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by na85 6y ago
>It's the promotion of free software. Don't you think Free Software is best promoted by a guy who doesn't give women the creeps, and who has a modicum of social graces? Politics is an inherently social arena; perhaps if th
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by na85 6y ago
To a first approximation, zero people at the global scale are proponents of Stallman's FSF. Free Software deserves a better figurehead.
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by na85 6y ago
>look we need this guy, and yeah for many it sucks, but for the betterment of the mission and the future of free software, we have to come together because he is simply too valuable to ignore But he's not valuable any more, that&#x2
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by na85 6y ago
>with our programming languages tied so deeply to our cultural norms. In what way do you perceive mainstream programming languages to be tied to cultural norms?
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by na85 6y ago
What's the magic of Java? Is it just that VAC doesn't/can't inspect the jvm?
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by na85 6y ago
This is a routine occurrence in aviation. What happens is that one particular operator (airline) discovers an issue (in this case an electrical grounding fault) and decides to conduct a local survey of their own fleet. If they discover more
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by na85 6y ago
>xnay Just FYI it's actually ixnay which is Pig Latin for nix , which of course means to cancel or pre-empt.
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by na85 6y ago
Posting this from my oneplus running firefox and ublock origin. Firefox has been my daily driver on mobile for a few years now (since before Quantum) and it's been reliably great.
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by na85 6y ago
>Also feels like people adopt tools and cobble shit together from google/SO, what happened to RTFM. Sometimes it's easier to google because TFM is written by people who are intricately familiar with the tool and forget what it&
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by na85 6y ago
>Who am I to deem another intelligence "artificial"? If we can have a conversation and share ideas then what's even the difference? I think this point raises very very interesting ethical and philosophical points of discus
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by na85 6y ago
>Do you feel like no good software has come out of Microsoft since Windows 95? No, but I feel like a lot of really bad software has come out of Microsoft since Windows 95 >They're still 75% of all PCs Purely because of marketing
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by na85 6y ago
Had this article been written in 2019 or so, I could buy it. It seems strange in an article from 2000 to hold up Microsoft as some shining beacon of software engineering excellence. This is, after all, the company that gave us Windows ME,
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by na85 6y ago
Interesting. Does Sublime come with the source (how is it licensed?) when you purchase it?
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by na85 6y ago
>Or you could just leave your IRC client open. Modern users expect multi-device sync. If I'm signed into discord or slack on my PC and on my phone, I get push notifications in both places, even if my PC is off. Leaving my IRC clien
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by na85 6y ago
>Oh, so it's almost like... I'd love to be equally snide and rude in response but I seem to get a lot of moderator attention so I won't.
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by na85 6y ago
Sure, or you can run a bnc like we used to in the old days. If the only way to use IRC in an ergonomic fashion these days is to sign up for a third party service like the lounge or a shell account, it's not really a good look for IRC.
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by na85 6y ago
>You have this backwards. No, I don't. Mobile phones are immensely more capable than computers 30 years ago, but IRC doesn't handle transient connections well. When your phone goes to sleep the connection drops. Sometimes wh
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by na85 6y ago
IRC was used quite extensively among NATO militaries (to the point that I've seen mIRC referred to as "Military Internet Relay Chat", lol) but they've begun migrating away from it towards XMPP solutions such as JCHAT[0]
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by na85 6y ago
Does apt solve that problem? If so, how?
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by na85 6y ago
What does that do?
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by na85 6y ago
Perhaps my wording was careless; I can't go back and edit it now.
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by na85 6y ago
>On an unstable aircraft such as the 737 Max, if the trim fails then the nose pitches-up, precipitating a stall, unless the pilot can execute a manual trim. Please educate yourself on the fundamentals. The 737 MAX is not unstable.
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by na85 6y ago
That would strain the definition of "imperceptible", wouldn't it? My point is that aircraft break all the time. Once in a while they break in such a way that they need to return to base. This wasn't an MCAS failure.
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by na85 6y ago
>At lower speeds such as you'd see during a landing a approach, the throttle setting of the 737 Max directly affects its pitch. Any conventional airliner has this "flaw". If you are at low airspeed and you push the thrott
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by na85 6y ago
>As I understand it the aircraft has a quite complex relationship with trim because of fundamental aerodynamic flaws (engines are too far forward). That's not really correct. The engines being in a different position means the airc
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by na85 6y ago
Aerospace engineer here. From TFA: >A component of the main electric trim system became inoperative. Our pilots ran the appropriate checklist, which included manually trimming the aircraft. They returned to MIA and landed uneventfully. T
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by na85 6y ago
Sadly, Ubiquiti. Since I was already buying access points from them I decided open source wasn't worth dealing with assholes and just bought an edge router x
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by na85 6y ago
>But this also highlights how difficult participating in open source can be. I dunno, I was shopping around for network appliances and I considered a netgate box until I saw how Netgate representatives conduct themselves on their reddit.
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by na85 6y ago
>Powershell passes typed objects between cmdlets when pipes are used. This DEFINITELY better than plain text. I know but my point is that the interface itself is still text.
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by na85 6y ago
I like the idea of Powershell and how it's object driven as well, but it doesn't get you away from text in the sense of you're still typing commands into a console. Isn't the real solution to do away with the idea that w

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