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Julia Evans profile picture
are there any nice Git merge conflict resolution tools that work in the terminal? when i look at the text merge conflict I can never remember which code is which, and I really want to see them side by side

it feels like someone must have written some kind of nice tool in Rust
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Kim van Wyk · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqupkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xs6ux373 this has looked good in screenshots and discussions from the author, but I haven't personally used it to be able to confirm it will meet your need: https://github.com/darrenburns/dv
Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire: · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqupkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xs6ux373 That's a decent idea. I'd still have to buy a rack, but it'd work for now. Thanks!
Julia Evans profile picture
just used memray to find out where my python program was allocating memory and was super impressed by how easy it was to use https://github.com/bloomberg/memray

the steps were just:

1. `memray run python3 my_program.py`
2. copy and paste the snippet it prints out ("memray flamegraph memray-manage.py.37954.bin") to generate a flamegraph
3. open the html flamegraph in my browser
penguin42 · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqupkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xs6ux373 Of course, people should use what they want - but it's the same that people who are us...
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@nprofile1q... personally I sometimes see LLM use that the LLM user says is fine but that does not feel fine to me (like it's not something I would be comfortable doing)

and also sometimes I use an LLM in a way that I think is fine but then it turns out to not be as ok as I thought

I'm not shouting at anyone about it but I guess I understand the skepticism and I feel like we don't have a good shared understanding of what it means to "take care"
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penguin42 · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqupkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xs6ux373 Sure; we're still figuring that out; and there's a big continuum, of what people feel happy with doing with it. But the way to figure it out is for people to share experiences of what w...
penguin42 · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqupkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xs6ux373 Of course, people should use what they want - but it's the same that people who are using LLMs and finding them useful being shouted down by people who don't understand they can be used ...
Julia Evans profile picture
something I'm finding frustrating recently is

a) I feel like LLMs have helped me learn some programming things that were hard for me to learn previously
b) I'm tired of LLMs being relentlessly pushed on us and do not want to participate in that by talking about my positive experiences
c) there are also lots of hazards associated with using LLMs to generate code that are not that easy to avoid
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penguin42 · 6w
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Julia Evans profile picture
sometimes i find it funny that I learned about how inheritance works in object oriented programming in university when really the practice I've settled on for myself is "never implement code sharing with inheritance" which would have been a lot shorter

(i feel like there's a whole story about the history of inheritance out there that could be very interesting to read though)
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Shane Celis · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqupkp7fd7rc3lrjg23r8gy0wc723vze7mxlx5984ut6zurjzpf5xs6ux373 For anyone who wants to hear the history and arguments against OO, please see Casey Muratori's talk. It's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI
Julia Evans profile picture
just noticed "how integers and floats work" came out 3 years ago today

originally this this was a zine about "how computers represent data in binary" (what's little endian? big endian? what's struct alignment? why do 32 bit integers cause so many problems? how do we represent strings?) but we ended up running out of space after we explained integers and floats so never got to struct alignment and null-terminated strings :)

get it here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats/

Julia Evans profile picture
i've been trying out jj and one thing I struggle with is that my workspace feels very... messy? In Git often I have 20 semi-abandoned branches that I might come back to later in 6 months if I want to.

but in jj I don't know how to mark a change as "I don't need you to show this to me in `jj log` but I also don't want to abandon it"

so far i've been using jj on a project for short bursts if I need to rebase a lot and then I go back to Git

(please only suggestions of what you personally do)
Julia Evans profile picture
I've started using ** in Fish instead of find & xargs and I really love it, instead of writing `find . -name '*.py' | xargs wc -l` I can just write `wc -l **.py`

it hasn't 100% replaced `find` for me but I'm definitely using xargs way less than I used to