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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   I hope the $ interpolator at least performs escaping instead of blindly concatenating shell scripts? Ah, who am I kidding. https://github.com/google/zx/blob/5ba6b775c4c589ecf81a41dfc9... function substi
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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   This happens a lot. In the early 2000s, the news program 60 Minutes was involved in a major controversy that put its fact-checking practices and the reliability of journalism as a whole in the spotlight. The evidence for their reporting c
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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   > this is the root cause we're discussing It's not. Someone explained that browser makers spend billions on top talent to make browsers fast, and you posted a flippant comment — "are you joking?" — about your observa
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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   The problem with the NPM ecosystem is really dire because know-nothing programmers who write JS plug in to that ecosystem and write bad code, and then the know-nothing programmers who don't write JS come along, too, and say look how ba
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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   > Are you joking? I have seen progressively worse performance from even the best browsers Where is the evidence that you're seeing poor performance from the browser itself and that the source of the problem does not lie in the diff
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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   This is a comment advocating for Gemini (which is from the start a misguided endeavour) with no concrete examples of how the simple use case mentioned above (the straightforwardness (or not) of trying to use Sourcehut from the terminal) is
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   Box It, Bag It, Wrap It: Medieval Books on the Go (2015)(medievalbooks.nl)

   10 points by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago|3 comments
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   The Threat of AI Weapons(youtube.com)

   2 points by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago|0 comments
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   by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

   Typo in the title: the minus sign is −, not –.
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    by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

    Or maybe, and just maybe, the whole ‘stages of grief’ concept is not actually predictive of which opinion is actually right, and it’s just a cheap rhetorical trick providing an excuse to patronizingly dismiss someone else’s scepticism towar
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    Square Cube Law(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago|0 comments
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    Having followed those proposals for a while, I can’t help but have the same question as the commenter over at the blog: at this point, why not just use C++? The features proposed are already present in C++, and the only C toolchains that I
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    If you're not bothered by having a conversation with the homeless, indigent, or hard-up, then it's more doable than you think. You're not just subject to the chance of happening upon someone already in the business of provid
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    Blue site bad
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    I worry about the echo chambers people are subjecting themselves to when something with applicability as general as a commenting widget requires a GitHub account to sign in. That's narrowing it down to a subset of a subset of one&#x27
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    Ultimately, pursuing a full-featured graphical web browser might not be the right approach for a volunteer-/hobby-driven project to develop a web browser. But it would absolutely make sense that a newly implemented terminal-based brow
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    Doesn't this comment belie your earlier one that your issue is not with his beliefs (which you took effort to emphasize by repeating it)? Is your stated principle the one you actually stand on, or is it a more convenient justification
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    This is a statement by the board. RMS's own statement ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26780192 ) looks like it does what you say you want to see.
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    Because learning from unexplained examples is useless.
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    I've recently taken to not bothering with shell scripts at all. I just use Python instead. The type system, while it's by no means state of the art, is still miles ahead of the stringly-typed bash. The libraries are excellent; muc
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    Planned obsolescence.
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    by pwdisswordfish8 6y ago

    > Ever needed some ultra-specific value that wasn't part of your design system, like top: -113px for a quirky background image? Since styles are generated on demand, you can just generate a utility for this as needed using square br