On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:14 PM Michael Galea via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09/12/2020 13.42, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less > >> than simple > >> 'idea'? > > > > "Reasonable" is quite subjective. What's reasonable for me might be > > downright paltry for other people. > > snip > > laughing, in .bashrc.. I have > PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a ~/.bash_history" > So I Save each command right after it has been executed, not at the end > of the session. This interleaves the history from multiple sessions and > prevents loss in the event of crashes. > > > > > -- the desktop's indexer (like Tracker, Spotlight, Windows Search). I > > can't live without this. A system without this isn't one I'd choose to > > use. Yes, they chew CPU and storage but they remember! everything! for! > > you! > > > > Maybe my findings aren't worth much, though. I recently found two > > independent reimplementations of exactly the same project roughly two > > years apart on my system … as I was about to implement precisely the > > same thing for the third time. > > For me, this translates into not writing code I have already written. To > prevent this I: > - record the locations where code Ive written resides and index it. I > then use a search tool (a la grep) that searches the index. > - wrote a curses based script that writes scripts based on checked > selections of what code snippets and packaged libraries to include. > This is very much in the direction where I'm headed except your goal is primarily involved with 'text' - - - - yes its programming but its still largely text (of a form anyway) where I need to add a lot of other things.
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