jaccarmac

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by jaccarmac 9y ago
Have you seen the video? It's clear beyond any doubt that the officer wasn't "scared", but a sadistic control freak. He had "You're Fucked" engraved into his rifle for God's sake, the guy is obviously
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
It's sobering for sure to realize those biases exist. I am a white man, who was extremely skeptical of the first few police shooting stories, starting with Trayvon Martin, then Michael Brown et al. Trayvon was killed during a time when
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
I read a blog post a few days ago about a Clojure compiler from the CLR which is being actively maintained to produce bytecode for Unity. It was posted here a few days ago but didn't seem to gain much traction, perhaps there's mor
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
It's inconvenient for sure, but to be clear opening a repository is a one-time operation. It puts a file called ".fslckout" in the current directory which acts like the ".git" directory does for Git.
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
Fair enough on most points. Have to point out typing the filename is unnecessary, however. Just run "fossil open" on the repository file once and from there on out any fossil command in that directory will run against said repo.
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
See my response to the sibling comment. Git's decentralization isn't its only upside.
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
That's interesting. I've never been an insider and it was several years ago, but Google spoke in pretty glowing terms of their monorepo when I heard them talk about it. That's neither here nor their though, not my personal pr
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
Are you talking about the command line porcelain? If so that's certainly true, but Fossil really shines when you use its web UI as part of your VCS use cycle. And there's certainly room for additional porcelain as the repository f
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
Also not the greatest in my (very limited) experience. Everything is stored in one SQLite file. Thus at a certain size the problems which SQLite has with large data start to show up in your repository.
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
Well, Git was indeed created to serve Linux kernel development. So decentralized access for the people writing patches all over the world was useful. However, when companies started using source control for their monorepos which developers
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by jaccarmac 9y ago
Site seems to have been hugged to death, archive's on Google ( http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SE9owVn... ) and the Internet Archive ( https://web.archive.org/web/20160305114922&#
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, I do exactly the same thing. I'm just against removing them wholesale since I think they are valuable aids to a user who doesn't know about creating a config at all yet.
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
Care to elaborate on some of the rough edges so I can try to avoid them? I've heard bad things about Chrome and almost locked myself out of my WM by using pinentry; Not sure what other gotchas there are.
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
Indeed. I'm constantly tempted to try switching to a lighter, more editing-centric editor, but the kitchen sink is just too useful. Finally got around to trying EXWM this morning and was amused by the fact that I can run Steam in an Em
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
When I first started using Emacs I found the menu bar useful for discovering features I had no idea existed. I quickly became fluent with the keyboard UI and can use that to explore the editor now, but it taught me not to underestimate menu
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226260
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
That's basically the aim of Urbit. An instance you control that you can connect to other services to tie those external identities together.
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
Not OP, but I really like fossil. There are some rough edges, but the simple workflow is at least as simple as Git's and comes with QoL like the web interface.
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
The TL;DR: I did a quick read, no evaluation here, just what's in the paper. 1. Unit tests only work in "functional" code composed of easy-to-reason-about components that support other similar components. The OO storm introdu
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by jaccarmac 10y ago
Please do!
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M-x zone