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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
Why is that a dodge? that's the expected way to work in this system, and it should be able to show you the interdiff between those amends.
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
When you work this way, each commit is expected to be able to land independently.
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
This is standard practice in the "stacked diffs" world: one review, one commit.
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These technologies are cool and good and useful but they do something different than Rust: they catch problems at runtime and mitigate the bad effects, rather than preventing them at compile time.
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
My understanding is that `git history` was started after seeing jj, yes. I don't have a citation for you though, I could be wrong, that's just what I remember.
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I'm glad, I meant it in semi-jest, because it's true, but also just a very funny thing to "well actually" about.
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
I would also be surprised that the RFD site breaks screen readers, generally they're pretty good about that. And yeah, you also can use react with no client side JS as well.
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
(To answer one of your specific questions, "hubris" is an embedded RTOS and is what runs the BMC-like service processor, and illumos is the host operating system.)
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I wrote this back in 2022, but it's still relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324
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Extreme nit: because you purchase a rack at a time, you don't actually rack it. You wheel it in, plug in network and power, and hit "on".
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React is one way of generating HTML.
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I was talking about regular old today's Rust, not the specifics about become.
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Ten minutes used to be the cutoff where you could provide an interstitial advertisement. This sort of turned into a sort of wive's tale, where people thought the algorithm would push such videos. It's not the case today. The reaso
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
> In rust the borrow checker would guard against reordering such things It doesn't even get that far: Rust guarantees that things drop in reverse order of declaration, full stop. One interesting wrinkle here: for struct members, Rus
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> It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program. Depends on the semantics of the programming language itself. For some languages, it is truly an optimization, for
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(2025)
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Hacker News has a wide variety of people in it, but certainly leans more toward software expertise.
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"attestation" not "attenuation," thank you autocorrect :/
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
(Former oxide) Yes, custom hardware is a significant part of Oxide. You have to build your own to do that stuff, and that’s why they did. I alluded to some of the things upthread. I found out about this round from this thread, just like eve
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(Former Oxide) An in-house team is most likely competing with something like Dell or VMware, not really Oxide. A significant part of Oxide’s value proposition is that you’re buying hardware and software purpose built for each other. Unless
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
Exactly what I said here: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-see-a-future-in-jj/ I am still a huge fan and supporter of Oxide, and I'm really glad to see them still doing well.
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Regardless if it's still true or not, the original purpose was not to re-write Gecko.
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From the presentation announcing Rust inside of Mozilla: https://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf > We are not “rewriting the browser”. That's impossible. Put down the gun.
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I can't add on to my comment because it's been too long, but a great thread on how much work this is: https://x.com/sameenkarim/status/2083237928092721646
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This is roughly the current state of things as I know about it, that said I haven't read a lot of git's mailing list lately so it's possible that there have been some other developments.
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This feature was brought up amongst GitHub for years, possibly even a decade. And it was something that they didn't want. It was new leadership back in October that decided to build this, so it took them 9 months or so. To be clear, I
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by steveklabnik 2mo ago
You can't run MacOS in a VM on non-Mac hardware without violating Apple's EULA. > But what is send to the main repo can be easily scripted to run the CI on every commit. Sure, this could work. I didn't say it was impossibl
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Here is an example of a guide from OpenAI on how you should prompt 5.6 differently than their previous models. https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model#p...
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This is one of the biggest changes to hit GitHub in many years. I'm really glad to see something like this deployed to one of the largest forges in the world, hopefully it will expose a lot of developers to workflows that they didn&#x2
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You can't have mac/windows/linux/whatever all locally simultanously. Not every project requires this, but for those that do, it's impossible. Also, it is much harder to enforce "everyone must run each commit th

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