ben0x539

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by ben0x539 1y ago
All of these have implementations available under free software licenses so they are clearly and objectively not proprietary. Trademarks are annoying but I can hardly imagine they're what anyone is worried about when picking a language
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by ben0x539 1y ago
When I, as a little child (or at least that is how it feels now), got excited about contributing to open source, it was not the thought that one day my code might help run some giant web platform's infrastructure or ship as part of som
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by ben0x539 1y ago
> but why does the website that's sending me HTML and CSS and Javascript need to know? The website doesn't get told by the browser, but the website is sending you Javascript, and the browser will tell the Javascript when the Ja
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by ben0x539 1y ago
Really, what's the qualitative difference between reaching for a utility function that someone else already wrote within your project and reaching for a package that someone else already published within your ecosystem? They're ob
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by ben0x539 1y ago
Five minutes after this popup exists, you won't be able to run any of the big "can't participate in your social life without these" apps anymore without granting them those elevated privileges.
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by ben0x539 1y ago
Doesn't it set errno to 0 first thing?
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by ben0x539 1y ago
I got "radicalized" about these filter measures at my last job, where we operated a popular public-facing website, and we apparently adopted some third-party solution to reject otherwise valid logins based on some heuristics, with
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by ben0x539 1y ago
I guess not! I'm toggling something on and off and can't tell a difference. Maybe after my next upgrade!
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by ben0x539 1y ago
What devices is this meant to work on? On my laptop I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
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by ben0x539 2y ago
When admitting fault with your a PR hat on after pissing off a decent(?) number of your paying customers, you're supposed to fully fall on your own sword, not assign blame to factors outside of your control. Instead of saying "rac
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Showing up out of nowhere pretending like they haven't even thought about what it means isn't helpful though.
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by ben0x539 2y ago
> I'm honestly befuddled why anyone would downvote this. I think there's two parts to this. First, there's a bit of a history of people making disingenious jabs at Rust for not having an "ISO C++" style spec. Typ
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Huh, why?
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by ben0x539 2y ago
I'm not reading it as "it's not worse than python", I am reading it as "the choice was between bash and perl, python was not an option for reasons unrelated to its merits"
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by ben0x539 2y ago
What's the term for having to choose between an deprecated/EOL version or an unstable/regressed version? It seems like it comes up over and over again.
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Does this do what you want across/during DST switchover?
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by ben0x539 2y ago
The problem with comment sections on web sites is that the web sites are incentivized to have shitty comments for engagement and ease of moderation. If it's a browser plugin, it's out of the website's hands and as the user I
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Yeah that's the code I mean
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by ben0x539 2y ago
I think they're asking how the code in the Go runtime (not the compiler, that being an interesting but also maybe non-obvious distinction!) that implements the garbage collector, a core feature of the language, avoids needing the garba
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Surely by following that directive you're altering your trajectory? It can't work in both directions!
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Where are you getting the viewpoints thing from?
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Wouldn't it be more productive/rewarding to instead engage with comments I do like?
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by ben0x539 2y ago
> and I'm not even sure if people actually run GUIs with these legacy mainframes (plus the author's stating this will primarily support Linux, but are these mainframes even capable of running it?) The next parapgraph sounded li
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Surely even in a shooter game you spend some amount of time in menus where you do have a cursor, right? Is this why I sometimes get completely 'wrong' cursor movement in games?
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by ben0x539 2y ago
I think, just like theological debate, it looks arbitrary from the outside trying to reconstruct the whole discipline from first(/leadership) principles and ignoring the scholarship that has been done in the past couple thousand years&
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by ben0x539 2y ago
In my mind, it was to be temporary until the risk of infection at the office was back to pre-pandemic levels. I understand that at this point it's more likely that we'll define the problem away and normalize shifting that much mor
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by ben0x539 2y ago
I think the idea is that input is things that you absolutely, directly control, and output is more like "outcomes". You can control the price and certainly you can impact revenue by setting a price and, like, doing the whole rest
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by ben0x539 2y ago
> Now there's villages which provide pre-made shelter, you can just trade and build up villager slaves to make all the resources for you, you can get a bed (which you find in all villages) which let's you skip the night phase c
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Whenever I'm discussing something in person I think about how I would feel if it turned out my employer was breaking the law and me not putting it in writing stopped the injured parties from obtaining just compensation.
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by ben0x539 2y ago
Yeah I mean you probably shouldn't put mission critical systems on a laptop with an external monitor either.

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