@SnoopJ It's just being forward-compatible, riiiight?

For certain critical files, it's often useful to skip through the commit history and compare. Knowing how to diff specific files over time is very useful here.

Focus primarily on type definitions rather than code: that's where you'll find the philosophical intent of any well-maintained codebase […]

From there, go through each of the most-commented PRs: those are the ones that are mostly likely to contain 'abstraction-shaking' changes. Read the discussions, understand what philosophical changes the codebase underwent at those critical moments. Usually you will find lots of highly revealing […]

@dascandy Yeah, what a curse to live with. We might aim at the stars, but hitting the moon instead might as well be failure

(This is a subtoot about the first Linux kernel CVE present in Rust code having been found. The CVE was caused by code in an unsafe block, apparently)

One argument I've heard is "okay, now tell me how much unsafe is in the dependency tree" but this entirely misses the point: nothing in the dependency looks even slightly like a physics engine or a server, let alone a full game and game engine. The measure of things must surely be how much […]

I know these people are just trolls, but still. It irks me to see people still saying this in the wild.

Of those 12 instacnes:

- 6 relate to hot reloading (dynamic linking) and aren't even presented in public builds

- 3 relate to the plugin system (JIT compilation and other things that are almost impossible to provide hard soundness proofs for)

- 2 relate to shader compilation (also JIT)

- 1 […]

@aburka Yeah, that's my main reluctance also, but it's not enough to keep me from jumping ship alone

Just preempting the 'winter is my favourite season' jokes before anybody makes them

@fabio The JPEGification of reality

The effort required is really making me want to build a press for next year though, assuming this goes to plan.

A family member has an apple surplus due to a tree in the garden that produces an ungodly amount of fruit every year, too much to eat before it rots.

Normally the excess would be composted and only the best kept, but this year I'm having a go at making scrumpy […]

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As the OP says... it is not a good omen that markers of humanity have been narrowed to abstract rules about sentence structure and spelling.

I've been accused of using AI to write on occasion too; my mother was a school teacher and was adamant that we were raised with a 'proper' command of the English language. Every page of this book is etched into some corner of my brain, and we'd be tested on it […]

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@fasterthanlime Slightly reassured to hear I'm not the only one experiencing this, it's not great

@fasterthanlime I had to apologise to somebody that opened a large and difficult-to-rebase PR on a library of mine because GitHub had elected to not show me the notification for it. They'd opened the PR almost two years ago, and none of the discussion responses had triggered anything that let me […]

@kat Tell us the Reasons!