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by arp242 1y ago
In my experience low-quality PRs aren't that common, but I do agree dealing with them is annoying. You can't just tell people to go away because they did spend their spare time on it. On the other hand it's also garbage. So
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by arp242 1y ago
> I think if someone came along and wrote a new C library that incorporates these design trends for low-level languages, a lot of people would be pretty happy. I suppose glib comes the closest to this? At least the closest that actually
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by arp242 1y ago
GitHub PRs don't solve anything about that, but I wouldn't have to spend (waste) time figuring out the contribution process. At least I learned a few things writing the patches. I learned nothing of value dealing with git email or
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by arp242 1y ago
> I guess it's the CI/CD infrastructure Your guess is wrong as Firefox doesn't use GitHub for any of that, and AFAIK there are no plans to either. The blog post linked in the top comment goes in to this in some detail, but
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by arp242 1y ago
Is it still used there? I know they did in the past, but reading up a bit on the background on all of this I found https://github.com/facebook/sapling , and it seems that's what they're using now?
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by arp242 1y ago
I spent quite some time writing a patch for FreeBSD and Linux a few months ago, including getting to grips with their contribution process. Both patches have been ignored thus far. That's okay, I understand limited resources etc. etc.
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by arp242 1y ago
> No serious engineer will read that line and think, "wow, how malicious of mozilla, they just made the move to close all bug reports at once". Never underestimate the cynicism of HN commenters.
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by arp242 1y ago
They had a release just a few days ago. It's definitely not abandonware.
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by arp242 1y ago
GitHub has a fairly extensive API without too many limits AFAIK. You can definitely migrate all your data to $something_else if you want to.
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by arp242 1y ago
"I only accept patches and bug reports over email" is just as much of a narrow set of workflows as "I only accept patches and bug reports through PRs".
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A lot of these state laws have also been rolled back because the Supreme Court declared them against the 2nd amendment. The US being "50 countries" was sort of the original idea, but over time things changed significantly. Many as
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by arp242 1y ago
I get what you're saying, but this is just a race to the bottom, no? It's annoying to see the current pushback against China focusing so much on inconsequential matters with so much nonsense mixed in, because I do think we do ne
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by arp242 1y ago
I really don't want unelected corporations with no accountability to anything other than profit margins to be policing payments, subscriptions, business behaviour, or anything else. These companies provide an utility that is essential
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by arp242 1y ago
Everything you're saying makes sense if you assume you're dealing with good faith governance. But we're not. So maybe you're right. I don't know. But I sure as hell wouldn't assume as much based on the words of
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by arp242 1y ago
In addition, Apple probably took some of the Unix workstation market. In the 90s everyone was using SGI for graphics stuff, but ten years later that had shifted quite a bit to Apple and OS X.
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by arp242 1y ago
I had an Atom 330 server, worked really well. It came with came with one little very noisy fan ... on the chipset. The CPU just had a small heatsink. It was okay for my server use case, but the entire situation was pretty silly.
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by arp242 1y ago
> people saying "go home" are behind bars Who has been arrested for saying "go home"? I can't find any example of this. Or what is "the most ridiculous stuff" Islamists are spouting for that matter?
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by arp242 1y ago
The thing is that the current US government is just ignoring laws and even judicial rulings. So looking at all of this mess I have exactly the opposite feeling: it's fine to have some reasonable laws restricting the excesses of free sp
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by arp242 1y ago
You've been saying this for ten years now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270892 Please stop. Let other people have their things. It's disruptive and the kind of behaviour that makes HN toxic.
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by arp242 1y ago
You said what you said. And your clarification here is just fear-mongering: "complete free speech absolutism or fascism, war, and holocaust". Okay, fine, whatever. I'm in favour of the Jews being gassed then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_&
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by arp242 1y ago
Tesla market cap is currently $959B, shipped 0.5M vehicles in 2024. Toyota is second with $244B and shipped 11M vehicles. Ford shipped 4.4M vehicles and has a market cap of $41B. If I look at [1] then Tesla is worth more than the next 12 or
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by arp242 1y ago
> the concept of hate-speech gives the state the right to police speech that is merely unpopular Not true. Legislators write the laws, courts interpret them. Basic civics. Laws are not written as "we can police any speech", and
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> I would deem Europe a dangerous place to visit for anyone that aspires towards original and critical thinking. Only if your "original and critical thinking" is racism, homophobia, and similar. You could argue that banning thi
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by arp242 1y ago
You can say this sort of stuff about almost anything. I don't see how doing "the little stuff" (relatively) like this takes away from doing "the big stuff". It's not like "the EU" is a single person w
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by arp242 1y ago
> So is it really worth doing any checks at all? People accidentally typing their name in the email field, stuff like that. I've done that. The problems with your .blue is obviously completely unrelated to the "email.contains(&
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by arp242 1y ago
That's like saying that a digital scan of the book of Kells is identical to the authentic object.
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> If people want to change that policy, they'll need to amend the constitution. Herein lies the problem: it's just too hard to amend the constitution. Here in Ireland it's just a referendum. Some pass, some don't. It&
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by arp242 1y ago
This is how most archives work. You can't just have a stroll around for the craic. And there's no point really, because it's not a museum – most people would be bored quite fast, unless you have a specific reason.
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Sounds like a lot is just (generated) syscall stuff? Either way, that doesn't really explain anything.
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I tried setting up some text to speech stuff years ago, and I ended just giving up. Everything kind of worked, except when it didn't. Linux generally works fine for everything else for me, but this is definitely not its strongest point

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