tonnydourado

I kinda agree, and I mostly switched to mermaid because of availability. Plantuml is much more annoying to setup, and doesn't render natively on GitHub (last I checked, anyway), so if I writing anything more collaborative, mermaid requires a lot less explanation or help with setup.

And for me, one mediocre tool that works everywhere for everything beats a better tool that requires me to context switch too often, so I mostly retired Plantuml. Not happy about, but alas.

That's an interesting idea, and an unexplored design space. Graphviz's dot has rank and head/tail ports, and Plantuml's class diagram has some support for relative position, but both are more hints for the layout engine, not deterministic declarations. If I had a nickel for every hour I spent fiddling with a Plantuml diagram to get the relation directions to force the layout into at least an approximation of what I wanted, I'll be a lot closer to retirement.

I like that you're going for one generic syntax instead of many specific ones, like mermaid and Plantuml, but it's as much as a pro as it is a con, it's one reason why these languages evolved in the first place, instead of everyone just using DOT. One possible mitigation would be some sort of reuse mechanism? Some way that generic nodes could be defined once and instantiated many times, so if I wanted to draw something like a sequence diagram, I could define/change my participant lanes just once.

Another issue the "No multi-line statements, no line continuations, no blocks." philosophy. I get *why* you chose it, and has its advantages, but it's a pretty annoying constraint, specially if one wants to have longer node names, or have more detailed description of the node in its label, like listing the responsibilities of a class, for instance. "No blocks" is something that can probably won't make much difference, but line continuations (i.e., some distinction between physical and logical lines) can make or break the user experience, IMHO

The syntax for line breaks is another thing I urge you to reconsider, '/' is waaay to common of a character, and being forced to write long strings in a single line can get *really* annoying. Some sort of multiline string support would really make your existing syntax shine.

The last two suggestions/complaints would complicate your parser a lot, specially since you're writing it manually, so, they are trade offs, but as a user who'd love to have something like this on my toolbelt, not having these features would make me hesitate a lot on investing time in this tool.

That said, it's a nice idea, I'll keep an eye on it =)

That's the first news about data centers on space that seems reasonable. Acknowledges the challenges, don't make crazy promises or predictions, makes clear what was already tested and what is still unknown. Makes me actually root for them, for once.

I like the "moonshot research" framing, in particular, because it highlights that even negative results will be valuable, either as improvements for ground technology or as published data to inform other initiatives of what has already been tried and failed.

He's on the record supporting Tommy Robinson, who is one of the most prominent fascists in England. He's on the record calling for "remigration" (which is a specific word with specific meaning and context, it's not just synonym for deportation, it's a fascist dog whistle).

I think that's plenty evidence, I'm not waiting for him to tatoo "I am a fascist" on his forehead.

Also, a minimum awareness of the politics of the people producing the stuff you use is actually pretty necessary when fascism is on the rise all around the world. Might be exhausting, sure, but it's better than the alternative

That was some lovely spelunking XD

You can't technology your way out of social problems. The conflicting requirements raised throughout the article are, indeed, ultimately unsolvable.

The only way to stop an oppressive government from abusing the emergency notification system for propaganda is to fight against the oppressive government until it stops existing, then keep fighting to prevent it from existing again.

Transportation was a solved problem with horses, doesn't mean the car isn't a good idea. Same for internal combustion and EVs.

A vaccine is an objectively better solution than PrEP, just because of the time scale, PrEP needs discipline on a daily or x-monthly basis. A vaccine could last for years. Although, realistically, it's more likely to end up requiring yearly updates like COVID, because HIV is also a mutating son of a bitch.

I 100% agree that waiting for a vaccine is stupid beyond measure. The world should do both: make PrEP widely available AND keep funding vaccine research.

> Headers are allowed to be of two level types

Come on, two levels ain't enough for anything serious. Also, the notes feature is not rendering any differently.

When one of my sisters got her first paycheck from her first real job, she didn't knew much about banking, and thought that the overdraft limit on the ATM was her actual salary, so she just withdrew the whole thing. I think it took over a year, maybe two, to pay it all back.

As a consultant data engineer (ish), I think it has potential. You're right that any company doing data analytics is gonna be prioritizing a single source of truth and a unified platform, but each one will choose a different set of tools, which I'll have to learn, install, and even teach, for each new client. If I can use this to both explore AND implement stuff for clients regardless of their underlying database, that would be a pretty significant win.

> We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs to speed us up, and plan to right-size roles across the company to follow suit.

Ah, yes, finally gitlab will have the same uptime leves as GitHub.

Mostly agree with everything, but I will not stand for this slander against sweet potato fries!!!

Damn, I stand corrected. In my defense, it was a really quick google.

