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  • Windows will never come close to replacing Linux! There’s way more Linux out there than there is Windows.

    Presumably you mean on the personal desktop. In which case I still disagree in the very long term. I think at some point Windows will be replaced by *nix based systems in the vein of OSX and Chrome OS.





  • Git’s unconventional and decentralized design—nowadays ubiquitous and seemingly obvious—was revolutionary at the time,

    Of course, there’s more innovation in git than being DVC but the decentralized nature wasn’t revolutionary.

    It was funny when I started using bzr and then git, I kept being told “it’s a DVC, which is a different way to work that takes some getting used to”, and I was puzzled as it felt very familiar to me. Then I looked up DVCs and found out that Sun’s Teamware that I’d used for a decade was also a DVC. It was actually a return to familiar and comfortable workflows after a brief period using abominations like Perforce and Clearcase. I’m so glad they’ve been largely replaced. Git may not be perfect, but it’s better than those in any use cases I have had.







  • When bzr, and then git, turned up and I started using them, I was told “this is DVC, which is a whole new model that takes getting used to”, so I was surprised it seemed normal and straightforward to me.

    Then I found out that Sun’s Teamware, that I had been using for many years, was a DVC, hence it wasn’t some new model. I’d had a few intervening years on other abominable systems and it was a relief to get back to DVC.

    Regarding the original post, are there really people around now who think that before git there was no version control? I’ve never worked without using version control, and I started in the 80s.


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    In particular our bodies are good at selecting the cells and organelles that are most damaged and decrepit to be broken down for material and fuel for the rest of the body. And it’s obviously an evolutionary advantage to do that.

    When you refeeding after a long fast, growth hormones are released that trigger replacement. So there’s seem to be some rejuvenation and other benefits.

    It’s difficult to measure key parts of the process on a still living subject so we have to guess and extrapolate for humans. And other aspects aren’t well explained or understood. So there’s a lot of questionably reliable info and explanations, some of which are plausible. Like this!