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I'm working my way through "Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding". Thank you so much, HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079995

Do you use Pijul? From time to time, I do a 'pijul pull -a' into the pijul source tree, and I get a conflict (no local work on my part). Is there a way to do a tracking update pull…

> there is no way to separate it There is git subtree --help May get complicated at the edges, as files move across boundaries. It's a hard problem. And for some subset of those pr…

Baumol’s Cost Disease or Baumol Effect [1]. Thanks for mentioning. I think it deserves more air time, especially looking at typical responses (raising price, reducing quality) and …

I worked on bk > The data received was SCCS, which was an understood format with existing tools. You'd be surprised. SCCS is not broadly understood. And BK is not exactly SCCS. I r…

I had him as a teacher for my 2nd CS class in 1976, I think it was data structures using Pascal. I don't think I had another class which we laughed so much. Enough learning and fun…

Yes! Thank you. On to exploring!

The blc.S didn’t build for me using `-oformat:binary` . Changing to `--oformat=binary` it compiled, but then get core dumps. Running Linux x86_64 up to date Ubuntu 20.04.4 . for cc…

An example: The 4th paragraph from the end of section II talks about optional deltas. It's like ifdefs in a version control system: many version can be checkout with or without som…

A reasonable direction to go, and I'll give sort of a non-response. For me, it's to take some time to absorb and celebrate this paper. If I go too quickly to doing better, I tend t…

This amazing paper holds a special place in my heart: my marked up 1992 copy serving me well when working as a graph and weave engineer on BitKeeper. To me, SCCS is both a marvel a…

All the files that begin with L in : https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/tcl/tree/master/generic

Maybe because Mercurial is GPL? I saw that too, and wondered as you did. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/file/tip/COPYING

> I've never had an SFO PIT flight without layovers. About 10 years ago, I did a round trip a month, each under $300 and all flights non-stop. Then USAirways hub status left, and t…

Interesting. "^AI Spec" where Spec feeds into a predicate f(Spec, Version) to control printing a particular Version? Looks like you could drop the ^AE lines.

Thank you! A peek into the (as far as I know) into root node of source control history.

| CDC's MODIFY and Cray's clone UPDATE, were kind of like SCCS Do you have references? I've heard of these but haven't come across details after much creative searching since they …