CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
I do a similar thing with my terminal emulator: Different background colours in PuTTY depending on which server it's connected to. Green for Dev, red for Prod...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I don't personally care about what's going on in the DRC either, but I do care about the entire city being safe The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country, not a city.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> (i.e. is >> a greater than, or closing two template expressions?) I thought it was a pointer-dereference signifier(, or maybe an object-string-stream thingy)? If you mean C++, that is.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> and libre version is GPL3 cancer which is not suitable for commercial development. YTF would GPL v. 3 be "cancer" for commercial development? (Shades of Ballmer; is Linux also "a cancer" to you?) EULAs have all kind
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by CRConrad 2y ago
How many open implementations are there of Rust? (Serious question; I genuinely don't know. Always assumed it was about 1, though.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Tbh, how does this work through? Depends on what you mean by “this”. What, the forum itself? That should be pretty self-explanatory. IIRC you can read without being signed in, but to post, you need to register. Should be a link at leas
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Here and on Reddit As I said, I haven't seen any actual responses here -- only non-response "responses". So are you saying they gave any different ones there? If so, where, specifically? Or if you're claiming any
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by CRConrad 2y ago
IWeThey is among the best, probably the best, Web forums I know. It has one killer feature that HN sorely lacks: It shows edit history, edited posts have a link to show all previous versions. AFAICR it's open source; I think there is
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But in this case, as I understood it, fully optional? (Maybe not, only read it rather cursorily.) So in that case, might be useful anyway. Otherwise, yeah, me too.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Recently added a trick to snapshot all the public links I save - my copy and on Archive.is - link rot is real. Someone here needs exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502576 (And possibly me too.) So ye
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Bookmark applications are generally a failure for long term storage because links always change over time.. Combine them with an automatic-upload-to-archive-dot-org-(if-not-there-already?) function, and save the link to that also? Dunn
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> people who own the company (technically also shareholders...) Unless they are a "GmbH & Co KG"?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
All I've seen here are non-response "responses". You saying they actually responded on Reddit, or what?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Those spaces at the beginnings of the lines that format your text as monospaced are probably also what makes your links non-clickable. (OK, sure, you can click them -- but they don't take you anywhere.) And why would anyone need anyt
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Across 10k-100k+ servers If you "need" that many servers (and aren't Google), you've built your systems massively wrong.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
So what? * Bad instructions that the computer can't execute are still instructions for the computer to execute, they're just bad ones. * And if they're only printed in a textbook and never actually entered into a code editor,
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'm guessing it wasn't.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Again, "wrong" is a judgement, not a fact. Whether something is "wrong" depends largely on how negative vs positive the reviewer wants to spin it. 1 + 1 = 3 OK, go tell the world that's not wrong. > There&#x
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Seems to have been deleted: "404 Page not found".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Totally concur with your last paragraph. But, considering that the author is apparently one of the people behind the competing format mentioned, protobuf, your first paragraph feels way off.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The problem with your analogy is that you chose something with serious undeniable consequences: STIs. Their thesis was that broken JSON also can have serious undeniable consequences, so there is no problem with the analogy AFAICS. >
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> They aren't claiming incompetence and you're being rude. No they weren't. > Ironically there is some projection here about playing dumb since you're pretending you don't understand why getting and spreading
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> companies using ancient stacks for no reason whatsoever. Luckily, companies like that are becoming a minority. Wow. I'd like to live in your world. Where I am, they seem to be the norm.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"That decade"? Can't say I've seen any actual signs of change in that.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Especially since it's now the erstwhile upstart frenemy that sits in the driver's seat. They have institutional memory of where they came from, so they know to be on their guard against the same thing happening to themselves.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> IBM did insist that the new version run all of the 1.x 16 bit stuff, but like DOS and Win 3.x mode this was done through some virtualization if memory serves. Kind of, but IIRC it was a fundamentally different and more low-level kind o
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I still can't make my mind up as to whether that's an in-joke or just coinkydink.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Dismisses the entire article which, as far as I can tell, is pretty factual. AFAICS it can be factual about IBM's incompetence, and Microsoft being a sleazy underhanded anti-competitor also be true.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Bit of both, I'd think.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
NB: "old Windows was far better at these things than ... any current Linux DE", where "these things" is explicitly the breadth of desktop UI user settings, and to a slightly lesser degree, applications respecting them.

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