DagAgren

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by DagAgren 7y ago
"Unhelpful"? We have a specific problem we are trying to solve. That problem is: Too much CO2, right now. The term is obviously useful in solving that problem. Nobody is worrying about CO2 on geological timescales. It is simply no
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by DagAgren 7y ago
"Here is some data you can use you can use to make your user experience worse"
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Satellite images are not map data in the same way that a photo of a machine is not a blueprint.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
They basically always have a good reason to attack people. If you get attacked by one, it's up to you to figure out why and then not do that again. A lot of the time it's because you are getting too close to their nests during nes
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Look at a chicken! They are incredibly dinosaur-like.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Crows do this to some extent. They gather collective knowledge and pass it on to their offspring. If you act maliciously towards a crow, it will teach its friends that you are dangerous, and they will all warn each other if you approach. Th
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Where I live, an island right by the mainland, birds of prey are not allowed. If one shows up, the crows will all take to the air, maybe fifty to a hundred of them, and will yell and chase the bird of prey until it leaves the island. Once i
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Well, then, you claim FOSS is in a great place. Is it really? SOME of it is, sure. The big successful projects. But what about the rest of it?
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Why, when we can use a proper encoding that actually contains the letters you want to use?
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by DagAgren 7y ago
By that measure, a lot of FOSS is not a healthy community.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Is it? Which part of the FOSS ideology or principles says that it's about doing things in your free time that you don't get paid for?
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by DagAgren 7y ago
But as she says, she wasn't doing that. She was making funny videos about crap robots so she wouldn't have to face the fear of trying to build something good, and failing. That isn't learning, it's the exact opposite. An
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by DagAgren 7y ago
The videos were funny. They had value. But they were also a gimmick. A single joke, repeated. And sticking with the same joke would be sad. She can do other things, and she's daring to do other things now, and those other things are hi
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Nobody has said that they were anything to look down on. They were funny, they were successful, they made her famous. However, it can at the same time be true that they represented her own fear of failure, and were holding her back from act
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Latin-1 will definitely not suffice. And Unicode exists, and is near-universally supported and used. Just use it. It's ok. Really.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Accents and diacriticals are far from "hyper specialised", they are how many people are taught to write, and want to write. And - is not a dash, it is a minus. It does not suffice as a replacement for a real en or em dash in a pro
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by DagAgren 7y ago
I'm not sure the argument "FOSS has done fine so far" is that convincing when you then lay out many of the places where FOSS has been failing miserably.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Yes, and I am saying that is not a great thing for FOSS.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
"Programmers don't like this because Linux is shit" isn't a great argument against anything, really.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Ironically, you can't even write proper English in ASCII. It is missing many characters widely used in English text.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
> For a long time, building shitty robots meant Giertz never had to face failure, even if the robots themselves failed. “One of the things that I've been trying to figure out is: Was building shitty robots in some way a method for m
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by DagAgren 7y ago
But every person, sensible or not, has bills to pay. When you say "no sensible person goes into FOSS for the money" you are saying "most people can't afford to actively maintain a FOSS project", and you really can&#
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by DagAgren 7y ago
FUSE is generally shipped as a separate executable, which requires no modifications. So no, GPL would have changed nothing. Companies would still have been able to ship it unmodified for free without contributing anything. They could have k
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by DagAgren 7y ago
No, it was not. However, the claim that it was was a lie that was spread far and wide through social media and by the right-wing media. So again, no, it's not "both sides do it". It's mainly the right.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Keeping an eye on cryptocurrency scammer channels?
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by DagAgren 7y ago
The ARM 7 is a pretty good processor, so it can get a lot done on 16 MHz. Quite a bit more than what an x86 of similar clock speed ever could.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Low resolution combine with a decently fast processor means software rendering is entirely doable. It's a comparable situation to very early PC 3D gaming.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Have you never got large merge conflicts because one branch made some changes to a block of code, and the other left it intact but changed its indentation? That kind of thing would not happen in a better representation.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
More expressive representations of source code enables better merging. Merging code as opaque strings of text is a bad choice, and causes lots of problems to programmers every day.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
If you need a popup to tell you how to use the most basic feature of your UI, that is a sign you need to rethink your UI.

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