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  1. Comment on Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014) in ~comp

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    I personally work with both monorepos and split repos. It's nice (especially in a company setting) because: You can trivially link to pretty much anything, and pretty much anything can trivially...

    I personally work with both monorepos and split repos.

    It's nice (especially in a company setting) because:

    • You can trivially link to pretty much anything, and pretty much anything can trivially link to you
    • A single version of dependencies is used across everything, if there's an vuln, you only need to patch it once
    • There's no overhead to starting to work on another part of the monorepo, just open the files
    • Org-wide refactors is made much easier
    • Tooling such as code search, CI metrics, etc are much easier to implement across the org

    It's annoying because:

    • All your existing tooling will break due to the size and you'll have to rewrite it
    • People can break your code without you changing anything (unless you have good tests)
    • It's huge and everything will (in general) be much slower
    • Splitting things off later will make you hate life
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  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Hmm, if you follow that train of thought, isn't it a good idea to astroturf in any situation? IMO astroturfing makes sense if your reputation is in tatters already, and you need to build it up. In...

    Perhaps their reasoning to astroturf right now is because they feel they have good PR on their side.

    Hmm, if you follow that train of thought, isn't it a good idea to astroturf in any situation? IMO astroturfing makes sense if your reputation is in tatters already, and you need to build it up. In PIA's case, it makes much more sense to increase funding for their existing PR programs.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    I don't think PIA would do this, they do quite a lot of donations to save certain FOSS projects so they have quite a lot of good PR at the moment. There's no reason for them to risk getting caught...

    I don't think PIA would do this, they do quite a lot of donations to save certain FOSS projects so they have quite a lot of good PR at the moment. There's no reason for them to risk getting caught astroturfing at this point.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Show off your Tasker profiles! in ~talk

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    I created a tasker script to automatically press "accept" on the Duo "Two Factor" Authentication that I'm forced to use. It's saved me a lot of time and headache.

    I created a tasker script to automatically press "accept" on the Duo "Two Factor" Authentication that I'm forced to use. It's saved me a lot of time and headache.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Looking to chat? I've created an (unofficial) Tildes community Matrix room! in ~tildes

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    Really? This is the first that I've heard of it. Where is the place to register using an email? (do you have more detailed instructions)? https://web.telegram.org/#/login seems to only have a...

    Really? This is the first that I've heard of it. Where is the place to register using an email? (do you have more detailed instructions)?

    https://web.telegram.org/#/login seems to only have a phone number box as does the android app.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Looking to chat? I've created an (unofficial) Tildes community Matrix room! in ~tildes

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    I'm personally not a fan of Telegram as I don't have a phone number (and thus I cannot use it) and of course the security issues it has, despite being catered towards privacy focused users. More...

    I'm personally not a fan of Telegram as I don't have a phone number (and thus I cannot use it) and of course the security issues it has, despite being catered towards privacy focused users.

    More alternatives is always good though :)

    6 votes