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by mongol 3y ago
I don't read many books these days, but I read her book "Lost in Math", and appreciated it. It provided a perspective to physics research that was enlightening to me as an outsider.
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by mongol 3y ago
Yeah it must be incredible on a big screen. One of a kind.
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by mongol 3y ago
I am not against news. It is vital in a democracy with a free press. But that does not mean I need to take part of it daily, or many times per day even. There are lots of news I would rather have a weekly or monthly summary of rather than d
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by mongol 3y ago
I can relate. I have also stopped following the news, and almost all social media as well. I don't know if it is an age thing, or just the state of the world. But the past year, opening a news site have given me stress symptoms. And ne
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by mongol 3y ago
> HTML might be succesful, but it's hardly because of following the Postel principle. I think if webbrowsers were not lenient with HTML parsing the web would have been adopted much slower in the initial years. Also, HTML5 can be see
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by mongol 3y ago
Can the search result quality be quantified somehow? I remember when Google was new, and I used to use Altavista and Hotbot and those older search engines, the difference in results were like night and day, and Google's results were &q
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by mongol 3y ago
The success of internet's core protocols tells a different story
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Has Postel himself backtracked though? Because while Joel is an authority of sorts, Postel was too...
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by mongol 3y ago
I agree with the typing arguments. A config parser can only parse the values to a degree, to primitive types basically. The application can parse them fully. So the question is to what extent the parser helps the application vs to what exte
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It sounds like the difference between a car and a freight train.
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by mongol 3y ago
Not opensource but Locus Map is the one I always return too. Very feature rich and developed by a team that cares.
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It can help a bit but it is still complex.
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by mongol 3y ago
I have been thinking how to work with multiple users in a convenient way. The problem is that file permissions causes problems when you want to switch between users. I have not found a really ideal way of working using different users, but
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> then it's likely that YouTube is pushing cultures to align with SV or some managers in Google. This is as sure as that the sun will rise tomorrow. I have absolutely no doubt that the rest of the world is culturally influenced by t
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by mongol 3y ago
Very much so. It is used to make one's own arguments stronger. "Thank you for listening to the community" actually means "Thank you for listening to me".
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by mongol 3y ago
Is this a common way to fix problems in language syntax? It seems unintuitive to me. Now you need to know what version is declared in one file to understand behavior in another file. I understand they want to fix this but I did not know thi
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by mongol 3y ago
Bikeshedding of the noblest kind. It is all subjective.
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by mongol 3y ago
Once upon a time, Java had "green threads". They were kind of like virtual threads, but the way I understood it was that they all mapped to one OS thread. While these new virtual threads map m:n to OS threads.
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by mongol 3y ago
But does the situation improve with a longer code of conduct though? I doubt it. What matters when the community gets larger is efforts of moderation.
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by mongol 3y ago
I agree. Less is more. Better chances of users actually being aware what the rules are too, since I think only few users to actually read long code of conduct documents.
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by mongol 3y ago
I am also excited, but I think I am too old to jump in on a new way of shell workings. My fingers are too used to type bash and coreutils switches.
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by mongol 3y ago
Yes. As an example, the source builtin would not be possible to implement as a command as a child process can't change its parent's environment. So those types of concerns play in I think.
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by mongol 3y ago
Good point. I wonder if there was some criteria that determined if a utility were to be a command or a builtin, originally. I thought a shell first and foremost was about working with processes, and a little less about working with files. B
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by mongol 3y ago
In a way, this is cool. But I am also confused. Why does a shell include commands? Is this the beginning of a new type of distribution? A new type of GNU perhaps? Probably not. But I am not completely following what this provides that the t
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by mongol 3y ago
Your comment has very little to do with what I wrote.
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I was asked to provide an example and gave one. How could that not be on topic?
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It depends on the intent.
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by mongol 3y ago
This is an example https://meta.chaos.social/rules For example "No right or alt-right bullshit, Nazi content, conspiracy narratives.". What about leftish bullshit? That also exists, so why be so specific? The ans
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by mongol 3y ago
Not a definition, but anything that promotes identity politics sets off my woke radar.
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by mongol 3y ago
This sounds like one of the worst things that can happen to you. It is the worst nightmare. And it can also destroy your face, like your nose, lips, ears... How can you preserve the will to live under these conditions?

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