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by em-bee 5mo ago
many years ago i wrote a parser for a python like syntax for pike which is C-syntax based. i wrote it just for fun, but it actually worked. i called it nessie, like the loch ness monster because pike(fish)+python(snake)=nessie(sea snake). i
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by em-bee 5mo ago
that's a sensible approach. fish does have the best interactive interface out there. i switched to elvish because i like it better for complex commandlines, mainly because it has support for more advanced data structures and also integ
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by em-bee 5mo ago
disagree. the fact that i can see more and more support for fish and also start seeing support for elvish shows that those alternative shells have reached a scale meaningful enough that tool developers actually consider it worth their effor
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by em-bee 5mo ago
there are a lot of sites that do that, especially in germany. and it annoys me to no end because i believe it is actually illegal. at least that's how i understand it. i might be wrong but i believe that tracking cookies must always be
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by em-bee 5mo ago
got any reference for that claim?
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by em-bee 5mo ago
... and many also have succeeded. fish would not be as popular as it is otherwise, other alternative shells that break bash compatibility are being worked on and are gaining traction, elvish, nushell, murex... mixing shells is not as hard a
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by em-bee 5mo ago
changing your employer tends to accelerate that if the new employer has different values.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
bun is still supported for specific versions so nothing is being thrown away. in any case the actual code is the same, since it's all javascript. it's more a matter of the wrapper code that calls the different runtimes and maybe s
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by em-bee 5mo ago
sorry i missed this comment and only saw it now. There are actually literally zero instances of companies enforcing a "we own all the code you write" clause against contributions to an open source project. the thread is about co
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by em-bee 5mo ago
but it's not fun for everyone. reviewing code for people vs agents is a massive difference for me. with people i can teach them. with LLMs i can't. it makes me feel helpless. just like i feel helpless using broken non-free apps. i
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by em-bee 5mo ago
FOSS projects should register their domains with providers that allow anyone to pay the fee for a domain, even if they don't own it. then, instead of depending on one person, anyone in the community can pay directly to ensure that the
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by em-bee 5mo ago
it is unfortunate the there is little motivation to publish thesis projects to a wider audience. not to blame the authors here, because that is how the system works. exceptions require extraordinary effort or extrinsic motivation. one proje
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by em-bee 5mo ago
it's probably not old enough, but in the mid 90s i acquired a working apollo domain workstation that was functioning as a doorstop at a university library. it came with a full set of documentation, but no floppies, i think. i don'
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by em-bee 5mo ago
the problem is that you have to keep all the artifacts around so you can keep building with the old framework. especially in the npm world that is incredibly annoying. my solution for javascript at least is to avoid build tools alltogether,
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by em-bee 5mo ago
they exist, but they are likely unmaintained, and may have known security issues. i have a project that suffers from that. the version of a library it is built with is old and unsecure, but the newer supported version has a completely diffe
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by em-bee 5mo ago
it also depends on your language proficiency. i am a native german speaker, but my english is fluent. i think and dream in english too i guess. which means i am not translating any more.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
are you referring to the exception for proprietary libraries that are part of the operating system? an exception that is needed because otherwise it would be impossible to build GPL software for non-free operating systems. wine is under the
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by em-bee 5mo ago
yes, but only for those extensions that the brave team maintains because all other v2 extensions are likely no longer maintained at all: https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/ so in general the problem
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by em-bee 5mo ago
the bike hellscape of the Netherlands what is that supposed to mean? most other places people talk favorably about biking in the netherlands. and i can confirm that, i have been traveling there on a bike myself.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
ok, that's probably not the popular opinion, but a reasonable argument. i think though that the chrome manifestV2 support example is not really applicable to your argument though. chrome still exists, and the removal of a feature is no
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by em-bee 5mo ago
you are being downvoted because the article considers de-googled versions of android acceptable. and neither are dependent on google in the sense that even if google stopped publishing android source altogether they could continue to develo
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by em-bee 5mo ago
which communication tool is offering that? except web forums, discourse? most others you need to go an extra step to make the messages public, like mailing list archives. there is this: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-ar
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by em-bee 5mo ago
but it's not the language that's the cause here. it's politics. it's who is in power to decide and direct investments. the language's only function here is to divide the people. so yeah, it had an influence in that
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by em-bee 5mo ago
What kind of system has work to be done but not enough jobs a system that doesn't provide enough education for its citizens. this is why education needs to be made available to everyone, and not just those who can afford it. especial
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by em-bee 5mo ago
it is interesting to note that since the industrial revolution it was the french speaking part of belgium that flourished due to its steel industry, and the dutch speaking part was the poor one. only when the steel industry stopped being co
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by em-bee 5mo ago
more general, it's related to the ongoing struggle between private vs state owned utilities. it is not clear from the get-go which approach is better. it most often depends on the quality of the people involved.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
i think you got the gist of it. the whole video doesn't really add any evidence as to how he came to that conclusion, it's mostly about why it's bad and how he feels about it.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
when i imagined huge data centers i was thinking the size of a football stadium, one like that for each AI business. twice the size of manhattan goes way beyond i ever imagined. the scene of skynet coming online flashed before my eyes when
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by em-bee 5mo ago
well except that there is no FOSS license that requires you to submit your changes upstream. so the license argument is not going to be valid in most cases. GPL only require you to share with users, so any in-house use of software does also
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by em-bee 5mo ago
i believe your wish has been granted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124834

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