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by pxc 11mo ago
What's wrong with R? I used it and liked it in undergrad. I certainly didn't use it as seriously as the users who made Python popular, but to this day I remember R fondly and would never choose Python for a personal project. My R
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by pxc 11mo ago
> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking. What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?
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by pxc 11mo ago
Accessibility is often neglected anyway. It's just the sad truth
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by pxc 11mo ago
PyPI is also subject to supply chain attacks. What do you mean?
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by pxc 11mo ago
> .docx goes in ~/Documents > photos go in ~/Pictures > downloads go in ~/Downloads > Not auto generated configs. No Linux applications ever put configuration data in any of the aforementioned locations... > it
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by pxc 11mo ago
The only way a worm like this spreads is usage of the affected packages. The proliferation itself is clear evidence of use.
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by pxc 11mo ago
I think the systemd units in /run are indeed ephemeral, and indicate units that are active. If they have permanent counterparts (some units, like transient timer units, don't have them), you'll find them under /etc/
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by pxc 11mo ago
Personal itches are more varied and strange than corporate itches. What companies are willing to pour time (money) into is constrained by market forces. The constraints on the efforts of independent hackers are different. Both sets of const
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by pxc 11mo ago
> the day i have to explore history is the day i quit. Huh? I do that all the time, and it's really useful. What is difficult or problematic about it?
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by pxc 11mo ago
/run isn't for¹ application data, and it's also not persistent (it's often on a tmpfs). But sure, an OS could in theory use something like /var/cache/<uid> instead of ~/.local/cache. I&#x27
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by pxc 11mo ago
Yes and no. Some older conventions for dotfiles are a bit messy in that they're not necessarily contained under top-level directories like ~/.config or ~/.local, but the hijacking of non-hidden directories for contents unrela
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by pxc 11mo ago
Isn't that pretty much just Windows? That basically never occurs on Linux and it's not common on macOS, either. All the garbage I have on my work computer (a Mac) in ~/Documents is stuff that OneDrive synced over from when I
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by pxc 11mo ago
Your previous comment in this thread doesn't even form a sentence. It's unintelligible.
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by pxc 11mo ago
Maybe. From one¹ of the articles quoted in OP: > According to reports, he was working at NASA at the age of eight, and in 1978, his name was recorded in the Guinness Book Of World Records for the highest IQ at 210. > While his career
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by pxc 11mo ago
Kim Ung-yong (the one from the article with 210 IQ sounds like a good guy with a respectable career and a healthy self-conception. He even describes himself as happy! It seems like 210 IQ has proven to be plenty for him, although measuremen
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by pxc 11mo ago
All the big tech companies except Twitter now render it as a squirt gun afaik
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by pxc 11mo ago
> At least they have a good thing going with C# though. F# is pretty well-liked, too, isn't it?
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by pxc 11mo ago
For me, sometimes encouragement that what I'm doing is in support of Doing the Thing has helped me not feel so discouraged that I actually just give up on Doing the Thing altogether. Other times it has felt like a cheap excuse that all
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by pxc 11mo ago
If you use an editor or IDE at work for a year, you might work with it for a thousand hours that first year alone. But a noisy GUI like VSCode's is optimized for just that first 30 minutes of playing around. For me, at least, that kind
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by pxc 11mo ago
I'm also a daily Emacs user. I'm no wizard; I've leaned on starter kits like Spacemacs and Doom my whole Emacs life. Likewise, I find VSCode overstimulating and, for lack of a better word, rude . I just tried setting up Rust
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by pxc 11mo ago
When Hashicorp did their rug pull, I just switched my team to OpenTofu as soon as it had a stable release. No regrets; it's been great. (I did evaluate both projects at that time, of course. But it ended up being a clear decision.)
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by pxc 11mo ago
IIRC there are some macOS APIs that you can only access if your app runs out of /Applications. There are some features of an app called "Secretive" (an SSH agent that stores keys in the Secure Enclave) that only work if you h
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by pxc 11mo ago
I also want to add that being homeless isn't the same thing as being disorderly, frightening, unfriendly, or smelly. Over the years, I've had friends who were homeless (depending on the person, before or during the times that I&#x
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by pxc 11mo ago
It's also possible to write legislation that makes it difficult for new or independent entrants, which funnels more business and traffic to the honeypots.
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by pxc 11mo ago
Take a look at the tools Chinese people use to evade the national firewall. They're extremely sophisticated, and need to advance all the time because the GFW constantly becomes more sophisticated. There are a lot of encryption technolo
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by pxc 11mo ago
The university I went to did start restricting hours (requiring student IDs for more of them than it used to) during my time there, apparently to try to divert some homeless people away at night. But I've never actually been to a libra
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by pxc 11mo ago
Agreed, though the term makes for a funny metaphor in this case— a good nanny would likely take the same approach you describe here: meeting the kids where they're at and trying to encourage them to eat better along the way instead of
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by pxc 11mo ago
> It is becoming clear that the LLM approach is not adequate to reach what John McCarthy called human-level intelligence Perhaps paradoxically, if/as this becomes a consensus view, I can be more excited about AI. I am an "AI sk
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by pxc 11mo ago
IIRC Google chose to pull out altogether to punish the locals for standing up to them— even though they happily built air-cooled data centers elsewhere.
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by pxc 11mo ago
And of course, code signing can't protect you from such a thing. When software publishing rights get bought, so (usually) do the signing keys. Curation (and even patching) by independent, third-party volunteers with strong value commit

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