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by ddevault 4y ago
Copying the entire address space into a second process just so it can be overwritten by exec a few instructions later is a big mess, and the implementation problems raised by "what if the program doesn't call exec soon?" ar
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by ddevault 4y ago
It's very un-Unix like. In Unix, everything is a file, right? But sockets are entirely managed via syscalls. There are also some very nasty skeletons lying in wait in more obscure parts of the API, such as cmsg. Consider an alternative
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by ddevault 4y ago
Process groups and job control is a huge fucking mess on Unix. Process groups, job control, and signals are probably the biggest mistakes of Unix's design. Arguably fork(2) as well, but that'll probably raise some eyebrows. The bl
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by ddevault 4y ago
Everything you've put forth is an exception to the norm because those industries are regulated by specific laws . Banks, landlords, utilities -- all of these are regulated industries whose behavior is governed by rules which are the
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by ddevault 4y ago
Private companies are not, and have never been, required to observe due process. They are not required to enact free speech -- the government is. They can, and do, choose who they do business with, and are responsible for the choices they m
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by ddevault 4y ago
There are a lot of questions lurking beneath the surface of your argument, many of which invoke difficult questions like the allocation of power and responsibility between the public and private sectors. I definitely think that we need st
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by ddevault 4y ago
Organizing harassment campaigns and planning acts of violence, the bread and butter of Kiwi Farms, is not free speech. This website is accountable for the deaths of at least three people. They should have been de-platformed sooner. We canno
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by ddevault 4y ago
Man, fuck that. Name scalping is wrong. This shit is part of why platforms lock down in the first place.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Cultural events should not be the exclusive domain of the wealthy. The free market is not God. Rubbing more capitalism into a problem makes that problem worse , not better . https://pitchfork.com/news/ticketmaster-hit
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>Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. Maybe some (but certainly not most!) tech businesses, but what makes you think that vendors of real
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by ddevault 4y ago
You misunderstand. Banning cashless stores does not mean banning cashless transactions altogether. It means requiring cash payments to be an option.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Sure.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Businesses should be required by law to accept cash for in-person transactions. Philadelphia was the first US city to ban cashless stores a couple of years ago and it was a great move for convenience and equity.
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by ddevault 4y ago
I flashed it dozens of times while trying to address this issue and none worked. I also tried packing up an Android recovery zip and installing that instead a few times. "Don't install a fucked up filesystem" was goal #1, an
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by ddevault 4y ago
Apollo also had its fair share of problems, some of which cost lives. This launch is a test flight, so such problems are normal, and delays are much better than an exploding rocket. Launch delays of this nature are very common across the sp
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powerctl: A small case study in Hare for systems programming(harelang.org)
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We're all-remote and take international clients, and charge the same rate everywhere.
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by ddevault 4y ago
$250/hour for senior engineers and $150/hour for more junior contributors.
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by ddevault 4y ago
"Stop being silly" is not a polite way to engage in a discourse. These choices matter. https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...
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by ddevault 4y ago
This view omits a lot of nuance. Few people are calling for an immediate, unconditional ban on cars, unaccompanied by other reforms. What's clear -- and well backed by research -- is that cars are the worst form of travel compared to t
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by ddevault 4y ago
There are more than two options.
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Correct. Landlords are reprehensible, including small ones.
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by ddevault 4y ago
I'm typing this comment from a Poco F1 I set up with postmarketOS and Phosh earlier this week and so far it's very promising. Will write up a proper review next week. Much better than the Pinephone so far.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Well, Hare is not a high-level programming language, and the standard library has a specific, finite scope. It's also not generally used in the kinds of situations where this is called for (think C -- there's not really a similar
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by ddevault 4y ago
https://qntm.org/calendar See also: https://qntm.org/continuous and https://qntm.org/abolish
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I think that would be out of scope for the standard library. We do have an interface which might be helpful for developing such a tool, though: https://docs.harelang.org/datetime#builder
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by ddevault 4y ago
We're developing a new date/time library from scratch for Hare. So far I think we're doing a pretty good job. The person leading up this effort (Byron Torres) has written up a blog post about it here: https://harel
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by ddevault 4y ago
Just write the code yourself, perhaps referencing public resources related to your problem and handling any license concerns appropriately. Don't needlessly risk introducing license violations into your code or supporting a tool design
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by ddevault 4y ago
I write about the things which are important to me, and this is no different. FOSS belongs to all of us, and we each have a personal responsibility to make sure that the community is a positive force towards the ideals we aspire to. I take
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by ddevault 4y ago
This is a disappointing response. I don't have a horse in this race (besides wanting to have access to good hardware for FOSS platforms), but I do have my ear on the ground in this community, so here are my thoughts on this. > [remo

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