LukeShu

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by LukeShu 3y ago
For a full year it stood for "Yet Another Markup Language". First draft: https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-03-30.html Last draft calling it that: https://yaml.org/spec/history/
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by LukeShu 3y ago
1. While your context about auto-tuning is accurate and valuable, it doesn't really address the fundamental strangeness that the parent post is commenting about: It's still strange that it can auto-tune to a higher value than you
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Font layout engines are only Turing-complete if the stack is unbounded (to be fair: that's true actual computers too: they're not Turing-complete because they don't have infinite RAM), and AFAIK the major font engines all imp
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by LukeShu 3y ago
That's correct.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
IMO, it's terrible enough that that stuff breaking would be a good thing.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Since Emacs 27.1, if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/ exists and neither ~/.emacs nor ~/.emacs.d/ exist, then it will set user-emacs-directory to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/ instead of ~/.emacs.d/.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
I mean, Emacs respects the convention, developed ~40 years after Emacs was first released.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
He also wrote the (now finished) webcomic Casey and Andy . I don't think I've ever shown it to an engineer who didn't instantly love it.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
By default, most things assume that tags are immutable and won't check for updates to a tag. So tags aren't great for things that can expire or otherwise need to be changed.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
The concept of falsification was introduced by Karl Popper in 1934... not 200 years ago. Popper is a historically important philosopher of science, but under scrutiny much of his thinking doesn't actually match up with how science is
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Nope, that's how it works with Git.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
My apologies. Denis contributed 2 documentation patches in 2019. That said, he is a Coreboot contributor, so it's not like he's a total outsider.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Leah created Libreboot, and nobody other than Leah has ever done a release of Libreboot or a Libreboot derivative. Then, Denis and Adrien come along and decide+announce that because they don't like a change that Leah made to Libreboo
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Leah created Libreboot in 2014. Leah stepped away from Libreboot in 2016, after some drama between her and the FSF. Two Libreboot community members, Andrew and Sebastian, became the Libreboot maintainers. In 2021, after Andrew and Sebastia
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by LukeShu 3y ago
I mean, yes, but it was brought to a crest then. It went from a bunch of folks in the community separately saying "yeah, he's kinda problematic..." to a bunch of folks standing together and saying "he's problematic
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by LukeShu 3y ago
With links: RYF: Respects Your Freedom certification requirements: https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria FSDG: Free Software Distribution Guidelines: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distributi
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by LukeShu 3y ago
> Isn't Leah the person that sold ThinkPads on behalf of Libreboot No: She sold librebooted laptops under the brand "gluglug" and later "minifree". This was never "on behalf of Libreboot"; it was alw
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by LukeShu 3y ago
There was the spat of drama in 2016, and the view of "always in the middle of drama" is IMO confirmation bias since then (the financial trouble in 2020, then Leah's return to libreboot in 2021.) Today's drama is part of
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Christine Lemmer-Webber ( https://dustycloud.org/contact/ ) may be able to put you in touch with Ian's surviving partner.
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by LukeShu 3y ago
I would have sworn that HN is where I saw https://staticfree.info/ian/ but at the time I didn't realize why it was timely. The best link I know is Christine Lemmer-Webber's post: https://octodon.soc
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by LukeShu 3y ago
> There are services like rsync.net that support borg at a lower price. And rsync.net is even one of them! "Special "borg accounts" are available at a very deep discount for technically proficient users." -- https:
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by LukeShu 3y ago
How's the saying in every HN thread go? "Don't set your prices based on your costs, set your prices based on the value you deliver." or something like that. Tarsnap is a wonderful piece of software. You're paying f
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by LukeShu 3y ago
It's off-the-shelf MHonArc[1]. If implementing a decent mailing list archive were a prerequisite to launching a business, no business would ever be launched. [1]: https://www.mhonarc.org/
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Yes, but also no. You are correct that there are lots of things that you can't do without grouping codepoints into grapheme clusters. And it is unfortunate that the Go standard library doesn't have utilities for grouping codepoin
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by LukeShu 3y ago
Right. But this thread is about "OK, but what if we forked Java and could make breaking changes like that." Plus, I'd bet that most (but of course, not all) code that iterates over a Java String using UTF-16 chars is broken;
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by LukeShu 3y ago
In my forked Java, a char would be UTF-32, like in Go. (And String would be UTF-8 encoded bytes, as you say.)
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by LukeShu 3y ago
FYI, they prefer to be called "Xe" now, not "Christine".
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by LukeShu 3y ago
A little more context: In the Perl 4 days, the book Programming Perl was the official Perl manual; it wasn't until Perl 5 that there was a complete freely distributable digital manual that came with Perl. (This situation was the impe
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by LukeShu 3y ago
That oft-cited statistic about divorce is misleading. Most marriages end in divorce, but most people who get married don't get divorced. It's that if you get divorced once, you're more likely to get divorced again; serial
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by LukeShu 3y ago
One trick is to look at whatever camera FRC (high school robotics competition) is using in their kits, since those are requirements for putting the camera on a robot, and they've got to put out a new kit each year, so there will always

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