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by lcrz 5y ago
If you want to know more about WHY people write compilers for X in X, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers) It's not just liking the language or eating their own dogfood.
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by lcrz 5y ago
Then don't.
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by lcrz 5y ago
Google 'ondermijning'. Crime has a lot of influence on the 'bovenwereld'. If you can't see how this affects you, then that's pretty short sighted.
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by lcrz 5y ago
Because they like the syntax? Because it has a nice way of passing properties? Because you can work with pseudo-DOM elements? It's all open source. If you want a vanilla js implementation go ahead.
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by lcrz 5y ago
Pretty sure this is trademark infringement.
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by lcrz 6y ago
Ok, so what is that larger effect that costs the same, then? The idea that you need to do something that is better before you can do something that is less, even if the cost is the same seems to imply that there is only a limited amount of
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by lcrz 6y ago
Sure. I'm just calling their point into question because I see a lot of people of color that are actively engaged in the evolution of language in the context of slavery. The Rijksmuseum in The Nederlands has changed most occurrences of
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by lcrz 6y ago
I have to separate my plastics for them to be recycled. It has actually made me realize how much plastic a small family throws away every single week.
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by lcrz 6y ago
Ok, that's fair. Here's an article from Wired where there are people of color on both sides of this issue: https://www.wired.com/story/tech-confronts-use-labels-master...
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by lcrz 6y ago
But that's just saying that a change that only has a small effect is almost never worthwhile. What are the real opportunity costs here?
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by lcrz 6y ago
Are you sure about that though? They didn't publish anything about their internal decision making. It is an assumption that they didn't talk to any person of color. The idea of using so called neutral terms is not new: http:&#x2F
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by lcrz 6y ago
I just want to add a link to this[0] post here as a counterpoint for why changing language _can_ matter. The author seems to imply that the name change is all about being non-offensive to some people. Since the author doesn't find the
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by lcrz 6y ago
> it's unlikely the rules won't change as political pressure mounts. No. It's extremely unlikely the rules WILL change. With curfew extended for another month, there is an as good as zero chance they will drop 1.5m rules
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by lcrz 6y ago
> As ice grows thicker people from all walks of life start to get involved to organize the event. This is not completely accurate. Sure, koek-en-zopie stuff might be organized by local restaurants or whatever, but the Elfstedentocht itse
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by lcrz 6y ago
> qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and PyQt5 and free software, licensed under the GPL. So it's a python-based browser. If a certain python package is installed that has bindings for
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by lcrz 6y ago
Counterpoint: a lot of ruby devs are very familiar and capable with ActiveRecord. Al lot of python devs are familiar and capable with using the Django ORM. Why are these ORM more likely to limit your application? You provide no proof or exp
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by lcrz 6y ago
So a pretty minor inconvenience, got it.
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by lcrz 6y ago
"Only 57 children survived an accident that would otherwise have died (in one year), clearly we should scrap laws that demand carseats for children" This idea that something that is (at most) a mild inconvenience (make sure the ch
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by lcrz 6y ago
> In several years I never once saw the firm not deliver what they agreed to in writing. I know people working with big consultancy companies and the recurring thing they complain about is a difference of opinion between client and provi
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by lcrz 6y ago
During quarantine, me and a couple of colleagues have been doing pair-programming sessions with three or more people. We were joking on doing a twitch stream. I think it could work.
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by lcrz 6y ago
Hi OP, First of all, let me say I'm not questioning your expertise or your good intentions. I'm a great fan of (and following closely) a few standards or proposed standards championed by the W3C, mostly related to RDF, verifiable
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by lcrz 6y ago
> Whilst we could adopt Multihash here, it's much more complex than we need (famous last words?!?). So OP has the option of adopting an existing (and clear) spec, with existing libraries (and and existing governance structure) and b
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by lcrz 7y ago
That's not a counterpoint. That's a case in point. The selection by the human (or by any other method) is the 'creativity'. The fact that the change itself occurred randomly is not important. The fact that the permutatio
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by lcrz 7y ago
Quick bugreport: filled form fields have black text (Chrome MacOS) even in dark mode, making them unreadable.