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by eadmund 1y ago
I think you mean ‘what about the median?’ The mean is the average.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> (largely) privatized the costs of children solely onto their parents. The single greatest component of the property tax is the local public schools. Federal taxes pay for free lunches at those schools. Approximately half of Social Se
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by eadmund 1y ago
No worries! ASN.1 is a bit weird because there’s a textual version and then a bunch of serialisations. I think that human-readable is more important than space-efficient. At some point an engineer is going to be looking at bytes in a dump
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by eadmund 1y ago
It does if the other channels transmit so strongly that they drown out yours.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> However, you're abusing a text format for human reading and pretending it's a serialization format. They should be the same, in order to facilitate human debugging. And we were discussing ASN.1, not its serialisations. Fran
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by eadmund 1y ago
> But also, I have absolutely zero right to really externalize that grievance. I’m not so certain. It’s like if one bought a nice house in the country, and enjoyed listening to classical music and going to sleep early, and then someon
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by eadmund 1y ago
Would you rather write a parser for this: SEQUENCE { SEQUENCE { OBJECT IDENTIFIER '1 2 840 113549 1 1 1' NULL } BIT STRING 0 unused bits, encapsulates { SEQUENCE { IN
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by eadmund 1y ago
What I would want is to GET http://example.com/item/448828 with an Accept header of ‘application/s-expression,application/json;q=0.1’ instead of retrieving the HTML representation of the resource. HTTP is
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by eadmund 1y ago
From https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/vers... (kudos for doing this, BTW!): > seafile … and nextcloud … their license is problematic There’s nothing problematic about the A
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by eadmund 1y ago
Firefox exists, and it’s pretty awesome. I’m typing this in Firefox now. I use Firefox on my phone. Mozilla is from all appearances a pretty terrible organisation, but their browser is good.
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by eadmund 1y ago
I absolutely hate the ‘Sign in with Google’ prompt and I am very concerned that I will either accidentally or absent-mindedly tap on it and share my email address and identity with some random untrustworthy website. The idea of identity m
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by eadmund 1y ago
That’s fair. They really should revert that nonsense.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> They decided to waste the default warning with a wrist-slap for using "master" I think that one can eliminate that by adding this to /etc/gitconfig, ~/.config/git/config or ~/.gitconfig as approp
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Excluding things like .vscode and .DS_store I’m old and cranky enough to want to believe that excluding contributions from VS Code and macOS users is a trivial way to reduce the maintainer’s burden and improve software quality. That’s
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by eadmund 1y ago
> if orgmode is so good, has it not been implemented outside of emacs Org Mode is that good, but part of its goodness is due to being in Emacs. Emacs is not really an editor: it’s an easily user-extensible operating environment with a
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by eadmund 1y ago
I think it’s fascinating that ingress-nginx has been broken for over a year.
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Strict-validate-path-type does not allow period/dot/. in Exact or Prefix path(github.com)
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Maybe even giving us a gender neutral pronoun? We have one: ‘it.’ What we don’t have is a specific indistinct-gender pronoun; instead, English uses ‘he’ (and in a very limited case, ‘they’).
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Quite some emotions, also in the linked article about XLibre, from someone not emotionally invested in software. An emotional impact from a piece of software’s failures is not the same as being emotionally invested in a piece of softwa
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by eadmund 1y ago
The AGPL allows that.
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by eadmund 1y ago
It goes without saying that this is annoying and expensive (over $100,000 for over half the respondents and over $500,000/year for over a quarter!) for those who have been audited, even if they have done nothing wrong. I am curious wha
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by eadmund 1y ago
> So if you never want megacorps or anyone who runs a business to ever use your code, choose AGPL. Plenty of businesses run AGPL software (e.g. Grafana, Mastodon or Mattermost). Fewer run AGPL software for external paying customers. As
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by eadmund 1y ago
> it shows a lack of respect for and understanding of the work graphic artists actually do No more than wearing off-the-rack clothes shows a lack of respect for and understanding of the work tailors actually do. No more than wearing fact
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I'll never understand why the HATEOAS meme hasn't died. > Is anyone using it? Anywhere? As I recall ACME (the protocol used by Let’s Encrypt) is a HATEOAS protocol. If so (a cursory glance at RFC 8555 indicates that it ma
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by eadmund 1y ago
> This is more like people arguing over "proper" English, the point of language is to communicate ideas. ur s0 rait, eye d0nt nnno wy ne1 b0dderz tu b3 "proppr"!!!!1!! </sarcasm> You are correct that commun
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Our APSi includes HATEAOS links and I have never, not once, witnessed their actual use (but they do double the size of response payloads). So your payloads look like this: { "id": 1, "href": &q
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by eadmund 1y ago
Sure, you’re right: pragmatics, in practice, are more important than theory. But you’re assuming that there is a real contradiction between shipping features and RESTful design. I believe that RESTful design can in many cases actually incr
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by eadmund 1y ago
Why would anyone want to install another browser to use as a developer? What the computing world needs is less separation of users and developers. Developers use programs all day, every day. And users should be able to write programs an
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by eadmund 1y ago
I don’t believe that ‘capitalism’ is a good explanation for the behaviour of a charitable organisation with no shareholders. An issue with private funding for charitable projects is, as you note, appeals to the emotions of private donors. A
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by eadmund 1y ago
> people who seriously called people who live on the same tectonic plate as us, who used to be directly connected to us with a land bridge only a few 10kA ago, and who have no continental slope or suchlike between us, "the continent

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