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by mjw1007 5y ago
It seems freenode did at one point have a charitable parent organisation, in the UK, but it had to dissolve because it was too expensive to run. https://web.archive.org/web/20130322063238/http://blog.free
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For what it's worth, I didn't mean that the systemd people shouldn't triage the bug. I meant that I suspect @poettering was mistaken when he said the current maintainers didn't collectively have "the expertise and u
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by mjw1007 5y ago
This was a bug in udev. The right people to lead the effort on fixing bugs in udev are the udev maintainers. If people did not wish to have the responsibility for leading the effort to fix bugs in udev, they had the option of not taking ove
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by mjw1007 5y ago
If they felt they needed information from, say, the Linux scsi maintainers then they could have gone out and asked for it. If they thought that in order for udev to do a proper job with these devices they needed the sg3-utils maintainers to
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by mjw1007 5y ago
What particularly grated was that they managed to introduce bugs into udev and then say they didn't have the "expertise or understanding" to fix them: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7
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From the draft resignation letters, looks like if this does happen it will be libera.chat .
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I observe that the last sentence of your first paragraph is strongly at variance with the Rust leadership's self-image. (See for example the "Empowerment, empowerment everywhere" RustConf 2020 keynote.)
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I think programmers' editors in general have treated "automatically run arbitrary code supplied by files you're editing" seriously as a security vulnerability since sometime around 2000. (For example, Emacs realised that
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On "refactoring" in novels: On many occasions I've heard an author say something like "I got half-way through the book and I found out that one of the characters didn't want to do the thing I'd planned for them
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It is a real problem. I've never asked a question on Stack Overflow, but many, many times I have entered a question into a search engine, received a Stack Overflow link with my question at the top, and been greeted with several screens
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It's interesting if "let" nowadays has mostly 'academic' connotations. 30 years ago I think it would have reminded people more of BASIC or Fortran than (say) Scheme.
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I think the basic idea would be OK in a UK cryptic, but you'd clue the pun explicitly. You might have something like « Pasta dish at the centre of a murder mystery and a spiteful reviewer on the radio. » Though you'd really want t
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by mjw1007 5y ago
I've seen an awful lot of discussion of recruiting and interviewing practices on this site over the years, and there have been very few mentions of ways to check that people employed as programmers are able to write documentation.
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by mjw1007 5y ago
In the past, Rust release announcements have come with statements like this: « The Rust Core Team believes that tech is and always will be political, and we encourage everyone take the time today to learn about [US-centered political issue
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I think that's an evenhanded writeup of the situation, but I also think the author should have mentioned in the article that he is himself a member of the technical advisory board whose actions he's reporting on (if https:/&
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Here's a list of initdb-wrappers I've come across before: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hirsute/man1/pg_virtuale... pg_virtualenv (shipped with postgresql-common in Debian and Ubuntu) https:&
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Particularly given that, on the theory that the software was correct, the post office was able to reliably detect the kind of fraud they claim was going on and make the supposed fraudsters pay the money back.
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I think in this case they simply mean it's the highest number of defendents who have succeeded in having their convictions overturned.
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It's good to see that they hope to provide « the best printf debugging experience you've ever had », but I'm disappointed at the UI they show on the "Condition and print expressions" page. The video shows the user u
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There are two separate questions: whether you want to see some kind of trace of the program or you want to step around in its state, and whether to use a "real" debugger or not. In most cases I prefer to do something trace-based,
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by mjw1007 6y ago
If option 4 had beat option 7 pairwise but lost transitively by some longer path, isn't that what we mean by the term "cycle"?
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Looks like two more votes for option 4 over option 7 would have made a Condorcet cycle at the top, and they'd have had to break out the fun beatpath stuff.
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The bits where they emphasise that the copying was "transformative" as part of the "Purpose and Character of the Use" analysis are interesting: « Google’s limited copying of the API is a transformative use. Google copied
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I think the philosophy of programming stuff is more in "Thinking Forth", whose homepage these days seems to be http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
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The linked blog post at http://findplanetnine.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-planet-nine-fi... has some more detail, though it's from the proponents of the theory rather than someone trying to be neutral. It looks l
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They didn't think they were in charge of running a domain registrar. They thought they were in charge of running a shiny business that was in the process of transforming away from being principally a domain registrar, in the name of gr
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Some earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26191570
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Web links can break too. A URL that could previously be used to retrieve the most recent version of a document may no longer do so. I've already read one bug report where two people were talking at cross-purposes for a considerable tim
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I can't find a reference, but I remember reading that at least once the when the Grimms were collecting oral tales they were given a retelling of a Hans Christian Andersen story.
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Can anyone tell me why there are shortages of these chips, as opposed to the prices being set so that demand is more in line with supply? (I'm not asking for possible reasons why this sort of thing can happen; I'm asking whether a

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