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Re:CI-Hush on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:30AM (#46565993)
Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop on Sunday August 24, 2025 @05:15PM (#45007855)
Sounds a lot like Mr. Meeseeks. I've never really thought about an LLM's only goal is to send tokens until it can finally stop.
Re:OpenBSD Innovations on Sunday February 23, 2025 @07:08AM (#43148712)
OSS isn't anti-alternative at all? Just because you don't pay for the software doesn't mean there's no competition.

Even well-established software can have meaningful alternatives. Look at ripgrep. While it hasn't replaced grep as a distro default, it's still being used by folks that find it a better solution for them.

Re:Open-Source Screen Recorder on Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:53AM (#39651104)
On Mac, I've enjoyed kap.

https://getkap.co/

Re:OpenTelemetry in 2023 on Monday August 28, 2023 @11:59PM (#37303428)
Hi! Just wanted to let you know I'm getting a 500 error on your docs page.

https://docs.odigos.io/

Probably the ability to recoup the cost with a subscription after sale (or one-time purchase like FSD). Lower the cost to get into as many homes as possible, then at least a few folks will pony up for it.
Re: on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:01PM (#34759586)
I'm not sure if you purposely mentioned Nebraska only for the xkcd meme or because you knew the Air Force Weather Agency is based in Nebraska.

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1045...

When I worked for Northrop, they offered a "9/80” schedule. Every pay period, you would work 80 hours in 9 days. Monday thru Thursday, you would work an additional hour (so 9 total), then have every other Friday off.
Re:An overview of version control in programming on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:18PM (#31129934)
I used mercurial at one job and my experience was that the day-to-day differences were largely philosophical, especially if you primarily interact with VCS through your IDE, like me. Mercurial’s CLI API is supposedly cleaner, but I hardly interacted with it.

Mercurial has immutable history, so no squashing commits, no deleting branches, at the time I was using it there was no amending commits, in fact reverting a commit doesn’t even come enabled out of the box! Some folks loved it; no changing history, everything documented as it happened. We practiced trunk based development, so no branches except for hotfixes, so there wasn’t a lot of sprawl.

Ecosystems largely don’t support mercurial, so that’s definitely a consideration. Since Merge Requests and feature branches are largely practiced now, I feel like there’d be a lot of noise in a repo if folks used mercurial.

I don’t particularly miss mercurial, personally. I’m less into “pure” workflows and forcing behaviors. I think git is super flexible and generally practical and I’m overall pretty happy with it.

Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:06AM (#30023616)
That's what Terraform pretty much is. All it does is manage a graph of dependencies/resources and then relies on a provider, which implements the CRUD.

Not super familiar with Hashicorp's other product Nomad but I'd think it have a similar approach, but more of a continuous lifecycle check?

Re:Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:58PM (#28922051)
Maybe it's an odd-number issue with the Pixels? My wife is using my old Pixel 2 with reduced battery life, but otherwise no issues. My Pixel 4 XL is still working great.
Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:23PM (#27132808)
But does switching to using canvas solve that problem?
Re:Fountain pen ink properties on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:21AM (#23510045)
Martin Fowler has called his website a "bliki" (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/WhatIsaBliki.html).