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New comment by carb in "Be wary of Bluesky"

carb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:35:21 +0000

Sorry, meant say that Blacksky is much more important than the metrics you point to, with more detail on that wiki.

They're the first alternative full stack, the first alternative AppView, and that is something that the author should have mentioned. However, it weakens the argument so they left it out.

"Number of contributors" has never meant impact. You wouldn't dismiss openssl or curl, ya know?

New comment by carb in "Be wary of Bluesky"

carb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:00:05 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksky

New comment by carb in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

carb — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:41:36 +0000

Not OP but yeah that's the one!

New comment by carb in "The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)"

carb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:39:49 +0000

Yes, I only open an IDE to run a debugger when needed. The vim support isn't exhaustive and it's jarring whenever a command doesn't work.

This is about Vi though and that's certainly more rare. For me that's only used over a rare ssh with vim not available but vi present

New comment by carb in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

carb — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:51:26 +0000

Yes, I agree. Everyone in ICE or supporting them.

New comment by carb in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

carb — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:50:20 +0000

I disagree. Notable and impacting politics are often here and foster interesting discussions.

Everything is political, and nowadays everything has relation to tech. ICE is being supported by Palantir and many defense tech companies and that technology impacts and perfects the terror and abuse by ICE in Minneapolis.

It's important for us to talk about this, especially when it is uncomfortable.

New comment by carb in "Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked"

carb — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:24:01 +0000

Why have you had to avoid the heap? Performance concerns?

New comment by carb in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

carb — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:56:28 +0000

Different people have different levels of internal monologuing or none at all. I don't generally think with words in sentences in my head, but many people I know do.

New comment by carb in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

carb — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:07:54 +0000

I've found better results when I treat LLMs like you would treat little kids. Don't tell them what NOT to do, tell them what TO do.

Say "keep your hands at your side, it's hot" and not "don't touch the stove, it's hot". If you say the latter, most kids touch the stove.

New comment by carb in "A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells"

carb — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:54:08 +0000

I liked it fwiw! Fun to play and solve. Thanks!

New comment by carb in "Goodbye Dockerfile, Hello Bazel: Doubling Our CI Speed"

carb — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:51:18 +0000

did migrating to bazel require specialized expertise or were teams able to pick it up quickly?

New comment by carb in "Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

carb — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:28:15 +0000

That's how I feel about keyboard tilts away from a full pronation/flat and towards a neutral position. Once I switched to having a rotated split keyboard, my forearms and wrists felt incredible, and I hadn't even considered them uncomfortable before.

New comment by carb in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

carb — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:57:08 +0000

Yes that's true they can roam outside, but roaming outside does not massively increase their chance of picking up bird flu.

For the same reason that the main guidance during COVID was "be outside if with other people" and not "stay inside if with other people".

New comment by carb in "Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase"

carb — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:44:28 +0000

There was a price increase, but there was also an explicit elevation of Disney+ from a "Pressure Target" to a "Priority Target" of the BDS movement last December.[1]

I know anecdotally dozens of people, including myself, who have made the sometimes difficult decision to cancel Disney+ subscriptions to avoid crossing the picket line. I haven't heard anyone making a fuss about the price increase, specifically.

[1]: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott

New comment by carb in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

carb — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:15:36 +0000

That's true when you're talking about foxes and wolves, but not if you're talking about an airborne flu.

Rows of adjacent cages keeping groups of chickens in close proximity with each other with shared air.

New comment by carb in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

carb — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 08:49:12 +0000

Ah I don't run any LSPs so that's fair.

Retaining positions, buffers, and edit history between sessions is all straightforward in vanilla vim though. Unless you run an autolinter or formatter that edits your target file and wipes the history.

New comment by carb in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

carb — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 08:45:05 +0000

That's true for me too but usually my tabs and windows are managed one level higher, by the terminal emulator, or I'm opening vim with -o/-O to open a split window directly.

New comment by carb in "Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port"

carb — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 08:39:54 +0000

It's certainly a real term. The context is often student athletes that intentionally didn't play their sport for a season (called redshirting) to maintain their 4-year eligibility so that they can stay for a fifth year and compete in their sport.

New comment by carb in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

carb — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:19:49 +0000

What editor state are you losing when you leave vim?

I run a pretty light vanilla vimrc (60 lines maybe) and with two lines you can enable vim undofiles and returning the cursor to the last location upom reopening a file. For me, quitting vim is functionally equivalent to ^Z?

New comment by carb in "UI is hell: four-function calculators"

carb — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:53:55 +0000

If anyone else was curious about the final image and the `x÷` button: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/sharp_el-8.html

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> The keyboard on this calculator has the number of keys reduced to the minimum by the use of only three function keys, including a combined "x÷" key.

> Here, pressing "x÷" gives the multiplication function if "+=" is subsequently pressed to give the answer, and gives the division function if "-=" is subsequently pressed to give the answer, so:

> 4 x÷ 2 += gives the answer 8.

> 4 x÷ 2 -= gives the answer 2.