SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Which is true of all of the costs of climate change. The costs are already being most harshly felt in poorer communities and nations, and that divide will accelerate the more expensive and resource-intensive it becomes to keep living "
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I don't think I understand your position here. Do you believe there is a profit motive to doing this kind of carbon sequestration? As I understand it, it's going to be expensive to do, and require significant money/time/
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
We are decades into pumping vastly more carbon into the atmosphere than is sustainable. We're not going to accidentally flip that problem upside down without noticing years in advance.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Several California cities are already spending millions annually to dump sand and rocks and to build/expand seawalls, to try to stave off the ocean taking prime beachfront real estate (and it's not working, in the long run). Those
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I think the move toward micro-services (and serverless and whatever other buzzwords you want to use for a distributed loosely coupled design) is an answer to that problem, if not exactly the answer you're describing. The idea being tha
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I haven't touched any of those tools in a decade or more. I just haven't needed to? The Linux desktop is so much less demanding than it was through the 90s and early 2000s. You don't need to know about any of that stuff to ma
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
The article mentions OpenBSD 4 times (vs Linux 2, Windows 2), in all cases directly comparing a default or feature in OpenBSD to the same default or feature in FreeBSD. Whether the author is an OpenBSD fan or not, I didn't come away wi
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It barely mentions OpenBSD, though?
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Just a heads up: There are several figures in your docs where the entirety of the useful information on the page is in the image and they don't have alt tags or any accessible way to get the information (that I can find anyway). e.g.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
We have a better remote terminal client today than anything X ever achieved: the web browser. It's not as good as a local display for resource intensive stuff, e.g. games, but X never was either (it was abysmal, in fact). It's a h
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I hated my HP Envy, because it kept breaking, but...I guess I do have to give them credit for it being fixable. I replaced both fans (in separate incidents), the keyboard, and re-seated and taped the screen cable, in the nearly three years
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I guess we can try those before we start googling guillotine plans. But, let's keep our options open.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I have a growing concern that even when (if) reasonable heads prevail and we're able to implement sane climate policy in most developed nations, corporations with a vested interest in externalizing costs will simply ignore the law and
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Startup time is still egregiously slow compared to Perl 5. But, that couldn't be a major determining factor for people working in languages that are also slow to start (of which there are many, probably one could say most are slower
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"Perl (the language whose current version is 5.22)" s/5.22/5.30/
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Mostly I was just saying that `say` isn't the interesting bit of the examples given. But, sure, Perl is nice in how flexible/expressive it is (and Perl 6 takes that even further). I think maybe that's even the most interestin
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It's not (at least most modern languages have it). I was just saying that `say` isn't the interesting thing in the examples given.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
The magic isn't really in say . say is just print with an automatic linefeed at the end (and, two fewer keystrokes for the keyword). Perl's print (even in very old versions of Perl, dating long before say arrived) also ac
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Googling for APL examples is now complicated by Amazon squatting on the same acronym for "Alexa Presentation Language". That's frustrating, as I'm interested in understanding APL a bit better, but I learn from looking at
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It's pretty unclear what its purpose is. The examples look somewhat like go (including something that looks like goroutines, right down to being called with `go`). So, what differentiates V from go, I guess? (Or whatever other language
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I only use Wine indirectly, but I use it frequently because a ton of Steam games that run on Linux use Wine under the hood. I just don't buy/play games that don't have a Linux version, as a VM was historically (maybe still?)
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I just finished watching Tales of the City (the new one on Netflix), and that sounds lovely.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Several of my younger friends live in cooperative housing, where they rent a big house, and individually rent out the rooms. Sometimes as many as 8 or 10 people live in a "single family" home. This seems like a great solution for
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
To be fair, lots of people (certainly I) think we took a series of wrong turns on the information superhighway in the 2000s, toward a dangerous level of centralization, so...maybe looking backward is good.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
My dad and I found one at a garage sale when I was a kid. I bought, repaired, and resold mostly 8 bit machines, but found a big bunch of Apple Lisa stuff for not a lot of money, maybe $150. I didn't really know much about it, but it wa
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Not a single one, huh? I'll help: https://git-scm.com/
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
This is just willful ignorance.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
They were probably our (Virtualmin) biggest user for a few years. They used the Open Source version so we didn't see much revenue from it (occasionally their users would upgrade to the commercial version), but they sponsored a few Sola
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"perhaps it was Cantrill who was monomaniacal all along, not keeping his eyes on the market" Joyent made money and was acquired, all while producing metric shit tons of incredibly cool Open Source software. We should all be so &qu
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"And to be able to compete with Amazon they needed something they didn't have - distributed systems background, not Sun background, which was anything but." lol. "The network is the computer."

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