rhabarba

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   Are you aware what you lose by just clicking OK to get started using something?(bsdly.blogspot.com)

   4 points by rhabarba 5y ago|0 comments
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Centralized chat systems are the problem.
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   So much better than the IRC!!1!
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   Discord blocks iOS users from NSFW servers, blames Apple(mashable.com)

   2 points by rhabarba 6y ago|3 comments
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Darcs users disagree.
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   stallman.org ran on FreeBSD once, but OpenBSD is "not free enough", he said. https://web.archive.org/web/20080225230344/http://blog.unixl...
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   I can understand that. I bet Yahoo is low on budget.
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   "Look! We contribute back!"
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   Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021(freebsdfoundation.org)

   169 points by rhabarba 6y ago|120 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Technically, emojis are built out of UTF-16 letterforms.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    I would meditate over this question, but there is no Om.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    You mean, like German?
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    Let’s fix font size(tonsky.me)

    918 points by rhabarba 6y ago|347 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Rust was developed to replace (parts of) C++, initially. C++ has a different niche than C.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Rust does not intend to be a replacement for C though, while Go does (partially).
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    I wrote libvldmail for that: https://github.com/dertuxmalwieder/libvldmail Sadly, it is poorly adopted.
17. 227.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    WALK is fine, but it is Windows-only.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Wasn’t one of the points of LSP to make editors exchangeable?
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Probably, not obvious though. In this case, my sarcastic comment was probably too superficial.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    I’d wish more technical projects would focus on competent and professional engineers again. Instead, we see calls for more diversity everywhere, including this very survey. I wonder what would be the advantage of having people from diff
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    You first read the comments, then the article? Classy.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    While you read that blog entry, please especially enjoy the different bar lengths for identical percentages. One would guess that the SVGs were generated with Go. /s
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    The spirit of Open Source (tm).
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    My Take on What I Would Replace FSFE With(flameeyes.blog)

    2 points by rhabarba 6y ago|0 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Of course they are, but by default, it won’t work the same way with the built-in date command of *BSD, macOS and probably a few others (Windows? Plan 9?). If you need it just for this one command, my tool is a smaller additional installatio
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Does not work outside GNUland.
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    Show HN: Dateadder – calculate tomorrow in a week on any platform that runs Go(code.rosaelefanten.org)

    2 points by rhabarba 6y ago|4 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Finally, I can simulate 9P on worse browsers.
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    Facebook is disabling Instagram stickers in order to meet EU privacy directives(twitter.com)

    3 points by rhabarba 6y ago|0 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    COBOL even exists on Windows these days. Combined with a mainframe editor simulation like SPF, it all comes to fruition in some way.