Can't wait to see what scummy monetization tactic brave is found to be using next.

Here's a question for any employees of brave who happen to be reading this: how did this get out the door? It's not like this is the first time the company has been found doing something that most people disagree with, and the fact that it keeps happening means that the process is still very much broken. I have not yet seen any response from brave that gives me confidence that the company has changed from when they were taking youtube donations of creations not signed up to the BAT program

because it's the default on most operating systems

I hope no woman ever has to work for you

being written in rust might make it more appealing to develop, but it doesn't give any benefit to the user and I can't see it being a reason for someone to use this over vim

Rust programs tend to be more stable, more efficient, and more highly parallelized than equivalents written in other languages by developers of the same quality.

Again, I am not sure when is the last time vim crashed on my *nix set up. Not trying to sound unreasonable but in this argument of VIM/amp it might not be relevant.

It depends upon plugins. My Vim is quite prone to crashing but I'm fairly sure it is one of my plugins.

Yeah, more than likely. I'm down to just a handful of plugins and don't recall it crashing in the last couple of years, and I use it a lot.

I think that that statement is true, the "tend to" and "same quality" are very important qualifiers though.

Changing the remote doesn't migrate anything in the issue tracker, merge requests, webhooks, pages or wiki

Migrating from GitHub to GitLab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI

this adresses some of the issues.

It doesn't solve the number one issue: External references to your project will all still point to github.com since that's where the project homepage (aka README.md) is.

If GitHub does get sold to MS and I end up moving to GitLab, I'll probably push one last commit to the GitHub repo adding a header saying the project has moved, with a link to the GitLab repo. It's not perfect, but it wouldn't be too bad.

Until MSFT/GitHub does what Sourceforge.net did - taking over project sites from projects which moved away and adding malware (adware/spyware) into those ;)

(I believe with all critique on Microsoft they aren't as bad, but want to exemplarize the risk)

It might just be cleaner to close the github repo and when other projects find a 404 where it used to be, they'll have to use super detective skills (i.e. Google it) to find the project's new home. And if they can't find it that way, then nothing of value was lost. (Yes, yes, I know it's more nuanced than that, but if you wanted permanence, you'd be hosting on your own domain, right?)

This would be a great way for them to accelerate migration away from Github.

I expect Google could be convinced to accept certain files or metadata in a README as equivalent to a 301 permanent redirect, meaning searches will remain effective. That would account for a lot, especially if Chrome begins to honour it.

Actually, the #1 issue is that everyone can easily file an issue/contribute in other ways at Github without having to create another account to do so.

You can sign in with your Github account to gitlab.com.

I seem to remember that under the GDPR, vendors have to make data exportable. I wonder if people could use that for GitHub issues and the Wiki.

GitHub pages is super easy to move except for getting users to know the new domain.

The GDPR only applies to personal data, which won't be most of the content on GitHub.

Anyway, there are APIs which one can use to export issues.

It wouldn't be seamless. But it wouldn't be difficult for a competitor to create a "competitor import" feature that moved over most of it in a few clicks.

It's possible, but I think it's a stretch to say it "wouldn't be difficult."

It seems to follow the 4th year/masters course of the same name taught by one of the authors (Dr Marc Deisenroth) at Imperial College London: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/current-students/courses...

The course requires a 1st year linear algebra course and a 2nd year statistics course, which might explain why this book doesn't cover some of the basic concepts

the [EX51-SSD-GPU](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu) is the only GPU plan they offer

Thanks! I thougt they didn't have GPU servers.

I appreciate the transparency of the author including links to negative reviews on the page. Kudos for that.

I can't comment much on the subject for my lack on knowledge, but that was a very well written, entertaining article that I enjoyed reading.

Agreed! This was a good read using simple terms and examples. Most of these examples I've picked up from bunch of different sources. Love that this is all bunched up into one page.

Only downside of that site is some optimizely.com scrip that never finishes loading.