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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
"Perhaps you discount the benefits of white male privilege. You’re wrong. Of course I cannot speak from experience, but being female in a misogynistic environment is /exhausting/. Being non-white in a racist society is &#x2
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
"If the people who came before me--those who taught me the game of avoiding rms--had spoken up, the community could have healed before I even came on the scene. If I and others had stood up fifteen years ago, we'd have another cou
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
Yes
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
Let's be honest, RMS needed to fade away long before September 2019. It was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
This, 1000%. There's good reason infrastructure-as-a-service has become so popular: self-hosting _sucks_. Not only is there the constant and every-growing security nightmare for which companies like GitHub have entire world-class teams
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors." - https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
This may be one of the most off-putting paragraphs ever: > I made my girlfriend stay home for a year, we didn't do anything, we didn't buy clothes and ate the cheapest food, etc. I feel that I have lost a year of my life. You
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
"What are your thoughts on the Go programming language?" "Well, let me tell you about this other language called Rust..." Classic Rustacean: sees zero daylight to inject oneself, does so anyway.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
All of this, 1000%.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
> they are de facto aligned against the mission of continuing the human race Holy hyperbole, Batman!
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
> At least in the US, the pandemic has changed everyone's life created stress for everyone. These policies seem to indicate that non-parents don't have an additional burden worth recognizing. This is spot on. The article uses m
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
> People can have children without congratulating themselves for a sacrifice well delivered ... Kinship for species only extends so far and not much at all when there is parental entitlement. This, 1000%.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
This is excellent thank you. As a non-designer who very often struggles with color palette decisions, I feel this will become an oft-used bookmark.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
Never assume good password hygiene. Always use public key auth, turn off password auth ASAP. And run ssh-audit against yourself often.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
>If you had to set one metric to use as a leading indicator for yourself as a knowledge worker, the best I know might be the number of Evergreen notes written per day. Oy.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
There are a few comments advocating Godot as a solution here and while it is indeed promising, its domain-specific nature hampers it for general application development in certain key ways, namely terrible host-filesystem support. Investiga
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
I use a terminal because it is NOT a GUI, significantly improving productivity once learned. I cannot grok this, it feels like a step in precisely the other direction.
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
A... game? http://fauna.computerpho.be Still not certain where it's going, but it has but fun getting this far with it