You mean `jj advance bookmarks`? It still seems like a pain to not just have it happen automatically on `commit`. (I use the "experimental" auto-advance-bookmarks feature, but it's got a lot of papercuts.)
I honestly get the sense that several, or possibly most, jj maintainers truly are not familiar with the "typical" way devs use git. They really do not seem to consider branches with many commits to be a common use-case.
I still don't understand your point. The comment you responded to says:
>As a general rule, if someone ever posts any kind of career troubles on any platform, the only correct responses should contain sympathy or a relevant career opportunity.
Do you disagree with that? Do you just disagree with the use of the phrase "career troubles"?
Why are you conflating "no intention of doing a rewrite" with his actual wording, "we haven’t committed to rewriting"? The latter does not at all indicate that there would definitely not be a rewrite.
This seems to be missing the point. Sometimes users see error messages. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad; and yeah, software engineers should endeavor to make sure that error behaviors are graceful, but of all the not-perfect things in this world, error handling is one of the least perfect, so users do encounter unfortunately ungraceful errors.
In that case (and even sometimes in the more "graceful" cases), we don't always expect the user to know what an error message means.
> Reading C++ for dummies even though I had untreated ADHD and couldn’t sit still long enough to get much past std::cout.
You may have lucked out. I also didn't get terribly far in that book, but I thought it was fairly weird when I tried to read it, and after majoring in CS in college and eventually reading some very good books on programming, I believe I was entirely justified in not liking that one.
Like a lot of blog posts, this feels like a premise worth exploring, lacking a critical exploration of that premise.
Yes, "inevitabilism" is a thing, both in tech and in politics. But, crucially, it's not always wrong! Other comments have pointed out examples, such as the internet in the 90s. But when considering new cultural and technological developments that seem like a glimpse of the future, how do we know if they're an inevitability or not?
The post says:
> what I’m most certain of is that we have choices about what our future should look like, and how we choose to use machines to build it.
To me, that sounds like mere wishful thinking. Yeah, sometimes society can turn back the tide of harmful developments; for instance, the ozone layer is well on its way to complete recovery. Other times, even when public opinion is mixed, such as with bitcoin, the technology does become quite successful, but doesn't seem to become quite as ubiquitous as its most fervent adherents expect. So how do we know which category LLM usage falls into? I don't know the answer, because I think it's a difficult thing to know in advance.
If 20% of people really think they'd be better off as factory workers, that's actually kind of a lot. Can you imagine if 20% of the working population really did work in factories? That's an enormous number.