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by bscphil 5y ago
The view is a bit more complicated than that, but you gave me a laugh. Thanks!
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think you undersold the upshot here, which is that no, the author did not actually see Ireland . Anyway, there are so many little projects out there run by people outside of the whole open source universe and don't even think to put
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by bscphil 5y ago
Ironic, given that it's one of the oldest philosophical positions. E.g. Socrates in Plato's Gorgias : "We must either refute this argument and show that it’s not the possession of justice and self-control that makes happy pe
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by bscphil 5y ago
Thank you for the extensive and thoughtful comment! This does help clarify your approach quite considerably. I wonder, since you are hoping to attract collaborators, whether there is some kind of formal spec for the language somewhere? For
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by bscphil 5y ago
In addition to them being both of those things, they are also, so far as I can tell (which is incomplete because of the lack of an index), missing documentation for most functions. If you click through to some of the other documentation for
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by bscphil 5y ago
I can't tell if you're joking, all of the results except the top one show "Shell oil" results for me. Not hard to imagine that this impacts searchability if you're looking for something specific.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I'm interested in and excited about oil, but three things have stopped me every time I've tried to give it a go. 1. The complete and utter lack of useful documentation. There's not even a link to any docs from the main page o
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by bscphil 5y ago
> If you support a small restricted subset of Python That's why I quoted their claim that the "vast majority" of Python programs run unmodified . Even PyPy barely achieves that. To really get 100x performance over Python
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Seq is a Python-compatible language, and the vast majority of Python programs should work without any modifications > Seq is able to outperform Python code by up to 160x. So ... a reimplementation of Python that can outperform cpyth
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think your parent comment is thinking about the world before privatization, where most resources are understood to be the collective property (and responsibility) of the community, and the community itself enforced rules intended to make
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by bscphil 5y ago
I don't think your parent comment was hating on NPM / Node specifically, but rather was pointing out that the biggest determiner of whether programmers on a particular platform depend willy-nilly on whatever libraries they can fin
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The nearest thing to a standard solution may be autoconf I believe that is changing. A quite large number of influential projects have standardized on Meson. That includes systemd, Xorg, PipeWire, GLib, libui, hexchat, pacman, and (alm
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by bscphil 5y ago
Given that Steam OS is going to be (already is?) built on top of Arch Linux, and supposing that most Steam games that are "Linux compatible" are going to be targeting that as a base platform, this might not be as big of an obstacl
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by bscphil 5y ago
> bypass the current anti-cheat Maybe I'm clueless but as I understand it some of these shooters (e.g. PUBG) are games that you pay for. If one of these commercial cheats gets detected by EAC isn't the result a permaban of
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by bscphil 5y ago
An interesting point of comparison here is git, which is also widely claimed to have subpar UX.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think you're both right. Email is subpar as a protocol for sending secure messages (what you said) and should therefore be abandoned as a protocol in favor of something better, and also many of the specific arguments made in the arti
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by bscphil 5y ago
I agree, I wish they'd take a different approach.
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by bscphil 5y ago
If you don't actually have a profile set, Firefox will (in most cases) treat your screen as sRGB, which means that the colors won't actually be changed.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I did end up getting it to work, left a comment here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28488599
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by bscphil 5y ago
Do you happen to be using color management by any chance? Believe it or not (because this does seem insane), disabling full color management fixed the site for me. That is, I changed the setting "gfx.color_management.mode" from 1
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by bscphil 5y ago
The wind animation doesn't work at all for me in Firefox (on Linux, version 91). I see a few large animation "sheets" where the wind is moving in the same direction, depending on where on the map I look. Works in Chromium. An
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think several of the responses to your comment are misguided. If you believe them you'd think that the reason this is to be expected for Rust (and even normal! good!) is that (a) Rust is a systems language, (b) Rust deliberately has
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by bscphil 5y ago
I simply don't understand how technical users have not all switched to LTSC at this point. LTSC 2019 will receive security updates until 2029. In the future, you may have to use the IoT LTSC version to get the full 10 years of support,
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I think that the vast majority of the value of very expensive paintings by famous painters has very little to do with the "inherent" beauty of the work, and almost everything to do with facts about the actual origin of the ob
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by bscphil 5y ago
> both of which are imperfect workarounds for the lack of resolution Imperfect, certainly, but they are pretty good workarounds that usually generate perfectly readable text. In my experience, when text looks bad at 1080p, it is more o
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by bscphil 5y ago
At 15.6 inches I think it depends pretty heavily on how good your operating system's font rendering is. If you're stuck on Windows I can't imagine using anything lower than 4k at that size. On the other hand, I'm using a
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think what both your replies are trying to point out is that "X conceived, produced, and realized Y" where Y is something of innate value is a vastly more interesting, useful, and value-holding relation than "X gave appro
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Most won't make use of post-processing, focal lengths, apertures that an interchangeable lens camera with high dynamic range provides. On the other hand, as someone who does do extensive post-processing, I've moved to capturi
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by bscphil 5y ago
No, this would also seem to protect users who click the "fork" button on Github. It would not , however, allow them to clone the software to their local computer or use it for any other purpose.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Used by counter on GitHub is at 464. The way it's worded would imply that they are all violating the license? Yes. My read of the situation is not that it's a license that intends to stop people from using it, but rather th

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