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1. 181.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   Cycle facilities in countries without a strong cycling tradition are generally dangerous, illogical, and awful. Cycle facilities in countries with a strong cycling tradition are usually better-engineered but mostly exist to get cyclists &qu
2. 182.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   Good-natured brigading. People who have put time into Rust have made a career bet that will only pay off once they can get a job somewhere using it. Others aren't programmers, but like the "better" and "safer" story
3. 183.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   Thanks for the context, I would not have expected anyone to name anything after the most-hated piece of software ever written.
4. 184.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   This is exactly the argument that was being made about Netware in 1994, or OS/2 in 1996, or Solaris in 2005. I'm well aware of how important Windows Server was in the enterprise, and I'm aware of how far it has fallen.
5. 185.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   ...and he's comparing Cargo to Clippy. https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/L213K3jf7r3K1534yQ https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/fDM95Cx9t6g1LqTZb3 https://h
6. 186.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   ehhhh, I've never seen a hardcore Linux developer move to Windows. WSL exists to sunset Windows-based development, not the other way around. Windows Server gets to exist so long as it acts as a funnel into Azure. Someday it will be sol
7. 187.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   This is the best article I've seen in the LA Times in 20 years.
8. 188.▲
   by alrs 6y ago

   Weird phrasing about Go, referring to it as "still widely used." I don't think there's many people that see Go in its twilight years. My contribution to improving Azure's Go code stands at the ready, as it has for t
9. 189.▲
   by alrs 7y ago

   I doubt anyone is defecting in any numbers, but that the unix die-hards are being diluted by an influx of developers who prefer an IDE.
10. 190.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Whoosh.
11. 191.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    This notion is completely upside-down. Distro packaging means that global teams of developers are backporting bug and security fixes all day, every day, and running them through massive CI systems that have been in existence for decades. Co
12. 192.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Still supported in Debian, as the gkrellm-itime plugin to gkrellm. The time is 862.2.
13. 193.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Decoding JSON in Python without using a C library is indeed CPU-intensive.
14. 194.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    This would be easier to find if it was listed as "Los Angeles."
15. 195.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    This would be easier to find under "Los Angeles" instead of Santa Monica.
16. 196.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Successful actors are lottery winners. Millions of people are affected by problems in childhood. There are 500 people, tops, on the planet who have monetized the resulting personality disorder into some kind of mass-media fame.
17. 197.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Should anyone want to parse the dataset as it is today and do something with it, I recently wrote some Go to that end: https://github.com/alrs/freedb
18. 198.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    The best thing you can do with your work computer is leave it at work.
19. 199.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    I absolutely have. A bonkers class hierarchy and no unit tests means that velocity will bog down to a crawl or even start running in reverse.
20. 200.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    This is the old Aladdin Ghostscript model, where the software is proprietary for one year after release and is then reverts to GPL. I think Ghostscript ditched this scheme 10-15 years ago. https://books.google.com/books?id=x
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    by alrs 7y ago

    The flipside to this is that robocalls are often being routed through misconfigured or hacked installations of FreePBX that have been sitting in a broom closet with a dying CPU fan for the last five years.
22. 202.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Pay-to-file is fine, if that's what the authors want.
23. 203.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Nowhere, in the tenets of "free software" or "open source", is there any expectation there is any mechanism whatsoever for support or even "filing issues." If an open-source project wants to charge you money to
24. 204.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Bazel has yet to even land in Debian, it's some years short of being the standard.
25. 205.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    It was legalized in 2013, so the answer is "yes." https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
26. 206.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    BBC World Service and RT are absolutely comparable. Both are very obvious in pushing the agenda of their state sponsors. If you want subtlety, watch France24 English. If you want the propaganda arm of a dying empire, BBCWS is for you. http
27. 207.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Terry Gross' excellent and astonishingly comprehensive interview of each and every member of the E Street Band.
28. 208.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    I'm trying to find the old story from when NPR got caught re-using VoA propaganda (which was then a violation of federal law), but instead found this, of a similar vintage: https://fair.org/media-beat-column/npr-fl
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    by alrs 7y ago

    I don't think you're disagreeing that it's state media, so at worst I'm at 50%. BBC, RT, France24, Deutsche Welle, PressTV, and Telesur all exist to promote a state interest. How are NPR and APM different? https:/
30. 210.▲
    by alrs 7y ago

    Because it's already a state-media propaganda apparatus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...