today I learned that the dril tweet "I have invented a new kind of wine called beer" refers to a real thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrrh
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do you know what a staggering regression it is to throw out all the optimisation of git-fetch in shrinking the volume of data you need to download and doing this "download files one at a time by re-evaluating a prompt each time" thing
RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116761317566825616
is it good if your tool can cause infinite usage of a very expensive resource in violation of stated policies
git: gives you a protocol for downloading the minimal diff between your repo and the remote as one compressed stream and then syncing your working copy to a full tree snapshot
this thing: download files one a time what's the worst that can happen
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116762329292811852
true innovation is reinventing cvs on top of git
RE: https://mastodon.social/@angusm/116759854591989706
they're saying the UK might finally beat out US levels of "pretending to be Irish"
haven't publicised this before but escodb has a very small (5kb) impl if some of the Buffer class for the browser which is a nice convenience https://github.com/escodb/buffer
