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In _theory_ using a thin-client and booting into a cloud machine means you can "upgrade" your machine in a couple years w/o having to replace the thin-client.

Could be easier for grandma, could reduce e-waste, will definitely be used to pigeon-hole us into an endless hell of subscription software.

glmdev

3년 전discuss

I also think "adoptability" should be a consideration. Perhaps AsciiDoc would be a slightly better fit, but every developer I know is already familiar with MarkDown and at the end of the day convincing people to write good docblocks is easier if they don't have to pick up new syntax.

glmdev

3년 전discuss

I use VaultWarden to store my 2FA info which (aside from being very handy) replicates the codes offline on each device I sync my vault to.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

system-d private tmp has entered the chat

glmdev

4년 전discuss

I think Go's generics are reasonable, but not quite powerful enough to scale.

It's all well and good to generalize basic containers and functions (good, in fact), but I wish the language was better at inferring types.

I'm sure this is something that will improve with time, but a bit after generics were released, I tried to build a type-safe language evaluator in Go using generics and found them lacking the kind of type-narrowing necessary for fully-generic architecture.

Short write-up of my conundrum on SO, if anyone is interested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71955121/how-to-type-swi...

TypeScript has me spoiled. :)

glmdev

4년 전discuss

I think this is an interesting idea, though I suspect "on net the status quo is worse environmentally" is a hard question to answer w/o the aforementioned in-depth reviews (at least to an extent; obviously the current system has problems).

glmdev

4년 전discuss

The concept sounds good in theory, but I think it's going to be nigh unworkable in practice. The NCLB/high-stakes testing era exposed many problems with tying educator pay to student outcomes -- chief among them that student outcomes didn't improve.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

It's not needed right _now_, perhaps, but wait a few months or a few years. Next time the job market shifts back to the employers, the incentives will align the other way.

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4년 전discuss

The auto-completion alone is worth it IMO. I've been using fish for 6 or 7 years now, and having it hint ahead some obscure command that I only use once a month saves me so much time reading MAN/searching online.

Pair that with tldr and it's a really good experience.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

Surprised I had to scroll this far to see this. It's an objectively cool project, even if it doesn't make the most financial/business sense. Doesn't seem like that's the point.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

I keep a .dotfiles git-repo similarly. The configs/custom scripts/etc are organized into separate folders by what they do (shell config/work tools/...) and I use GNU Stow to symlink them into my home directory. Makes setting up super easy:

    git clone <repo> .dotfiles && cd .dotfiles
    stow --target=$HOME --dir=packages shell-config
    stow --target=$HOME --dir=packages work-stuff

I've found this to be much more manageable than tools like yadm since I can pick-and-choose sets of configs/scripts based on the machine I'm using them on.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

One particularly annoying case comes up when using IIFEs:

    let c = a + b
    (() => { ... })()

This is evaluated as:

    let c = a + (b(() => {...}))()

which usually results in "TypeError: b is not a function." Obviously this can be solved with a semicolon after the "let c..." line, but another common approach is to just prefix all IIFEs with semicolons, since empty statements are no-ops in JS:

    let c = a + b
    ;(() => {...})()

I personally prefer to forego semi-colons, but I have a hard time getting worked up over it either way.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

I have, in moments of desperation, `chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf` before. I understand the rationale behind managing that with a more robust service, but in my experience that's much more prone to the black-box effect.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

This seems like a cool concept, but I didn't try it out because the demo requires FULL READ-WRITE access to my GitHub account, its organizations, and private details! Surely reading basic user info would suffice.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

Not sure if it's just me, but the website is -really- slow in Firefox. Like, the refresh rate/frame rate is terrible.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

I 100% assumed that's what this would be until I clicked on it. I feel like a large portion of (especially beginner) SSH users don't really understand asymmetric encryption enough to understand the implications there.

glmdev

4년 전discuss

This is true, though Ethernet seems to be an endemic problem. I have a ~$300 Dell WD19TB that works flawlessly to drive a couple displays, audio out, USB hub, and card reader, but the Ethernet died after a few months.

So now, comically, I have to have a type-C Ethernet adapter connected to the back of my Thunderbolt dock...

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