rhabarba

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by rhabarba 1y ago
Then again, using Linux has no obvious advantage anymore, as you don't "own" most software you're running anyway.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
I genuinely wonder why it is considered "huge". Does it really matter how many % desktop usage one of the several dozens desktop operating systems has?
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by rhabarba 1y ago
Role models for computer use in my generation: RMS, Bjarne Stroustrup, Doug McIlroy. Role models for computer use today: “PewDiePie”. This is why we can't have nice things.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
Still looking forward to the year of the Plan 9 desktop. I'm helping!
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by rhabarba 1y ago
While I appreciate the on-device approach for a couple of reasons, it is rather ironic that Mozilla needs to document that for them.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
You had me at "Browser compatibility".
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by rhabarba 1y ago
> Everything you create should be in git or similar. Everything you create should be on a machine you control, preferably in a house different from the one where you created it. Version control is optional (and Git probably overengineere
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by rhabarba 1y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284976
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by rhabarba 1y ago
> Today, one of the remaining appeals of Lisps (e.g., CL, Scheme) is that (aside perhaps from Clojure) they're not very employable, and so the communities and ecosystems are more old-school hardcore in sensibility. One of the reason
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by rhabarba 1y ago
Window Maker is still one of the most bearable desktops, even "with Wayland". I don't care about "integration", it is a desktop, not an office suite.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
I did not say otherwise.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
When KDE started, it was strongly influenced by CDE. It became more Windows-y with every major(ish) version, while Windows did not get any (relevant) inspiration from CDE.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
> everything is now a webapp When, why and how became this a good thing?
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by rhabarba 1y ago
KDE is actually a good example of why non-Linux users say that Linux users would actually prefer to use Windows.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
Might as well be my limited understanding from what I can read behind the link, to be fair.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
I prefer Anyhow's non-intrusiveness: "Result" is still "Result" and all I need is a "?". I agree with Stack Error's documentation that Anyhow can't help with debugging that well, but it's &q
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by rhabarba 1y ago
I still prefer the Anyhow solution, but I like the approach here.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
> I get so much more done with them ... poorly.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
You shouldn’t use LLMs at work at all.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
> I’m building a product called Privacy AI Why? > what's your take on using LLMs at work? Don't.
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Show HN: 42links: A bookmarking server, written in Lisp(code.rosaelefanten.org)
2 points by rhabarba 2y ago|1 comments
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by rhabarba 2y ago
This has a few rough edges yet, for which I’m sorry. I’m proud enough to release it though. Please don’t consider this to be “finished software” yet. :-)
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by rhabarba 2y ago
Note that the article you referred to predates this one by a few days.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
That’s good to know, thank you.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
Providing online forums is legal now.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
StumpWM is in a special position here as "compile-time" on Common Lisp is roughly the same thing as "runtime".
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by rhabarba 2y ago
This is actually nice. Desktops were much less annoying back in the day.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
What a loss!
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by rhabarba 2y ago
> Tinder, but for couples :(
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Show HN: DatePrefixCopy, prefixing file names with yymmdd_(code.rosaelefanten.org)
3 points by rhabarba 2y ago|1 comments

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