Daily Archives: 2020-01-06

Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Git is a tool with heinous ergonomics, unreasonably over-complicated for the vast majority of use cases, terrible at co-versioned binary data, I will be very sad if it's ubiquity halts progress on versioning systems that actually suit use cases for projects other than things that look like the Linux kernel.
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AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I was chatting recently about AMD's long-term utter failure to address the mobile space. Apparently this is their attempt. It's not a massive win, but unlike the Turion generation, it's credible.
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For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

Source: Hacker News

Article note: 50 years of technological development, dedicated entirely to rent-seeking behavior. It's such a good microcosm of the state of things.
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