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The Pit of Success

My understanding is learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archiv...

(when us vcs nerds say "jj isn't modal" this is the kind of benefit we're thinking about — no such thing as intermediate states in jj)

Git's octopus merges abort if there are conflicts, so the intermediate states where MERGE_HEAD is visible externally don't exist. jj handles octopus merges much better

This is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

this kind of thing is very important. source control is a foundational tool in a system of tools. making it simpler and more coherent leads to many downstream benefits to other tools

#jj-vcs makes building tooling around it so pleasant

For example, with Git, you need to consider both HEAD and MERGE_HEAD. with jj all you need to consider is @. Makes tooling fall into the pit of success a lot more often

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

"Nature abhors a vacuum, freeways generate traffic and keys end up being given more work." Incredible blog on the idiosyncracies of the [Fn] key by @aresluna.org aresluna.org/fn/

a graph of crude oil prices, which opened at $115 today and fell down to $85.13

they're calling it the most normal and stable price action of any commodity in global history

yesss

My take on OOP is that it is the equivalent to a strategy that only works on low ascensions in slay the spire

although there is some truth in "software will grow in complexity until it is capable of reading email" there is also some truth in "software will rot until it is effectively one giant blob labeled 'util'"

Claude Desktop app unresponsive Subscribe Monitoring - Root cause: Users with scheduled tasks in Claude Cowork or Claude Code who are in a timezone that observed daylight saving time last night were affected by an infinite loop. When the app tried to locate tasks scheduled during the "skipped" hour, it couldn't resolve them and got stuck. Fix: Update to version 1.1.5749 via https://claude.com/download. If you're unable to update right away, temporarily switching to a timezone that doesn't observe daylight saving time will also resolve the issue.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

A twenty percent fucking price move on brent crude for something that has already moved 30% in the last business week. I am losing my shit, bro.

Permutation City (Egan, '94)

We were on A0 and the final boss had 2.8x as much health with 2 players. Feels like a reasonable way to balance coop, clearly asking you to do more together than possible by yourself

In coop sts2, debuffs on enemies become notably stronger. Piercing Wail on Silent is already better than most other block cards, and it becomes even more broken because it reduces incoming damage for everybody. So cool

coop sts2 is legit. lots of card evaluations change in fun ways — some of the coop-only cards are also very cool

nice! did you end up setting up tailscale directly at the endpoints or in a more traditional VPN gateway configuration?

jj rebase -r @ -d commit1 -d commit2 is a funny way to spell merge

welp

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein. The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude” www.science.org/content/arti...

neat thing is, you can use them in both newtype and serde(with) modes

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

took some code I had sitting around and put it up on crates.io

as a high achiever type I remember the first time I ever got a C, in college. it was absolutely devastating for like 15 minutes then I started up Mass Effect and forgot about it lol

of all the shit happening in the world right now, the lumbering mammoth reconfiguration of the world's economy because of a -15% drop in crude oil supply is scary as fuck dude

Arnab (Indian Tucker Carlson) is comparing Hegseth to Goering LMAO

It is kind of wild how people think they know more about how to write a font rendering library than Behdad fucking Esfahbod. Severe case of Dunning-Kruger

We’re going to build the hyperreal simulacrum so much, you may even get tired of the simulacrum! You’re going to say “Please Mr. Baudrillard, I have a headache. Please, don’t simulate so much. This is getting terrible.” And I’m going to say “No, we have to build the hyperreal simulacrum.” You’re gonna say “Please.” I said “Nope, nope. We’re gonna keep building the simulacrum.”

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