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My level of cynicism at this point is so high that I'd assume we'd be forced to add narratives to papers until they resemble the five-thousand word life story you find tacked on to a recip…
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Oh, I had absolutely no idea about that. I naively assumed the current number row was original. You've sent me down a rabbit hole that so far includes using f and L to produce a £ too, thanks! …
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What is the keyboard in your photo? The lack of oversized keys has me confused. Also, love that it is a 3,284,741 byte image of a ZX81. And the ,/< because -- presumably -- a dog ate your 1 …
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A huge number of comments from earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355480 …
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My inner devil opened this discussion just to read the comments. The comments on the linked article filled my lunchtime fun quota instead. You can also read about the sale on The Guardian¹ without a …
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Again this personal experience only, but one of the projects I'm linked to is a greenfields Ada project. However, you'd be correct to say there are an awful lot of multi-decade projects in…
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Beyond simply joining in on the F# love... If you're using Python anyway, then Pint¹ makes unit handling really easy. ¹ https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial.h…
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From my experience, it still gets a lot of use in aerospace and defence companies. Outside of those industries I can't think of people even mentioning it really, but again probably biases abound…
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Brian Berliner's 1990 followup¹ is an interesting read for the historical perspective too. https://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/psd/28.cvs/paper.pdf …
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Drew Neil's Modern Vim is also wonderful. While it introduces a lot of plugins in an attempt to modernize the experience, it also includes some excellent notes on standard features(qf/sessi…
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The pijul manual has a few comments about the differences¹ at a high level. The paper itself has a few comments too, if you scan for the paragraphs around the string "[10]" which is the r…
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As we're offering alternatives. Either `shopt autocd` in bash or `setopt auto_cd` in zsh, then ~ changes to home by simply being a path.
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This is awful¹, I love it! Thumbing through the code made me wonder what the zsh(my normal shell) implementation feels like, and I think it is fair to say your code is easier to wrap your head aroun…
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An implementation based on this can be seen in pijul¹. ¹ https://pijul.org/
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If you're familiar with the Zeller paper... Was I right in believing that the approach you're using in pijul allows the use of optional deltas as Zeller's paper describes? I was planni…
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Ah, I see. That speaks to why I believe flowchart vocabulary is so common around me. I'm used to working in teams where UML would be largely unknown, whereas the flowchart(or basic BPMN¹) spans…
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Do you have other style standards for whiteboards and such? Perhaps it is the industry I'm in, but the notation in the referenced doc feels super common even if the standard name might not be. …
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I think we're in agreement, and the misunderstanding is my fault for attempting humor in my reply. I believe the linked piece is in agreement too, it even concludes with: > this is a social g…
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Perhaps it was the example you were thinking of, but Christopher Danielson really brings home the extreme ambiguity of terms using vehicles and children. I keep coming back to that every time I'…
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Zeller's design seems to be addressed at least in part by darcs/pijul using the methods described in David Roundy's Theory of Patches¹. A virtual filesystem seems like an especially ni…
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After seeing luckydude answer questions on the little thread the other evening, I'm wondering what other things the SCCS/BK folk think we should be doing better. What have we forgotten? l…
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Following on from some discussions about SCM history on here over the weekend I was poking around in the history of things too. The original 1986 CVS¹ is quite interesting from a historical prospectiv…
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I've been enjoying this series of "Breakfast With Forth Week", best one yet. It had left me wondering what had caused it. There was a thread a few weeks ago where the old guard were de…
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Thanks, although I think you're demonstrating here and in the other comments why you should write a real history. Was the conference recorded? I've tried searching, but I'm not turning…