Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 33

@arclight @benc Mercurial had a better UI, easier to learn for those coming from CVS and Subversion.

Linus designed git from the bottom up, exposing internal details and jargon at the UI level.

But... hg always felt sluggish to me, particularly on large repositories. That's probably why it won in the long term.

Had Mercurial been rewritten in C or C++ earlier, paying more attention to performance and scalability, it would have been the clear winner.

@ciram @letsencrypt Would #Zcash have the same privacy properties? I never used #monero and I'm patiently waiting for #Ethereum to add zk-SNARK transactions in some future upgrade.

@ciram @letsencrypt They do accept #cryptocurrency donations via Giving Block, but #monero is conspicuously absent from the long list of supported currencies:
https://thegivingblock.com/donate/internet-security-research-group/

@RetroWizzard I love those multiplayer car racing games. My favorite was SEGA Rally, but it's hard to find these days.

@hroncok @adamw Thanks, both of you!

@benoit Indeed, they do:
https://xkcd.com/231/

@profoundlynerdy Next time I visit my mom in Italy I'll check if any of my old C64 tapes are still readable.

I coded a Scott Adams-style adventure with PETSCII artwork... and a football manager game... both left in an unfinished and unplayable state, of course!

Installing AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on the Sam440ep :amiga:

#amiga #powerpc #retrocomputing

@adamw Is this due to the .pyc file format not making backwards compatibility guarantees?

@adamw Hey I'm not pissed or anything, just curious 🙂

@adamw btw, this is still broken:

Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides python(abi) = 3.11 needed by python3-lsp-server-1.4.1-3.fc37.noarch

And why would a noarch package need to depend on an ABI??

@adamw 6.5.0-rc1 just came out, I'll try rebooting into it...

@arclight @benc I agree with the statement that Visual Source Safe was absolutely the worst VCS ever invented.

My customers used to do release management by moving "pins" on individual file revisions they wanted to be in a certain release: "pick foo.cpp version 7 and config.ini version 13" 🤦♀️

The action of moving a pin wasn't itself version-controlled or even logged 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️

"DOGS MAKE PEOPLE HUMAN"

Spotted in a toilet of a restaurant in Manhattan, #NewYork.

@jomo #BingChat is the most concise, and not as deranged as it's usually portrayed:

@jomo #Bard required a followup prompt to actually define it, and got it more or less right, if you don't mind the rambling:

@jomo So let's ask some LLMs! 👍

#GPT4 gets it right away:

@jomo I know what you mean, but I'm struggling to come up with a good definition for "settling" in this context.

How to use the #Japanese verb もらう (morau), roughly meaning "to receive" or "to take".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUY0--Pdl3I

@michael It's not clear to me how long it will take for the #WebGPU spec to get finalized:

https://www.w3.org/standards/history/webgpu/