I would usually side with Wikipedia, but the article says the registration process the government is asking for is free, and a from a quick google, not really invasive. It does seem to require a tax number of some sort, which could be a problem, but still, is not exactly a super unreasonable ask. The government reaction is kinda unreasonable, specially towards fucking Wikipedia of all sites, but, alas.

Side note, Jesus Christ on a bicycle, this site has a ridiculous amount of ads. Literally could not read the article at the first try, had to reload and enable reader mode before the 1937391 popups started jumping on my face.

That was an informative post but Jesus Christ on a bicycle, reign in the LLM a bit. The whole thing was borderline painful to read, with so many "GPTisms" I almost bailed out a couple of times. If you're gonna use this stuff to write for you, at least *try* to make it match a style of your own.

P.S.: Fuck Palantir.

As an interesting linguistic coincidence (or not), FDP is a commonly used acronym in Portuguese, standing for "filho da puta", literally, "son of a whore", but semantically it's approximately "asshole/jerk/dickhead".

That's a banger article, I don't even like low level stuff and yet read the whole thing. Hopefully I will have opportunity to use some of it if I ever get around to switch my personal notebook back to linux

Gotta say, did not know direct energy weapons were actually leaving science fiction and entering the real world yet, but it seems they're. It's obviously not star trek level, but it's way more advanced than I expected

News just in, too much of a good thing sometimes is bad. After the break, new study reveals: the sky is (sometimes) blue and the grass is (sometimes) green.

I hate hello-how-are-you-then-wait-before-asking messages as much as the next autistic programmer, but both examples in the "more examples" section still kinda read like an asshole, because they present as fact things that often either aren't, or you couldn't be absolutely sure of it.

For instance:

> "The caching layer is causing a 400ms overhead on cold requests. Here's the trace."

Cool, but how do you know that? Are you sure you're interpreting the trace correctly? How many measurements have you done? Sure that there isn't a historic reason why the caching layer behaves in this way, or a conflicting requirement that lead to choosing this latency over some other, worse consequence?

In the same way:

> "The current error handling swallows exceptions silently, which is making debugging hell. We should propagate errors to the caller"

Agree in principle, but did you check git blame to see if there was a rationale? Or asked someone else? How much change would this require? Could it break consumers of our code?

Granted, the "polite" messages didn't care any of this information either, but at least they didn't almost preemptively shut down the conversation by laying down what is at best an well informed guess and at worse purely personal opinion as if it's irrefutable truth.

Perhaps instead of debating whether to be (too?) polite or direct, it's better to focus on providing as much information as you can, anticipate follow up questions, and close with clear actionable next steps, something which is also missing from both versions of the messages.

"Well, those are hypothetical examples" cool, another evidence that we're all talking out of our asses about the sex of the angels, here. Maybe if the author didn't try so much to characterize themselves as perfectly infallible information delivery machine, then I wouldn't have nit-picked so much their half-assed hypotheticals.

Thank god I found this page: https://causality.blog/series/, now I can relax knowing that at least there's a plan for a conclusion. Looking forward to the next posts

That's cool and all, but can we pass a law that this can ONLY be used for games? Because I remember the web when flash was everywhere. The games might have been fun, but everything else sucked humongous balls. Let's not get back to that.

I know this is not the explicit meaning, but lol, intelligence isn't a commodity among humans, let alone LLMs

Congrats on making it work pretty much flawlessly on mobile, it's kinda rare for terminal-themed sites. It was pretty fun to navigate around, too =)

One (I think?) bug report and one suggestion:

- bug: can't get past the 5th project on mobile, whole screen just go black and I have to reload the page. - suggestion: maybe make cd ~ or something like that bring the user back to the actual initial state, with the login banner and stuff. Just running clear results in an empty shell, and the user has to remember to run help again.

P.S.: I ran the secret command. You son of a gun XD

P.P.S.: Two suggestions, actually: display your CV with pdfjs or something, or make an HTML version. It's annoying to have to download files.

Man, I feel bad for Docker, the company. Created the open source project that almost single-handely revolutionized deployments, development environments, and cloud computing, but sorta never managed to stick a product.

I can't tell if I find it funny or sad how obvious it is that Roy needs to be on several psychiatric medications that he isn't on, and that he's on a fair amount of cocaine (or insert whatever uppers the kids are into nowadays) that he shouldn't be on.

I'm not sure I can trust the author's characterization of Roy, though. I got the impression that they don't like any of the people they interviewed (which, you know, fair), but that doesn't get even close to the depths of hatred towards Roy that they sub-textually exude throughout the article.

If their portrayal is even half accurate, though, that's a perfectly reasonable amount of hate.

I don't think that this is supposed to be a statement of the author's beliefs. The whole article is dripping with contempt for AI bros and silicon valley culture in general.

Maybe if you read past these paragraph it would have been clearer?

The fuck did I just read.

Intrinsically, nothing, I suppose, but it's very much not focused on cloud and IaC, it even says on the tin that it's more like Ansible.