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by em-bee 6mo ago
there is another thought that i just realized. what are reproducible builds with runtime compiled languages like python, ruby, perl, even javascript? the point of a reproducible build is to verify that the binary i use, or that the package
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by em-bee 6mo ago
ttyphoon is mostly the work of a single person, who is also working on the murex shell. some projects take longer to gain traction. i am mainly interested in the ideas being explored, and hope that more projects pick them up. i haven'
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by em-bee 6mo ago
since there is no other way to reach you please allow me to use this off topic message to let you know that there is a response to your comments on the gnupg discussion from two weeks ago.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i have just been reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081245 about reproducible builds in debian, and that reminded me of this discussion. truth is i still struggle to understand how reproducible builds with small
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by em-bee 6mo ago
the idea of mixed ages learning together doesn't seem inherently bad it's not. the problem is that the teenagers are not given any real authority that would be appropriate for their age. but then on their 18th birthday they sudd
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by em-bee 6mo ago
ok, fair enough, what actually interests me is why in your opinion it is weak. in my understanding, weak typing comes from values being interpreted differently or are silently converted based on how they are used. php taking strings with nu
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by em-bee 6mo ago
actually, instead of the object hash, you could also use the commit-hash. then the filename would be mandatory, but the url would be more readable and usable: give me the file VERBS.md as it is at commit <hash>
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by em-bee 6mo ago
depending on the definition of static and dynamic, go could arguably be described as static (personally, i prefer declarative, as static is generally defined as something that i understand to be true for C but not for go), but that still do
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by em-bee 6mo ago
that's not what i meant. i was trying to suggest that the string "blob" does not fit. why is it there? why is it needed? https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/a7e17290a39250092055fcda5ae7015868dabdb
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by em-bee 6mo ago
telegram may not be end-to-end encrypted by default but it does support end-to-end encryption. the generous reading is that this encryption, if used, should be broken. so as i read it the article doesn't suggest that all of telegram is
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by em-bee 6mo ago
what would be a better way of doing that? i am not disagreeing, but i just can't think of any way to improve on this. put everything into the query part? i prefer to use the query only for optional arguments. in this example the blob a
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by em-bee 6mo ago
there are a few projects with interesting ideas already, warp terminal, which was recently released as FOSS is one, ttyphoon is another. both are not yet where i would want them to be in terms of data display, but they show that reinventing
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by em-bee 6mo ago
how is go a weakly typed version of python or php? or even more generic, how is go weakly typed? explain please.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
Don't look to TUIs for good presentation as the terminal just isn't the place for fancy views yes but the terminal is still the place where most of the sysadmin and dev work happens. it's a relic that we can't get rid
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i have addressed some of the issues raised in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058065 i hope you'll notice this reply and get a chance to read it.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i appreciate you making the effort to register an account to make this comment. i have addressed some of the issues raised in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058065 i hope you'll notice this repl
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by em-bee 6mo ago
in some of the comments here accusations have been made against GnuPG and their developers. one of the comments has been flagged and killed. i had the opportunity to talk to one developer for a few hours and learn a few things. there are st
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by em-bee 6mo ago
for the kernel? hardly. only if the kernel breaks userspace. which it shouldn't.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
it is interesting to look at germany here. rules there are different in each region, and some regions have free choice of schools. basically the finding is that in some cases free choice lead to even more segregation in each school because
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by em-bee 6mo ago
the focus nowadays is on shoving meaningless animations into things that should just be simple text, and ads into everything, which inevitably leads to far more noise rather than function right, but the same is true for all GUIs to an ext
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by em-bee 6mo ago
Tektronix 4014 emulation i have in more than 30 years of using X11 never once seen an application that would actually use that tektronix emulation. so i am absolutely clueless in what it can do and how it works. i'd really love to se
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by em-bee 6mo ago
streaming video services and Fortnite those are not remote graphics applications. streaming is one way, and on slow connections it still fails. fortnite is local graphics. like a webbrowser. i already mentioned that. by remote graphics i
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by em-bee 6mo ago
the first and second are graphics terminals which is muddling up the definition. of course they were called terminals back then until we decided to make a distinction. what they are called is not the point. the point is the distinction. for
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by em-bee 6mo ago
And what puzzles me all the time is why the programmer chooses the licenses which permit this exact behavior, and become pissed when this happens? you almost answer this yourself, it's not just that a custom license is a bad move, be
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by em-bee 6mo ago
which is a pity because in person he is actually really nice.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
Open-source licensed with non-free license is still open-source, although non-FOSS nope. there are only a few licenses approved by OSI that are not also considered Free Software. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-l
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by em-bee 6mo ago
that's an interesting point. how important was user participation in the development of software for RMS? he wanted to be able to share his modifications with anyone. presumably that includes upstream. so even if not said explicitly, i
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by em-bee 6mo ago
if a CoC can be weaponized, then the CoC is badly written. the existence of a CoC by itself is not the issue, even though some people claim that it is. that is a problem in itself.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
only if you already have the source, the GPL also guarantees that you can get the source even if you don't have it.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
vibe-coding for products that are used by many people is malice.

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