MForster | 5 months ago | on: Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
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MForster | 7 months ago | on: Jujutsu for busy devs
> The main things that drives me crazy about jj is that all changes are always staged implicitly.
That's one way to look at it, but I would encourage you to think about it a bit differently.
JJ does not have a concept of "staging", it only has changes and commits. Yes, it automatically snapshots the workspace commit, but I wouldn't use the workspace commit as your staging area. If you want to do explicit staging use the parent commit (@-) as your staging area. You can move changes from the workspace commit (@) to the staging area (@-) explicitly, just like in Git. And you can "commit" (Git terminology) your staging area by starting a new staging area.
The difference here really is "only" that the workspace, the index, and committed changes are modeled with the same concept. And that is very powerful. Admittedly you have to make an informed decision on how to map your workflows onto the model, but that is what comes with the powerful flexibility that it gives you.
MForster | 7 months ago | on: Jujutsu for busy devs
You don't even need to re-clone. You can add jj to an existing git repo.
MForster | 8 months ago | on: European Commission presents Roadmap for lawful access to data
The CDU has moved from very right to less right, but still right-of-center under Merkel. After Merkel they have moved back right, maybe even more than they were to compete with the extremists.
MForster | 11 months ago | on: Memory safety for web fonts
It's quite the opposite. This is intended for engineers to make good trade-off decisions as a rule of thumb without financial micromanaging.
MForster | 1 year ago | on: jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
You can still use a similar workflow as with the index. The difference is that the staging area is modeled as a commit, so it's not another concept that will take a while to grok.
Same with the working copy.
MForster | 1 year ago | on: jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
MForster | 1 year ago | on: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform
And here I was expecting that I could edit the text and the app would change the audio file to say what I had typed...
MForster | 1 year ago | on: 'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain
It's multiple locks, first up, then down. The middle section is at a higher altitude than the ocean on both sides
MForster | 1 year ago | on: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Is it because of the enemies?
FWIW, you can turn them off. I always play with them disabled. Just not what I'm interested in. You might enjoy that, too.
I also enjoyed shapez, but it's no comparison to the depth of Factorio, especially with mods.
MForster | 1 year ago | on: Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’
This is not at all what Google does, though.
MForster | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Online database diagram editor
This looks great.
Would be even better if it lived in VSCode, auto-syncing with my DDL files...
MForster | 1 year ago | on: Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)
Rust by default doesn't do reference counting.
You can opt into reference counting with `std::rc::Rc`. (You can even opt into mark-and-sweep GC using the `gc` crate, but this isn't done much...).
MForster | 2 years ago | on: You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
Yes, that's what I did (and said so in the top post)
MForster | 2 years ago | on: You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
I get moderation of replies. But I choose myself who I follow. Nobody needs to moderate that.
MForster | 2 years ago | on: You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
I think that's the wrong analogy. It's more: Why does a landlord not get a say in who their tenants invite to dinner?
MForster | 2 years ago | on: You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
Why do admins get a say in who their users follow in the first place? As long as the content isn't illegal or challenges the stability of the instance this should be up to the users alone.
This issue alone made me set up my own instance, but many users don't have that option.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
Unreadable on a phone...
MForster | 3 years ago | on: Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
What if there are more than three cursor locations? Like a bold link?
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Sorry for getting the terminology wrong. I don't use iPhones.
I meant coupling the "Find My network" feature for iPhones and AirTags.
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- temporal safety (e.g. no use after free) - initialization safety (no read of initialized memory) - thread safety (no data races) - type safety (accessing memory with the correct type)