parties at the policy level, not just the operational.

3.) A more concrete statement about third parties. An example would be "This application is hosted on {{vps provider}} and because of how it is architected, it means that {{service provider}} will get access to data about your usage. Their collection and use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy located at {{url}}."

#3 is asking for a lot and when I've worn the founder's hat, I've often hesitated to put this much detail in. It makes even less sense when I've been in a situation where it makes sense to run every change by a lawyer. But, as a user, particularly if I fell into the referenced "must be decentralized" crowd, I'd feel most comfortable with a detailed privacy policy like this.
The way these recurrence relations are taught at university is to distinguish the new value from the old value by using a ' pronounced prime.

Here, you would write x' = x + 1 to give the recurrence relation x[n+1] = x[n] + 1. Or, more generally x' = f(x) for x[n+1] = f(x[n]).
The reason for this is because in mathematics x = x + 1 is absurd (ignoring modulo arithmetic).
At one level, the syntactic difference between = and := and == is moot. At another, since it expresses intentionality (semantic intent) its quite important.

"takes the value", "is equal" and "becomes equal to" are not saying the same things.

What matters is inside the parser for the language, and expressions (as in spoken or written words) between people about the language. Confusion abounds in the latter, but a well designed language doesn't have moments of confusion in the former case.

Some of the choices incur backtracking cost parsing the input. Some don't but incur more keyboard presses per unit of code expressed.
So this isn't exactly related to the testimony but I'm genuinely curious: is it normal for someone giving testimony to use a booster like seat? I mean it was a pretty thick cushion. I was surprised to see Zuck using one especially since the seat is already padded.
come on, there are now a million reasonably good git GUIs though. I personally really like sourcetree
Because both of them are basically "git log in a gui".

It's the same overly busy UI, the same lack of easily seeable branch names (yes I know this isn't how git works internally, but it's extremely useful), the same vertical layout on our widescreen monitors, and they are still ugly to me (although this is honestly one of the lowest on my list of priorities).

I'm looking for something like [0] but with a better UX (Github's version doesn't let you scroll with the mouse wheel for instance), is fast enough to pull up at a glance to quickly see the state of the whole repo, and won't get disabled if the repo has too many forks (and I'm guessing branches, although I've never seen it happen from then alone) like Github's does.

It's easy to glance at and see where a branch is (what was merged into it, what it was merged into, etc...), who did the work (in the example it shows in a "tooltip" when you hover over the dot), roughly when the work was done, and what that branch includes.

[0] https://imgur.com/tvTp5z8
[for this experiment] I presume he added silently, or did he just diss all the other axion searches out there?
I'm pretty new to trading concepts and financial markets so I may very well be missing something obvious... but from what I can make out, both CBOE and CME futures are cash settled, so you can't actually "short" bitcoin on them, just a derivative.

Further, the total volume of contracts for March works out at somewhere around 0.01% of Bitcoin's total market cap, maybe I'm missing something, but this just doesn't seem like something that could be held responsible for BTC dropping from 20k to ~7k - the only impact I could see it having is a psychological value, but then, Bitcoin has had futures from both BitMEX and OKCoin for quite some time (fee concerns and institutional accessibility aside) with significantly higher volumes.
Me neither but definitely has potential.
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A microservice is very similar to running a library as a server.

Some key differences:

You generally can't horizontally scale two libraries in the same process independently of each other, but you also don't usually have to worry about library availability at runtime.

If you don't need to scale a particular dependency separately, and you can't do useful work if the dependency is unavailable, then it should probably be a library.

Perhaps someone can explain to me the motivation microservices when there still exists a lot of runway for scaling up without scaling out.
I think he's making the argument that when we write "pseudo-code" these days we're just writing python
She never earned that worth in the first place, it was effectively a zero risk bet for her with non-zero damages to others. This sort of thing should not be allowed to happen.
Does this address the problem of knowing if the bones were moved?
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Yeah, honestly, the other arguments didn't carry much weight with me, but this one I find really annoying. When I'm looking back at history that had a bunch of merges, I don't want to have to guess which branch was which before a merge. It also seems like such an easy thing to add - you can kind of hack it up by just adding the branch name to the commit message with a pre-commit hook, but it would be really nice if git just kept track of it for you.
Yes, I wouldn't dispute there are a lot of situations where organizing somewhere other than your home state is a good idea.

I'm just trying to point out that "Delaware C Corp" may not always be the right answer. It may actually only be the right answer for a very specific use case.
> Many trans people consider the transgendered offensive

You are creating insanity everywhere you go with this line.

Anyone who takes offense at such a trifle can only be out to pick a fight. And if someone is egging for a fight, shall we engage rather than wilt away? And isn't THAT the landmine you're stepping on here?

Are you picking a fight? If so, where do you get off?
No, you get to do business in the 6th largest economy in the world. If you don't like it don't do any business here.
False equivalence. Exportable doesn't mean acessible to the world.
And when I’m done doing that, I should probably check my sanity, because I have to be imagining this thread. It’s absurd that someone thinks that they have an expectation of privacy when they voluntarily choose to send a message to someone else. I know you can’t satisfy everyone all the people all the time, but this idea is just bonkers.
The weird thing is, the investors she scammed were all part of that nexus. Why aren't they more pissed at her?
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First time I've heard of Fossil and started reading up on it: https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...

In particular, I'm interested in the last section "4.2 Features found in Git but missing from Fossil".

