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by arp242 2y ago
Another thing is that I'm half expecting bcachefs to be pulled from mainline. That's my prediction for 2025, I guess? Not that I want that to happen, but Kent's behaviour has been ... difficult, and Linus already hinted thi
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by arp242 2y ago
> But what is speech if you prohibit any use of money in it? It is just standing on a street corner yelling at passers-by? Absolutely no one is arguing for this or anything even vaguely like it. Just some common sense limits to prevent b
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by arp242 2y ago
Stack Overflow Inc. was always a commercial company. No one ever pretended anything else.
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by arp242 2y ago
> That he chose not to makes me sad I'm not sure if it was really up to him; I doubt he owned a majority of the company?
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by arp242 2y ago
I also learned a great deal from answering questions.
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by arp242 2y ago
No one is forcing anyone to do anything, and everyone always knew what they were getting themselves in to. It was always a deal where everyone wins. That you don't like that choice for yourself is fine. No need to be so negative, dismi
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by arp242 2y ago
Saying "this is my ideology" is not really all that believable if you stand to make millions with that ideology. I don't know what's in his hearth of hearths and to be honest I don't really care. All I'm saying
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by arp242 2y ago
Aaron tried to give the world free access to information for no personal gain. Ross ran an online marketplace for drugs and other illegal materials for personal profit. The life sentence was ridiculous, but they're not he same at all.
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by arp242 2y ago
> Biden should have already pardoned Ross because that crazy sentence shouldn't have happened in the first place. Biden did commute the sentence of several other non-violent cases just last week or thereabouts, and Trump has been ta
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by arp242 2y ago
No one said anything about voting or benefits? That's an entire different discussion. It's just that, in layman's terms, a pardon means "you did nothing wrong", whereas a commutation means "you did something wr
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by arp242 2y ago
Put Trac and GitHub side-by-side, and they're obviously different in tons of ways. Put Forgejo and GitHub side-by-side, and you can easily confuse the two if you're not paying attention. Of course there are plenty of elements from
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by arp242 2y ago
"Maja R was sentenced to a weekend in jail after her comments because she had a previous conviction for theft and had not attending the court hearing for the case." Whatever you can say about the suspended sentences, merely &qu
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by arp242 2y ago
> I miss the days when the Republican party was led by a President like Bush, who told America that Islam is a religion of peace At the same time he also said that if you don't agree with him, you're with the terrorists. I do a
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by arp242 2y ago
> he's been very demonstrably weak internationally What you or I view as "big man tough guy" doesn't necessarily align with what Trump views as "big man tough guy". In Trump's view, "solving"
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by arp242 2y ago
Basically, some people can consistently respond faster. The 100ms figure just isn't accurate. I don't have extensive resources/references at hand, but I've read about this a few times over the years.
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by arp242 2y ago
That value has also been criticised as too high.
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by arp242 2y ago
His main policy seems to be to show the world that he's a big man with big genitalia. And in fairness, he is quite successful at that because much of the world thinks him a gigantic dick. I'm not really joking, because that really
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by arp242 2y ago
I'd pay good money for a newspaper that would go out of its way to avoid mentioning Trump, Musk, and all these other highly exasperating people, unless it's completely unavoidable (e.g. "Trump declares war on California"
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by arp242 2y ago
> It was Microsoft Windows that changed the paradigm to default to a searing white display with black text in most apps My early 90s Sun SPARCStation was black on white, right from the boot. The xterm default is black on white too, a def
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by arp242 2y ago
Because BitBucket is a GitHub clone itself (I'm not entirely sure if it started out as such, it very quickly turned in to one).
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by arp242 2y ago
I don't play online games either (or chess, for that matter), but as I understand it quite a lot of the anti-cheat tools work by trying to detect if cheating software is running. Since it's trivial to modulate the exact hash of a
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by arp242 2y ago
Forgejo is a GitHub clone. No one can claim with a straight face that it's somehow completely unrelated.
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by arp242 2y ago
Reading up on this a bit, it seems it was the 1963 earthquake that precipitated the change in building regulations? The 1969 one seemed comparatively mild(?)
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by arp242 2y ago
I don't really know the exact legal situation surrounding this, but the viewpoint that in the past Soviet propaganda could be freely distributed in the US a rather curious viewpoint. The US government spent decades chasing down (allege
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by arp242 2y ago
And even if it wouldn't directly have fingers in the pie, it's an authoritarian state, and it always has de-facto control over anything it decides to control. The state can always just waltz in like a mafia boss: "nice outfit
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by arp242 2y ago
> We look back at things like putting lead and radium in paint or using asbestos in insulation and say "they should have known better, how could they be so stupid" The main thing is: they did know better. They lied to us. They
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by arp242 2y ago
> that’s an old recipe It's also an old image from 2019. What was the recipe like in 2019? (I don't know the answer, genuine question)
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by arp242 2y ago
Well, people can have laptops, or "unsupported" phones (i.e. non-iPhone/Android). Locking all sorts of basic stuff to two for-profit closed platforms sounds rather non-ideal to me. It's also quite a shift from stuff bein
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by arp242 2y ago
It's the Tesco app we're talking about, so none of that even applies. Saying that half the population somehow doesn't matter for one of the country's largest supermarket chains is completely mental on every level and is
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by arp242 2y ago
I agree on the "just work" principle, but stuff like "docker compose" is easy enough to use, and "standard enough". Typing "docker compose up -d" once isn't that much effort. And make sure the co

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