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by na85 5y ago
My impression was that Tcl used to be very popular for that sort of thing, but that it was supplanted by Lua, Python, and JavaScript. What makes Tcl compelling for those applications?
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by na85 5y ago
Wow, I have always been dubious of the claim that Tcl continues to be used in "behind the scenes" applications today. For a long time it was just (for me, anyways) That Thing You Have To Learn To Script Your Eggdrop Bot but it&#x
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by na85 5y ago
I love stuff like this. I recently[0] put some raspberry pis and beaglebones to work monitoring my plants (though my own solution is not as smooth as this, and I didn't opt for photo capability). My robogardeners alert me via push not
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by na85 5y ago
>An independent Linux(R) distribution with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more. For me, this niche has always been filled by the venerable Slackware distro.
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by na85 5y ago
I keep a Gmail for that exact reason.
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by na85 5y ago
A few years ago I had trouble with K9 going into "sync disabled mode", for lack of a better term. Push notifications simply didn't work no matter what I tried and I missed lots of emails as a result. Switched to FairEmail[0]
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by na85 5y ago
>That's the beauty of a free market: it works even if the participants don't support it. Actually, that's the beauty of a well-regulated market. Entrenched monopolies don't compete; they collude. See for example the C
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by na85 5y ago
Corporations, especially not giant entrenched monopolies like railroads, don't actually support the free market. They pay lip service to free market ideals when it's beneficial to do so, but as soon as the free market means they n
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by na85 5y ago
I'd say the same about Facebook.
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Shame on those people.
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by na85 5y ago
> It's not compatible with keeping old versions of software installed. I'm sympathetic to the idea that sometimes software "updates" in fact introduce regressions, but there's a reason that one of the most univer
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by na85 5y ago
>esoteric softwares Firefox is esoteric nowadays?
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by na85 5y ago
For anyone like me who could only find snarky responses, including in this thread: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-proving-P-NP-break-cryptograp...
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by na85 5y ago
Wayland is a great example of why Linux is always an also-ran in the desktop space. X is cool and has the cachet of being such a venerable piece of software, but it needs replaced. If you actually talk to people who hack on X you'll f
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by na85 5y ago
>Tell me how long you think a given tank manual that goes into the hands of all sorts of people stays secret? That's where you assume ... yeah probably not long. I understood your point, I just don't agree with your baseless as
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by na85 5y ago
I hold a security clearance. That's not what you assume. The clearance exists for the purpose of preventing disclosure and they take breaches very seriously. I know a guy who had the book thrown at him for causing a (fairly minor) brea
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by na85 5y ago
Meanwhile the CEO volunteered early on to dox people at Harvard pretty much for funsies[0]. Yet TFA contains a quote about how abusing personal data is "against Mark's DNA". Horseshit. Facebook is the enemy. [0] https:/
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by na85 5y ago
I still have my old BB10 Passport. Weird form factor but that was an awesome device. It's too bad Blackberry really shit the bed with their OS and its lack of apps.
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by na85 5y ago
The early (invite-only) versions of gmail were fantastic, especially given the narrower pipes we were all surfing with in those days. It seems lately that Google has just become Yet Another Large Software Firm, with everything that that imp
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by na85 5y ago
That describes me. I pirated lots of games when I was still into gaming. I bought Tribes 2, for example, because of course you can't pirate it if you want to play online (and it's a multiplayer-only shooter). Same for e.g. PUBG
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by na85 5y ago
Agree. The JVM is annoying to start up because it takes forever but once it's running, Java code has (in my experience) been very fast. I was having a conversation a while ago about how the JVM is best in breed because at one point or
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by na85 5y ago
The same reddit thread that gets trotted out by Musk worshippers every time someone points out he's not an engineer. It's full of quotes saying stuff like "he understands a lot about spaceflight and aerodynamics" and sim
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by na85 5y ago
>He's an engineer, and there's a bunch of engineers who worked with him who will attest to that. He's not, and all those quotes from that reddit thread I know you're thinking of are very careful to dance around the po
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by na85 5y ago
>He’s chief engineer at spacex for starters. He calls himself that, sure. Elon is a smart guy, and that's why I think he positions himself the way he does. He doesn't want to be Bill Gates, he wants to be perceived as a man of
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by na85 5y ago
Do you really think Canadians don't know that Europe is across the Atlantic?
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Programming has always been destined to become more and more "blue collar", for lack of a better term, pretty much from the outset.
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>(That's across the Atlantic for you Canadians) It's probably safe for you to assume that most Canadians know where Europe is.
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by na85 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: Ham Radio is mostly full of aging, grouchy boomers who love to shit on neophytes for relatively minor transgressions. It's an incredibly toxic community and I don't miss it one iota.
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by na85 5y ago
>If the choice is between driving a truck (even with the bottle) and the "Maduro diet" in Venezuela That's a false dichotomy
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>UBI, just another socialist way to subjugate people. Seems preferable to endless wage slavery at the behest of unaccountable corporations run by billionaire oligarchs. If the choice is between driving a delivery truck and having to piss

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