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A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013)(arxiv.org)
49 points by JNRowe 6y ago|17 comments
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 planning on digging around a little more next
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 the non-compsci folk too. ¹ https:&#x2
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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. I'm thinking about whiteboard scraw
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 game of negotiating meaning, and of notic
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RCS – A System for Version Control (1985) [pdf](gnu.org)
3 points by JNRowe 6y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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'm trying to have one of these conversat
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 nice way to solve the interface issues tha
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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? luckydude mentioned real per-file history
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 prospective. Given that the implementation is jus
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 describing an actual attempt to game the s
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by JNRowe 6y ago
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 anything up. As an outsider you get my
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Now that all that isn't so raw, I'd love to know how you felt about the other contenders that were floating about at the time. Were any of them doing things you wanted to see in BK? I can't be the only one who'd be in
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Yeah. I was using a lot of hyperbole in an attempt to get my point across. However, in the time between writing my earlier comment and this I've actually been out for a lunchtime ride on my fixie. Just good fun for a Friday in Febru
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by JNRowe 6y ago
I wasn't suggesting removing all technology, as I agree that wouldn't work even if I wanted it. I just liked idea of a parallel low technology track fighting the good fight against pointy helmet disc-wheeled ten rider weeknight
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by JNRowe 6y ago
At last year's UCI worlds one of the riders(I forget who) had a dropper post failure, and it was depressing watching them slowly lose rank simply because of that. Part of me wants to see all the new advancements, but I also hate it whe
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by JNRowe 6y ago
As kinda mentioned in the Timesigns note in the article they're all available on All4(the new name for 4od). So UK folks, and people who ahem... have IPs that look like they are, can watch all the episodes for free. https:/&#x2F
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Again, here we can rely on zsh having advanced globbing functionality. Instead of moving your test in to the execution block and suddenly having possibly unbalanced parallel groups you switch to something like *(.mw-1) to operate on files(
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by JNRowe 6y ago
This feels like exactly the reason I prefer using zsh's zargs command for these things. In part because you can use all the extended globbing functionality zsh provides. Something like the following [untested] rework of your pipeline
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Using 3rd party Debian repository keys with apt(michael-prokop.at)
1 points by JNRowe 6y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 6y ago
I fear I may have phrased my question poorly. I can understand why you'd gravitate toward there now, I'm more generally curious about how that specialisation came to be in the first place. Was there a specific catalyst? A perso
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Hmm, if you mean the C-g behaviour then you need to set $NNN_TMPFILE: nnn() { declare -x +g NNN_TMPFILE=$(mktemp --tmpdir $0.XXXX) trap "rm -f $NNN_TMPFILE" EXIT =nnn $@ [ -s $NNN_TMPFILE ] &&
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by JNRowe 6y ago
From the man page: > The following is a list of all the standard widgets, and their default bindings in emacs mode, vi command mode and vi insert mode (the `emacs', `vicmd' and `viins' keymaps, respectively). What that mea
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone know the reason Inria seems to have developed such a specialisation around these types of tools? I get why you'd be there today, but is there a common link/person when that started? If so, I&#
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by JNRowe 6y ago
You can also operate on the stack of pending commands programatically using the read and print builtins along with the common to both -z option. It can be a really nice way to build up or edit complex commands/variables in combination
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by JNRowe 6y ago
You're right, all it requires is a call to compinit from base zsh: `autoload -Uz compinit; compinit` And compinstall can be used to configure things like the case-sensitivity or amount of ambiguity accepted in matches using a nice men
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by JNRowe 6y ago
In last summer's heatwave I was walking home along the old roman routes in Anglia after having a problem with my bike, and with the full-on scorch we'd had all manner of encampments become visible in fields. I found the whole exp
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by JNRowe 6y ago
My assumption on bending is no, but I'm assuming that only because I'm sure we would have seen tonnes of stories posted about doing just that if it worked. The retro gamers love curved old screens and love posting weekend makes,
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by JNRowe 6y ago
> faux CRTs sitting atop the non-Amigas. ... in the end, they decided to use a standard LCD behind a milled acrylic lens Hmm, I'd never considered that. I keep seeing people talking about buying really expensive 90s Sony TVs for
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by JNRowe 6y ago
'bindkey "${key[Up]}" up-line-or-search' is probably the incantation you're looking for if you don't want to use oh-my-zsh or whatever. The $key hashmap is generated by zsh's zkbd so that your config can

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