keiyakins

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by keiyakins 8y ago
Yeah, I hate info, but the problem is info(1), not the entire texinfo stack. The html output is pretty good and I already know how to navigate it, so I usually use that
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by keiyakins 8y ago
The same way you know what technical details will be needed in forty years: By actively maintaining the documentation, as they're doing.
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by keiyakins 8y ago
A well-constructed joke can make documentation more useful. I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but there've been plenty of times that something made me laugh and go "NOW I get it!" to the technical mater
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by keiyakins 8y ago
I read it the other way around, with RMS being the one offended and trying to correct everyone: the people maintaining glibc agreed to change part of the documentation because it wasn't serving a useful purpose, either as technical mat
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by keiyakins 8y ago
> PC is absolutely counterproductive there A. No, the terminology used by medical professionals is constantly shifting to do things like acknowledge that people with issues are still people . B. Your reasoning is presumably about confu
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by keiyakins 9y ago
I wonder how many promising newbies we've lost to the massive boilerplates of java?
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by keiyakins 9y ago
What's wrong is that the package manager and repo manager aren't talking to one another. "Keeping a copy of the dependency with your code" and "copy and pasting the code" should not be the same thing.
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by keiyakins 9y ago
Copy-and-pasted libraries are a direct cause of duplicated effort. If you all grab it from the same repo (possibly through some sort of 'repo link' mechanism that keeps a local clone but is clearly marked as a clone, of course) th
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by keiyakins 9y ago
How about 'there's no good replacement yet'? All that the firmware should be doing is making sure the hardware is intact enough to load the next stage, then finding, loading, verifying (a the very least, checking signatures f
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by keiyakins 9y ago
Honestly, a fixed trusted keyset with a jumper you can use to switch to a programmable keyset. Ideally with a jumper to set that in programmable or read-only mode. That makes it extremely obvious when something wants to mess with it, with
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by keiyakins 9y ago
So is using it to incite violence. The Twitter tos isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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by keiyakins 9y ago
Coal occasionally destroys entire cities too. Ever heard of Centralia? I'd honestly rather move to Fukushima or Pripyat than there. And that's ignoring the economic devistation coal left behind.