hornywarthogfart

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[–] hornywarthogfart 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This person obviously has their own way of doing things that works for them and that's great. Some of his views are patently absurd though. This is mostly commenting on his reasons against using a forge and not a comment that he should do something differently.

Trust

100% fair and I think this is the main take-away from the blog post. If you don't trust something, don't use it. Full stop, the post could have ended there and been fine. But then it goes on to say:

You get a workflow imposed on you

You mean like forcing people to use email to submit pull requests to your self-hosted git repos? It doesn't matter what you are doing, if you are working on an open source project you are going to have workflow limitations. This is arguing a fallacy.

In particular, your project automatically gets a bug tracker – and you don’t get a choice about what bug tracker to use, or what it looks like. If you use Gitlab, you’re using the Gitlab bug tracker. The same goes for the pull request / merge request system.

Nothing is forcing you to use these features so just don't use them. Plenty of teams use 3rd party tools but host their code in a forge site. Having options available to you automatically is not the same thing as being forced to use them. If it was, JIRA wouldn't exist because everyone would use github/gitlab/whatever's built-in issue tracking and project management.

The majority of the post comes across as someone who just doesn't like the forge sites and aside from the trust aspect, then spent a bunch of effort trying to create associations and limitations between things that don't exist.

Trust is 100% the main reason not to use a forge site and all the other things cited are superfluous and/or very subjective.

[–] hornywarthogfart 2 points 1 week ago

Wtf even happened? Did they tie the crate to the top of the vehicle and not properly secure it (presumably because there appear to be no secure points)?

[–] hornywarthogfart 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah we aren't anywhere close to the point of states breaking out of the union. Some people will call for it, maybe even a lot. But as soon as they realize what is required that shit will stop immediately. California would quite literally need to go to war with the union to gain that independence regardless of what they voted. So not only would they need to actually vote for it but then they'd have to be willing to go to war and kill and die for that separation and their independence.

As strong as people feel, we aren't even close to that point. Not to mention it would fail; none of the states currently have any hope of competing against the US military machine. Give us a couple hundred more years to really really deteriorate and siphon all value from the people and land and we may be there.

[–] hornywarthogfart 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's hard to truly internalize this but no matter what you think about something and/or how wrong you think someone else is, we are walking through life with imperfect imaginings of what other people think and feel. Trying to make sense of people is even harder than making sense of a person. And we are quite literally incapable of truly knowing what goes on in someone else's head.

Definitely ask these questions but don't drive yourself crazy if people don't make sense. The behaviors and actions we witness in others are only the emergent characteristics of a lot of brain activity that we aren't privy to.

[–] hornywarthogfart 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This post is a journey, not a destination.

[–] hornywarthogfart 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That people are inherently good. This not being the case is reinforced near daily by people's behaviors.

[–] hornywarthogfart 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you, I appreciate this response to my comment. It's given me a wider perspective on the topic in general. It's almost like that arbitrary side is what keeps the wobble in humanity's path which forces us to continue advancing and understanding the world, never becoming complacent.

[–] hornywarthogfart 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like it! No need to know the language or anything. Things collect in basins like rain in bowl-shaped rocks so even without our current level of technology it would still have some indication of saving/gathering.

[–] hornywarthogfart 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People in this thread are throwing around the term "smarter" a lot and I think we should avoid that. How quick you pick things up might be an indicator for being smart but it is only one aspect. The following are generalizations and there are always exceptions so keep that in mind.

What you will find in life is a lot of the people like you describe have generally shallow knowledge of a subject but are capable of ramping up quickly and filling out that deeper knowledge as needed. Meanwhile, the folks who tend to take longer and study more retain more of the knowledge and are more capable at using it without supplemental data or analysis.

It is the difference between knowing an answer and knowing enough to quickly find or intuit the answer.

[–] hornywarthogfart 7 points 1 month ago

Agreed, the comment I was replying to indicated the solution was to just eat something cheaper than eggs while ignoring the fundamental issue of food costs. I was trying to highlight that in my response to that post.

[–] hornywarthogfart 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It feels disingenuous to approach this topic with the view that the eggs are the problem and people need to just eat fewer eggs.

The problem is the food cost increases and the eggs are just one example. It's called nuance and we've lost our ability to understand it. Stop trying to blame consumers for this when it is driven by profits.

[–] hornywarthogfart 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not necessarily. I can see an icon with some randomly-sized vertical lines and think of rain. Or an icon might have a mountain peak silhouhette that generates a random mountain peak. Symbolism doesn't work in the sense we can't just design something but I'd argue we could probably come up with something that is at least indicative of saving to people regardless of language. Obviously the floppy fills that for now but if we could go back and drive the adoption of the icon, what icon could we create that would most indicate saving to people regardless of technology.

(I understand there isn't a correct answer to this, just wanted to read people's thoughts on ideas)

 

We reached the point (some time ago) where the save icon being a floppy disk makes absolutely no sense to anyone born after a certain time. We could choose a more modern media format and use an icon of that instead, but we would run into the same problem once that media becomes obsolete.

What is a good icon for the function of saving something that can easily be understood by anyone regardless of language or the march of time?

Edit: I know it's not really an answerable question and is hard but the question is what would you come up with if tasks to design an icon. Given the constraints of the question, what are your best shots at coming up with something that fills the requirements and why do you thing it would work?

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