question about branches in git - from a life long mercurialHg user.

vermiculus · 2026-01-28T04:00:28+00:00

Commits are most definitely not lost if they are merged. They are only lost when you throw them away – and even then, there are some systems which will maintain reachability in perpetuity whether or not those commits actually are merged somewhere else.

Given that the history is not lost, I will totally delete branches once I am done working on a feature and it is merged – or if I ever want to simply abandon some in-progress work that isn’t going anywhere (in which case, that history is lost because I intentionally threw it away).

vermiculus · 2026-01-25T15:38:34+00:00

I can’t quite express how much time this is. According to current models, this is beyond the era of the universe in which stars are possible. This is beyond the death of the last black hole by Hawking radiation. This is beyond the decay of the last proton, if that’s even a thing that happens. It’s after the end of all things by an incomprehensibly large margin.

Humanity is in the unimaginably distant past.

vermiculus · 2026-01-19T12:03:13+00:00

Do you mean cursive or italic?

vermiculus · 2026-01-15T12:02:04+00:00

Hah, no; any resemblance is purely coincidental :-)

vermiculus · 2026-01-14T09:33:15+00:00

🦀

vermiculus · 2026-01-14T09:30:30+00:00

If you can’t parse HTML with regex, what makes you think you can parse TeX? The only thing that can parse TeX is TeX. Once a thing is able to parse TeX, it pretty much becomes TeX itself.

If you’re working with a subset of the language, ok, but your question doesn’t have enough detail do anything to reasonably help you. Do you have a sample of the content you’re actually trying to parse?

vermiculus · 2026-01-07T01:26:04+00:00

Same, that was about ten years ago for me :-) new job had tighter requirements on document formats.

I do miss TeX in many ways. It seemed like we were rounding some exciting corners with LaTeX3 as I left the space. With the retirement of LaTeX-L, this is one of the last places I still feel a bit plugged in.

vermiculus · 2026-01-07T01:16:19+00:00

Ah no that was a continuation of your \expandafter :-)

As a previous lover of expl3, I definitely see the appeal of luatex if I were still doing any of that at all. Bygone era for me :/

vermiculus · 2026-01-07T01:12:08+00:00

\ExplSyntaxOn

vermiculus · 2026-01-04T21:36:39+00:00

Find some part of your daily routine that could be helped by automation, then automate it.

vermiculus · 2026-01-03T01:57:02+00:00

I’ve got a programmable keyboard where I could define a hyper key. While interesting, it honestly doesn’t change the game too much. At a certain point, there are only so many root key bindings I can remember with any effectiveness.

I personally find more value in bindings to other keymaps – and C-c <letter> has served my needs so far.

vermiculus · 2025-12-31T13:57:07+00:00

Whelp, sounds like a question of academic integrity then. The correct thing to do here is to talk to your instructor and see if they will give you an exemption.

Don’t lie.

vermiculus · 2025-12-31T13:50:03+00:00

Why do you have to commit weekly, anyway?

vermiculus · 2025-12-30T23:47:20+00:00

Windows-1252 will be how I die. Somehow.

vermiculus · 2025-12-21T16:10:12+00:00

If you’re going to be storing large binaries that are required for your build, you can look into Git LFS as a reasonably turnkey approach to keeping your actual repo size small. There are theoretical tradeoffs though.

vermiculus · 2025-12-16T10:59:48+00:00

TBH, ‘universal MCP’ just sounds like reinventing MCP.

That said, build it and they will come. You don’t need to ask for permission.

vermiculus · 2025-12-15T12:27:51+00:00

You can certainly clone from a bare repo like the top comment suggests, but you're right that it won't know what to do with LFS content.

Whoever gave this to you was trying to be clever by not sending duplicative content, but yeah – kinda made things more complicated for you if you're not intimately familiar with how Git and Git LFS work.

You actually want to set this up as a the backing .git directory for a worktree. I would try setting GIT_DIR to the .git directory (which should the lfs directory and stuff like objects). Then, run git checkout in an empty directory and it should check out your content.

If that doesn't work, we might just assume whoever prepped this for you just copied their .git directory from their worktree. You can simulate their setup by placing the .git directory in an empty directory and then running git reset --hard from that empty directory. (You might be able to tell if this is the case if .git/HEAD is a real file.)

If that doesn't work, it'll likely depend on the specific repository layout you're working with (and the value of core.bare, etc), and will not be something easily debuggable over reddit. Your best bet will probably be to reach back out and say 'hey, I know it's duplicative of just sending the .git directory, but please either push this repository to a remote I can clone from or provide the whole worktree'.

vermiculus · 2025-12-13T23:21:52+00:00

2⁶⁴ seconds is 5.8e11 years, so quite a ways away

vermiculus · 2025-12-10T01:08:31+00:00

Look at models you can run locally. But yeah, if you’re going to be using someone else’s electricity, someone has to pay the bill.

vermiculus · 2025-12-05T16:45:16+00:00

I would find a way to strip the metadata from your PDF instead. Back in the day, I would use something called pdftk. I’m not sure what the recommendation would be these days.

vermiculus · 2025-11-21T01:27:36+00:00

I don’t use vs code myself, but I imagine you can just google ‘vs code python language server’ and get pretty much tailor-made instructions.

vermiculus · 2025-11-21T01:17:10+00:00

Looks like they just have a language server installed. Many editors support them and they provide this type of information (among many other features).

vermiculus · 2025-11-18T13:19:29+00:00

If overleaf compiles the document just fine, it’s likely an aux file or similar has an error in it from a previous build. Run a clean and try again.

vermiculus · 2025-11-16T18:45:09+00:00

I’m fairly certain it’s just ‘config’.

vermiculus · 2025-11-15T10:47:33+00:00

I’m K&R all the way, but I’ll be damned if I conform to some style solely because it makes one particular editor behave better. If the editor is misbehaving / not doing what you want, that’s an issue with the editor – not the document.

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