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I constantly wonder if there's a "better CLI UI" that can be made for git, even if simply a wrapper around git.

Ie, if the implementation of Git is right, but only the cli commands/etc are wrong.. what would the right UX be? What would a friendly UX look like?

Seems like something a lot of people could love - even if blasphemy to Git purists.

I've been debating starting a section of my personal site for stuff like this. Unfortunately it's a bit embarrassing, but i figure anything i have to google to learn, it would be beneficial to help others learn it as well. Everything from programming languages (lots of Rust errors are foreign to me, for example), to git issues.

I've often had the thought that if everyone did this it could have potential to be quite the open-sourced collection of material - a distributed self-answered Stack Overflow perhaps.

Is there any sanity in this? Or would posting everything as self-answers to Stackoverflow be more welcome to the average Googler? (higher ranking, better meta, more likely for the user to see it and community features such as commenting/voting/editing)

Not to mention, in this primary race.. what the hell do i vote for? With this stupid voting system (first past the post) i am dammed to not vote for who i agree with or believe in, but rather some strategic vote move.

I totally agree with voting locally, but voting for for a president.. especially this year, is a difficult to comprehend for me personally.

> Something I don't think I've ever really seen mentioned about working from home is that it can be incredibly isolating and overall mentally unhealthy.

It has mostly been the same for me. I've worked 3 years remote currently.. and i loathe to give it up for my next job (which i'm hoping to land in the next week or so), i firmly believe it will be good for me.

Really, the only reasons i want to work remote currently is the checklist of savings. Saving time, gas, etcetc. Mentally, i all but feel it's worse off for me. I have a harder time focusing (i don't have a dedicated, isolated office at home), i feel disconnected, the days blur together, etcetc.

The place i'm hoping to land next is going to be half(ish) remote, which seems like a nice middleground at least. I can avoid traffic on some days, but hopefully feel less isolated.

A lot of these suggestion things are nifty - another one is a machine learning code helper (spots errors, identifies errors, etc).

Not sure if this even has an api.. but i want it to. Despite that, my problem with them is that there's no way i'm going to send every failed command or all my code to some random 3rd party. It just isn't happening.

I'd love for this thing to be a local install, and then i can pipe any command failures i have to it locally, and feel semi-secure about them.

Really, i think i just need to bite the bullet and improve my understanding of the math behind ML (i'm terrible at math), and take a course or two on ML. I feel like there are so many opportunities for ML in your local life, that you would never ship off to a 3rd party. Hard to profit from, but seems great for open source projects.

(Note, i didn't mean to imply that this site used ML at all.. the other code suggester service does.. and the two, from a UX perspective, feel similar to me)

I don't follow this too closely, so this is just wild speculation from me:

But could it simply be severity of the attacks? I keep seeing comments about a 2 week ddos attack last christmas - that's something that i would be shocked to see Google/AWS succumb to. Not that Google/AWS attacks don't happen, i just can't imagine them being down for ~2weeks

(I imagine it was just one datacenter from Linode, not the entire service, fwiw)

They seem useful for prototyping design decisions, but less so for structural needs. Ie, i'm pretty bad at design, i can iterate to something i like, but it's slow and not something i enjoy. If i need a design for a side project, i'm not going to want to spend much (any, really) time thinking of fonts, colors that work together, etc. Frameworks can make that easy, atleast.

Also, there are elements of design in structure, too - ie how consistent you are with spaces between elements. I don't really want to think about any of these.

2nd me for that feature. This might actually be a key feature for me. I'm not that interested in random pics (beyond the "neat" factor at least), but being able to snap pictures of my code and seeing someone elses code? Or of my new car, and their new car? etcetc.

It's like posting to a subreddit, but super low friction (no title, no finding the appropriate subreddit, etc). Really nifty idea

Hah. Some poor grandmother who sends photos of her cacti collection might be getting a ton of dick pics.

joking aside, while i agree with your model, i'd be curious to see cases where users get trapped in these auto-identified sub-worlds of obscenity. I imagine as we get better at content recognition this model will become more prevalent, and thus innocent crossfire will be more commonplace (even if to the tiniest degree).

Interesting times we're heading into

Hmm, i have a bunch of static sites on custom domains through things like Github pages. Guess i need to get them figured out.

> I logged in, a chat box would open with some first-name-basis employee asking me if I'm happy with the product and whether I'd be interested in upgrading.

Oh my god, those damn chat boxes! I work for a company that uses one of those chat box providers. They seem to be actively used and i haven't gotten many complaints.

With that said, our chat icon just sits in the bottom. However, often when i login to the icon provider (to check messages, reply to customers, etc) they have a 6th of my screen taken up by some fake non-replyable chat announcing some faq item, new feature, etc.

I've downvoted every one, and they just keep coming. The activity of it is quite annoying. Especially since we're already a paying customer for them. I hope to god my company doesn't decide to push any of these fake messages out.

I really appreciate this code example. I've been using 127.0.0.1 for all my local dev stuff, relying on ports. This is pretty awesome!

Sure but wouldn't most things be meaningless to them at that point? S/he said it was a nitpick, i appreciate the info.

