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by sham1 2y ago
> Ediff is still a GUI (yes, even if you're running emacs -nw). I'd dispute this, and more likely call it a TUI[0], unless of course one wants to go with the really pedantic point that all text is graphical. It certainly isn&#x
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by sham1 2y ago
I find ediff from Emacs to be superior to the JetBrains conflict resolution view. And I've had to deal with some gnarly (and large) merges at $JOB. I dunno, something about its keyboard-driven design (and in general being Emacs-based
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by sham1 2y ago
Of course the exploiter doesn't have the moral failing in this. After all, the capitalist must profit as they can, and the proletariat suffer what they must. /s Not to go too much into an ideological diatribe about class solidarit
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by sham1 2y ago
To be fair, this one is specially to address the issue of a distro theming an app, breaking it, and that leading to a bug report at the upstream even though it's the distro at fault. If a user is willing to take responsibility for brea
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by sham1 2y ago
And when one is building this kind of a music server, please support your favourite artists! Ideally, if they have a Bandcamp or something similar, where you can directly buy their tracks and albums from them, do that. Usually this means th
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by sham1 2y ago
Anti-US measures, as in… investigating anti-competitive business practices? You're saying this as if the EU is just doing this for the hell of it. That's frankly just silly. And yes, I would expect that if an European company woul
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by sham1 2y ago
I mean, China has banned Facebook. It may or may not be due to that stated reason, but it's nevertheless banned.
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by sham1 2y ago
In my opinion at least, having a way to bootstrap rustc and the rust ecosystem is quite nice, as more and more projects start using the language. And having multiple bootstrapping methods just makes it nicer. Helps with efforts like those o
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by sham1 2y ago
I would imagine that the kinds of embedded systems like cars would probably benefit from Ada instead. Not only is there of course SPARK, if one wants to do formal verification, Ada has a proven track record in things like military applicati
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by sham1 2y ago
Eh, you'd get plenty of Westerners who'd argue that text goes beyond ASCII. Most of Europe, for example, requires Latin-1 at the very least. Not to even mention Greek and the like.
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by sham1 2y ago
I feel that people rather care about the free as in free speech world, rather than the free as in free beer world. Plus, for the former you can still get paid. You don't need proprietary software for that.
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by sham1 2y ago
Remember when phrases like "Never use your real name online" used to be near universal? Yeah, this is something I also miss about the old Internet. Like, even back then you could absolutely tie your IRL identity up with your onlin
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by sham1 2y ago
People using their free speech and free association is now "policing thoughtcrime"? It's always interesting how that works. Ought we not be allowed to make an informed decisions about whether we want to use a piece of tech? O
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by sham1 2y ago
I mean, the latter seems to be a bit heretical. In fact, inquisitors have been dispatched to get rid of that. The Emperor Protects! --- But that is a good point. It's doubtful that the intelligence community would care too much about p
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by sham1 2y ago
In this very orange website. Any EU regulation seems to be anathema and a barrier to innovation, and that extends to things that improve user privacy and such.
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by sham1 2y ago
There are plenty of MAGA-like people here in Not-America, and like their MAGA counterparts, they do tend to congregate in the social media once known as Twitter. There's a certain kind of ideological alignment there, as odd as it may b
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by sham1 2y ago
One thing I appreciate about this package is that it's in GNU ELPA. Far too many emacs packages end up just languishing in MELPA. It wouldn't even be a problem if they were in MELPA Stable (although I personally prefer GNU ELPA an
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by sham1 2y ago
Things standing on the shoulders of proprietary giants shouldn't claim to be free software/open source.
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by sham1 2y ago
TIL! I seem to have just missed the `-N`/`--intend-to-add` while perusing through the `git-add(1)` manual. Heh, it[0] even notes a similar use case: > `-N` > `--intent-to-add` > > Record only the fact that the path will be
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by sham1 2y ago
To be fair, neither are C preprocessor macros. They're instead token substitutions. It's not that much better, but they're not literally text substitution. They're at least more clever than just that. They're al
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by sham1 2y ago
Yes. Those sorts of things are exactly the kind of skullduggery and shenanigans that the term capitalism was invented to be a critique of in the 19th century. The kinds of stuff pulled by the owning classes to secure their position and capi
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by sham1 2y ago
And just like that, the alienation of labour becomes evermore present. Of course, this kind of process that abstracts away meaning and creativity from the work has been a thing for a while. After all, similar observations were already being
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by sham1 2y ago
`git add -p` is such a nice utility. Sometimes I do wish that it could also be used for unstages files, so that if I'm introducing a new file, I could still break its contents up into multiple commits. Of course, the workaround there i
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by sham1 2y ago
Also that quote seems a bit silly anyway. Because if we look per-capita, European countries beat the US in terms of coffee consumption. Of course, in absolute amounts, the US will have more consumption than most, but then again, with a popu
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by sham1 2y ago
To be fair, the person could still use Google Fonts, but just download the font and host it themselves. The font licenses allow this. You get the upsides of being able to pick a nice font from Google Fonts while not having the downside of t
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by sham1 2y ago
Clearly Jensen is a genius and just ensured us infinite job security. Well, either that or he was just driving the hype b/c nvidia sells the shovels for the AI gold rush. Personally, I'd wager the latter.
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by sham1 2y ago
Well, Git's also not a blockchain at least in the way commonly meant by the term. But yeah, it'd be a pretty bad bank account (and an even worse way of doing money transfers.)
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by sham1 2y ago
To be fair, "functions themselves" seldom form a valid unit, so in practice you'd end up having to test the composition of said functions.
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by sham1 2y ago
Those sorts of taxes could be made progressive. And if one wanted to be really cheeky, the progression could be based on percentages of global revenue. Ads really are a negative externality, and they should really be treated as such.
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by sham1 2y ago
I'd argue that unit would be just as cryptic as monostate, if you don't know what either is. Like, if we assume someone looking at code with `std::unit`, what might they think this is? If one is not aware of its use in ML or simil

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