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by dwb 3y ago
I sort of acknowledged that when I said it was a complex relationship. I'm sure there are feedback loops set up where experiencing poverty makes you more likely to stay poor, and so on. But to say poverty is simply a state of mind seem
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by dwb 3y ago
I'm not a fluent German speaker, so I don't know. But I expect not: in this context it is contrasted with "follower" rather than anything more historically evocative. The relationship between a "leader" and a &
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by dwb 3y ago
You're generalising far too much. Of course replacing "red" with "scarlet" generally would make a difference in understanding, not least because "scarlet" is more specific than "red". But that do
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by dwb 3y ago
I don't find this at all convincing. The terms in question here don't need to evoke connotation, they are labels in a technical system. It is very straight-forward to re-label things. Documentation can easily cover the change.
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by dwb 3y ago
What exactly is the technical reality that ties us to the terms "master" and "slave", or means that we can't change them if enough people think that's good?
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by dwb 3y ago
This is the sort of rhetoric that harms poor people. Being poor can cause states of mind, but is not a state of mind in itself — it is clearly and simply an economic position. The article is not talking about people thinking of themselves a
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by dwb 3y ago
And that's a bad thing! Is it not my manager's job to keep track of what I'm doing? I generally hate self-promotion, unless it's of the kind that is directly useful to other people in the moment.
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by dwb 3y ago
And despite all that, it still feels like a breath of fresh air.
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by dwb 3y ago
nushell https://www.nushell.sh/book/modules.html#main https://www.nushell.sh/book/custom_commands.html#flags
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by dwb 3y ago
Damn. Rest in peace. Thank you for your hard work on my favourite editor. All the best to his loved ones.
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by dwb 3y ago
Oh yeah, the commercial "doers" are happy to have a go once academics have slogged away at the hard, risky, expensive, and often thankless trial-and-error before the discovery. Not to do down the people in this particular example,
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by dwb 3y ago
That looks great but there is exactly zero chance I would run this on a computer I didn't own, in my apartment. Call me paranoid, but that's just how I feel right now.
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by dwb 3y ago
Strictly speaking I agree with your first sentence, but clearly some languages/environments lend themselves more to the declarative style than others, and may or may not let you reap more of the benefits. (I also disagree that HTML has
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by dwb 3y ago
No, nushell has its own built-in implementations that are aware of nushell's richer type system: https://www.nushell.sh/commands/docs/sort.html https://www.nushell.sh/commands/docs/u
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by dwb 3y ago
nushell's sort and uniq do what you might expect, operating on the whole value (line). Copying the data to the clipboard (hence pbpaste; substitute if necessary): ~: pbpaste | split row "\n" | sort -n | uniq
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by dwb 3y ago
Indeed it wasn’t for the longest time, but it has been for the last few years (I think with the generation of keyboards after the bad “butterfly” hinges). But the symbol on the key always matched with where it was mentioned on screen, in me
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by dwb 3y ago
It's not remotely the same as Spongebob. The point is that whoever is behind Asahi Lina wants the character to be separate to their "real" identity. No-one is claiming they really are a digital cartoon. The request is to resp
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by dwb 3y ago
Sort of, but it’s not that solid: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-get (paragraph starting “Although request message framing is independent of the method used”)
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by dwb 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. To me it's another instance of generative AI being a technical marvel, but in absolute terms producing total crap. I'm sure it'll get better, of course, but I'm happy to completely ignore it for now.
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by dwb 4y ago
It's a great title. If my job was writing headlines, I would absolutely tack towards "new shape just dropped" rather than some nerd shit, however technically correct it is. You can do the explaining in the actual article.
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by dwb 4y ago
To some extent I agree - I do see a vein of anti-intellectualism in software. But “engineering” isn’t about using the most theoretically-perfect setup for any given job, it’s about navigating practical trade-offs.
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by dwb 4y ago
I don’t work at all closely to her life’s focus, or indeed with any significant fraction of her talent and drive, but I’m inspired by her nonetheless. RIP.
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by dwb 4y ago
Something - but apparently not enough in this case.
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by dwb 4y ago
The word is “lessons”.
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by dwb 4y ago
There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, as they say, but it is possible to be less unethical (and capitalism’s probably going to be around for the foreseeable anyway, so don’t beat yourself up). Personally: I used to be more into n
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by dwb 4y ago
If you don’t mind learning a board game or a handful of UI quirks, Board Game Arena’s real-time mode more-or-less does this. And they have some great games on there, too. https://en.boardgamearena.com/
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by dwb 4y ago
A while ago I had an iPad, didn’t like it because of its limitations, and sold it. Now I have an iPad and love it despite its limitations. I think iPadOS still has a way to go, but it’s definitely progressing for me.
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by dwb 5y ago
https://monzo.com/blog/2019/04/04/why-we-block-freeze-close-...
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by dwb 5y ago
If implemented with even the furthest reaches of understanding and blockchain tech that I’m aware of, I feel this would be (much closer to) a dystopia.
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by dwb 5y ago
Doubtless there are a lot of cynical actors around all this, but when making frustrated generalisations I prefer to apply Hanlon’s Razor!

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