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by sgbeal 3y ago
Only if they _choose to_. One of the lessons in becoming a modern adult is that you have the option of telling a doctor "no, i won't take that." That's your choice, not the doctor's. Period, end of story. There are
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by sgbeal 3y ago
For those who don't read past the 4th paragraph: it's a gripe-post about systemd (from 2014). Amen to that.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> The results were fascinating: people who intended to settle acquired a local accent quicker than those here temporarily. As a 26-year immigrant of Germany i feel compelled to point out that there's more to it than that. i've
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> First, those are bolt-ons and I don’t actually want them tied to the source code management system. Anecdote: when Richard first proposed the /chat feature in fossil i was highly skeptical about its utility but (as the fossil proj
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> And fossil developers work on that instead of the think I want. While also inviting you to join the development team and scratch your own personal itches. The overwhelming majority of fossil features were implemented by someone scratch
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Right. It’s a careful balance of what to include and what not to include. (A long-time fossil dev here...) The single most important criteria for new features in fossil is, quite simply, "is it useful to fossil's own develope
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> FURTHER WARNING: This command is a work-in-progress and may yet contain bugs. Purging and shunning are two entirely different things in fossil. Shunning is for removing "bad" content and purging is very specifically for use w
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> As you mentioned it goes against the Unix philosophy of do one thing and do it well. To me it's obviously cleaner to divide a system into components that can later be swapped or modified independently. Anecdote: when i first met R
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Touché!
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by sgbeal 3y ago
In southern Germany, at the end of 2022, i got a letter from the electricity provider that prices were going up from 27c to 48c per kwh in a single bound.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I swear, sometimes HN users can be so pedantic, they'll ask for the source that the earth is round or that the water is wet. Without a citation, any statement of ostensible fact is just unfounded rumor.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> ... it's completely artless, Then you're obviously doing it wrong. Programming with passion, is an art unto itself.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
As a character in _Man of Steel_ says, "a good death is its own reward." From that perspective (to which i subscribe), the exact death is not so important as that it be a "good death." It is my sincere hope to (A) be abl
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by sgbeal 3y ago
i dare say that _no_ fantasy novels are original at this point ;).
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Ah, self-compiled kernels at least once a week. Those were the days... which i would not want to return to.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> If you disclose your Card numbers... to any person or entity... Isn't that precisely what happens every time a credit card is used?
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Any good place to find RFC's you can recommend? i use my search engine of choice. Searching for "rfc archive" has some promising results. i hesitate to link to any because i don't actively use any specific one. i ty
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by sgbeal 3y ago
It sounds like you just need to pick any given RFC which tickles your fancy and has an appropriate scope, and try to implement it.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
The weird thing about this is that i stopped drinking Diet Coke, specifically because of aspartame, after reading this same thing in 1996 or perhaps early 97. WHO's decision to wait nearly 30 years before backing that just makes them l
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Tip: to avoid confusion i recommend using the term FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) instead of OS, as OS is essentially always understood as Operating System.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Spending that money on burying power lines underground, so that the power does go out every time it rains, seems like a better bet. i grew up in the US and it was completely normal that the power went out every time the wind blew. After nea
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by sgbeal 3y ago
i feel compelled to point out that comparing CrossDB with SQLite3 is like comparing apples and oranges. CrossDB is essentially a highly specialized (de)serialization framework for C/C++... and _only_ C/C++. It cannot be extended t
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Low power consumption isn't worth much if the performance sucks. Not every service needs high performance. A web site serving static content, for example, or a low-traffic forum. i co-admin multiple public forums, e.g. sqlite.org&
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Predictable for the sender, non-predictable for the recipient. Aha. The article didn't (to my eyes) make that distinction clear. That changes things, of course.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Git has become everyone’s go-to for version control. i would argue that github, not git, has become many peoples' go-to. Git by itself is absolutely atrocious in terms of usability and its ability to lose data through seemingly in
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Not entirely true. i was running a 1600x1200 Linux desktop at the time on a 23-inch CRT. Ten years earlier we were using 640x480 to 800x600.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Don't phones throttle your connection after a limit? Mine does. i avoid videos like the plague, as they're the big bandwidth hogs. With just a little discretion, bandwidth goes a long way.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
@OP just FYI: SQLit3 (sic) is misspelled at least 4 times and version 3.31 is ancient history.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Not a van, but i've been living in a boat, tethered to shore on a river, since 5 or 6 weeks. My FOSS contributions since then have lessened greatly but not entirely stopped. My phone provides the internet connection and any "real
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by sgbeal 3y ago
By that logic, anyone who's said something on TV or radio which they regret, or was recorded committing a crime, should also have a "right" to have it somehow wiped from the historical record. "You can't stop the si

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