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Comment · 1 month ago
that doesn't negate my point: with the attacks in the middle east, Saudi Arabia can't export its oil, and therefore, they are not going to make any money. Norway, the US and others, may get a windfall because they can charge more, but does that compensate for the loss of profit in SA ?
Comment · 1 month ago
"Where does all that additional money go, and who benefits from it?"

Doesn't reduced overall supply usually mean that the total amount of money (price * supply) also reduces? ie. in total, there is no additional money.

Comment · 1 month ago
"Finally delta objects should be stored as their own object in the packfile instead of slapped onto the end of the object it’s a delta of so that you don’t have to read the object and its deltas to read the object in the first place."

Author thinks that delta encoding is there for no reason. Good luck, kid.

Comment · 2 months ago
I wrote my own (or rather, had Claude write it), https://github.com/hanwen/runclaude.

Mine uses containers, and makes only the git/jj workspace read/write, hiding all credentials that are in my home dir.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yes. The links are to isolated threads on a rail (model) forums (apparently, this publisher markets books/magazines related to railway models).

It's hard to see if the individual complaints really support a general problem, or if this simply the only result that talks about "scam + business-name". Probably, the latter.

The same problem happens on google search, if you look "<obscure false fact>", you'll get pages mentioning that false fact. If you fall into the trap of confirmation bias, it leads you to think the false fact is in true.

Comment · 4 months ago
Curiously, if you look for "geramond verlag betrugsmasche", or "verlagshaus24 betrugsmasche", it will now tell you that

     there are no indications it is a scam, but "significant organizational problems and extremely bad customer support lead to (list of bad experiences)". 
Also, each purported fact now has a direct link to the source of the fact, that is more clearly visible than the previous chain icon.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
AWS graviton, Google Axion? ARM has better performance per watt, which translates to better performance per $.
Comment · 5 months ago
interesting article, but now I'm left wondering how the glucose gets to the retina. Why is this easier than supplying oxygen?
Comment · 5 months ago
That is not quite the right word. For Python, the headcount was moved from the Bay Area (the most expensive place in the world to hire software engineers) to Munich (the most expensive place in Germany to hire SWEs.), for cost saving reasons.
Comment · 6 months ago
Is anyone from GitButler reading this?

As others alluded, JJ already exists and is a credible successor to Git for the client side.

Technical desides aside though: how is this supposed to make money for the investors?

Comment · 7 months ago
blaze/bazel was a big improvement over its predecessor (a set of python scripts that generated huge makefiles), but that did not make it free of accidental engineering. The google infrastructure teams were very tightly staffed, so for a long time, it was held together with proverbial duct tape and heroism.

Source: I was on part of the team that did the open sourcing, and had to clean lots of cruft in the code base that had accreted over 8 years.

Comment · 10 months ago
Rob left Google a couple of years ago.
Comment · 10 months ago
"WarpBuild are still the better option."

what makes you think they won't hike the control plane price again? They can turn this knob arbitrarily to put you out of business.

Comment · 11 months ago

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