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by eadmund 2y ago
I would love to see a metric of the number (or proportion) of issues closed even though users are trying to get assistance. No idea how to make that machine-calculable though. Even better, a metric for refused PRs (maybe including PR size
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Advanced users can modify the source code to disable things that get in their way. Anyone not capable of that is not capable of knowing when it is safe to turn off safety defaults. Modifying a morass of C++ source code is not nearly th
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by eadmund 2y ago
Honestly, that trade-off is not worth it, particularly with browsers. People who do ignorant things are ignorant (note that I did not say stupid: they may be quite intelligent in other areas of life). Tools should do what their owners dir
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The Death of the Stubborn Developer(steve-yegge.medium.com)
3 points by eadmund 2y ago|1 comments
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by eadmund 2y ago
Of course, the U.K. is rather famously not a republic, but rather a democratic monarchy. Now, if only the King would do his job and refuse assent to the Parliament when it does something wrong.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Well, for one thing Clojure is not Lisp. It’s a neat language (and is informed by experiences with Lisp), but it’s a different thing.
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by eadmund 2y ago
It sounds great, but is there any way to receive those from a retailer based in the U.S. rather than shipped from China?
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by eadmund 2y ago
> It's not some hidden information that bcrypt has a 72 char limit. Pretty widely documented in multiple implementations and languages. One of the points of the article is that documentation isn’t enough: one cannot allow callers t
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by eadmund 2y ago
It’s completely possible to combine GPL and AGPL software with, e.g., BSD- or MIT-licensed software. The resulting software is GPL- or AGP-licensed, and the users are not restricted from doing anything. I honestly thought that this was a l
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When screens were secondary: Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti(core77.com)
2 points by eadmund 2y ago|0 comments
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by eadmund 2y ago
I believe that the real point is not to prevent access to information, but rather to prevent production of wrongthink. Any fact which the model trainer wishes to disappear — whether that is what happened at Tiananmen Square between April an
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by eadmund 2y ago
The GPL and AGPL are not restrictive: they ensure that you do not restrict your users. Freedom looks like tyranny, to a tyrant.
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by eadmund 2y ago
I want my subcultures to be commodified. I want it to be easy for folks who are interested in the things I’m interested in to join in. I want there to be an efficient market with mass producers to get people started, and then tiers of p
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by eadmund 2y ago
You keep returning to salted hashes. Please read the first two paragraphs of what I wrote for why that is a mistake. If you are going to use a shared secret system, do not use salted hashes. There is almost never a good reason to use sal
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by eadmund 2y ago
> You know the Linux kernel, and probably most of your userspace, are also written in C? I’m aware. It would be nice were that not the case. One of my favourite userspace programs uses C, but just to build a Lisp runtime! > Why do y
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by eadmund 2y ago
The very short version is that decent hash functions are very, very fast, take almost no storage to compute and can thus easily be run in parallel. If you store `(,salt ,(HMAC-SHA2-256 salt password)) in your database and it leaks, an atta
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by eadmund 2y ago
StumpWM supports both tiling and stacking windows. The latter are not great, but good enough when needed.
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by eadmund 2y ago
He did write ‘awful,’ which is a fair description of the experience of writing Lua. I don’t mean that as an insult to Lua’s creators. They seem like really smart fellows. It’s just that the language is (to my eyes, with my background) vic
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Congress absolutely does how the power to charge money outside of federal territories Of course it does. It has no power to regulate rents outside of federal territories , which is what I wrote. It cannot pass national rent control,
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by eadmund 2y ago
Yes, and then Article I, Section 8 goes on to explain what counts as the ‘common Defence and general Welfare’ when it enumerates the Congress’s powers. That’s not Sovereign Citizen nonsense — it’s very basic constitutional law. Congress do
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by eadmund 2y ago
Resolved is useful if you frequently change networks (e.g. a laptop), particularly if you’re also using an overlay such as Tailscale. Unfortunately, like anything related to systemd it is flakey and buggy and the solution to most things is
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by eadmund 2y ago
Yes, 42 U.S.C. 1861, et seq is the legal basis for the NSF. What’s the Constitutional basis for that law? The Congress only has the powers granted in Article I and further amendments. For example, the Congress does not have the power to
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by eadmund 2y ago
Modified by oil-filling, though.
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by eadmund 2y ago
I suspect that projects are always vetted against ideology, because everyone has one and everyone believes that his own is correct. I doubt that one could get NSF funding for a study of racial differences in IQ. I am certain that one co
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by eadmund 2y ago
Only having to update once every couple of years is wild. And it’s also awesome.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> it boiled down to wanting only one dependency graph per module instead of two Did you consider having tool be an alias for indirect? That would have kept a single dependency graph per module, while still enabling one reading one’s go.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Well, I guess ‘window tearing’ doesn’t mean what I thought it did — or rather that it’s more than I thought. I always thought that it meant the artifact when dragging a changing window, which of course doesn’t happen if one doesn’t drag. I
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by eadmund 2y ago
> gold has never reached its 1980s peak again, and may never do so Very true. OTOH, if you bought gold one week, one month, six months, one year, five years, ten years or twenty years ago you would have made money. I am not really a gol
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by eadmund 2y ago
The author complains that after all his leadership and hustle: > to the company, I was just a row in an Excel sheet. But then writes: > [German] law enforces a social scoring system to determine who is affected, prioritizing the prote
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by eadmund 2y ago
Tiling window managers don’t tear.

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