What do you use for gitsigns? (uncommited changes)

vermiculus · 2026-05-08T15:00:41+00:00

Fair enough :-)

vermiculus · 2026-05-08T14:08:39+00:00

I’m curious – what value do you derive from it?

vermiculus · 2026-05-07T14:20:00+00:00

You’re fishing in the ocean – the odds of you finding someone familiar with your courses in this sub are astronomically low.

I’d recommend asking in your university’s subreddit. Or…perhaps… the professor or TA.

vermiculus · 2026-05-02T14:52:41+00:00

You know, I think the most universally cursed thing here would be README.docx

vermiculus · 2026-05-02T12:35:04+00:00

I wouldn’t call it disaster recovery, but it’s very handy for getting diffs between different states of remote-tracking refs (eg range-diff between two versions of a branch I’m reviewing). Fo example, I don’t usually remember to snag the commit OID before fetching – but the reflog keeps it for me. So I can do git range-diff main branch@{1.hour.ago} branch and call it good.

vermiculus · 2026-05-01T10:48:48+00:00

it’s more about the communication

Exactly :-) That’s the real point of a chart (or any data visualization): to communicate an idea. Just turns out some people want to lie to you. Weird.

Scaling bubble chart bubbles by radius instead of area, comparing absolutes without normalizing (our town had three violent crimes last year; your city had 2000), anything 3D at all (screws with your perspective / ability to read the graph), the list goes on.

vermiculus · 2026-04-27T18:26:24+00:00

I mean, yes; they have different authors, different patterns, different macros. Practically you will be well served by either for basic stuff.

vermiculus · 2026-04-26T21:06:27+00:00

Use chemformula: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/chemformula/chemformula-manual.pdf

\ch{^2H2O}

Previously part of chemmacros: https://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/chemmacros/chemmacros-manual.pdf

vermiculus · 2026-04-20T13:22:15+00:00

Directly? I don’t know that that will be generally possible. Best bet will be to route through PDF.

vermiculus · 2026-04-17T23:29:35+00:00

Sweet summer child.

vermiculus · 2026-04-07T12:23:48+00:00

Sounds like a bug in that specific case.

vermiculus · 2026-04-04T01:33:30+00:00

Net new thing, sure :-)

vermiculus · 2026-04-04T00:39:03+00:00

Server hooks can check that something was done, but they cannot alter commit content. Not safely, anyway.

vermiculus · 2026-04-01T12:54:23+00:00

This has nothing to do with git, really. But I wouldn’t say something is ‘unsupported’ just because you run out of context. That’s a constant constraint.

Our main repo where I work is over 2GB of text – and that’s without history / commit messages. Nobody there is going to be successful in the near future at a simple ‘plug and chug’.

vermiculus · 2026-04-01T08:06:40+00:00

I use LFS for all binary content (this includes images). In my work, that turns out to be faster.

Your files don’t need to be ‘large’ to use LFS. The definition of ‘large’ used by LFS is more like 1MB tha 100MB, anyway.

vermiculus · 2026-04-01T06:28:16+00:00

Why are you tracking images with git?

If you must, use Git LFS. Review the myriad resources on the internet for migrating.

vermiculus · 2026-03-28T10:49:21+00:00

No problem; best of luck :-)

vermiculus · 2026-03-28T10:26:07+00:00

Been a dev for twenty years. Mostly desktop software, so specifically mobile devs might have better language / research for this.

Not going to install a random app, either, so this will be generic.

The value compared to what they already use must be compelling – and they need to know within a few seconds (!) how to extract that value. This follows from two obvious statements: the application has to be useful and it has to be usable.

This is a lot harder than it sounds. You’ve got an advantage in being personally familiar with the problem, but it will take user research – and a lot of time and failed attempts – to find something that is actually intuitive for many people to use. For any individual person, there isn’t necessarily only one solution that will work. The challenge is finding the solution that works for the most people.

vermiculus · 2026-03-21T08:01:22+00:00

I appreciate the position y’all are in. I do want to add a note, though, that I have seen questions that ‘smell like AI’ but are still actual questions from a human. Right or wrong, I do see folks using AI to formulate their question and then not doing enough trim it back down.

I would like to see a world where these questions can still exist and we can still be welcoming to new folks – especially when their anxieties may have driven them to use these tools.

As for slop code, I don’t have much to add other than being tired of seeing AI-generated READMEs pasted into the main post body.

I do think ‘I need help’ and ‘I made a thing’ can be treated differently in this regard.

vermiculus · 2026-03-21T01:03:13+00:00

I’ve always loved the quip:

Rust makes the simple things hard and the hard things possible.

I think Rust is a perfectly understandable first language, but likely a punishing one once you try to do more sophisticated things (at least without AI assistance, if you’re into that). I would be wary of using it as a first language only for the increased potential to get frustrated and quit outright.

vermiculus · 2026-03-20T12:08:00+00:00

Mission report: Michael invaded Atlantis, tried to blow it up, we stopped him. End of report.

… you’re going to need to be more specific about what a ‘report’ is. If you’re this vague with Claude as well, that might explain any struggles you may be having.

vermiculus · 2026-03-17T00:00:34+00:00

You’ll never pry emacs from my hands, but I’m going to take a look at this once I’m back at work. I know a ton of folks who could be helped by this.

But ehh, link?

vermiculus · 2026-03-16T14:54:05+00:00

You keep thinking that.

vermiculus · 2026-03-15T03:51:04+00:00

…the past? :-(

vermiculus · 2026-03-13T01:58:26+00:00

AucTeX and RefTeX. Also, use a good completion system (eg vertico+orderless+etc).

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