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RPN calculator program implementations of the math behind a paper previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610

My expanded version clarifies that, among other things: https://tangentsoft.com/podman/wiki?name=Not%20a%20Drop-In%2... Thanks!

Thanks! I've expanded it into an article, still in rough draft form but available here: https://tangentsoft.com/podman/wiki?name=Not%20a%20Drop-In%2...

> huge uid didn't work in podman (like 1000000 I think) You're running into the `/etc/sub[ug]id` defaults. The old default was to start your normal user at 100000 + 64k additional …

Broadly, the claim that Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker is true only for the simple cases, but people have developed assorted dependencies on Docker implementation detai…

> github.com…I don't want an 'impedance mismatch' between my system and their system So give your contributors developer accounts on your Fossil instance, which is super-cheap to s…

Fossil's method is backwards-compatible, and we published the method for it five years ago (2017-03-05): https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/hashpolicy.wiki

We don't know how to push bad artifacts into a Merkle tree by exploiting SHA-1's weaknesses. The thing is, though, we didn't want to be pushed into scrambling for a better hash alg…

It's easy to strap the color-coding JS library of your choice to Fossil. Here's an instance using Prism.js and its Cay theme: https://tangentsoft.com/mikrotik/wiki?name=Maintaining…

All of which is why Fossil now uses SHA3-256 by default. How long is it going to take Git to follow?

> all those features. The forum, chat, and Pikchr features have been added since then. Indeed, everything in the Fossil ChangeLog has been added since then, because it cuts off a f…

When Fossil didn't have those features, the frequent complaints were that Fossil doesn't have those features, and that's why they had to keep using $INERTIA_SOURCE. Now that it has…

I'm the type of guy that would store the Pikchrs in the version control system alongside the HTML, then write a Makefile to regenerate the SVGs referenced from the HTML every time …

No technology popular enough to attract an audience ever goes away. However, would you care to speculate on how many troff documents were written in 2021 versus Markdown docs?

If you leave off the "pikchr" tag or use something else like "PikchrSource", then the renderer doesn't trigger. If you want to see it both ways, Fossil renders the diagrams with an…

I daresay there is no DVCS appropriate for many large files that change. You want something more like a classic non-distributed VCS so you're not cloning the entire history of huge…

The thing is, Fossil is also a huge improvement over Subversion without losing its day-to-day simplicity.

Fossil was designed by someone coming from CVS, so its everyday CLI is actually closest to that. As a Subversion expat, I found Fossil quite easy to pick up, modulo a few quibbles …

Fossil is that thing: a simplified DVCS that doesn't have important bits missing. There are certainly cases where Git is the right tool, but it's vastly overapplied, used because i…

Complexity is fine in something like a programming language or a text editor where increasing mastery can mean better software and hopefully more money. How do I make more money by…

"Detached head" is Git's way of saying "I don't know how to find my children when you say something like 'git checkout abcd1234'". Fossil can do this, so you can point someone to a…

1. Fossil syncs branching and tagging info among all clones; it isn't local state as with Git. Therefore, when you're looking at a timeline, others' branches and such are named, la…

> tests that cannot be run locally Fossil just got a "patch" command to help with cases like that: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/patchcmd.md Previously, the standard so…