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"Who needs git when [..]"

No matter how that sentence ends, I weep for our industry.





Reminds me of a colleague back in the day who would force push to main and just leave a "YOLO" comment in the commit.

At my last job, whenever a commit wouldn't build, we would blast it into a slack channel with an alert that included the comment and the name of the developer.

At one job, we had a garish chicken hat that lived in your office if you were the last one to break the build.

This was in the days before automated CI, so a broken commit meant that someone wasn't running the required tests.


We used to have a git plugin that snaps a picture on every push, which accompanied the "alert". Was fun.

Ah yes. Public shaming. The “beatings will continue until morale improves” strategy of code development. Next time, you may want to suggest an evergreen strategy where commits are tested before they’re merged.

‘Works on my local’

No. Evergreen means CI tests your commit, not relying on individuals to be doing before pushing.

It's mind-blowing to me that any multi-user git repo is set up to allow pushes to main at all.

It was years ago at a small outfit

what a chad

It’s just a joke setup for a funny story

That's nothing. Compare https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1956583412203958733 :

"The phone/computer will just become an edge node for AI, directly rendering pixels with no real operating system or apps in the traditional sense."


What's ridiculous is that second paragraph:

"There isn’t enough bandwidth to transmit video to all devices from the servers and there won’t always be good connectivity, so there still needs to be significant client-side AI compute."

So no real operating system, except an AI which operates the whole computer including all inputs and outputs? I feel like there's a word for that.



What's the word? "Robot?"

Well, if the AI controls the computer and is how the user interacts with it, I was going to use "Operating System" myself. But that's two words, my bad.

Operating Systems exist to manage access to resources - which requires a very different sort of training than user interface AI's.

Computer chips already use ai/machine learning to guess what the next instructions are going to be. You could have the kernel do similar guessing.

But I don't think those AI's would be the same ones that write love letters.

I think what we'll see is LLM's for people facing things, and more primitive machine learning for resource management (we already have it).

Sorry, I'm partially responding you and partially to this thread in general.


I am just speechless.

I would expect this from a 3rd grader for sure, my friend's sister's book had a photo of ubuntu and windows and operating systems and it won't take me more than 5 minutes to a literal toddler who knows about operating systems from a very high level to explain to them after they know about operating system to teach them why this thing that elon said was the dumbest thing anyone ever said, period.

Is this what free market capitalism does when people at the top are completely incapable of forming basic thoughts that can make sense and not be a logical paradox?

I am thinking more and more after I read your post that maybe these guys won't really miss out on a few billion $ of taxes and other things, nothing can fix the holes in their lives.

Now it makes sense why we have a system which has failed. Why capitalism feels so heartless. So ruthless. Its run by people who don't have a heart or well in this case a brain as well

https://gravitypayments.com/the-gravity-70k-min/ This comes to my mind more and more, why can't companies pay their workers not what they think they can get away with but rather what they think is fair. Why can companies be morally bad for their workers and that's okay and why are people like these running such companies who can't equate 1+1 in the name of AI.


Sounds like the Sun Ray thin client, built by Sun Microsystems in 1999. This was similar to the earlier graphical X terminals, which were reminiscent of mainframe terminals in the 1960s. It's the "wheel of reincarnation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray


Super cool! What I am wondering is if there is any interest in lets say having a smartphone that has this tech(see my other comment wishing for a open source phone somewhere on hackernews or the internet really)

So lets say we can just have a really lightweight customizable smartphone which just connects over wifi or wire to something like raspberry pi or any really lightweight/small servers which you can carry around and installing waydroid on it could make a really pleasant device and everything could be completely open source and you can make things modular if you want...

Like, maybe some features like music/basic terminal and some other things can be seen from the device too via linux x and anything else like running android apps calls up the server which you can carry around in a backpack with a powerbank

If I really wanted to make it extremely ideal, the device can have a way of plugging another power bank and then removing the first powerbank while still running the system so that it doesn't shut down and you literally got a genuinely fascinating system that is infinitely modular.

Isn't this sort of what stadia was? But just targeted more for gaming side since Games requires gpu's which are kinda expensive...

What are your thoughts? I know its nothing much but I just want a phone which works for 90% of tasks which lets be honest could be done through a really tiny linux or sun ray as well and well if you need something like an android app running, be prepared for a raspberry pi with a cheap battery running in your pocket. Definitely better than creating systems of mass surveillance but my only nitpick of my own idea would be that it may be hard to secure the communication aspect of it if you use something like wifi but I am pretty sure that we can find the perfect communication method too and it shouldn't be thaaat big of a deal with some modifications right?


I've been wanting to do that. I'm not sure of the status of remote display forwarding for wayland, but worst case you can run postmarketos on your device, then `ssh -X yourhost weston` to start a weston compositor which displays over X, and then run waydroid inside there.

The bulkiness of having a powerbank + rpi with you could get a little challenging to deal with


Hey I like your approach too but it seems that there are some subtle differences in our approaches

I mean that I take a screen and a esp32 or any microcontroller like raspberry pi and create a modular phone for just enough to boot from a device in my backpack lets say

And what you are saying is to take an already working phone and then running postmarketos on it to then connect to a host

Theoretically... (yes?) Postmarketos is a linux but their support is finnicky from what I know... like it scares me or makes me think I need a really specific phone which might cost a lot of sorts or comparatively more than say my modular approach

Everything else sure, they are the same.

I believe that the microcontroller approach isntead of postmarketos can be better because of more freedom of the amount of Os supported but that isn't that big of a deal

just searched and somebody has created something very similar to my ideal https://hackaday.com/2023/08/03/open-source-cell-phone-based...

just plug in a ssh server from raspberry pi of sorts and a wifi card to connect them of sorts :)

Now If you are wanting to do it, Do you want to contribute together? I will send you a mail after which we can talk on something like signal or feel free to message me on signal and anything else really!

If I can be honest, I want to hack around with my kaechoda 100 which worked with 32 mb... like it never lagged in 32 mb and my 1 gig android stutters and I definitely want to figure out what OS does kaechoda use that its so so fast and actually good-enough as well

Like anyways, I will message ya and if anybody is an expert in embedded, please also contact me if someone else is also interested like you! I genuinely want to make this a reality and write more about it :p

have a nice day and I will send you a mail to your gmail!


I usually stay off X. The number of sycophants in that thread is alarming.

I don't want "apps on demand" that change when the AI training gets updated, and now the AI infers differently than yesterday - I want an app the bank vetted and verified.


yes yes yes we'll just invent the world from whole cloth at 60 fps

Read the article, the author is definitely in favor of using git.

Really? After teaching/mentoring new devs and interns for the last two years at my job I definitely think there's plenty of space and opportunity for improvements on version control systems over git, large files and repos being one thing but primarily on user friendliness and accessibility where even existing ones like mercurial do a much nicer job in many ways.

Our industry's version of Betteridge's law of headlines.



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