haradion · HackerTrans

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It doesn't really hurt in practice because it's only one part of the full backup procedure. Deduplicate to save space; re-duplicate the (smaller) backups to separate media for redundancy; scrub regularly for bit rot and rotate your media. A proper backup system requires all but the first of those anyway.

haradion

há 8 mesesdiscuss

If you squint hard enough, this is really a pretty similar idea to Polkit [0] but with a much simpler communication layer.

[0]: https://polkit.pages.freedesktop.org/polkit/

haradion

há 9 mesesdiscuss

> All these named reset types could just be two separate reset commands, both pointing to a commit, one resetting the files on disk, one resetting the index.

It sounds to me like you want `git restore -W` and `git restore -S`.

haradion

há 9 mesesdiscuss

For the compiler in particular, it's pretty common practice to depend on a recent version. The backward compatibility situation is generally excellent, so the only real challenge is getting the compiler installed. That's generally straightforward with rustup, and Debian/Ubuntu also package several versions (under different package names) that are more recent than the distro's default.

haradion

há 10 mesesdiscuss

With the right workspace mapping, you can pull in just part of the depot, which makes the repo size a lot more manageable.

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The Unison programming language is built around that idea: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/

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YMMV, naturally, but I've found that some embedded devices have really excellent hardware abstraction layers in Rust that wrap the majority of the device's functionality in an effectively zero-overhead layer. Timers? GPIO? Serial protocols? Interrupts? It's all there.

- https://docs.rs/atsamd-hal/

- https://docs.rs/rp2040-hal/

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> or that third type of schema whose name escapes me

RRELAX NG, perhaps?

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Well, for one thing, classic Outlook's HTML rendering engine (to the extent it's even an "HTML" rendering engine instead of a Word document rendering engine) has some fairly radical divergences from standard HTML/CSS behavior. For those of us who have to generate HTML e-mail for whatever reason, it's distinctly unpleasant.

That might not be enough reason in and of itself to throw out the whole application, but I sure won't miss that one part of Outlook.

haradion

há 2 anosdiscuss

> The logical model is identical for every source control system.

Most source control systems have some common logical concepts (e.g. files and directories), but there's actually significant divergence between their logical models. For instance:

- Classic Perforce (as opposed to Perforce Streams) has a branching model that's very different from Git's; "branches" are basically just directories, and branching/merging is tracked on a per-file basis rather than a per-commit basis. It also tracks revisions by an incrementing ID rather than hashes. - Darcs and Pijul represent the history of a file as an unordered set of patches; a "branch" is basically just a set of patches to apply to the file's initial (empty) state.

All of that is above the physical state, which also differs:

- Perforce servers track files' revision histories in a directory hierarchy that mirrors the repository's file structure rather than building a pseudo-directory hierarchy over a flat object store. - Fossil stores everything in an SQLite database.

> Is that relevant to something?

Yes. You can use a VCS reasonably effectively if you understand its logical model but not its physical storage model. It doesn't work so well the other way around.

haradion

há 2 anosdiscuss

The file contents are logically distinct blobs. Packfiles will aggregate and delta-compress similar blobs, but that's all at a lower level than the logical model.

haradion

há 2 anosdiscuss

Especially with Vue 3, most of the reactive state management you need for all but the largest and most complex of apps is built right into the core. Vuex and Pinia really aren't necessary for most users.

haradion

há 2 anosdiscuss

OpenSSL does provide a callback mechanism to allow for key logging, but the application does have to opt in. IIRC, at least Curl does support it by default.

haradion

há 2 anosdiscuss

I've found MDN and the Rust programming language docs to be pretty solid.

haradion

há 2 anosdiscuss

I've found Nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/) to be really handy for ad-hoc data manipulation (and a decent enough general-purpose shell).

haradion

há 3 anosdiscuss

`git range-diff` can be handy for the reviewer when trying to "recover from" a mid-review force-push.

haradion

há 3 anosdiscuss

I've got both a Metropolitan and a Prera, and I can second (third?) this recommendation. Fantastic pens.

haradion

há 3 anosdiscuss

For the specific use case you're describing, I've found `git worktree` to be very useful.

Overall, at least when it comes to features, I've actually had the opposite experience. That said, I'm one of those people such that you can pry `git rebase` out of my cold, dead hands, so it's that feature specifically that I really miss when I have to work with Perforce.

haradion

há 3 anosdiscuss

Shallow/sparse clones help with some of the pain points there, at least around time to clone and local repo size.

haradion

há 3 anosdiscuss

At least by Wikipedia's chosen sources [0], the attempted assassination of Gov. Boggs was linked, via circumstantial evidence, to Joseph's bodyguard, Porter Rockwell (who, even within the "Mormon" Church, is considered a somewhat controversial figure), but the culprit's true identity isn't exactly a settled question.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith#cite_note-156

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