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by eadmund 3y ago
> Opposition to abortion in the US is entirely premised on Christian ideology and the belief that a human is ensouled by God at the moment of conception, thus making abortion at any stage equivalent to murder ‘Entirely’ is a strong word:
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by eadmund 3y ago
> it's all in the tooling, of which Markdown is unrivaled . The tooling for Emacs is unrivaled. Markdown is, honestly, pretty cool: it’s probably the best thing the John Gruber has ever done. I think that it’s arguable that Markd
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by eadmund 3y ago
Why not? The secular French Revolutionary government abolished slavery in 1794; the abolition of abortion represents essentially the same scientific, non-theistic recognition of human beings, no matter their ethnicity or stage of developme
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by eadmund 3y ago
Hey now, Javascript adds plenty of value to advertisers, crackers, CPU vendors and browser manufacturers seeking lock-in! Seriously, it does have use in building web apps, but the vast, vast majority of web sites I encounter should be s
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by eadmund 3y ago
> are you browsing the web in 2024 with javascript disabled? I use uMatrix to disable most Javascript by default, and enable sources one-by-one if necessary for a web app. There’s no need to use Javascript on a blog post, certainly not
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Did anyone else find the green background and the white text clash in a way that made it difficult to read? No, but only because with Javascript disabled there is literally nothing but an olive green page. Truly remarkable, given that
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by eadmund 3y ago
> I can't count how often I have said something like "Yes, technically we don't need all of that.... but..." Systems tend to become weird in production if many people use them. Minor note (of the literally/figura
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by eadmund 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilicas_in_the_Catholic_Chur... indicates that there are four major basilicas and almost 2,000 minor ones. Seems like the four major basilicas have historical (maybe even pre-Schism?) as
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by eadmund 3y ago
> The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral. There may not be enough institutional knowledge at CNN about Catholicism that the editors would
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by eadmund 3y ago
When will developers learn that the BSD does not protect you or your users ? I understand the philosophical reasons some folks like BSD/MIT-style licenses, but at the end of the day they are not much more than public domain: anyone c
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by eadmund 3y ago
Free software existed long before mass investment by VCs. The business arguments for open source existed long before the low-interest-rate period. We are probably not going to see mass investment by VCs in free software for awhile (perhaps
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by eadmund 3y ago
I don’t feel like that’s the most important thing. If we can farm kidneys for folks with kidney failure, rather than rely on a combination of the kindness of live donors and harvesting organs from corpses, it will be a huge step forward,
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by eadmund 3y ago
This does look really neat, but IMHO ASCII art is one of the keys to being traditional. Nothing at all against Shattered Pixel Dungeon, just that a quick look through the site didn’t reveal a terminal version.
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by eadmund 3y ago
Not just similar wealth but — as you source indicates and other sources indicate — more ! It’s an indication of how powerful narrative is: despite the facts, folks just believe what they want to believe.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> But even ignoring my projects that involve multiple languages simultaneously, I still regularly use several languages in total, even if only one per project. So having a build system that's independent of the language is still hig
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by eadmund 3y ago
> I regularly use several different languages, sometimes in the same project, sometimes not. But in all cases, I want to use the same build system in order to minimize my environmental complexity. It’s not obvious to me that one can sol
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by eadmund 3y ago
> If turing-completeness is necessary, why should there even exist a build system independent from a programming language now? It shouldn’t. The only issue is that most folks aren’t using powerful enough languages. As you note, using
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by eadmund 3y ago
> why do you think we should be using Multics? No actual evidence, to be honest, and I don’t think it, only wonder it (thus the ‘I wonder if maybe …?’ phrasing). I’ve never used it, I just know that it was in some ways a predecessor of
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by eadmund 3y ago
> I want a readily available Unix-like terminal, good battery life, slim laptops, and to never have to deal with hardware compatibility or fighting with config files for the OS. I find that my Linux laptops have excellent terminals, dece
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by eadmund 3y ago
In my experience, most of the nuisances with Ubuntu are absent with Debian. I imagine that Red Hat is probably decent too, but it’s just not my taste anymore.
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by eadmund 3y ago
Fashion. The tech industry is in the main not really an engineering industry, but rather a fashion one. That’s why it’s always about the hot new language rather than improving the tried and true. That’s why folks use macOS rather than Li
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by eadmund 3y ago
The ASCII separators are visible in my editor. If something doesn’t support ASCII text, that sounds like a bug which should be fixed, not a reason to misuse graphical characters for something other than their purpose.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> you can then read in stuff with something like input.split("\t").map(unescape) What about input lines like 'asdf\\thjkl\tzxcvb'? That should be two fields, one the string ‘asdf\thjkl’ and the other the string ‘zxcvb
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by eadmund 3y ago
Wait a second … he’s not proposing using unit/record/group/file separators as separators, he’s proposing using the symbols for those separators as separators! Why not just use the separators themselves‽ Yes, rather than us
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Another way to mitigate this issue is to store a secret in the browser that initiated the link-request (Ex. local storage). Or just a cookie … But this approach breaks anyway in cases such as a user on a desktop who checks his email on
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by eadmund 3y ago
Which is yet another reason to disable Javascript by default: it can see everything on the page, and do anything with it, to include sending everything to some random server somewhere. I am not completely opposed to scripting web pages (it’
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Nobody's requiring Wayland. Yet. Defaulting to it is one step on the path towards removing support for X and independent window managers forever. I deeply, deeply care about running an independent window manager. A minimal X w
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by eadmund 3y ago
The problem with wlroots is giant C library. A nice thing about X is that it is feasible to use directly from non-C languages such as Common Lisp.
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by eadmund 3y ago
Please, please, please don’t require Wayland yet. It’s still not ready for prime time. Consider that it may not be appropriate to require it ever. Rather than just implementing the window manager protocol, as X does, Wayland requires it
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by eadmund 3y ago
The cookie warnings are dumb, because if an individual wishes not to use cookies, he is free to configure his browser to refuse to use cookies . It is entirely and 100% under the user’s control. Heck, the way the cookie protocol works the

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