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crystalwalrus@programming.devto
Programming@programming.dev•Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager?
9·24 days agolowers barriers to adoption of the language and its ecosystem
crystalwalrus@programming.devto
FreeCAD@lemmy.ml•What's the best way to sketch a shape like this outline?
4·1 month agoPicture - darktable lens correction - inkscape - import bitmap - trace bitmap - cleanup in inkscape - freecad svg import - symmetrize it. Most of those steps will require manual tweaking.
crystalwalrus@programming.devto
Programming@programming.dev•In defense of not understanding your codebase
13·2 months agoTwo things: this is phrased as if each change by another developer ruins your theory of the codebase. This is an oversimplification. Changes to the core engine of the codebase can change the theory of the product but many changes are cross cutting concerns. This is why new developers on large codebases are commonly assigned integration work. You develop a theory with a real lower stakes output.
Second the llm thing. Putting aside hallucinations you could get a start of a theory from an llm but you’ve conditioned yourself to be reliant on the llm. To put things in similar terms of tech job stuff like this article does: prior to llms most teams had at least one SME on the whole codebase. They’d get bombarded with questions and if you had any politeness you wouldn’t bother them with every single question about the code or product as a whole. Occasionally you would need to but there was a natural social forcing function to figure stuff out on your own. Llms are the complete opposite: they tell you “good question” “good insight” etc. brains like short cuts so now there is no forcing function.
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crystalwalrus@programming.devto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg?
14·2 months agoLike many other social media sites it’s partially network effects.
Only had dialup when hedgehog was released and could not for the life of me figure out how to enable PPP
crystalwalrus@programming.devto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?
6·1 year agoWhat’s stopping people from doing that today is network effects. There are enough differences today between bsd coreutils and gnu coreutils that substituting one for the other doesn’t work out of the box.
The chain of events that would cause a problem are: due to Ubuntu popularity rust MIT core utils overtakes gnu coreutils and people drop support for gnu coreutils, then a large and we’ll funded corporate entity could privately fork rust coreutils and lock people in.


Software raid 0 with btrfs will make the two drives one but I have no idea how that works if you are still going to have separate encryption keys and params for the second physical drive. If they have the same encryption it should be possible to have the device mapper write to the software raid.