ben0x539

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by ben0x539 6y ago
I mean, this is not even a particularly good troll.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Don't you think we'd largely have palette-swapped jobs doing basically the same thing on some BSD derivative instead?
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by ben0x539 6y ago
We're talking about the point where someone has become jaded enough that they can't help themselves from lashing out at well-intentioned strangers. That's a fairly advanced level of jaded. I definitely consider myself jaded b
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by ben0x539 6y ago
He does not, look at the graveyard that is https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose... The Linux kernel uses a development process that is very disjoint from common contemporary open-source pra
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by ben0x539 6y ago
The way that line wrapping works out between github and regular git is a shame, because apart from that, since markdown tries to emulate plaintext conventions, it's not hard at all to write commit messages that look good both as plaint
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I could see giving Torvalds credit for taking the time to engage in a discussion here at all. It's not an acceptable way to talk to people, but it's clearly putting a lot of effort into actually making people understand his reason
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Getting jaded is a good excuse for taking a step back and reevaluating your life choices, and maybe finding another hobby. It's not a good excuse for going out of your way to hurt the feelings of people who aren't measuring up to
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Torvalds ca. 2012, via callous and hyperbolically insulting comments, makes people feel bad to get what he wants. We can argue about whether he gets to do that because his job is very important, or because we also want what he wants (eg hig
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I'm a bit amused that Torvalds is complaining about people submitting non-line-wrapped commit messages even though they look awful when displayed by git because they use a different tool to author them, while submitting line-wrapped co
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Yeah, it's an ESR, but the SSO thing specifically wants a recent version and not ESR. Not pretending that's a good decision, but I still have to go along.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
How far do people get sticking to first-party packages? I inevitably end up, like, wanting to have videogames or newer development tools or something. I guess developers might be outliers, but even my work laptop ships with distro-managed b
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I eat meat and I'd also have appreciated a description of the contents before clicking the link.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Why is excluding the far-right a thing associated specifically with the far-left? Would politically moderate people not also want to exclude eg. Nazis?
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Estimating the credibility of the author is a great heuristic for deciding what writing should get my limited attention.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I'm not sure it's a matter of civil liberty, but I think it's definitely an issue of social responsibility. imo, it's desirable to live in a world where anyone can code up any app they want, and share it with people. Thi
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I think this is the weakest argument? Selective enforcement of rules is a time-honored tradition and seems to be explicitly reserved as the right of the rules-enforcer everywhere. It might be a good argument in a hypothetical debate about t
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I write 127.1 all the time when I'm too lazy to type 127.0.0.1. Then I'm sad when it doesn't work because the nearest ip address parser wasn't written in the previous millennium. Oh, yeah, and 1.1 is the only DNS server
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Probably in reference to https://docs.rs/futures/0.3.8/futures/io/trait.AsyncRead.htm... vs https://docs.rs/tokio/1.0.0/tokio/io/trait.AsyncRead.html
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by ben0x539 6y ago
It's getting close to the point where I can't make my "semver just means prefixing your version number with `0.`" joke anymore. :< Congrats to the tokio team + contributors. <:)
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by ben0x539 6y ago
> and UI elements have little reason to use this extended opportunity space It's gonna be five minutes before everybody's extra important call-to-action buttons and probably ads are max brightness too
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I tend to agree (I still enjoyed the rest, and the epilogue was fun as well), but I love the weirdly extended espionage subplot just because it has a oneliner that is such an amazing, amazingly heavy-handed dunk on Tolkien: > “Because yo
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by ben0x539 6y ago
what's your take on https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/health/airflow-coronaviru... ?
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I'd say the accused is at the mercy of the conf organizers evaluating the complaints fairly. But the accused is at the mercy of the conf organizers whether they use a CoC or not.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
> Did you think it was cool to be a dickhead when there wasn't an explicit no dickheads allowed rule? No, which is why I think the rule doesn't add any actionable information.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
You can talk up your cool new thing without explicit criticism of the old thing. Like, that's probably not a good rule for every conference in general, but it's a rule you could have for a specific conference without immediately d
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by ben0x539 6y ago
The maintainer can write(/adopt) a CoC as a tool to make it easy for me to not be a dickhead. The effectiveness of that is gonna vary, communication is hard. Still better than nothing.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
There's local consensus but it absolutely does differ between projects. I don't know what people feel particularly strongly about, or have particularly bad experiences with. I don't know how people want problems to be reporte
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by ben0x539 6y ago
I'd say it's more fear? If I don't get any hint as to what kind of behavior the individual maintainers consider dickheadish, I have to worry about that with every interaction. If you have a CoC with even very vague and subjec
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by ben0x539 6y ago
Like I'm not saying that I think you _should have to_ do this, but you could do it without compromising the thing you say is important.
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by ben0x539 6y ago
We don't know anything about the accusers, do we? I don't think it's fair to assume they had malicious intentions. Specifically, I don't think we can assume that the people who were uncomfortable with the talk were like

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