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Comment Re:Still lacks file tracking, externals, and branc (Score 3, Informative) 114

I know how git is implemented, I just don't agree with all the choices. "git mv" is really just "mv; git add", so nothing is recorded about the move. And "git cp" is not a thing because git can't track files. This is a huge mess when re-arranging or splitting many files - git has no idea what actually happened, and just makes a guess. I want all such operations explicitly tracked.

As for branches, I want to be able to ask for "repo state at time X" and see all branches that existed at that time. Svn can do this, and you can even reuse branch names without ruining history.

Comment Still lacks file tracking, externals, and branches (Score 3, Interesting) 114

Git still can't track files, which is a major downside. I want to explicitly track when a file was copied or moved - git's detection heuristics often get it wrong.

Git still lacks svn externals. Submodules can't bind to HEAD of the external source, nor bind a single file. In development branches, I usually just want HEAD of whatever submodules there might be, and only maybe fix a specific version for a release.

Git still can't track branches. If you delete a branch, it's entirely gone from history. And there's no timestamp for when you created a branch. Branches are not real object in the repo.

In many ways, svn is still better. But git has won critical mass, so of course I use it. But not without grumbling.

Comment Seems functional enough (Score 1) 31

I've used iTunes on Windows for over a decade. No other music player offers the same features (5 star rating system, dynamic/smart playlists, organizes files for you), and I happen to have some iPads that I used to sync with. iTunes is just really solid. It led me to actually subscribe to Apple Music over Spotify and the rest.

On first try, the new Apple Music app seems to retain all the features I want. Haven't tried whether it still supports automatically exporting the library to XML.

Comment Re:Not rocket surgery! (Score 2) 59

...it might be a little inconvenient for those who are jumping around using different networks...

Such as everyone working via 5G or everyone behind ISP NAT. If we were on IPv6 then this would work, but with IPv4 the IP is sadly not guaranteed to remain stable. Tying credentials to the IP would be a massive inconvenience for a lot of people - many more than you think.

This has been true since the dialup days, and only IPv6 has a chance of fixing it.

Comment Reasonable Assumption (Score 1) 213

The CDC's system assumed that if a date was provided, then the "no" or "unknown" answer was an error, and the system switched the answer to "yes."

As someone who processes unclean data, this seems an entirely reasonable data processing normalization step. If a date was provided, I would also assume the respondent simply forgot to toggle the other field, because it is natural for respondents to assume that inserting a date would also imply a "yes".

Comment Re:Another day, more Android UI changes (Score 1) 80

This is *exactly* why I stay on Apple! From one version to the next and one device to another I don't have to relearn where everything is.

Bullshit. One of my major complaints about iOS (and macOS) is exactly that too many things change with every major update. Settings are routinely moved around or removed, for no good reason. Apple has the exact same problem as all the other big companies - change for change's sake.

Comment Re:OK, the JavaScript rule is a bit overbearing (Score 2) 58

21-W:5 Proprietary Software on State Websites specifically says proprietary javascript - not all JavaScript, just proprietary. Nobody is proposing banning HTML5 or Ajax outright, simply that all the used JS should be open source. That's a perfectly acceptable and noble goal.

Comment Re:Plenty of poison in those bills (Score 1) 138

... a constitutional amendment that outlaws amendments that are unrelated to the primary subject of the bill, ...

I'm with you on this conceptually, but don't know how it would work practically.

That's how it works in the rest of the world, and it works quite well. It's also how it works in 41 US states, so the idea is not that alien to Americans.

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