lispegistus

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   by lispegistus 4y ago

   Having an instance with a x million users is impossible to moderate. Instances have been blocked for not being able to moderate low thousands of users due to incompetent/unresponsive mods. Having a poorly moderated instance federate wi
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   by lispegistus 4y ago

   What part of Common Lisp would you consider old cruft and what value would removing it bring to the language that would offset the value we have from having one of the most stable language definitions still in use? I can think of a few dust
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   by lispegistus 4y ago

   The reason VS Code is not the spiritual successor to Emacs is because Emacs is an attempt to preserve and further develop the legacy of the lisp machine. While VSCode is an attempt to capture as much of the developer editor market as possib
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   by lispegistus 4y ago

   Setting aside the question if on by default telemetry is unethical in general, I personally think it is, my point in this comment is that in the context of open source it is impossible for it to be because: The whole point of open source is