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A couple other people mentioned ClearCase which has something similar if you use their NFS based thing, you could see file or directory history and info by accessing something like `foo.c@@/versions/5` (which isn't ordinarily visible when listing its directory). Pretty nifty.

Your workspaces were also copy-on-write from the base file revisions you were using.

Chess in SQL 4 months ago

DuckDB and Microsoft Access (!) have a PIVOT keyword (possibly others too). The latter is of course limited but the former is pretty robust - I've been able to use it for all I've needed.

It's C++ programs in a Userscript format, which are compiled with a bundled instance of clang. Windhawk shows diffs of version changes, and most programs aren't much longer than a couple dozen lines, so pretty easy to visually verify

I love LINQPad and happily pay for the license.

My hope is that once he figures out the CLR host for Mac that he'll also come out with a Linux version of LPRun, since I want to automate some of my scripts on a cheap Linux VPS instead of a local windows scheduled task on my PC

Many older .NET applications saved programmers from this by providing "C# scripts". The framework includes the compiler and then it's trivial to use the compiled artifact. You can still do it by including the Roslyn libraries. I don't see it as much anymore, or it's some half-baked Python or Lua interface.

As a fellow 2012 Denon owner (AVR 3313) you can probably remove the RPi and just use HTTP. Just use devtools on your browser to do an action in the web UI and see what request it sends, then replicate it in shortcuts.

And there's a internet radio capability built in - you have to pay $20 or so a year for it but it should be easy enough to set up a competing service since it uses unencrypted HTTP - probably just a matter of reimplementing the protocol and then DNS redirect.

I'm not sure what hifi system OP has, but another way to do this is by emulating the iPod remote mode over USB. It saves a bunch of trouble with emulating files. Denon/Marantz products have supported (and i believe still do) for a very long time

History of Tcl 3 years ago

Not really. Most of the tcl that gets written is very straightforward and business-logic. The framework you're using is pretty much just the host tool. Trying to integrate other libraries is often difficult if the tcl runtime is missing some features (looking at you, xilinx...)

You'd be surprised. I've worked at 2 large hardware companies you've definitely heard of and both use tcsh. I guess it's a holdover from the early-mid 90s when the shell story was very different from today, especially across unixes (we had some SunOS and AIX) and from what I understand csh was the most portable or consistent.

Old habits die hard

There's tools like Wondershare transfer. It's not free but does a surprisingly good job of converting between android and iOS. Somehow they figured out the secret sauce of Apple's backups and charge only $40 or so for the privilege (no affiliation btw). For me, it was worth it