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notPlancha commented on What TeX Gets Right   newton.cx/~peter/2024/wha... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
notPlancha · a year ago
> Now, it’s certainly possible that one could develop a new, generative typesetting language that captures the virtues that I’ve discussed above and is free of TeX’s historical baggage.

Like typst?

notPlancha commented on PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub   pypy.org/posts/2023/12/py... · Posted by u/lumpa
aeurielesn · 2 years ago
Why do people like Mercurial branches? Was it revamped? I hate it when I used it.

By all means, I prefer Git branches.

notPlancha · 2 years ago
Pypy described the following in the FAQ:

> The difference between git branches and named branches is not that important in a repo with 10 branches (no matter how big). But in the case of PyPy, we have at the moment 1840 branches. Most are closed by now, of course. But we would really like to retain (both now and in the future) the ability to look at a commit from the past, and know in which branch it was made. Please make sure you understand the difference between the Git and the Mercurial branches to realize that this is not always possible with Git— we looked hard, and there is no built-in way to get this workflow.

> Still not convinced? Consider this git repo with three commits: commit #2 with parent #1 and head of git branch “A”; commit #3 with also parent #1 but head of git branch “B”. When commit #1 was made, was it in the branch “A” or “B”? (It could also be yet another branch whose head was also moved forward, or even completely deleted.)

In this post they say that "Github notes solves much of point (1): the difficulty of discovering provenance of commits, although not entirely"

notPlancha commented on Will browsers be required by law to stop you from visiting infringing sites?   techdirt.com/2023/08/04/w... · Posted by u/rntn
notPlancha · 2 years ago
So is this a counter example to Betteridge's law of headlines
notPlancha commented on Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin   twitter.com/BrendanEich/s... · Posted by u/jacooper
matrixxxboT · 2 years ago
>I don't understand a lot of the hate for Brave.

Let me help you understand why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...

That's the one and only real reason why they hate brave, all the other reasons are just excuses they like to tell to themselves and to others.

notPlancha · 2 years ago
If I had a dollar for every product I use with a piece of shit CEOs I'd be a millionare

u/notPlancha

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