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by ertian 6y ago
Eh, humor is subjective. If a person was anxious to learn Ruby ASAP and found this guide, it would've been frustratingly sparse and meandering. And the humor is too laid-back to be laugh-out-loud funny. But I think you just weren'
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by ertian 6y ago
That's still common in North America, just not at the major chains. I often shop at Asian grocery markets, and it's hard to go wrong picking from the big bins that are spilling out onto the sidewalk. Another advantage: more differ
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by ertian 6y ago
You can imagine similar arguments against IPv4 back in the day: "I used to only have to know what interface to send stuff to, and now I need this long complicated number?! What the hell is wrong with /etc/hosts?"
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by ertian 6y ago
> Much of this boils down to "IPv6 sucks because it's so different from IPv4" In fact, "IPv6 sucks because it's not broken in the same ways as IPv4". NAT, for example, was only ever a hack to get around limi
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by ertian 6y ago
It's definitely true that outright dismissing all high-caste Indians is no better than doing the same for low-caste or any other race of people. I have to say, though, if I saw an org chart with a disproportionate number of Indians (re
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by ertian 6y ago
> Point 1) - I don't think so. I remember having discussions online with people who passionately argued that open source software was effectively theft from programmers at large--permanently filling niches that used to gainfully emp
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by ertian 6y ago
Reminds me of the old idea of putting US nuke launch codes inside a person who would be part of the president's entourage, so that if the president wanted to launch a nuclear attack he would have to start by literally murdering and cut
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by ertian 6y ago
But median wealth per adult is okay?
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by ertian 6y ago
Define "full support"? Do you mean a vigorous nod, or arms and air support? I approved of that coup attempt. Does that responsibility for the coup can be laid at my feet?
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by ertian 6y ago
The "attempted coup" in Venezuela was a couple crazy dudes who got rounded up immediately. You think that represents an attempted coup by the American government?
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by ertian 6y ago
It's a subculture. I think the key is in the definition of 'everyone'; I doubt anybody imagines everybody in the world switching to Gemini from the web. So 'everyone' in this context means all the people who have co
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by ertian 6y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if history were actually this simple? The idea here is that Romans, with their pater familias, or the Confucian Chinese, for whom the father was a mini-emperor, were just preparing the way for capitalism, 2000+ year
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by ertian 6y ago
The problem with that is that you end up with tons of confusing name collisions.
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by ertian 6y ago
> Easy, just blame China for their own stupidity and inferiority in losing the Opium Wars to the superior white people. I didn't say anything like that. It turned out that China was technologically backwards, but they also just didn
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by ertian 6y ago
Keep in mind, this is the rhetoric of the CCP, and used to legitimize their continuing rule even after they've dropped all but the barest facade of actual communism. In the modern Chinese imagination, the Opium Wars loom large as a dev
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by ertian 6y ago
I'm not sure if that's what it shows. That's the same pattern you see on all kinds of sites: most Wikipedia edits are done by a handful of users. There's a small core of ridiculously-active people answering questions on
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by ertian 6y ago
I feel like interacting with there real world, and with users in particular, just inevitably leads to orders of magnitude more complexity. You can see that even in simple cases. Writing a basic single-propose script is trivial; it may end u
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by ertian 6y ago
If I'm working with Java libraries, I'd much rather do it from Clojure. You do end up having to write something like an interface for any library you're using--but to be honest, you tend to do that in Java anyway.
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by ertian 6y ago
But it's never what you'd expect. The stuff that bothers parents skips right past the kids a lot of the time, but strange little things will freak a kid right out. My son refuses to read some books (going so far as to hide one of
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by ertian 6y ago
I don't really agree with the author at all. His examples all seem like meaningful stories. The lion in the zoo? He lives off other animals, but when he stops to get to know one he becomes so attached he can't live without it. Cou
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by ertian 7y ago
I'd really love to use GuixSD. I'd much prefer Lisp to Nix. But the strict licensing is just too much of a handicap. You've really got to build your system around the underlying licenses. I've tried installing it on 3 or
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by ertian 7y ago
I agree with you, mostly, but I really think Nix is one of those rare abstractions that is easily worth it: it has the potential to simultaneously solve and unify a bunch of different issues: reproducable builds, package management (system
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by ertian 7y ago
I like Apt a lot, but it does have some shortcomings. First, of course, it requires an apt-based distro, so software distributors need to have apt alongside all the other packaging alternatives. Or they just provide a bash script. Ew. Secon
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by ertian 7y ago
It feels like you're being unnecessarily hostile, here. He didn't address your specific problem as stated, but he did add to the discussion. I don't think it's fair to say that Nix is 'just another package manager&#
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by ertian 7y ago
US involvement in Yemen and Syria was minimal. Obama was mostly criticized, at the time, for not getting more involved. Remember the fuss about the "red line"?
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by ertian 7y ago
On your desktop? Probably none. On the image that you're pushing out to your fleet of production servers? Maybe a couple.
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by ertian 7y ago
> Sure, the issue is the if (which should be guaranteed by Airbnb and isn't). But in a hotel you're guaranteed a good experience? I've personally had much better luck with AirBnB than with hotels, in the same price range.