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Some people like to have choices other than "all" and "nothing"

I would imagine RSS solves this pretty nicely? (Though personally I subscribe to project blogs for major updates; the GitHub news feed is overwhelming with information I don't care…

None of that is anything to do with collections

Other platforms have been doing it this way for over a decade, and I've found stacked diffs (with Phabricator and Gerrit at least, not tried the GH version yet) to massively simpli…

I am confused - I love JJ and stacked diffs with Gerrit and Phabricator, but trying to port that same "each commit gets reviewed individually, and things don't break when a half-re…

JJ, Gerrit, codebutler, and I think a couple of others have all basically agreed upon a syntax for change IDs and they are converging their prior ad-hoc formats into one; but last …

Funnily enough the two features that I've missed from phabricator are Stacked Diffs and the per-user opt-in whimsy mode, maybe GitHub can copy the latter next? :D

A couple of days ago I split a single class which did 5 barely-connected things, where each of the 5 entry points had another 5-10 private helper methods (none of which were shared…

I'm am curious how you used satisfactory trains - I always found the satisfactory stations to be so overwhelmingly huge that they basically didn't fit anywhere (unless I build a la…

... I'm only now realising thanks to this comment that they are two different people >.>

I was typing on a keyboard without a euro symbol, and ballparking the exchange rate was simpler than finding one :P

Followed the app's instructions to go to gate 15, sat there waiting for the gate to open, until eventually getting a notification that I'd missed the flight from gate 30. Went to t…

This is a reasonable point, if "enemies of freedom" and "enemies of America" are synonymous...

This doesn't prevent overrunning the buffer -- it means that when you do overrun the buffer, it does less damage

They stopped getting new features a few years ago, and existing features have been gradually removed...

People within Meta have been campaigning for this for _years_; even people as high up as John Carmack were pushing for open bootloaders on deprecated hardware (and he achieved that…

> It is sad that it takes a Meta developer having some fun to realize they should open up ADB. I'm not even sure if the motivation is as positive as that - the video, blog, and dev…

javascript uses floats as its own default numeric data type; but other languages do have integers, and might want to convert those integers into a JSON (string) representation

FWIW you can still have a staging-area-like workflow with JJ - it's just that while git has "commits", "the staging area", "the working directory", and "stashes" as four separate c…

Last I checked (2 years ago) Meta was using Sapling, a very heavily customised open source Mercurial frontend with proprietary backend. FWIW the Sapling frontend can also be connec…

Except if you're posting stories online, in which case it's most likely a gibimesh, though people use the terms interchangeably

In the circles where I hang out I think community opinion is that go is _fine_, but python has faster iteration speed for experiments, and rust has better correctness and performan…

Facebook started out PHP; but they ship-of-theseus'ed it into Hack by replacing the standard library, the language, and the runtime engine, so now it's a totally different thing wi…

I tried Sapling (Facebook's fork of mercurial with more polished git-compatibility layers) and never looked back for any of my own projects. I recently started a new job where the …

Funnily enough I'm looking at getting a new phone because my pixel 6 battery no longer lasts 9am until 6pm without a mid-day charge -- I looked at the latest pixels (10) and they l…