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by rcoveson 4y ago
With that logic, any program to redistribute any money from any group to any other group is fine. Somebody is being helped; it's okay if not everybody is being helped in the same moment, right?
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> As a hypothetical, you’re arguing that society should have more sympathy for your wife’s family than GP’s partner’s family? No, I'm arguing that taking away from the general public to provide for a subset of people requires that t
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by rcoveson 4y ago
My wife’s siblings all avoided college to avoid taking on debt that they didn’t think they could pay off. They worked low wage jobs during the years their peers attended university on borrowed money. This blatantly unfair debt forgiveness i
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Suggested names for porting this source file to other languages: Java: isShouldSuppressAutocorrectionAndAutocaptializationInHiddenEditableAreasForHost Common Lisp: suppress-autocorrection-and-autocaptialization-in-hidden-editable-areas-for-
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by rcoveson 4y ago
It is ambiguous as written, and false by one interpretation but true by the other. True: There are more white people in poverty (~5.5% of population) than black people [in poverty (~2.5%)] in the US. False: There are more white people in po
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by rcoveson 4y ago
What policy do you have in mind? Would it be illegal to pay for tutoring of any kind, or would it just be illegal to not send your kid to the local public school (illegalizing homeschooling as well)? And what about just moving to an area cl
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by rcoveson 4y ago
If your plan is to maintain decades of backwards compatibility with software from thousands of third parties, it's going to involve maintaining some originally-undocumented behaviors that people exploited. That's what the wine dev
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by rcoveson 4y ago
As somebody who ran desktop Linux on a caseless machine with the CPU cooler screwed into a bulk Top Ramen box, I can confirm it runs just fine on almost PC.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> The trouble is, I'm not going to get any problems: I have a better chance of winning the National Lottery Jackpot and never having to work again than running into a system that uses U+0000 for anything useful (other than terminati
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by rcoveson 4y ago
It’s so easy to play games with specs like this though. I could choose any of a dozen of the original ASCII control characters, or U+FFFE, or some other character that I never expected to encounter and I’d probably be able to avoid ever hea
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Whether it's useful in human languages is irrelevant. It's a matter of supporting the entirety of a specified domain. You can't use NUL to mean something special if you purportedly support "UTF-8 data" because some
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I can’t tell from your comment, but the only thing I can think of that you might be referring to is Han unification?
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Maybe I'm reading into it to much, but could it be that you're posting this comment with a throwaway account for the same reason that Google is trying to enforce Church WiFi Rules with its new tech? Seems like everybody with anyth
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> Define text. UTF-8 for all new projects. > If Unicode, how much Unicode should be allowed? I think the question is more like "how much should be supported", which is project dependent. If it's just a question of &quot
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> The worldwide publicity the event received helped spur widespread diphtheria inoculations, which greatly reduced [yearly deaths]. Seems we messed up by not getting dogs involved in covid vaccine delivery.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I'm confused by this subthread. Are people hitting the Spacebar-adjacent modifier key with their index finger? It's meant to be hit with the thumb, and it's far more ergonomic than the pinky holding the bottom-left modifier k
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by rcoveson 4y ago
(3) is "finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot", seeing as (0) is "this is not a joke, this is not for fun, guns are not for anything but killing". If you're teaching kids gun safety, the spirit of your
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Oof. Sounds like this poor fellow hitched his stagecoach to the wrong hoss.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> The delay of 50-80ms introduced by the network is not terribly much (everything under 110ms is fine for playing Dota) I don't think you're giving the Dota client enough credit there. Game clients don't wait for network t
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Western name: 100 samples, 87 responses, 54 positive. Islamic name: 100 samples, 17 responses, 0 positive. That's not a "good example of unconscious bias". Unless there's something else going on here (one or both of the
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> And it's impossible to have a progressive sales tax. It may not have been done before but it's not impossible, right? You pay 5% on the first 10k you spend in a year, 12% on the next 30k, 20% on the next 50k, etc.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Moon landers all get names. Even moon landers that never made it past the design phase probably had codenames. You've stumbled on yet another situation where you should give something a cute name instead of a descriptive name: If the
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The start of the post clarifies: "services/repos/libraries". And yeah, all of them start at zero lines of code and zero users. Naming things sucks, but renaming things sucks worse.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I'm saying it's not just webservice monoculture. It predates the web . Which is a better name, MS-DOS or Linux? BCPL or Perl? Source Code Control System (SCCS) or Git? If a name is going to last a long time, and face a lot of dif
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I can be dismissive of webdevs myself but this comment is too bitter for my taste. It sounds like you learned the salary of your greenhorn webdev nephew recently. The author did hit on the truth, no matter how he arrived there. Descriptive
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Given eight person teams, one in ten will have no women on it purely by chance, given that only a quarter of software engineers in the US are women. Questions may be asked, but I hope the questioners listen to reason.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> I'll say it again: he hasn't actually managed to engage with the argument for DEI, even institutionalized DEI The use of the definite article here is surprising. I get the impression you have an argument for DEI in mind that
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Bit by bit, we've got: > it's all sort of comically smug Tonal critique, valid but not worth much. > everybody else in the entire world is wrong, and here is a 7-point axiomatic derivation proving it What argument doesn&#x27
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by rcoveson 4y ago
You could say the same thing about UNIX, and yet here we are. Sometimes decent software accidentally becomes a ridiculously broad standard. You can't resist that force by dismissing it as what it was originally meant for. It doesn&#x27
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by rcoveson 4y ago
OpenVPN's approach is to have every config key imply a valid config file entry and a long-arg. So if you see the line `tun-mtu 1500` in a config file, you know you could use the arg `--tun-mtu 1500` on the command line, and vice versa;

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