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by scbrg 6y ago
Nothing is perfect. Everything is a tradeoff. If you want to avoid corporations controlling your computing environment, Linux is perhaps the easiest way to do that. The alternative is to continue letting corporations control your computing
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by scbrg 6y ago
By other things, you mean compiling? :-)
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by scbrg 6y ago
My terminal has been configured to use UTF-8 for nearly twenty years. Apparently I do not have any font with these glyphs installed though, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect that people do.
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by scbrg 6y ago
Personally, I don't. I quite like things to be text, because text can be understood . Icons can be... learned , I suppose, but then they tend to be inconsistent between apps and even change depending on themes and whatnot - so in g
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by scbrg 6y ago
> I don't see a lot of benefit to using man pages other than "because that's how it's always been done". Man pages are organized, categorized, indexed and searchable. It's a common format that can be read by
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Rather it is a distinct design choice for a social network to avoid spam It's not clear to me how blocking read access prevents spam.
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Windows 10 OEM license can be bought for as little as $10. This is 100% irrelevant nowadays. Really? Where? When asking Microsoft about it, they say No. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/a
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Much of the web is hosted on AWS. Fair enough. I'm sure I use some web sites that are hosted on AWS, I did not consider that. > Same with Facebook and their trackers, unless you block them. That may be (though I block at least
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by scbrg 6y ago
I admit I use some Google services. At the same time, I have no relationship with the non G:s of FAANG, which arguably is 80% of them (though perhaps not 80% of the influence). I'm not sure how they can really be considered public uti
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by scbrg 6y ago
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html
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by scbrg 6y ago
> 0: any program that doesn't support --help is defective, which was rather my point. Fair enough. My point was that there's a category of operating systems where long options (including --help) isn't really a thing. You
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by scbrg 6y ago
I assume the intent to discern, then, is that the script isn't supposed to run on BSD :-)
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by scbrg 6y ago
$ tar --help tar: unknown option -- help usage: tar [-]{crtux}[-befhjklmopqvwzHJOPSXZ014578] [archive] [blocksize] [-C directory] [-T file] [-s replstr] [file ...] $
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by scbrg 6y ago
Uhm. It could simply mean that people let their kids drive it. Buyers and drivers are not necessarily the same group.
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by scbrg 6y ago
You are correct, option parsing is up to each program. The double dash is just a convention.
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by scbrg 6y ago
I had the same feeling when reading some of them. In fact, you can just gloss over some of the parts that go to deep into maths or physics land. I did so, primarily with the Orthogonal Trilogy. You can enjoy the books even if some of the
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by scbrg 6y ago
> My understanding of semantic versioning is... ...irrelevant, I'm afraid. Python doesn't use semantic versioning, so you can't really expect them to follow it. As GP insinuated, if you just pretend that 3.7 is 37, and 3.8
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by scbrg 6y ago
> You haven't managed to correctly communicate the fact that the person was woken up in the middle of the night. If somebody wanted to communicate that they were woken up in the middle of the night, they could use this perfectly fin
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by scbrg 6y ago
I see. Thank you for the explanation!
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by scbrg 6y ago
Would someone please explain what this is about? How are kpop bands (or their audience) "keeping democracy alive"? Genuine question, there's obviously something I've missed.
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by scbrg 6y ago
That discussion becomes especially worthwhile when the text you're arguing about gets wrapped in HTML :-)
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by scbrg 6y ago
> The states of California and Alaska each individually have more wild forest lands than the entire European continent. I really don't want to get into a Europe vs US argument, but this statement strikes me as odd. Sweden and Califo
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by scbrg 6y ago
> 100% turnover in staff and senior management So, I just checked https://news.microsoft.com/leadership/ . The vast majority of the people there joined Microsoft in the 80s or 90s. Two or three in the early 2000, and
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Would you rather see a ton of ads that are completely irrelevant to you, or see ads that you actually need? I don't actually need any ads, so this is a false choice.
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Would you also match it with α? I have no idea. I don't speak Greek, and I am not familiar enough with its alphabet. The question, I suppose, is if there's a reasonable/intuitive enough mapping between the Greek and the
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by scbrg 6y ago
In contrast, as a Swedish user, I'm spectacularly impressed when, say, a flight or train booking site lets me search for Goteborg rather than Göteborg. Because otherwise, you know, I probably can't get the fuck home from whereve
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by scbrg 6y ago
Speaking as someone whose native language has not one, but three of those weird letters, I would need it because it makes searching about a billion times easier. There's plenty of situations where typing my native language's chara
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Unless someone's seen a study on this, neither of you is more right than the other. Well, if one person makes a blanket statement about all individuals in a group, and the other disproves that with a single individual to which the
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by scbrg 6y ago
Yes, that's covered by the last paragraph of my initial comment - it's generally handled by symlinks already. jspaetzel seems to think this isn't good enough though, and that the commands should magically just have the non ve
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by scbrg 6y ago
I'm not sure how you envision that would work. Should the contents of a package mutate when another version of the same package is installed? Would you consider that to be a sane behavior?

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