20after4
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Comment · 6 days ago
You could combine this with tab unloading to save resources once a tab has gotten completely overgrown.
Comment · 6 days ago
But the next generation of everything will be so much less efficient as the new generation of developers has forgotten how to do anything with low level methods.
Comment · 6 days ago
This is the point everyone misses. It's not just that they are subsidizing the price of the TV. Whenever there is an opportunity to extract more profit, eventually they will do it. The rich are not immune from being targeted by this but they sure like to think that they are when they support this behavior in the companies they control.
Comment · 7 days ago
> mind sharing what tolerable alternatives are there to GitHub and GitLab?
Not the op, and while your criticism of their negativity may be somewhat justified, the ask is kind of silly. There are a bunch of well known alternatives:
Self-hosted free software:
Gerrit <https://www.gerritcodereview.com> Phorge <https://we.phorge.it>
SaaSsy:
Codeberg <https://codeberg.org> SourceHut <https://sr.ht/>
There are a lot more, of course, these are just the ones I have experience with.
Comment · 7 days ago
Yes, though enterprise is expensive and GitLab still had a free option last time I checked.
Comment · 7 days ago
Abandon all hope, yee who enter.
Comment · 18 days ago
This is the best Mozilla product idea I've heard since they started trying to sell shit like VPN service.
Like seriously, Mozilla could probably make some serious revenue with this. I only wonder if it would open them up to getting sued, somehow.
Comment · 18 days ago
It may be easier to answer what isn't wrong with it. Actually no, I can't think of anything that's right with it.
Comment · 19 days ago
You could probably say the same about most of the Nazi-supporting German public as well as most of the loyal party members, prior to/during WW2. Less extreme examples can still fit the description without diluting the term. Having views similar to Nazis is becoming normalized more than the term Nazi is being diluted.
Comment · 21 days ago
I was under the impression that in actual practice all the launch codes are set to 0000. Wouldn't want to delay a launch because someone forgot the code. (I'm only half joking)
Comment · 23 days ago
Find a really niche subject, project or activity.
Comment · 1 month ago
What happens when the big AI labs go public and must start earning a profit for investors. The price increases 10x¹ and it suddenly becomes excessively expensive for ~80 of society to access.
If education is all dependent on the use of AI, then we're cutting off everyone but the most wealthy from access to education. Seems very regressive to me.
1. This is an assumption but I think it's fairly well established that current LLM prices are far below operating costs of inference, so prices will go up, maybe not 10x but some multiple > 1
Comment · 1 month ago
Wow, surprised to see that this is near me. Seems more interesting than a regular rodeo.
Comment · 1 month ago
Here's an ancient post that I wrote about the subject back before I even discovered xc: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/217/runnab...
Comment · 1 month ago
This is pretty cool. I've been interested in runnable code in markdown for a long time. It's a kind of "literate programming¹" which I've always thought was one of Knuth's best ideas.
More prior art: xcfile²
I've used xc³ for a long time now and it's fairly solid. The idea of runnable markdown is definitely useful. A lot of projects have attempted it and none that I've seen have achieved what I'd call perfection, however, xc gets close enough for my needs.
I'll check out Ledge a bit more thoroughly and give some feedback if I can think of anything constructive. I think xc is probably more suited for my uses, however, I do like electrobun and that seems like a good runtime to build something like this.
Here's what I like about xc:
1. It's built with GO and brings all the power of go's template engine. The portability of go's runtime means that it is just one binary and doesn't have any crazy runtime dependencies.
2. It has a built in dependency system so that each block of code can be predicated on another block completing. It can also ensure that each block in a dependency chain runs just once.
I've built a sort of configuration management system for my home infrastructure with config files in a git repo and all the deployment scripts and dependencies directly in the readme. I use it to maintain and deploy changes to my router, firewall rules, dhcp and dns, git repositories, and various containers.