65 sats \ 0 replies \ @_redacted 20 Aug 2023 \ on: How do you book airlines and hotels? meta
[With any site] Find who has the most direct method of travel. Book directly through end-provider site
[With preferred hotel network] Find which hotels are in network and near where I need to be. Book directly through end-provider site.
Service directly though the end provider has been much better overall (IMO) when there is a problem. I don't use AirBnB or similar as the last thing I want is shitty human reps I've had to deal with in the past. In rewards-network bookings tend to drop 10% or so vs list prices, with some fees waved so prices haven't been a decided factor to use a 3rd party.
Won't do Spirit/low cost flying unless it's an overnight thing though and only need a backpack.
^ for when I get to decide. If it's paid for as part of a contract I'm slightly more flexible. Business travel has had more flexibility on cost so can also swing some extra benefits like traveling by train instead of flying.
Rewards feel good due to the recent ads but if/when there aren't ads I'd rather see some tempering of
recent posts vs any changes for being early in zapping. Recent posts seem to be very sat-seeking "throw it at the wall and see what sticks". Makes sense for rewarding mods to sort through it but tough if the rewards drop but post volume increases.Humans are bad machines and the human should set the policy instead via automation.
Code formatters are a great case for just having a machine do it vs letting humans fight in PRs. Have a machine format code, make a status check to prevent bad cases getting through, then require the check to pass before merging.
Too much life has been wasted on debating code formatting in PRs.
Oh, that looks similar to
git log --graph moreBranch protection rules, yo!
Github has ... shitty automation around policies to enforce for an org. The rules are wonderfully powerful and while well documented for each option, don't give a good view on how to combine them for a nice safe way to work on code.
Are you collaborating on a branch/pr? All pushing to a mainline branch?
(asking as I normally do cicd automation and like knowing more about how folks work)
Are you looking at the history for your local history or do you pull down the PR ref and look through there?
Corner cases are were code reviews are really helpful! It's taken many years to separate "you should have done it how I would have done it" from "this code is ok to be merged". It's helpful to think "does this pr improve the code overall".
Bugs will happen. Keeping the critical sats-related code separate from the rest, + CODEOWNERS will keep the critical sections safer while letting the rest change more quickly.
How does tig compare to blame view it github? What makes you pick that?
I love love love blame when trying to figure out wtf happened with code. Hampered mostly by ... could-be-improved commit messages / history.
If you set a "Requires approval" + "Require review from Code Owners" in branch protection, then drafts let you collect your thoughts before publishing them and give security/confidence that things won't be merged prematurely. You can also comment (or not) before approving, and with CODEOWNERS can set where you need to be involved vs someone else.
Overall having comments in a not-github way has a noticeable increase in difficulty for the general-coding public.
It's worth trying to do things more openly/in-github when possible (IMO). Github is quite opinionated though and does take time to adapt workflow to the github-way.
There are a bunch of branch protection rules that can be combined depending on how much you want to block merging before the review is "finished".
With decade+ on github I’d say that while it doesn’t give you private notes, tagging a line/range with an appropriate comment might work. I’d normally leave something like “this makes sense but doesn’t feel right for some reason and I’d like to think more before approving”.
Are you open to a non-GitHub workflow overall or looking for things in addition to GitHub?
I’ve heard of bitcoin before.
Unfortunately the incorrect belief that fission is unsafe holds it back for the general public. Maybe that will change. Unfinished (so maybe science fiction?) later gen fission reactors can be wonderful, the tide might change where that could be viable.
Stable, scalable fusion power systems. Humanity grows when able to access new sources of energy. Safe, “limitless” power could help lift billions of people out of poverty. It’s always a decade away though, so maybe near future!
Exactly! A step! Like onboarding folks! Like giving them access to the benefits of bitcoin in a way they might understand and use
How does someone go from 100% fiat to 100% bitcoin without mixing? At some point you need to drop the fiat, mixing it with someone who deals with both. At some point people pay taxes in fiat, mixing your btc with someone who is dealing with both.
It’s a shitty half-step, but likely an easier on boarding process for folks who dgaf about bitcoin but can be sold on faster, cheaper ways to move money. While still making Lightning stronger as more adopt it.
Sci-fi-y I've mostly spent time with space opera stuff so recommendations are more focused that way...
Asimov is a classic as well. Foundation series and (outside of that series) The End of Eternity.
Old Man's War and Scalzi's later Interdependency series.
Broken Earth for a not-space-opera and more rock focused series.
Not beginner-y, Imperial Radch is really interesting.
Neal Stephenson can be hit or miss for folks. My favorite is Seveneves but Snow Crash is a classic and Cryptonomicon fits well with crypto folks.
I wouldn't forward sats just for a link I posted to someones content. This post isn't just a link though, it's hotlinking images from a 3rd party. This post could have been a link to Nitter/Twitter post, but it's not.
Hotlinking the content is considered bad practice in the web community. Despite the attribution at the bottom, copying/hotlinking content with only saying "someone else made this" isn't generally fair use.