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by flossly 5mo ago
Over time software grows. Once big rewriting it in another language is hard and gets harder as the project grows in size. Starting with a resource-saving attitude may be a very good long term strategy. Also: with Rust there are many feature
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by flossly 5mo ago
You call it lazy. I call it "focus" or avoiding pre-mature optimization. I find the "legal liability" claim hilarious... I do better than 95% of the web: as I said I HAVE some screen reader directives (just did not test
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by flossly 5mo ago
I use Tailwind and have all kinds of "screen reader" directives in my templates. Not sure if it helps, but if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them. It seems that Tailwind is n
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by flossly 5mo ago
While I agree I do think there's some "aspiration of purity/correctness" in your approach that I've long let go of. I look at the royal mess that is HTML/CSS/JS as a necessary evil, required when we want t
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by flossly 5mo ago
I agree with all your points. And --being vegan-- i really resonate with the "why is this species protected/helped/"iconic" and the other basically deserves torture, confinement and pre-mature death. Still the piece
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by flossly 5mo ago
I used Claude last week to build a tool for builds/deploys/etc. I had done this before with a bunch of scripts (sed+awk+ducktape+aws-cli+terraform+jq+gosh...). But now it is a Kotlin-written, GraalVM-to-native, super fast running,
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by flossly 5mo ago
The "Melinda" bit already dropped? Why did she leave him? Great guy to do a partnership with the same-named foundations of. I'll take the downvotes (just saw that _all_ posts that comment negatively on the foundation are well
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by flossly 5mo ago
My fav was Casio fx 260 solar: https://www.amazon.nl/Casio-Solar-Scientific-Calculator-Blac... indestructible. small. solar (never out of battery; worked also with indoor electric light). contained all I needed for school (
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by flossly 5mo ago
Did not know that... Thanks.
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by flossly 5mo ago
I like the authors remark on "source code FLOSS escrow" at the bottom of the article. It's prolly hard to achieve legally, but the idea that a software is close source until it's no longer sold then automatically becomes
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by flossly 5mo ago
And 64kb should be enough for anyone.
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by flossly 5mo ago
Smaller families, better education level of the next gen, ... But yeah, if you are afraid of a war you want your group to be big, uneducated, easy to manipulate and expendable.
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by flossly 5mo ago
Indeed, we know this, "educate girls to fix society", already for many years. The other "societal fix we know for year to work" is reducing economic inequality. https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilk
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by flossly 5mo ago
I'd expect them to be less cheerful about a 4GB bump than Google's team behind Chrome
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by flossly 5mo ago
And that's why we have, promote, and (hopefully) all use Chromium on our Linuxes. Or Firefox of course.
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by flossly 5mo ago
KDE also IIRC. Just works in all load and save dialogs :)
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by flossly 5mo ago
Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?
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by flossly 6mo ago
When I review a PR, I don't add comments to the code. If I think something needs to be commented: I comment on the PR and reject the PR. If I think --as is discussed in the article-- that the comment "would be nice, but is not str
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by flossly 6mo ago
There's US AI and China AI. Those are the two contenders. We are discussing the problems of using the Chinese AI because of the "evil" govt there. The evil at this point clearly is less evil than that of the US govt. That&#x2
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by flossly 6mo ago
> Just because America is doing bad things doesn't mean China is good, or vice versa. When someone points out hypocrisy, this is "the answer", it seems. But it is just a statement, not a rebuttal of the hypocrisy that was
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by flossly 6mo ago
How are they clearly less susceptible to a supply chain attack? Maybe the web vault, but then we do not know when it's compromised (that's the whole idea); so we trust them not to've made a mess...
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by flossly 6mo ago
On iOS I feel I have less control over what's running than on Linux (dont get me started on Windows or Android). So that's the order of how I dare to use it. But a supply chain attack: I'll always use a distributed program: t
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by flossly 6mo ago
Never used the CLI, but I do use their browser plugin. Would be quite a mess if that got compromised. What can I do to prevent it? Run old --tried and tested-- versions? Quite bizarre to think much much of my well-being depends on those sec
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by flossly 6mo ago
I thought Zig has a C compiler built in? Or is it just the Zig build system that's able to compile C, but uses an external compiler for that? Still a proper programmer-flex to build another one.
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by flossly 6mo ago
I've not for the last 12 years. But fake meats/dairies have a very similar macro profile, so I expect them to digest similarly. I'll not try though, as I'm vegan for ethical reasons.
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by flossly 6mo ago
My reason is I dont want the fast moving food to get stuck behind the slow moving food. Another reason I do it like this: I get no after diner dip from fast moving food. Slow moving food makes me crash a little, and I prefer to experience t
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by flossly 6mo ago
I cannot stand the taste coffee. So no data from my side.
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by flossly 6mo ago
I found the same food goes about as fast (on a rather empty GI tract) no matter when eaten. Slow food takes about 24h for me (so even when eaten early).
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by flossly 6mo ago
For me the most obvious reason is that we are primates and most primates have a fruit heavy diet. So I believe that's a reason for our human bodies to be very well adapted to fruit. And that's the fibers, vitamins, minerals and su
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by flossly 6mo ago
I did not mention stomach. I meant the GI-tract as a whole. I've used food coloring and indigestibles (like corn kernels) to do experiments on whether meals can "overtake" or "merge" or "join" with other m

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