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by gnufx 6y ago
For what it's worth, darcs can consume and produce git import/export streams. I've synced a darcs repo with git and mercurial mirrors with cron (to avoid slowing down commits by doing it in a hook).
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by gnufx 6y ago
> Git's flexibility is great. In practice, I can synthesize the functionality I want. Not if the functionality you want a patch-based system, which is just so much easier to use. After 30 years or so experience of using revision con
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by gnufx 6y ago
It would be interesting to have a comparison of the bases of this and Darcs3 (which is still in development). Hooray for work on patch-based systems anyway.
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by gnufx 6y ago
Given the speculation, someone should mention Douglas Adams' concept of "spending a year dead for tax reasons" in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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by gnufx 6y ago
For what it's worth, Exceed was never fine in my experience, and you were better off with the Cygwin server. At one time, the first thing to ask about certain sorts of Emacs problems that were reported was "Are you running Exceed
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by gnufx 6y ago
Hmm, yes, thanks. I know it as basically crystallographic lore from long ago, as in email sigs, but the only source I could find now is http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dorothy-... I
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by gnufx 6y ago
Most likely https://ds26gte.github.io/tex2page/index.html but I wouldn't have raw HTML. I'm not sure how well Pandoc does with LaTeX input generally. Edit: Fix the link.
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by gnufx 6y ago
Thanks for the info.
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by gnufx 6y ago
I didn't necessarily mean building a product, or to put it down; I just wasn't aware of influences, and I'm close to a home of dataflow. Thanks for the background.
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by gnufx 6y ago
Fiscal sponsorship: https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fiscal-sponsorship F-Droid seems approved as a repo for Replicant, despite its "features you may not like" (but free software) apps.
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by gnufx 6y ago
> OSMAnd beats any of the rudimentary map offerings on the Librem or the Pinephone Not to knock OSMAnd, but Ubports' Pure Maps isn't bad, is it?
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by gnufx 6y ago
> AOSP + f-droid It might or might not be considered significantly different from AOSP, and at least most of the free apps in their "store" must come from F-Droid, but there's /e/: https://e.foundation
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by gnufx 6y ago
Her name might be best known from the eponymous college, perhaps without knowing the connexion: https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/about-somerville/history/ Its alumna Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin is particularly relevant in t
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by gnufx 6y ago
I've not heard of it, presumably because it didn't go anywhere 15 years ago. Is there any more background?
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by gnufx 6y ago
Any language supporting (current) OpenMP supports fork-join, tasking, SIMD specification, and offload, though you still want distributed memory, and overlapped communication and computation. Baking particular technology into a system isn&#
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by gnufx 6y ago
Broken record time, but it's the latency that's most important, not the bandwidth which you might have with generic Ethernet. Also trades-off in the fabric topology; I don't remember if Cray are still using Dragonfly.
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by gnufx 6y ago
Like most supercomputers (outside the Tri-Labs?), of course.
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by gnufx 6y ago
> same markup, different rendering engine. The markup is actually significantly incompatible in my experience. > I mostly work in DocBook, but I don't like it much. I personally find raw XML horribly wordy Originally DocBook was
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by gnufx 6y ago
After writing a reasonable amount of asciidoc, I fgure i might just as well use LaTeX, possibly unless it's sufficiently simple, and I'm expecting people to read it directly. I've found juxtaposing somewhat-presentational ma
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by gnufx 6y ago
As an example, https://github.com/score-p/scorep_binding_python#user-region... is the support in the HPC system https://score-p.org (though it focuses on parallel programs). http://apps.fz-jueli
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by gnufx 6y ago
On an HPC system, why wouldn't you use normal HPC-type performance tools? It will probably give you better analysis tools and allow you to profile/trace the libraries which are probably providing the performance. At least Score-
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by gnufx 6y ago
Perhaps, as well as Dylan, it's worth referencing another Lisp system, T, that pioneered fast dynamic language implementations on the typical Unix workstation-type hardware of the time, and was of interest for research computing: http
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by gnufx 6y ago
Although you might have needed the distinction between an electronic computer and a human one then.
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by gnufx 6y ago
> My recollection of discussions on forums when it was starting to gain mindshare were arguments largely about the aesthetics of the syntax. I remember dynamic languages people picking up on three things in particular: Python apparently
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by gnufx 6y ago
And Dylan is at https://opendylan.org/ I never really forgave it losing s-expressions, but it did pioneer hygienic, referentially transparent macros with infix syntax.
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by gnufx 6y ago
Apart from CS and how software construction works with these things in practice, I reckon multiple dispatch is natural. At least it is to someone with a physics background, which is the context in which I encountered it long ago. I'm
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by gnufx 6y ago
OpenMP, in particular, is not limited to fork-join, and you don't want to be so limited for efficient, scalable numerical systems. Not that you get large-scale parallelism just with OpenMP. A recent keynote of Jack Dongarra's co
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by gnufx 6y ago
Presumably GNU MES, used for Guix: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
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by gnufx 6y ago
I wonder what the equivalent item was like on Tomorrow's World. It wouldn't really have been an example of "Raymond Baxter lied" (Ben Elton) The reference to "ordinary car phone" in 1976 stood out. I remember
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by gnufx 6y ago
You'd have to help me on that one.

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