Maybe this is some deficiency of my workflow, but both those things make Fossil sound extremely unappealing to me. You're telling me I have to push all local changes every time I want to push anything? What if I was just debugging or experimenting with one branch, and then I had to switch to a "serious" branch to push some critical changes?

And rebasing is fantastic when you have a feature branch workflow.
People aren’t rational.

There are many people around here in Toronto that will buy a home and rent it at a loss because “home prices always go up”. I did the math and my previous landlord was losing money on a cash flow basis renting to me; the rent could not have covered the property tax, condo fees, and mortgage interest (or inflation / opportunity cost if he owned outright).

My long distance girlfriend at the time also knew a family who owned a $2m house and left it empty while they lived in HK. We used to stay in it when she was in town. They were too rich to care and “home prices always go up”.
I've said this before, but I think most people don't have a problem with advertising, per se, but with the tracking required for super effective advertising.

When Google first showed up and just tossed some ads at the top of your search results based solely on the search terms, that was actually helpful. It wasn't something that people were creeped out by until they were tracking you everywhere to sell even more targeted ads.

Since newspapers and TV don't have that tracking capability, the advertisements are annoying but not unsettling, I think.
I (sort-of) play bass, and when I learn a song from tab, I'm pretty much just wrote learning. I'm sort-of learning to read musical notation, but I don't really have a visual memory which makes it really hard. It would certainly be a lot easier if I had a lot more knowledge of musical theory.

Playing by ear is much harder for me because I know just a few scales, and I can't hold a note in my head long enough to find it on the fretboard. Knowing the scales would make everything a subconscious pattern.

Mind you, I am starting to think that's entirely an anxiety thing.
The default message is "Merge branch '<name>'"
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I specifically want a version control system to be free of "wiki" and "bug tracking".
> drh ‘sqlite can chime in here

He already has

> With Git, it is very difficult to find the successors (decendents) of a check-in ... This is a deal-breaker, a show-stopper.
I paid $1000 to a lawyer for an operating agreement. It was fine.

For my 2nd LLC I just copied a free template (different than my expensive lawyer'd one) since I now had a really good understanding of what needs to be there.

At first yes it's scary to think you might be getting it wrong, but you learn that it's not rocket science. It's basically the agreement between the members of the corporate structure. I haven't read the NOLO one but I bet it's good value for money.

You will generally have to present the operating agreement to the bank to open a business account, to get business financing, maybe for insurance, stuff like that.

My experience (IANAL) is that for friendly partners, the nolo template is going to be fine. If you're selling shares to folks that you don't have a history with, you may want to have the assurance of expert, personal legal advice from someone you can also go back to with future concerns. And for that kind of bigger LLC anyway, the $1000 or so is a reasonable expense.
What I would really like is a straightforward migration guide for those of us already using the FIDO U2F JS API, to help people migrate in a backwards-compatible way from the old, poorly-documented stuff to the new, currently poorly-documented but very soon better-supported stuff.

So far, https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html is the closest; it’s good, but I’d love to have something with more straightforward instructions—“so you currently use U2F? Change this to this, that to that, do this to maintain compatibility and you’re roughly done”. We’ll figure it out for FastMail, but if the migration is straightforward and well-documented it’ll help all the web services out there to move sooner rather than later, which as a user I would very much like.
> Honestly is there anyway that he could explain the Facebook Pixel/ad network that wouldn't just be describing any ad network

The only ad network in front of Congress today, was Facebook. 'Everyone else is doing it' or 'this is the nature of the business' doesn't qualify as an excuse. Perhaps it could have been good for the large public to know what goes on with ad networks these days.
Git was so astonishingly better than SVN that most developers were instantly hooked.

But when you know git and try bzr, it’s mostly the same thing but with different commands. Any gain is small and the pain is instant.
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Have you looked at the --branches option for git log? It annotates which branch(es) a commit is part of unless you're talking about something else. There's obviously some cost but all this talk of "slow" is ignoring the fact that in practice on small repos (& yes - sqlite is small for git) you're not going to notice it. Also, you can limit your branches to those you're interested in to speed things up.
It is not broken, it works well, the people who run it make huge amounts of cash and the scientists get what they want - if they can afford it, and the advancement of tech is slowed by them, esp to poor countries.
Elsevier should be fired and replaced by a paid peer review system that works as it is. All past and future papers are free of all copyright. Elsevier used the free services of reviewers to rate papers. Now reviewers will be paid and Elsevier not. Will it be cheaper? Who knows, but I am so sick of the royalty that is Elsevier and their ilk, that anything is better, and it will get better and leave Elsevier in the dust - where they belong
I work on a huge codebase and SourceTree handles it quite well on macOS. A year ago I'd occasionally see updates that were occasionally broken (solvable with a downgrade) but it's been pretty solid lately.
I read some article that claimed that the sex workers are really against the new laws. If I'm to believe the article, there are apparently a bunch of sex workers who weren't forced into the sex trade by some evil person (I think most do it because it is the "easiest" path to making decent money). These workers used craigslist and backpage to have clients contact them and then there is some way they screen the clients (is luckydude some creep or just some normal schmoo who wants his ashes hauled? They network and talk to each other about clients somehow).

Now with the internet removed as an easy way to screen these workers are claiming they'll have to work the streets or work with pimps which is far worse.

I hadn't really thought about that but I can see it. So perhaps these new laws are not so great. Who would have thought our awesome congress would do that?
Woah woah woah, let’s not get ahead of ourselves! :-)