<p>because this is mastodon, the edge case is this:</p><p>merging the branches together works when the source repos are non overlapping. it also works if you have two repos with a common history, and those repos do not have any other init commits.</p><p>however, if you have some repo that merges in another repo, and try to weave them together, you can&#39;t</p><p>as you&#39;re effectively asking it to merge two different histories for a single repo, and that just doesn&#39;t work out</p>

<p>i spent a few days thinking &quot;how am i gonna handle this weird edge case&quot; and eventually i realised &quot;throw a better error message&quot; was the right answer</p><p>on the plus side i got to replace the caveat in the readme with a &quot;it only breaks if you put garbage in&quot; note</p>

<p>catirclogs.org is almost 15 years old at this point, which is about 15 times more than the half-life of a typical VC-backed service. here&#39;s to 15 years more of IRC logs (and one would hope in 2040 we have something better than IRC that everyone collectively uses. one would hope)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Thank you!</p>

<p>(it&#39;ll be done one last-minute VM resize so that it doesn&#39;t run with disk 80% full later, that is)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> quite - this boils down to GenAI being convincingly wrong in ways only someone, who could already answer the question at hand, would understand. </p><p>This leaves us in the spot where GenAI remains a useful tool for skilled people, but a disaster for the creation of skilled people.</p><p>I see these negative effects in the workplace already. Talking to other experienced engineers, I hear some consensus that junior engineers are dangerously trusting of the results they get.</p>

<p>PSA: *.irclog.whitequark.org now lives at <a href="https://catirclogs.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">catirclogs.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>! it has a new (dedicated) server in Germany and runs on NixOS, instead of sharing an aging Ansible configuration with a server in Singapore that has all my personal infrastructure</p><p>the migration went smoothly, there shouldn&#39;t be any issues, and all of the old URLs will continue to work indefinitely</p>

<p>digital piano? what else am i supposed to play it with</p>

<p>This is the silliest little buck boost, I love it so</p><p><a href="https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps631012.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps63101</span><span class="invisible">2.pdf</span></a></p>