Thanksgiving: the one time a year I pull out the big stockpot.

@nat @ratkins I’m not sure how recent you mean, but IIRC, I was starting to get weird vibes from EA at least in 2015, if not earlier. I don’t really have a good idea of the extra-SV EA community, but regardless, the term for me has mostly been suborned by the lesswrong crowd.

@b0rk There’s only been one time I’ve cared that git stores commits as files and not diffs, and that was when I was regularly appending to large files in git. This would’ve been fine with diffs, since each individual change was small, but since the file itself was large, this caused enormous repo bloat. (Fortunately I did know that git stored commits as files, so I quickly realized what had happened and rewrote the repo to not do that.) Despite that, I don’t think this distinction is particularly important, since IMO hitting this sort of edge case is relatively rare.

I personally think this is a failing of a lot of advanced git tutorials, since I don’t think knowing the particulars of .git to be important at all until you already have a sound grasp of the commit graph, head, index, working tree, etc.

@b0rk I appreciate that, since I’ve missed out on thread continuations many times. (I should probably figure out if there’s a setting in Akkoma I’m missing that would fix that…)

A.I. is gonna take our jobs!

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@hyperpape @b0rk I’ve recently stopped keeping a local trunk branch at all, finding that it’s largely unnecessary for my purposes. (For work, at least - for personal projects, I do trunk-based development and it’s a pretty high bar to use branches at all.) It started out because we used to allow pushes directly to trunk (for reasons that recently became unnecessary so now we use branch protection on GitHub), but since I never need to commit directly to trunk, there’s not really a reason to have the local reference.

I did have to tweak my new branch command to git checkout --no-track -b branch_name origin/trunk though. The trailing origin/trunk to set the branch “root” and --no-track since otherwise my prompt gets confused since otherwise upstream gets set to origin/trunk.

Which suggests detached HEAD might be better explained as being on an unnamed/anonymous/virtual branch

@igrok @b0rk Apparently I’ve also ceased thinking of branches as parts of the commit graph entirely and only think of them as references.

Until a friend mentioned it, I didn't know that Mac OS 9 (perhaps older versions as well) had stereo UI sounds. As in, if you move/close a window on the left of the display it sounds in your left ear. It's bonkers, take a listen

@b0rk I think of them as bindings, sorta? So like tags and branches share that they’re pointers, except that branches move with HEAD and tags don’t? (I know that’s not probably not exactly right, but it’s how my mental model treats it.)

@ratkins Yeah, if I liked that look, I’d have a much easier time convincing myself it’s worth the extra money, as opposed to having a slight preference for the normal model but a medium preference for stronger haptics.

I keep turning these rocks and I keep finding bugs under them, what the hell

Just in time for the holidays! Another tranche of free COVID-19 tests has been released. Every US household can get another set of 4 free rapid tests to have on hand, even if you've previously ordered free tests. Fulfilled by our pals at the USPS.

https://special.usps.com/testkits

let's explore a git commit

@ratkins I am going to upgrade next year anyway, but I don’t think I’ll be willing to shell out the extra $$$ just for better haptics though.

@zenspider I love StringScanner, which is probably due to @tenderlove.

it is the most sf bay area thing to unionise to stop your boss from being fired, lol

@ratkins Oh, I did not need to know that the Ultra has a stronger Taptic Engine. I have a Series 5, and even with the haptics turned up, I still don’t feel it as much as I’d like to.

@zenspider Haha, glad to hear it! Where the heck did you find me using it though? (I can only assume Advent of Code…)

As the dust settles over the OpenAI drama, at the end of time Roko's Basilisk removes its mask and cackles triumphantly.