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by oneplane 4y ago
Ironically, the whole argument can be summarised and partially dismissed from one of its lines: > requirements have evolved.
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by oneplane 4y ago
Two sides of the same coin. I was referring to whatever stallman may or may not have been wrong or right about.
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by oneplane 4y ago
While some issues have been solved, a lot of them simply migrated from the core ports system to the ports themselves. The difference in goals and tooling between the dpkg (Fink for macOS), ports (MacPorts for macOS) and brew systems seems t
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by oneplane 4y ago
I described the origin of the current situation. Considering you are not a consumer of MacPorts there is no point of reference for you, so you would not know how the current inadequacies came to be. Trying to judge the fairness of a technic
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by oneplane 4y ago
Conda is a subset of Nix in this regard.
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by oneplane 4y ago
Back in the PowerPC days (when I used Fink and later switched to MacPorts) it often didn't integrate with any expected paths that were used when building software. This meant that you either have to symlink things in yourself or have a
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by oneplane 4y ago
Keep in mind that /usr/local might contain user-created files and directories and might not have their permissions set strictly like other system directories. If you create something in there and then run brew, your normal user pe
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by oneplane 4y ago
That one is great. We still get real-world examples of similar issues where people migrate applications and they suddenly don't work anymore. After 10 such attempts the common denominator was distance, turns out someone set the network
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by oneplane 4y ago
On SIP-enabled systems that can't really be done anymore. But on Linux (LinuxBrew) that can definitely happen. The brew link system is supposed to help with that, but there are no guarantees.
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by oneplane 4y ago
Brew uses /opt by default as well (but it wasn't always the case, and it used to symlink into /usr/local too while keeping the actual files in the Cellar).
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by oneplane 4y ago
Out of that list, only nix is a system package manager. The rest are developer tools and runtime configurations.
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by oneplane 4y ago
The Gist's contents apply to macports too, but instead of only clobbering /usr/local or /opt it does both.
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by oneplane 4y ago
> People go to universities to learn how to tackle real world programming problems. That's your problem right there. Also, the term 'university' seems to be overloaded in so many different ways (multiplied by different cou
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by oneplane 4y ago
Will the next system you get have the same problem? Or will this issue be taken into consideration.
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by oneplane 4y ago
That's a little short-sighted isn't it? If you define "works" as "worked the last time we tried it", that's not really something you'd want to have to depend on for anything reasonably important. I&#x
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by oneplane 4y ago
Maybe we should have thought of that ahead of time. USB-C with USB 3, 4 and Thunderbolt just pushed us back into RS232 DB-9 territory where the plug doesn't mean anything anymore, and while a lot of things might physically fit, you won
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by oneplane 4y ago
They could also just make all those compatibilities non-optional. Problem solved. Want USB 2.0 but not USB 3.0 or 4.0? Just put a USB 2.0 port on the damn device. Want USB 4.0 but faster? Name it USB 5.0. USB 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 all used the same
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by oneplane 4y ago
It's extremely hard because you're essentially trying to use absence of proof as proof of absence. ("There is no malware, therefore the anti malware worked") Even 'known' detections and preventions won't d
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by oneplane 4y ago
They aren't relevant anymore for the same reason that USB cards, serial cards, network cards and SATA cards aren't relevant anymore. They still have their niche, and in commercial settings you'll still see HBAs (with SATA but
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by oneplane 4y ago
What do you expect such a driver to do? The printer is essentially just a random network device. Packets go in, paper comes out. No drivers needed.
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by oneplane 4y ago
I think of twitter as being a communal ball pit.
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by oneplane 4y ago
Federal what? The Russian federation? Also, why are people constantly attempting to compare a website to a square in a town? (for those not reading between the lines: most of the world doesn't live in the US, and most of the world also
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by oneplane 4y ago
I don't see Twitter as a digital town square. I also don't see town squares as being a shouting arena.
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by oneplane 4y ago
I suppose there are lots of possibilities, but regardless of steering, fees and visits, a non-expert is unlikely to be able to self-diagnose, read a bit of text, and come up with a treatment plan. The problem isn't information availabi
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by oneplane 4y ago
If only there was a profession where knowledge, experience and continuous development are used to provide advice and care for individuals who may not have specialised in that same area of expertise. </s>
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by oneplane 4y ago
True, but the analogy for a ship would be: the person cleaning the deck isn't allowed to get his own bucket, that's the bucket operator's job. Pretty silly again.
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by oneplane 4y ago
Not disorienting, but definitely not as useful as a chat application could be. Especially when concepts like 'server' and 'team' are overloaded so gratuitously. Ironically, MS Teams suffers from this as well, as do some
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by oneplane 4y ago
No, "Ops" is legacy siloing of departments and by extension, tasks. Imagine driving a car, but it takes one person to do the steering and another person to do throttling. Seems pretty dumb, doesn't it?
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by oneplane 4y ago
Yep, and that is generally also why IT is the way it currently is. Most projects aren't all that complex (in business logic terms), it's mostly CRUD interfaces and a fancy viewer for the end users anyway. But industries that are s
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by oneplane 4y ago
They are only hard if they don't get the same priority and attention you'd see in regulated situations. Replace software or information security with "bars of gold" and suddenly it's not so hard. That's because

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