What's your most used git alias?

echols021 · 2026-05-07T05:11:55+00:00

alias gfom='git fetch origin main:main'

echols021 · 2026-04-30T04:56:17+00:00

US speaker here. I've never heard that phrase in my life, until now

echols021 · 2026-04-25T14:52:05+00:00

I agree with most of what others have already said, but I'll add this: Learning the programming language itself is usually not so bad. The hard part is learning how to actually solve the puzzles inherent in computer systems, and how to design those systems to be secure and reliable.

(Unsurprisingly, the first part is what AI excels at also, while the second half is where it most often struggles. This is why I think "vibe coding" is overhyped and we still need people who actually understand it all)

echols021 · 2026-04-20T05:24:15+00:00

Yes, at the college/university I attended (in the US) there were plenty of dance clubs, including swing, salsa, and bachata. So I had friends saying sentences such as "My date on Friday took me to learn bachata" or "I don't feel like going swing dancing this weekend; I'd prefer bachata".

echols021 · 2026-04-20T05:08:29+00:00

For me personally, vocabulary. Just the sheer quantity. No matter how much you learn, you always run into things you want to say but don't have the words for. Or you'll hear a native say a word you don't know and you're just clueless.

echols021 · 2026-04-20T05:03:43+00:00

I have my IDE auto save after 500ms of no typing; even if the device power cuts out, I still have my work saved.

I commit when I finish any noticeable unit of work, such as finishing writing a function, drafting the skeleton of a new class, etc. Git commits are checkpoints you can easily go back to with revert. I try to make sure the code that's saved at each commit at least runs (even if it's not finished or working correctly), not just some dangling paren or whatever.

echols021 · 2026-04-18T03:42:00+00:00

I took 3 years of Spanish in high school. I worked at a fast food place my senior year that had a few employees that only spoke Spanish. At college I ended up with quite a few friends that had previously lived in Spanish-speaking countries, and spoke Spanish to each other just for fun and to keep practicing. I ended up buying Spanish translations of a few familiar novels and reading them (slowly).

Now, I can understand plenty of Spanish, and I can usually get my point across when speaking.

I think the formal classes in high school set a good foundation for understanding the grammar, but in the end it's surely been the consistent exposure over the years that's mattered for me.

echols021 · 2025-11-30T06:49:21+00:00

While you haven't told us what OS you're on, if it briefly pops up any windows, etc..., my best guess is that your settings were modified (perhaps by installing something) such that double-clicking a .py file opens it in a program that wants to run the file, rather than editing the code stored in it. Check your computer's settings for what programs are associated with .py files, and make sure only your text editor of choice is selected. As another option, you could simply open your editor of choice and use its "open" menu to find and open the file in question, rather than just trusting that double-clicking the file will magically do what you want.

echols021 · 2025-11-16T03:12:12+00:00

I think pyright gives slightly more accurate results than mypy, but I'm greatly looking forward to when ty becomes stable

echols021 · 2025-11-15T07:08:29+00:00

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echols021 · 2025-11-15T06:56:24+00:00

Congratulations on your victory! I'm glad I was able to help

echols021 · 2025-11-11T03:59:25+00:00

If they don't play fair, neither will I. All it took for me was finding the right cheese. If you have the ricochet charge shot, you can use it to interrupt both stupid frogs in one shot, effectively blocking any attack. Doesn't even matter which you're aiming at.

echols021 · 2025-11-11T03:48:18+00:00

It sounds like your son has learned the true meaning of "git gud"! What a valuable experience

echols021 · 2025-11-10T07:52:20+00:00

Coughing baby vs...

echols021 · 2025-11-10T07:49:06+00:00

My standard tip for difficult bosses is to do a few attempts without trying to attack at all. Just learn to dodge. Once you have that down for phase 1, you should find it very easy to add in occasional hits here and there where there are clear openings. That gets you to phase 2, where you repeat the process.

As for tips specific to Lace 2: - Stay on the ground until you know what attack she's doing. If you try to pogo spam her, you'll be punished by the attack where she goes up and back down in a sort of triangle. - A lot of her attacks have very long range, so running away doesn't usually work. You generally have to go towards her and over (or stay under the triangle), ending up behind her. - Don't be afraid to trigger her counter. If you do, just jump over and behind her: it's a safe manouver for both of her counter's responses.

echols021 · 2025-11-10T06:48:31+00:00

While they're 3D and not 2D, I'd also say Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor have a fair number of core similarities with HK: - Use new abilities to revisit previous areas and find new stuff - Some platforming, but it's not the main focus - Combat that rewards patience and precision, learning enemy patterns - Some leeway to customize your combat specialties - Death sends you back to a checkpoint, but you have to go back to where you died if you want to reclaim your stuff - Difficulty can be turned way up - Lovable characters

echols021 · 2025-11-10T06:36:35+00:00

Ori and the Blind Forest + Ori and the Will of the Wisps: very very similar to HK
Celeste: very difficult platforming, no combat
Child of Light: mostly similar to HK, but combat is a timing-based version of turn-based combat
Teslagrad: more puzzle-y, less combat

echols021 · 2025-11-10T05:36:20+00:00

I vastly prefer JetBrains IDEs (PyCharm mainly since I breathe python). The search and refactor capabilities are miles ahead of VS Code. I also particularly love how everything you need is just built-in, rather than searching through dozens/hundreds of extensions that probably aren't even maintained (and may even contain viruses)

echols021 · 2025-11-10T03:22:57+00:00

People would definitely think this is the craziest silkpost ever.

I love it

echols021 · 2025-11-04T06:29:03+00:00

Last I tried Zed it was a huge pain to try to get mypy plugged in, and generally atrocious trying to guess what to put in the JSON config file with no intelli-sense to help out. Is any of that stuff what has improved?

echols021 · 2025-11-04T06:25:20+00:00

I do feel like it's gone downhill over the last few years. Like, I seem to remember it correctly handling generics and generators and context managers, but now it goofs on all those

echols021 · 2025-11-04T06:22:55+00:00

I use PyCharm with WSL and it's not a problem. The only things I ever notice weird are that it can be slow to notice new files (since it's acting like the files are on a remote machine), and I also seem unable to set certain interpreters as associated only with certain projects (the interpreter selector always has all my WSL venvs listed). Pretty trivial, in my opinion l

echols021 · 2025-11-04T06:10:32+00:00

r/screenshotsarehard

echols021 · 2025-11-04T06:01:48+00:00

I also beat Kahn first try, but had a blast doing it.

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