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And here we go again, there is never a neutral position with some people.

I support the freedom of people chosing their sex or gender. At the same time, I'm not willing to fight their wars. And if they force me to go to war, then I pass.

Because I think it's not important in the context of this discussion. Whatever their views are, I am not willing to be forced to think about them.

There is really not much to elaborate: I was supporting the idea of Linux on Apple Silicon. I would support that idea even today (without even installing it really) but because of marcan's twitter/mastodon (I don't remember which) posts. Btw, those accounts are on longer active, I presume marcan deleted them (go to marcan's About page and see for yourself).

Now, if you want me to explain what political ideas those were: I don't care. Whatever they are, I don't want to support it, even if I have those same ideas. Yes, I do think that open source communities should move away from the politics.

I was an early donator to marcan and never expected any delivery from Asahi project, just thought that the idea of having Linux of Apple Silicon was awesome and worthy of my support.

But then marcan told his supportes to fuck off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas, which I was not willing to do.

I guess this comment will be seen as abuse from the HN crowd. Oh well...

When Zed got released, I was looking forward to trying it out because I saw the potential.

Very soon I found out that: Vim mode must be perfect and few of my <leader> key combos have made me (Neo)vim addict. And also, I prefer terminal editor.

The good ones are WezTerm, Ghostty, Kitty. There may be others. They are all so good that "the best" becomes subjective.

Yes, both launched in 2008 and yet Github was launched first.

According to this archived article[1], there is a quote saying: "It [BB] sports a feature-set much like Github." That is an indication of which one came first and was already a success story on the market and served as a blueprint for BB, which was made in its image with the difference of supporting mercurial, instead of git.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110317200833/http://code.djang...

(edit) forgot the link to the article

Maybe because Github was there first. BB was created as the GH clone, for mercurial repos.

Started swimming.

Yes, your name will forever be on that pull request.

Mozilla interest in browser development is decreasing, the same way their market share has continued to decrease for years. In a few years, Firefox might become irrelevant. We can only hope that a new browser (Ladybird? something else?) replaces it.

Agree completely.

I was looking forward to rapid, wanted more drama.

In the end, Ding deservedly lost. He was constantly low on time; managed to play excellent in losing positions for the whole match but it took only a single mistake to lose the crown. One can do miracles only a few times before it fails.

It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.

Just say no to yaml

Oh man... this is not the first time they're doing it. I've been their user and they have deprecated the plan I've signed up for. After a call with the CEO, we have come to an agreement of a custom plan that allowed my to keep one of the features I really needed (vanity name servers) at the time. That was in 2015. In 2017 I had another call with them at after that I decided to move away.

I was a happy customer for years, but felt they were not good on past promises about the pricing. Moved to GCP and slashed my monthly bill to a 1/5 of what I was paying to DNSimple. Still with GCP today (for DNS).

Coffeezilla made a 7min video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRklIlxciaM

My company has a name that (if you squint really, really hard) can be confused with Logitech.

So naturally, I got a few questions on topics such as non working mice or keyboards, headphones and similar.

My usual reply lately (not that many, I can still bother to reply) is "This is not the Logitech you are looking for..." with the link to the company they want.

The older I get, the more appreciation I have for simple tools. Terminal is certainly one of those tools that I want to stay simple.

Good luck to the team, not for me.

My memory of the whole process is kinda fuzzy, you're probably right about CSRs. Hopefully the private keys were not sent around via unencrypted email.

But the point still stands: the whole process was a nightmare, no automation, error prone, renewal easily forgetable...

The large companies could have had a staff to manage all that. I was just a solo developer managing my own projects, and it was a hassle.

What I'm most thankful is the ACME protocol.

Does anyone remember how we renewed certificates before LE? Yeah, private keys were being sent via email as zip attachments. That was a security charade. And as far as I know, it was a norm among CAs (I remember working with several).

Thank you Let's Encrypt.

TIL: caffeinate

Very useful.

XP was my favorite as well, at least among the Windows. Not the first OS I used (that would be DOS 3). But it was the last MS OS I used.

60Hz

The worst feature of manual transmission is being stuck in a traffic jam and constantly pressing clutch pedal and shifting in and out of the 1st gear. Everything else is non issue, this is painful.

Dell P2723DE

That depends on the size. For 27" or larger, the recommened resolution is 1440p (non-retina) or 5K (retina). 4K is ok if you're going for smaller sizes.

More information here: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/

Just recently bought 27" Dell and I'm quite happy with it (for coding).

So, a clutch for e-commerce?

Why the arbitrary 0.1s? Why not 1s? Or 10s? Because that way I would run as fast as the the world record holder.

In its core, competitive sport is defined by the ability to differentiate the best from the next to best. It's obvious that as a species we value those who can perform with the highest marks, it's neither stupid nor anti-sports.

More likely, peak HP.