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by jolmg 3mo ago
"Linux, the open-source language of the internet" comes from the linked akamai.com press release, not the blog post author. Their putting that as a section title to the quote may be their poking light fun at it.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Wouldn't be interesting enough to nerd-snipe people.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> I keep trying to explain to people that private companies harvesting your data, while not good, is done solely for the purpose of trying to get you to voluntarily buy more toilet bowl cleaner. A reminder that governments can buy from p
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> Well, the brackets thing and the necessity to repeat name of every element twice, As a document format, it's supposed to be hand-written by humans. If you have paragraphs between the opening tag and closing tag, it makes sense to
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> The worst part about it is the tags vs attributes fights. They both do the same thing and the only difference is preference. They're not the same thing. If you look at it as the extensible markup language for documents that it is,
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> developers must become domain experts [my emphasis] in a rich and complex space that is essentially unrelated to the application itself. XML is a markup language, but most people that used it just needed a standard structured data form
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by jolmg 3mo ago
People also say things in ways not to be taken super literally. "There's a special place in hell" is an idiom. > Said of a person whom one considers to be especially wicked, evil, malevolent, etc. Often used facetiously or
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by jolmg 3mo ago
>> These people are evil. > So you want to kill them? If you're being serious, saying "there is a special place in hell" does not equal "let's send them there".
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> Most men who call themselves feminists got there by agreeing with ideas. Agreement is the easy part. The hard part is the gap between a man's stated principles and his Tuesday afternoon Given the title, I thought this was about wo
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Strawman if I ever saw one.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
I thought that may be the case. I shared the guideline so they'd know the likely reason all their comments die immediately. However, their comments are consistently long, so it may be GenAI after all. Their last comment in particular..
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by jolmg 3mo ago
>> remove PII
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Guideline: > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Wouldn't imply their needing any more information than they'd already have.
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by jolmg 4mo ago
Tangential, but a few days ago I started some Steam games I hadn't played in some years. I was surprised to be met with updated user agreements, which I had to agree to if I wanted to play the games I bought years ago. These were all s
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> It's addictive You don't get withdrawal symptoms. > it's detrimental to health Not going to get cancer or other illness from it. > Using social media is totally comparable to smoking. Very much a stretch.
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> You can make the argument that it's just the parents' decision. But you have to say why. Generally, the reasons are: 1) The parents know their child best (as opposed to a lawmaker, a voter, etc.); so, they can e.g. make the b
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by jolmg 4mo ago
Probably got downvoted for failing this guideline: > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." I agree. Brow
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> Should it also be their decision that they can gamble? Smoke cigarettes? Get a job? Have sex? Not on the first 2 because they're illegal for minors. Yes on the last 2. A parent can e.g. forbid their minor from being employed if it
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by jolmg 4mo ago
The LCDs are colored so the virtual screens would also be. Not sure walking around a grayscale world is all that bad.
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by jolmg 4mo ago
There is an expansion port on the nose area that can be used to add color cameras if you really want that. Personally, I think not being tied to a particular OS in the control of the device manufacturer is much more important than whether t
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> In 2023, the German company act’ble released a 3-D-printed and knit shoe, act’Pointe. The shoe features a scored sole made from a rubber-like elastomer and a compressive “skin” that covers the entire foot. > Dancers are taught to ma
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by jolmg 4mo ago
Thought there were cases where other devices could have direct access to RAM (e.g. DMA, PCIe controllers outside the CPU, etc.). Wonder how that works in conjunction.
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> The trick is to patch systemd and refer to your patched version separately I mean, generally when you patch things, you want all dependents to use the patched version. It's just irksome that you know the change you made strictly s
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by jolmg 4mo ago
Was trying to figure out why you said that it wouldn't happen with a systemd executable but it would with glibc. Figured it being a library was the difference you meant. Maybe you just meant that glibc has more dependents.
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by jolmg 4mo ago
After searching "foo", if you try to search "foobar", it deletes "foo" and searches "bar".
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> The only way it would recompile everything is if, for example, you modified a particular version of glibc that was imported by most packages. The package dependencies aren't based on whether what's packaged is a linked librar
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by jolmg 4mo ago
If you modify a base package, like maybe to apply some minor patch on a systemd executable as an example, is there a way to avoid having to recompile basically all installed packages (for being at least indirect dependents)? Had a problem l
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> then if someone else uses that flyer to make money, you can sue them and you will win in court (unless the derived work is transformative, critiques it, yadda yadda). Not a lawyer, but 1) consider that sharing flyers is the normal use
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by jolmg 4mo ago
> Once you take someone's copyrighted work and you do anything with it without consent, you're breaking some implicit trust. While I agree there's a parallel, do consider what that trust is with regards to putting up an HT

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