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kdottt··on Stacked Diffs (and why you should know about them)
Yeah the piece that "stacking" also really helps on is code-review. So When you have the "contextual" diff in the second PR you can get different stake-holders to review that one, while maybe not needing them on PR 1 for example.

It also allows you to stay unblocked the entire time you're waiting on these dependent PRs.

For "how they do it on github": the way we do it at Graphite (spoiler I work there), is that we make the unit of change a PR instead of a commit. ie. every PR has one small commit, and these get stacked on top of each other. The tool itself abstracts some of the complexity out of rebasing and managing all of these stacked PRs (which in the article are referred to as stacked diffs).

Does that make sense?

kdottt··on Mozilla.ai
Money well spent haha
kdottt··on Mozilla.ai
" open source AI ecosystem"

Would be incredible, but almost sounds too good to be true. OpenAI and equivalents already have so much money and momentum behind them.

Fully support the idea though!

kdottt··on Questionable Stock Trade Patterns in Ramaswamy's Wall Street Past
"Was it dumb luck? We don't have evidence of insider trading. But[...]"

Every article covering politicians, left and right, nowadays is like this. Do we know this is true? Nope! Will that stop us from making wild accusations? Also no!!!

kdottt··on Burkey Belser, designer of the nutrition facts label, has died
"The squabbling resulted in a multitude of design ideas, including pie charts, sliding graph charts, colors and even the image of the sun."

Can you imagine if that's what we ended up with hahaha

kdottt··on Is Math Real?
“The question “is math real?” is answered in the epilog of this book. Cheng tells us that math is real because it is an idea and ideas are real.”

Alright great lol

kdottt··on Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
"More importantly, we've seen how easily and flippantly an executive-led business decision can risk bankrupting the studios we've worked so hard to build, threaten our livelihoods as professionals, and challenge the longevity of our industry. The Unity of today isn't the same company that it was when the group was founded, and the trust we used to have in the company has been completely eroded."

Profoundly sad, and completely avoidable. Have never seen a company so quickly and completely just throw away all of their public good will.

kdottt··on ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content
I think they're referencing the character letter he wrote for Danny Masterson, pleading for a reduced sentence. Pretty hypocritical... to say the least.
kdottt··on ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content
Saw a giant billboard with something along the lines of "Apple hosts child sex abuse imagery on iCloud. They are complicit."

Really wonder what groups are putting these up and where they're getting their funding. This was in California. It happens every few years, where organizations try to go after encryption or other privacies under the guise of public safety or "save the kids" type stuff, but I've never seen huge billboards like this before.

Pretty jarring.

kdottt··on Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub
Hell yeah, that's the idea haha! Bringing the internal super secret FAANG workflows to the world :)
kdottt··on Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub
Not locked in at all!

Graphite syncs bidirectionally with GitHub so that you can see the same information in realtime across platforms. This also means you can use Graphite even if the rest of your team isn't yet!

kdottt··on Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub
Hey Tim! Thanks for being with us since the beta. Would love to help you walk through that git query issue. Might be easier on our community slack if you wanna come chat about it there!

https://join.slack.com/t/graphite-community/shared_invite/zt...

kdottt··on Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community
Unity is planning to add a fee to all INSTALLS of a game. That includes demos, game pass, and even reinstalls. It's not a revenue share, it's a fee. You could potentially bankrupt a dev by repeatedly reinstalling. Or if streaming, just refresh 20 times. Insane shit