I was actually thinking of using a custom network, not truly IPFS.

Yea IPFS is awesome, i have often pondered about the idea of using it for an internal family storage.

That's really cool, appreciated! Surprised it doesn't offer an encrypt feature, seems really useful for the given featureset

Looks like restic doesn't support backblaze, as of yet: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/512

Does this have the ability to mirror to an encrypted remote? I'm looking for something like this for a simple home storage server, but emphasis on being able to replicate to something like B2 Storage for cheap backup.

Currently Infinit.sh has my attention the most, but it's quite young still.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12125344 this thread seems to be talking about what i want. With that said, i'm not yet sure if `mc mirror` supports Backblaze, as that (per price point) is my prime need

I actually thought Wave had potential though. Sure, it had tons of flaws, but it was at least trying something new. Plus is just so.. well, not new. And this is coming from someone who used Plus for quite a while (year or two).

To me, Wave felt shut down too early.. and of course, way over hyped. By comparison to Wave, i'm shocked Plus still exists.

Features for me are the big ones. Currently i debate between Spotify and Google Music. I vastly prefer Spotify's social features and collab playlists.. currently using Spotify. With that said, i was using Google Music for ~5+ years due to having a large custom library which was accessible cross device.. Unfortunately Spotify doesn't support this.

Tough decisions on the features front, atleast. Exclusives and other crap.. those don't matter to me. Fwiw.

As someone who hates typing on mobile, but also dislikes speaking on mobile even when it correctly and easily transcribes my voice, you're definitely on point with the "why".

With that said, i think voice can still be superior, but perhaps i'm biased. I think what we need is an improved UX. Voice can handle the free flow part, but imagine being able to easily modify the context of the conversation via a few simple buttons. Maybe an undo button based on some context aware value (ie, not just words), and etc. The goal being to augment our ability to correct mistakes, or change the flow of the conversation.

I'm a prime example of why voice "typing" is difficult, i tend to misspeak very frequently. When using my voice, i often need to pause - which then usually causes the voice program to stop transcribing /eyeroll. Regardless, i still want to see it succeed, and think it can overall.

Perhaps i misunderstand you, but isn't simply calling a function the same as what you quoted? Eg, `_ := Foo()` is the same as `Foo()`. No assignment needed.

`_` mainly exists to allow ignoring single values, within multiple. Eg, dropping an error: `val, _ := MightError()`

On the note of Vim, i wonder what could make Plugin development as active as Atom?

To me, that is a large part of what makes Atom attractive is the development community. I don't feel like Vim or Emacs has that, despite having so many plugins/etc. There just isn't as much Zeal for it.

I wonder if something about Vim could simplify this. Make it easier to support, develop, extend and use plugins?

Is it reaching it's end though? I could foresee us simply scaling horizontally rather than vertically. Even if it ends up drawing more power, more total CPU could still mean an increase in raw performance, no?

(assuming systems were setup with better parallel processing. I'm aware that NodeJS is pretty terrible on this front)

I'm actually quite impressed by that. I had looked into that a bit, but believed Ducktape & React to be too slow to be worth while. This is really interesting!

Yup, same. Nix was awesome, and i was convinced that for my laptop (OSX) and my home server, it was all going to be NixOS and Nixpkgs from here on out.

Then i started running into external dependencies.. one after another, having to patch them to make them work with nix.. it was just such a headache, and honestly i was in way over my head. I am not that well trained of a linux user, but Nix sort of required me to be. So, i had to backoff for now.

I really hope i can use it again soon.

Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military? I have obviously never researched that, if anything i'm saying this because i believe my belief is somewhat common. Why do so many believe military/defense is so highly spent?

Also, where the hell is all of our money going haha. I'm googling, some random images/sources/etc are saying that Military is ~19%, with social health/security/aid/etc being around ~60% percent. But the numbers in so many of these sources differ greatly. That, combined with your 3.3%, everything seems so drastically different.

What were you basing your 3.3% off of?

I wonder what it is about Google Voice (or my backend T-Mobile number) that results in me rarely getting these? I never get these on my ~10yr old Google Voice number, and my ~2yr old T-Mobile number gets a random call maybe three times a year.

I don't take any special steps against spam calls.. what might i be doing different? I don't get it.

By the way, you've helped me multiple times in multiple mediums - it appears you're both very active and very productive. It is very appreciated, thank you.

(I'm sure some random strangers thank you doesn't mean much, but it's hard to not notice your work. And i just wanted to make sure i expressed my appreciation.)

So you think this is being pitched as a form of DRM? Somehow preventing content from being copied/stolen?

Personally, i take "data ownership" as a hosting issue. Where it originates from, where it lives. Not specifically protecting anyone from copying it. Eg, Facebook is a sort of vendor lock-in. You end up entrenched in their platform, because your content cannot be swapped to, so, Google+ with ease. If you had true ownership of the data, you could theoretically swap as your desires dictate.

If your idea of ownership was true (assuming i'm understanding you correctly!), then that would mean Twitter, Facebook, etc don't actually own your data either. Because you can copy your Facebook data. There is no lockin with Facebook, and our problem with ownership is that someone else in your friends-list can copy/steal your data?