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by kps 2y ago
I should say I've never been expert with any VCS — just enough to get things done. I know it has `absorb`, and `grep` can be approximated with a `diff_contains()` revset, but it's not pretty (and aliases are not powerful enough
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by kps 2y ago
Jujutsu (jj) is heavily inspired by Mercurial (though with some significant differences) and can operate with git as a storage backend. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
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by kps 2y ago
You can find some images on line that try to describe it. For me it seems a lot like this: https://www.threads.net/@mrmedina/post/CuciL0Uvam9 (But I have to remember that when I look at these, I'm stacking my
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by kps 2y ago
Some people, including me, have what's commonly called ‘astigmatic halation’ — although it's often not due to simple astigmatism, but rather ‘higher order abberrations’‡ which aren't correctable by glasses. For this case, dar
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by kps 2y ago
> I also avoid […] high-index lenses for computer work. Yes! You're the first to mention this. It's not refractive index itself that's the problem, it's dispersion (roughly, the degree to which refractive index varie
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by kps 2y ago
The phrase originates with the ‘BUGS’ section of the 4.2BSD man page for the `tunefs(8)` command, for the Berkeley Fast File System that is the topic of the OP article.
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by kps 2y ago
Consider, if you will, ARM7 and ARMv7.
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I do. I also type en-dashes where appropriate, and ellipses, and balanced quotes.
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by kps 2y ago
This post was probably inspired by yesterday's “One Logo, Three Companies” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245315
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Relatedly, the PDP-11 addresses modes are post -increment and pre -decrement in order to allow programming the PDP-11 as if it were a stack machine, with a register pointing at the ‘top’ of the stack (i.e. lowest address). (Reference: Co
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by kps 2y ago
Option-Left/Right to move by word; Command-Left/Right to move to the beginning or end of the line.
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by kps 2y ago
For a long time, Macs shipped with a tutorial that trained people to double-click. Unlike a second button, it's not discoverable.
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At least it has a column view.
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OS X (at the POSIX level) assumes UTF-8 and normalizes file names to decomposed form (NFD). If for example you `date >$'\xC3\xBC'` (i.e. ‘ü’), then the actual stored file name is `$'\x75\xCC\88'` (i.e. ‘ü’ — assuming
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by kps 2y ago
My parents spoke German when I was a baby, but switched fully to English when I could walk so that I would fit in with other neighbourhood children. I learned to read in English. I can still understand sufficiently simple spoken German and
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by kps 2y ago
The first LEGO set I had as a kid was https://brickset.com/sets/325-3/Shell-Service-Station (issued 1966) with a special-purpose baseplate, doors, sign, gas pumps, and entirely non-LEGO-compatible tank truck.
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by kps 2y ago
Anecdata… my first language was German, which I can no longer speak (and never learned to read).
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In my first computing job I used ed for about six months (we didn't have character-mode I/O yet). I learned to make good use of regular expressions.
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/bin/true used to be an empty file. On my desktop here, it's 35K (not counting shared libraries), which is an asolute increase of 35K and a relative increase of ∞%.
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And here I thought the headline was corpspeak for layoffs.
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Might be https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406450 as in https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=158755 tl;dr There's a ‘filename’ version and a ‘URL’ version of the dialog. Some things are incor
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TFA = The Featured Article… or something.
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Three critical among eight injured, according to https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/article/live-updat...
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Vim is also POSIX-compliant (or very close, with compatibility options, on a POSIX platform). Neovim doesn't have that goal.
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The article links to an ‘appendix’ of known digital versions, though it's easy to miss: https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/r...
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Today is Friday the 11490th of September 1993.
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One related: If you are a terminal emulator, and you default your TERM to xterm-somethingorother, it is on you to actually support xterm control sequences.
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`--long` options started with GNU (I think) but were soon adopted more widely. One of the really nice things about ksh that bash has neglected to copy is that its `getopts` easily handles long options and has built-in `--help`.
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by kps 2y ago
For MacOS there's https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ For Linux, unfortunately xkb is overcomplicated and undercapable, and it's like pulling teeth to get a layout recognized as a first-class citizen by a Linux
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In 2018 the European grid lost a cumulative 6 minutes due to a Serbia/Kosovo dispute.

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