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by at-fates-hands 4708 days ago
Imagine trying to keep track of this in paper form instead of digitally.
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Imagine? I used to do it. When I first started out, I would get stacks of the Chicago Municipal Code revisions on onionskin and it was my job to follow the instructions to update the five-inch binder.

"Remove pages 123.4 - 123.6 and replace with pages 123.4a-123.7."

Later, when I learned about diffs, I understood the concept immediately.

They've been doing exactly that for about 237 years.