I think bikeshedding is more commonly that people will argue about the materials of the bike shed over more important points of discussion. ex a bad thing because it detracts from more important decisions, not because it requires unnecessary change

queens duck as mentioned below better fits the tip (which is valid)

or perhaps their interest started there as a child, causing them to study further later? that doesn’t sound like a crazy statement

I think having to get a cert is even worse.

and some will get camped by bots, but that’s fine since different projects have different tolerances for contribution quality. I’m thinking like the bluesky moderation system, where each repo can subscribe to a particular pool of vouches in addition to their own. you may have lists for no ai, lists for responsible ai/abides by repo rules, or good intentioned but pure ai and minimal human contribution.

how does this compare with something like the vouch system, possibly with some sort of federated mechanism, so you could choose which list of users to trust

this entire account seems to be automated llm slop posts, not sure what the goal is

systemd timers are definitely nicer than cron for this (and basically all cron jobs). there’s both a restart on failure with backoff if you want it to handle the retry, or a way to schedule it based on the last exit time so the script can manage the backoff like you are doing now

on the last part, page numbers are hard to trust. I assume you don’t have a choice, but that’s why I prefer next page tokens when designing an api instead of numbered pages. then you know the data you’re getting is exactly after the previous data

I love nix but “subset of json” is an absolutely insane thing to say

the same way I’d recommend installing bash, wsl

this is the default compaction method in omp now. afaik it’s exploiting the pricing structure of the big providers more than anything

mortgage prepayment penalty fees are reasonably common and happen if you pay too much on it too early