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New comment by chr86 in "Beej's Guide to Git"

chr86 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:16:32 +0000

Ok, so unless I'm missing something, this is a big error.

In 9.4 there's no way reallinux/master points to same commit as master after the merge. It will still be where it was, one commit behind.

New comment by chr86 in "Beej's Guide to Git"

chr86 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:12:07 +0000

Hey great work beej! I've read pro git and your guide is very good.

So in figure 5.4 you say we merge 2 commits into a new one and somehow both branches point to new commit. This will definitely confuse people new to git.

I'd say it's better to write we merge anotherBranch into someBranch and leave the former where it is. Same for the next merge.

Just a suggestion

New comment by chr86 in "From the Bretton Woods system to global stagnation [pdf]"

chr86 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 07:18:19 +0000

I believe the user is referring to the iPhone here.

New comment by chr86 in "Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially Unix"

chr86 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 03:52:28 +0000

For me it's the fact that options cannot come at the end, eg this "rm somedir -r" which I always do (habit) works only with gnu version of cmds.

New comment by chr86 in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

chr86 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:50:53 +0000

On my work's slack, we have a bot that says (I'm paraphrasing) "please use folks, as guys is exclusionary/gendered etc".

New comment by chr86 in "Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets"

chr86 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:26:40 +0000

Bring in the lions!

New comment by chr86 in "The dog cull of 1760 divided London"

chr86 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:22:36 +0000

Stray dogs are a pretty common sight in Greek streets. Although what's truly wild is the number of stray cats, especially in the suburbs!

chr86 — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 03:49:38 +0000

Note what beej said, he didn't say anything about putting his own name on the books. Only that he'd sell them and pocket the money

New comment by chr86 in "How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is"

chr86 — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:15:10 +0000

Myself, I had already switched to Colemak when I developed RSI due to heavy typing at my work. What did it for me was the unnatural position of my hands, wrists bent upwards and outwards in order to fit onto the "tiny" laptop keyboard.

The solution was simply to switch to a run-of-the-mill ergonomic keyboard (ERGO K860) and surprise, surprise, my RSI lessened and eventually disappeared in 2 weeks or so.

So, for me it was definitely the hand posture, NOT the layout that caused the problems!

Hacker News: chr86

New comment by chr86 in "Beej's Guide to Git"

New comment by chr86 in "Beej's Guide to Git"

New comment by chr86 in "From the Bretton Woods system to global stagnation [pdf]"

New comment by chr86 in "Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially Unix"

New comment by chr86 in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

New comment by chr86 in "Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets"

New comment by chr86 in "The dog cull of 1760 divided London"

New comment by chr86 in "Do we need copyright? (2012)"

New comment by chr86 in "How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is"