Beltalowda

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by Beltalowda 4y ago
That's just a heuristic.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Many would disagree that modern Apache people affected by this. I read the blog post, and didn't find it particularly convincing. It's also just the opinion of a few people in what seems like a fairly small organisation.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
If you accept the possibility of the multiverse as a "solution" to why the laws of the universe allow for life to develop in the first place (in quotes as it's not really a solution as it can never be proven), then it seems t
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors?from=2021... Most of the commits are updates to dependencies and the like. So basically, no one is, outside of preventing too much "bit rot" and so
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
That entire site reads like "what if Elizabeth Holmes set up a power generation company?" Reading up on the company on Wikipedia, it seems to be pretty much exactly that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillian
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It just got delayed AFAIK.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I use xrandr --scale 0.8x0.8 and it seems alright to me.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Dimensions 14.59″ × 9.76″ × 0.71″ (37.06 × 24.79 × 1.80 cm) Weight 3.95 lbs (1.79kg)
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Pretty much all parsers have some way to "safely" parse a YAML document which disables the custom-object unmarshal stuff; sometimes this is the default, sometimes not, some libraries/languages don't support this at all i
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Of course it costs more, this is why. You essentially get what you pay for. The pricing isn't that different. It's just a worse service. - Can't open the damn window in >95% of hotels. It's often too warm. - Nois
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Windows is no longer Microsoft's main focus, and hasn't been for quite a few years. It's about 12% of their revenue. The main income is now Azure, Office 365, and an assortment of other smaller (comparatively) things like Sur
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
None of that bears any relation to what happens in the Go community. Google is not a monolithic entity. The Go team operates pretty much independently from gmail and other stuff. Yes, there is a problem with Google randomly disabling accoun
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
That 4GB figure is for a repo at git.lubar.me, a self-hosted git repo where – quoting the person running it – "I am the only person in the world using this Go module". In this context, that seems like a lot. Of course the module m
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I don't want to be on their radar or a target of some sort of witch hunt. My first thought at the time was "oh gosh, it's not just me!" I think many people had a similar feeling. I don't think it's really
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Why does the Go team ban so many people? As far as I know, they don't. AFAIK the two cases discussed here are the only two notable ones (that is, people who are not outright trolls and the like).
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Yes, I agree. Everyone deserves another chance, several of them even. I'm reasonably sure there had been at least Slack bans before though; this wasn't the first ban (I thought I mentioned this before, but looks like I forgot).
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I don't think it's reasonable to use it as grounds to suggest that anyone should have their servers DoSed by Google with no recourse Of course not; this entire thread isn't necessarily hugely on-topic here, but it got br
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Social science research has a dramatically poor replication rate, so on that basis alone I'm skeptical of the numbers even if he did interpret them correctly. It's not a perfect science, but that doesn't mean "do no
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
The question is: how many other valuable contributors are you missing out on because of that person? The "classic" example of this is Ulrich Drepper, who maintained GNU libc for many years. Everyone agrees he's a great progra
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I’m glad people spoke up. You could reasonably agree or disagree with Filippo take, and after quite a bit of discussion it was decided to not deprecate the opengpg[1]. I'm pretty sure that Drew's comment contributed exactly
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I've noticed that claims like this are never backed by any evidence of this improvement, or evidence of people who actually have been chased away by rudeness. I am one of them. I've seen other people claim the same. I did not
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Oh right, I didn't know you had to login to see that.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30141#issuecomment-46427... I don't have a full list of all posts at hand (some of which may be removed), but I've seen some other similar stuff as well; it'
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> when it appeared there was a clear winner Dep was very slow, tried to be very clever often resulting in it "cleverly" doing the wrong thing, and was generally a pain to deal with. At $dayjob we migrated to dep and then we h
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I was also taken aback when Peter Bourgon, a great programmer and contributor to the go ecosystem was banned from all go channels. Bourgon was frequently helpful and great, but also frequently rude, condensing, dismissive, and genera
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
One difference is that many Asian climates tend to be warmer, and housing and kitchens are often better ventilated, especially during winter. It's tricky to compare the two.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Heavy censorship (not even Reddit works!) so have to get a VPN to do any meaningful browsing. This depends on your ISP I believe; Telkom blocks Reddit, but I believe others do allow it. You don't need a VPN to bypass it, DNS-over-
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
According to Facebook Mercurial was faster for them, but that was in 2014 and they had to put work in to actually make it fast. Their use case is rather outside the mainstream of course. "When we first started working on Mercurial,
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Do you have any legal recourse if Apple suspends your account? I thought it basically boils down to "it's their app store, you agreed to the ToS, sucks to be you"?
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Anything non standard and you get the long forms instead! If only. Instead you run in to catch-22s and simply get a shrug and "it's not possible". The big downside of being the "easiest/most efficient" is

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