Hacker News: qwerty2000

New comment by qwerty2000 in "Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please"

qwerty2000 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:02:48 +0000

Just because it is expressed in YAML doesn't make YAML the party to blame here. I would say one of the main concerns I have with anything in GitHub Actions related to the word "merge" has to do with identifying the last commit for a merge, not merging of objects in YAML.

If you have two workflows... one to handle a PR creation/update and another to address the merge operation, it is like pulling teeth to get the final commit properly identified so you can grab any uploaded artifacts from the PR workflow.

New comment by qwerty2000 in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

qwerty2000 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:56:14 +0000

Not a very good argument. Yes, more bytes in situations where we’ve been constrained would have relieved the constraint… but it would eventually come. Even IP addresses… we don’t need an IP per person… IPv6 will be IPs for every device… multiple even… including an interplanetary network.

New comment by qwerty2000 in "Surprise in the plant family: The potato is the daughter of the tomato"

qwerty2000 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 01:03:59 +0000

How is this a surprise? Potatoes produce fruit that looks like a tomato.

New comment by qwerty2000 in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

qwerty2000 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:50:37 +0000

Yeah... we definitely don't get what we want.