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by msla 2y ago
Have you seen Apple's latest ad? It's a press crushing the tools and results of human creativity: https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/tim_cook/status/1787864325258...
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by msla 2y ago
And we have no idea how many such bugs are lurking in closed-source software. Thanks for making my point for me.
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by msla 2y ago
Apparently, this is because of a standard they're required to conform to, not database software in specific: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40265929 > As far as I can tell, this isn't an issue with the sp
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by msla 2y ago
Open Source is how that XZ hack got caught.
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by msla 2y ago
Privacy from everyone but Apple, certainly.
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by msla 2y ago
A lot of things that aren't hard never, in point of fact, get done.
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by msla 2y ago
For the American case, the USPS has a free API to do address validation and standardization. USPS APIs in general: https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/#dev https://www.usps.com/business&#x
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by msla 2y ago
Apparently, this is because of a standard they're required to conform to, not database software in specific: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40265929 > As far as I can tell, this isn't an issue with the sp
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by msla 2y ago
You could choose violence and use the Quebec flag for English because most people there speak English, right? Is there any standardization on which flag gets used for Arabic?
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by msla 2y ago
The problem is that radio stations typically don't have anyone in the booth most of the time, if ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment > The Minot train derailment occurred just west of Min
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by msla 2y ago
The problem is that radio stations typically don't have anyone in the booth most of the time, if ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment > The Minot train derailment occurred just west of Min
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by msla 2y ago
It isn't Sturgeon's Law when most of the stations are owned by the same companies, it's policy.
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by msla 2y ago
The problem is that radio stations typically don't have anyone in the booth most of the time, if ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment > The Minot train derailment occurred just west of Min
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by msla 2y ago
The problem is that radio stations typically don't have anyone in the booth most of the time, if ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment > The Minot train derailment occurred just west of Min
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by msla 2y ago
This reminded me of something that's kind of relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry > A moron in a hurry is a phrase that has been used in legal cases, especially in the UK, involving tradem
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by msla 2y ago
Single-user means I have to trust everything I run. I mean, some of us here actually remember MS-DOS. It's not a huge secret to us.
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by msla 2y ago
But remember, adding emoji to a character encoding standard is Morally Bad, somehow, and Proof Of Intellectual Decay In The Modern World. Also, Unicode invented emoji to Sap And Impurify Our Bodily Fluids and there is no reason for any of t
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by msla 2y ago
I'm comparing one unusual language (Rust) with another language (Haskell) and examining why the first gets push-back whereas the second gets more positive mentions. They both have a single odd idea that's hard to wrap your head ar
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by msla 2y ago
If the world is immeasurably complex, then we will only see the part of that we can measure, meaning our world is measurably complex. We don't have any ability to measure or otherwise interact with the immeasurable part, such as the Un
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by msla 2y ago
It certainly is if you're motivated to take random Internet comments seriously.
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Lisp is pretty normal if you're accustomed to, like, Python: It's a GC'd procedural language.
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by msla 2y ago
>> The problem you're having is only a problem because you haven't tried hard enough. And it actually does work that way with Haskell, in my experience. There's a big hill to get over where you flail against the type sy
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by msla 2y ago
Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1782656618015904103.html?... Archives: https://archive.ph/rpFft https://web.archive.org/web/20240423175847/https://t
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by msla 2y ago
> Unlike OpenVMS/TOPS-20/LispMachines/etc, mainstream POSIX file systems lack built-in versioning We have git, which is strictly better. > Directly related to (1), the fact that the unlink() system call is normally irre
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by msla 2y ago
I can't get over the idea that this is a bunch of people who were angry their favorite proprietary systems got killed by open standards and, ultimately, open source. Compatibility and not being dependent on a single company are good th
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by msla 2y ago
Open standards, not open source.
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by msla 2y ago
Open as in open standards, not open source.
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by msla 2y ago
They were better in some ways and worse in others. ITS had PCLSRing and no concept of subdirectories, not to mention SIXLTR NAMING; Lisp machines were great as long as they didn't have to be fast or run continuously without GC; VMS was
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by msla 2y ago
They didn't hate Unix because it was open, but their hatred of a more open system does make them look a bit ridiculous: Any system tied to a single company is doomed anyway, either to the company dying or the company discontinuing it a
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by msla 2y ago
I can't get over the idea that this is a bunch of people who were angry their favorite proprietary systems got killed by open systems and, ultimately, open source. Compatibility and not being dependent on a single company are good thin

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