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by msla 3y ago
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdWhyItW... > The reason systemd has succeeded in becoming an SysV init replacement is simple: it did the work. Not only did it put together a lot o
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by msla 3y ago
Yep, the anti-systemd people certainly got angry.
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by msla 3y ago
Also, people.
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by msla 3y ago
> it's quite a magic feeling to hear the fire alarm go off and the doors independently close by themselves Closing doors on a fire alarm seems hilariously cruel.
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by msla 3y ago
OK, sure, negotiate. But there's a lack of two things: Carrot and stick. Unless the person working on the OSS project is a member of the union, the union isn't doing things for them. He pays no dues, they don't poll him or co
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by msla 3y ago
That's true but it completely fails to answer my question. What would a hypothetical developers' union do if it called a strike and people kept working on their OSS projects?
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by msla 3y ago
I wonder how unions will react to a world where a lot of essential software is developed by hobbyists.
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by msla 3y ago
That's exactly my point, and I still got downvoted. This place...
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by msla 3y ago
Comma Separated Values. Normally, I wouldn't nitpick (hold for laughter) but this is just a perfect example of how CSV is not CSV and how it's probably impossible to support everything people call CSV, simply because of the tiny (
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by msla 3y ago
> there are no data tools that don't support CSV format. They support CSV but not your CSV. For example, how does quoting work? Does quoting work?
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by msla 3y ago
> In the French locale, the decimal point is the comma, so "121.5" is written "121,5". It means, of course, that the comma can't be used as a separator Heh. Ah, HN. Always good for a laugh line.
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by msla 3y ago
> Csv that’s zipped is producible and readable by everyone. And that makes is more efficient. If only CSV were CSV, as opposed to some form that's 80-90% CSV by line count with enough oddities to really make the parser ugly and hard
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by msla 3y ago
Given the number of lies on the company's website, I'm not inclined to believe them about other things.
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by msla 3y ago
> The consequences of doing something incorrect or nonportable is sometimes that the expected behavior occurs. This can be validated by testing on the couple of platforms (or just one) that the program supports, and kept working. A pract
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by msla 3y ago
> However, you had space. Your own space No. By definition, if you were a serf, you didn't have your own space. You had a space in your lord's space, which you weren't allowed to leave, and you had a lot of work. The idea
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by msla 3y ago
> We should read the 1.8bn lump sum (roughly 0.5% of Apple's revenue) So it deters nothing, Apple pays it and continues to do what it's doing.
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by msla 3y ago
I'm not complaining about orthography, but phonology: How easy it is to spell a word matters little if you get your mouth in a tangle trying to pronounce it. Esperanto has sounds most languages don't, and it has them purely becaus
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by msla 3y ago
You can look at the whole rest of the page I linked to for ways in which Esperanto is irregular and parochial. For example: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/v.html There's a whole word class (words ending in AŬ) which is es
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by msla 3y ago
Sadly, Esperanto is only easy to learn if you already speak a European language, and even then it helps even more if you speak one of the languages Zamenhof, its inventor, spoke. http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/#01 > Zamenho
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by msla 3y ago
I especially like his exploration of some odd classic rock radio stations: https://computer.rip/2021-01-23-classic-rock-radio.html
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by msla 3y ago
There's one thing I don't get about Y2K: It was supposed to be banks with lots of COBOL code being impacted, right? Banks issue 30-year mortgages. So, why weren't banks being impacted in the early 1970s with mortgages due to
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by msla 3y ago
Is it feasible to build a modem out of a Raspberry Pi Zero or an Arduino? You'd need to hook the phone line to the GPIO pins, do the ADC and DAC stuff in software, implement the V.22 protocol in software, and also implement the Hayes S
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by msla 3y ago
People understood your words and pointed out the implications. Only infants refuse to think through their statements.
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by msla 3y ago
Figlets for the thinking person.
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by msla 3y ago
We can't talk about any other country here without someone bringing it back around to America, as if America were the Main Character of the whole world. Other countries exist, other countries don't need America to define themselve
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by msla 3y ago
I agree with you, which means I think we're talking at cross purposes and/or your replied to the wrong person.
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by msla 3y ago
A supernatural being is the exact opposite of Occam's Razor, in that it posits a maximally-complex being that did everything.
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by msla 3y ago
And here you're equivocating on the word faith. In your post, "faith" either means "accepting best current evidence and logic" or "believing that there's a supernatural explanation without any evidence wha
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by msla 3y ago
Yes. That's not new. There's a well-established business model for free weeklies: Advertising. Not adtech, which includes tracking, but simple advertising space sold to companies who want to reach the head-shop-and-granola crowd.
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by msla 3y ago
No, it doesn't, at least when applied to physics.

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