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rslabbert

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    Comment #36955245

    The plan for how the add signed commits is there, and the work isn't that hard (especially as gitoxide continues to add functionality), it just has to be pushed over the line and I…

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    Comment #36955209

    All the colours can be adjusted or turned off entirely in the config. [1] A number of different graph styles are supported [2], and failing that, you can completely customise the o…

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    Comment #33281626

    On a slightly different track to the other comments but make the computer work for you. Reduced memory retention means using good static types, lots of tests, and libraries/APIs th…

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    Comment #31721646

    Since the audits are designed to be used at a per project level and contributed directly into the VCS repo (allowing you to using git signing for example) I don't quite understand …

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    Comment #30080078

    I haven't found any large scale analyses but here's an example of a simple type annotation halving compilation time: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36624273/investigating-l...…

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    Comment #29973194

    Interestingly since you can't pass an allocator to an operator call, there is some extra guarantee around whether a hypothetical overloaded operator can allocate. If you implement …

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    Comment #29710008

    For what it's worth, I find a lot of Zig code benefits from switching to u32/u64 indexes into an array instead of using pointers. This is only really doable if your container doesn…

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    Comment #29445206

    The alternate path is one the free software community has been pushing towards for decades. The ability to voluntarily associate (and disassociate) from trusted communities, softwa…

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    Comment #28714174

    In addition to the other replies, Terraform has used ARM on Azure for a while now which is similar to this a unified API for all Azure Resource Management (hence ARM) and this hasn…

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    Comment #28636091

    The pain of not being able to do complex queries in an Elastic world means this is a pretty logical conclusion. I'd love to see the ability to also collect metrics and traces in Cl…

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    Comment #28562133

    On one hand I can see the logic for not including unicode directly in string types (simplicity and when you want unicode you have to be aware of it). On the other hand, JSON for ex…

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    Comment #28124228

    This is vscode specific, but yarn suggests a zipfs extension which lets you explore the packages in exactly the same way you would with node_modules (with the added benefit of not …

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    Comment #27123535

    Not a Zig expert, but safety is a factor for Zig, it just treats it as less of an absolute than Rust. I think the thing to keep in mind is that something can be a priority without …