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by catach 4y ago
Just so you know, Lua's concatenation operator is ".."
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by catach 4y ago
The cursed aspect that you mention is a mighty fine argument for why the article should indeed choose Frink as the language to steal from. https://frinklang.org/#DateTimeHandling
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by catach 4y ago
Some people would see their signalling of understanding difficulty as weakness. Regardless, I suspect interruption almost always indicates that the listener simply isn't gaining value from what I'm saying, for whatever reason.
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by catach 4y ago
Knowing of that inclination, there's three complementary principles that I try to follow: 1. Leaving room for your debate partner to save face is about as important as crafting a convincing argument. 2. Become comfortable with the cond
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by catach 4y ago
1. It's use is much closer to the original meaning of the term, rather than the current mainstream understanding. 2. It's not trying to appropriate the base term, but is instead adding a modifier to make it's own type. Ruling
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by catach 4y ago
> I can use the images in a product, but not sell them directly? The transformative line is ill defined. I think the intent is the same as we frequently see with stock images and clip art, and sometimes with other art assets. It's a
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by catach 4y ago
A "no commercial blockchain use" license clause, first time I've seen one of those.
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by catach 4y ago
If we assume "I'm looking forward to progress on this" is true and complete for the one stating it, then the actual alternatives are: 1. "How can I help" but it's a lie. 2. Silence.
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by catach 4y ago
tcl.tk is my favorite usage, here.
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by catach 4y ago
Behold: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/substack-bann... Actually, that just removes the floating header, which probably isn't what you want.
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by catach 4y ago
It's difficult to compare them: Gates has had 14 years of philanthropic retirement to redeem his image. Bezos stepped down from Amazon in 2021, not sure if it counts as a retirement yet. Musk is still two years away from Gates' re
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by catach 4y ago
Ah, I see now what you mean by "euphemism treadmill", and I agree that the framework is valid. If the term has a chance of avoiding the treadmill I suspect it'd be due to the awkwardness of identifying as such. "Vegan&qu
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by catach 4y ago
Over time, the flavors we associate with words usually comes from the contexts in which they are used, which can easily overpower their origins.
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by catach 4y ago
> since Google has Go and it can be configured in a way that suits it So, it's important to remember that Google is a large company. The golang and Android teams are different people, with different goals.
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by catach 4y ago
Only those who go full Stallman can avoid Youtube.
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by catach 4y ago
If you don't have a file or physical media, assume that you're renting, no matter what the company calls it.
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by catach 4y ago
Specialization of passion. Nobody can or should be passionate about all the things. But we can be thankful for those who are passionate about the domains where we are not, since we collectively benefit from those domains being loved and nur
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by catach 4y ago
Seems like there's plenty of native options here: https://alternativeto.net/feature/infinite-canvas/
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by catach 4y ago
I suspect many are deeply uncomfortable with the idea that a person could ascend to being the richest man on the planet without any personal merit justifying that rise.
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by catach 4y ago
> I don't think Musk deserves an easy exit. Probably not, but the health of twitter matters to me a ton more than that. And I don't even like twitter.
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by catach 4y ago
Well no, I expect the scope is limited to "the Tweet level and the account level". But that is still certainly absurd.
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by catach 4y ago
> not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those methods are presented as non-exhaustive examples. "Technical or non-technical means" resolves to every possible method.
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by catach 4y ago
> More and more tools are built that are suppose to make us do less work, think less, have an easier time. The less effort we have to spend at what must be done to survive means more remaining effort available for what we want to do. S
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by catach 4y ago
The counter to that is if you spread and repeat your lie far more than the debunkers are wiling or able to spread the truth, then your lie will be the thing generally believed. "A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got
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by catach 4y ago
I do not think I can meaningfully increase my levels of credulity ( nor my skepticism). I strive to communicate my thoughts accurately. Given those two points, how is it not healthy?
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by catach 4y ago
That did seem most likely to me, thanks for the confirmation.
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by catach 4y ago
Either they ended sponsorship, the list isn't updated in a timely manner, or Apple didn't want to be listed.
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by catach 4y ago
Six Tesla recalls in the past two years. Cybertruck production date keeps being pushed back.
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by catach 4y ago
No need to be sorry–I believe you're generally correct above. It's just that this particular moment in time is a bad one for Ventura users testing the waters.
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by catach 4y ago
From the link: "Note for macOS users: Do not update to macOS Ventura if you rely on Inkscape! There is an unresolved issue that currently affects all GTK3 based apps on macOS Ventura, making the app unresponsive to certain mouse events

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