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by isr 11mo ago
Except that's not really what happened. You're ignoring the range of in-image tools which kept track if who did what, where. From versioning of individual methods, to full blown distributed version control systems, which predated
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by isr 11mo ago
Adding to what you said. Squeak was a clean open source reimplementation (by the devs who did the original Smalltalk-80), so it's real history starts from there (ie: the 90s, not the 70s) One thing to keep in mind is that smalltalks al
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by isr 11mo ago
Hmm, and the outright deceitful and insidious nature of the post I was responding to? Where someone twists the facts in their very first sentence to hide the fact that the victims of that slaughter were themselves Muslim - just to justify a
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by isr 1y ago
Strongly disagree. THE ENTIRE ETHOS of Smalltalk & Ruby is to leave things up to the object you're communicating with, rather than the call/send site. Sure, you may not like that mindset, in which case, smalltalk/ruby are
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by isr 1y ago
Really? To each their own, but honestly, I found smalltalks way of chaining things to be one of the most elegant parts of what is admittedly a syntactically-simple language (the old "fits on a postcard" thing). With Smalltalk, wit
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by isr 1y ago
Does this remind anyone of the Jin Yang fridge hack, from "Silicon Valley"?
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by isr 1y ago
Hmm, but that's not really a "breakage" in ruby, it's more an aesthetic argument over which objects should have which logic. It's like naming things. Smalltalk (& ruby) has 'select'. Everyone else uses
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by isr 1y ago
Because it leaves it up to the object being called what to actually do with the message. The object you're talking to might be forwarding its messages to another object in another ruby instance on another machine (if the current machin
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by isr 1y ago
He specifically mentioned China. Why are you talking about the US?
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by isr 1y ago
[tcl'ers wiki page on tcl editors]( https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+Editors ) An interesting one I hacked around with for a while is [ma]( https://github.com/kdltr/ma ). It's a single win
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by isr 1y ago
There's no way of supporting Israel without supporting this current genocide. Literally no way. Because this current genocide is the logical outcome of what Israel is. And was explained as such, in detail, by David Ben Gurion and Golda
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by isr 1y ago
That's essentially what it is. They don't really pretend otherwise. The iso is a convenience for 1 stop installs.
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by isr 1y ago
Its not really a distro, nor does it pretend to be. What it really is, is an Arch Linux install, with a preconfigured set of apps & workflow, and a set of tools to easily allow the user to customise to their preferences - within the con
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by isr 1y ago
The Cradle is a pretty well respected analysis site, which is often referenced to by other independent journalists. Just as in the late 1930's-40's, most respected, independent journalists would have numerous headlines heavily cri
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by isr 1y ago
Umm, seriously? Is that it? There's nothing even vaguely plausible in your sentence. Is that all that the "hasbara" playbook has left? I think at this stage an LLM might do a better hasbara job than humanoids...
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by isr 1y ago
One (minor) positive now is that I don't feel the need to point out the 101 reasons why what you posted is an absolute lie. 99% of the planet has already learned enough of the truth (historical & current) to recognise your lie, as
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by isr 1y ago
Just going by the forum thread you linked to, I have to say that was a textbook case of self-entitled users demanding volunteers move their asses into gear and get working pronto, free of charge, on OPEN SOURCE projects that those self enti
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by isr 1y ago
To be honest, I somewhat agree. I'm sure there's a lot to this that us outsiders don't know (or honestly, for me, couldn't be bothered to know as there are far more important rabbit holes to spend time on). However, some
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by isr 1y ago
> Almost all of the bulk+targeted surveillance of US citizens was carried out by the NSA directly If you believe that, then you probably inhabit a parallel universe where Epstein wasn't an Israeli asset, and where he really did kill
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by isr 1y ago
The reason why other members of the core white-anglo-saxon empire, Canada, UK, Aus, NZ have draconian surveillance systems is because it's the only way the US can "legally" hoover up a lot of this data as it's own consti
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by isr 1y ago
And that kind of myopic, self indulgent, genocidal/racist/apartheid -apologist tone, trying to obfuscate plain truths... that pretty much sums up much of the responses on this forum, and the US tech sector (or at least its manager
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by isr 1y ago
Rebuttal to your counterpoint: I've lived in the US for 25 years, so I'm not unaware of the "supposed differences". What were saying is that these "supposed differences" are mostly over inconsequential things,
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by isr 1y ago
I agree with what you're saying, but it strikes me (& this is particularly poignant on THIS site), that this discussion is somewhat equivalent to the "blub" paradox (aka, how do you explain the power of lisp macro's
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by isr 1y ago
If you're not too wedded to git, have a look at fossil, perhaps. Its a dvcs just like git, but is itself distributed as a single static binary. This binary, in addition to allowing you to init & interact with fossil repo's, al
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by isr 1y ago
FYI, for those who may not be aware, moonscript is the "coffeescript" for lua. It has been in production use for quite a while (the author of moonscript also created itch.io, using ... moonscript). yuescript, from the dora-ssr gam
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by isr 2y ago
In terms of "what should be done?", and I the only one who thought of the Silicon Valley episode where they immortalized Jing Yang on a "smart" fridge?
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by isr 2y ago
Didn't know about that. Thanks!
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by isr 2y ago
> (bash won't let me automatically run a command before and after each interactive command I execute, which I want for task completion notifications Not to put you off investigating alternative shells (I've spent time with rc
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by isr 2y ago
Yup, and it's still in active production use (itch.io, for example). There's even a fork of moonscript, called yuescript, which has a speedier parser, and includes macro's. Effectively, it's moonscript-2.0, and it's
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by isr 2y ago
What a deranged take on things. Makes you wonder what you have to do to get banned around here. > For Palestinians, it's about money for the rich, not land, not religion or racism. Even though they are racist pseudo-religious fanati

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