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by eadmund 2y ago
> Prior to legalized sports betting, was "state violence" used against people who bet on sports as a casual hobby? Yes: Sal Culosi was shot and killed by police in Virginia for wagering more than $2,000: https://reas
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I never wanted to again use a dynamic language without any kind of JIT compiler What about a dynamic language with an AOT compiler? E.g. SBCL implements Common Lisp by compiling everything ahead of time.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Emacs implements something like this too! It’s pretty useful to be able to just enter a tarball and work with the files in it. It looks like https://github.com/cybernoid/archivemount provides a similar experience in t
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by eadmund 2y ago
Legalising it? No. Normalising it? Yes. Unfortunately, our culture seems to have two settings: legal ban; full celebratory embrace. We don’t seem to be able to handle tolerating and discouraging (see smoking, which is slowly being banned
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by eadmund 2y ago
… unless you’re running Linux (or macOS, perhaps?) on a desktop or laptop and print something. I’m pretty sure that even in 2024 printing is pretty common, isn’t it? … isn’t it?
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by eadmund 2y ago
Not every Linux machine is a server! This is kind of a big deal for desktop and even more so for laptop users.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> 3.9k USD annually is a lot for a hobby. It’s only $325/month, or $10.32/day. That’s less than two pumpkin spice lattes a day. That seems low to medium for a hobby. Viewed another way, it’s less than 1/20th median house
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I did a double-take at the 3.5k Euro spend per year on clothing. My own spending is probably 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller. One order of magnitude would be €350; two orders of magnitude would be €35; three orders of magnitude would b
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by eadmund 2y ago
It sounds like in this case “exposing CUPS to the Internet” means “running a Linux desktop on the Internet” which while not something I would do doesn’t seem crazy. I would hope that a default Debian desktop installation would be secure en
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by eadmund 2y ago
I see from the latter link that the last update was in February 2024 — glad that the project is still alive!
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by eadmund 2y ago
I get being appalled at the waste involved. But that waste was cheaper than the customs duties they would otherwise have had to pay. In other words, all that appalling waste was more efficient than the duties would have been. To put it an
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by eadmund 2y ago
> the Web at large is full of slop generated by large language models, written by no one to communicate nothing That’s neither fair nor accurate. That slop is ultimately generated by the humans who run those models; they are attempting
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Health care cannot be described as "very good" while it is not accessible to all. It may not be universally very good, but it can certainly be very good in particular instances. One can also compare health care systems by q
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by eadmund 2y ago
I would love for my next job to be in Common Lisp. I do have a concern though. I see that at lots of companies the job is not a Go job or a Python job or a Javascript job, but a Go-at-Foocorp job or a Python-at-Bazco job or a Javascript-at
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by eadmund 2y ago
The snarky article inspired me to purchase the book!
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by eadmund 2y ago
The thing that I really loved about Flash and miss still today is that it contained the dynamism: the web page around the embedded Flash object was just plain old HTML. This meant that I controlled whether or not the Flash played. By c
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by eadmund 2y ago
This is an awesome example of the kind of innovation which overlong copyright prevents. There’s no particularly good reason that it should be legally impermissible for someone to build and sell a system like this loaded with movies from bef
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by eadmund 2y ago
An alternate, market-based solution would be insurance companies who impose requirements for insurance. That increases the chances of finding an economic balance between security and productivity. A government regulation applies to everyo
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Policy through votes will come for the wealth eventually No doubt, but might doesn’t make right. Theft is still stealing if 50% of the population plus one approve of it.
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by eadmund 2y ago
There’s Embeddable Common Lisp: https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/ Most recent release was May of this year. I don’t know if it is as portable as Lua, but it should basically run anywhere you can call into C. You’d have to imp
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by eadmund 2y ago
It seems to me that it makes a great deal of sense for the seat of the federal government to be located in a federal district independent of any state’s control. It also would not make sense for that federal district to be represented as a
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by eadmund 2y ago
If you’re using HTTP for something other than transferring hypertext — i.e., if your application is not a hypermedia application — then you are doing something just as wrong as encoding IP in DNS packets or email messages. Don’t do that.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Turns out, they use SIGWINCH (which is sent on WINdow CHange) for graceful shutdown. That’s … that’s even worse than people who send errors with an HTTP 200 response code.
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by eadmund 2y ago
The way I think of it is: my browser’s password manager is the phishing-resistant portion of the system, and TOTP ensures that I am the one sitting at my browser. Passkeys sound interesting, but I have a (perhaps incorrect) user-hostile big
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by eadmund 2y ago
> "It's not OSS" is a not a value judgement unless you think that the four freedoms were written by god. It’s not a value judgment unless the four freedoms reflect one’s values. They reflect mine; therefore I judge that n
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by eadmund 2y ago
> To me, it's weird that the AGPL is any more "open source" than the Elastic License. The AGPL requires you to publish all of your source code if you make any changes to the product; the Elastic License just says, "do
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Rust in the kernel does not and has never meant C developers will have to learn Rust That seems incorrect. If I am writing software which interacts with a component, then I need to be able to read it to understand what it’s doing. So
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by eadmund 2y ago
> For some people changing master -> main isn't a nothing burger, it's actively harmful. I constantly have pain — years after the Summer of Floyd — from repos I follow which change the name of their master branch from ‘maste
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I don't think we should be organizing our society in such a way that "staying alive" is considered a "benefit" that is largely at the whim of employers who can revoke that "benefit" at any point. One’
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by eadmund 2y ago
YouTube is barely usable on Google’s YouTube app on Google’s Pixel phones running Google’s Android OS at the moment. It used to be that if one were watching one YouTube video and followed a YouTube link to another, that one would be prompte

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