wincent

By Elijah Newren, author of Git's newer mergeort merge algorithm. ("ort" or "ostensibly recursive's twin" replaced the older recursive merge algorithm.)

1.3 MB download.

Me too. Sad to say just how huge the quality of life improvement from this small tweak.

> why would the Prettier team fund another project!?

Less "the team" per se, and more vjeux, I think.

Literally unplayable.

Even then, Apple took enough care about every aspect of design, materials, and manufacturing that they could non-ironically show a high detail photo of the back of the machine on the back cover. Not only is it delightfully quirky; it's beautiful, even today.

I've been blogging, albeit not consistently, for 25 years or so. I don't even know how many readers I have, because I don't do any analytics.

When I write, it's for me, for the pleasure (and sometimes pain) of ushering thoughts out from the unstable flickering of my consciousness and into the realm of the fixed and concrete word. Well, as "fixed" as these kinds of digital artifacts ever are, I guess.

Sometimes people write to me to share their thoughts about something I wrote, and that's cool,but it's not the reason I'm doing the writing.

Eyeing you jealously from my position at 237,014 on the list... We're almost neighbors, I guess.

> Maybe it's Ok to be a little hungry.

This is the key. On evolutionary time scales, human beings have only very recently come to inhabit a world where regularly being able to eat to full satiation (and beyond) is commonplace. Being "a little hungry" is actually the typical condition under which most of our ancestors over many thousands of years have operated. Put an organism evolved to survive amid scarcity in an environment of abundance, and it's going to gain weight unless it comes up with a method for stopping at or before the earliest signs of satiety.

Towards the end:

> In addition to vertical partitioning to move database tables, we also use horizontal partitioning (aka sharding). This allows us to split database tables across multiple clusters, enabling more sustainable growth.

I think poster is saying turn _off_ "Automatically install updates" but leave _on_ "Check for updates [Daily/Weekly/Monthly]". That way you at least become aware that updates are available, and can assess them for yourself.

Wish the font was a bit bigger on mobile though.

It always bugged me that the proof went on the profile itself and not on a mere comment like it does for other identities (Twitter → tweet, Reddit → a post in /r/KeybaseProofs etc).