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by sham1 2y ago
And then there's the assumption that you'd write it in that way, and in that order. There might be situations where you'd want to use the Hungarian and write "Neumann János" instead. I.e. the assumption that the fam
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by sham1 2y ago
Out of passion for the art. See also: free (libre) software video games released and distributed for free (gratis). Of course, money is a huge motivator, but so is self-expression.
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by sham1 2y ago
While this is of course true, there's nothing wrong with lamenting this state of affairs. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be the case, but since it is you might as well do better personally.
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by sham1 2y ago
Oh, we certainly do have leaders here in the EU that put their countries' national interests first. That's why we're supporting Ukraine and sanctioning The Russia (well, the sanctions could be even harsher, but it is what it
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by sham1 2y ago
People do like to talk about emacs bindings causing RSI, usually to rib on the editor and to keep the tradition of the editor wars going. However, there really isn't all that much evidence for it, is there? Of course it's often in
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by sham1 2y ago
True. Mr. Vladimirovich doesn't want for any regime change that could just go back to selling natgas. I personally don't think it was UA either, although unlike so many other Kremlin claims, this would at least be a bit believable
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by sham1 2y ago
> War? The EU didn't start a war when the US blew up nordstream 2. As people, who most likely are outside of the intelligence community, we don't know who blew up NS2. Current lead suspect is Ukraine, although speculation range
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by sham1 2y ago
It's also worth noting that the Coreutils `su` is no longer in use by anyone, and that the `su` from the shadow-package absolutely checks for wheel. It's even configurable if you haven't enabled PAM by configuring `SU_WHEEL_O
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by sham1 2y ago
Nonfree software is a major part of nonguix, both because of the ethical problems which are the raisons d'être of the GNU project, there's also the more practical consequence drom the nonfree nature, that you can't bootstrap
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by sham1 2y ago
It's a necessary component of this sort of idea, but clearly it's not sufficient. I mean, we have had Russia in war with Ukraine for about a decade now, beginning at the annexation of Crimea, even though they had fairly good trade
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by sham1 2y ago
You will forgive me, if I find that that your attempt at trying to find a flaw in the GP poster's argument is itself flawed. This use of a nickname is pseudonymous, not anonymous. HN is specifically not anonymous.
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by sham1 2y ago
Also somewhat relatedly, XMPP tends to use URNs for the XML namespaces af the various stanzas, which in turn define the various parts of the IM message or what have you.
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by sham1 2y ago
Sadly this only works for English. Of course, given the functional requirements, it's probably fine, but this kind of code exists IRL and it can be annoying to refactor to support more languages. For example, many languages have gramma
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by sham1 2y ago
The irony here is that both SerenityOS and Redox are UNIX-like. Of course in their design, they're not purely like most other UNIXen, but they also don't stray away too far.
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by sham1 2y ago
This limits the supply, but we also must remember that the reason there's enough demand to justify the diamond industry to do this kind of shady stuff is due to marketing. I seriously doubt that diamonds, and especially natural diamond
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by sham1 2y ago
But the thing is that the file system doesn't need to be case-insensitive for your system to support human intuition! As others have said, people don't look at and use filesystems, they use programs that interface with the filesys
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by sham1 2y ago
Well that might be because, well, GIMP is made for photo editing, not for digital painting. Of course, GIMP does have some drawing tools in it, but that's clearly not the task it was designed for.
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by sham1 2y ago
Or they could be making a joke about how quickly trends shift in IT. It's like how people joke (or at least used to joke) that you'd get a dozen new JavaScript frameworks daily. Exaggeration for comedic effect, in other words.
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by sham1 2y ago
> The Two Generals Problem is mentioned a lot in databases and networking, and you can take some liberties to extend it to human orgs. In fact, the name probably already gives some hint as to what sorts of human orgs this sort of princip
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by sham1 2y ago
The same reason as to why you couldn't forbid military usage or commercial usage while still remaining Free Software. "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" also applies to entities such as the EU. If y
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by sham1 2y ago
> Are European countries not primarily socialist republics? No? At most we're a continent of mostly social democracies. The workers don't own the means of production here in general, although cooperatives can be quite strong he
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by sham1 2y ago
This is annoyingly true, although maven is nice enough to work with. Certainly beats its alternatives handily, being declarative and such. Not nearly as annoying as Ant and Ivy, and at least IMO, the less one needs to think about Gradle, th
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by sham1 2y ago
While the Russian-speaking Ukrainians would indeed speak "like the Russians", I'd at least go off the limb and say that they'd probably prefer to have their native language in the UI represented as something like "Р
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by sham1 2y ago
The way the GNOME Project has evolved over the years is just sad. The development ethos seems to be further and further away from the spirit of Free software. The project does comply with the "letter of the law" when it comes to F
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by sham1 2y ago
If "easy to do business in" and having a large percentage of global GDP requires the ability for tech companies to exploit their users, then I for one am glad as a EU citizen to give up on those to be able to have tech companies c
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by sham1 2y ago
Personally I don't think that the problem is that JS makes the web a more colourful and dynamic experience, but that the vast majority of that colourfulness and dynamism is just not good. Hijacking the user's scroll, rendering the
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by sham1 2y ago
Well, as far as I at least understand it, the argument is that by using JS for this, you are indeed telling the computer what you want, you're just doing it by telling the computer it by telling it exactly how to do it. In contrast,
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by sham1 2y ago
IIRC that way of doing the summation is specifically done to avoid issues with overflow.
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by sham1 3y ago
That is an interesting idea, but I don't really see what the purpose would really be. As you said, having these kinds of FHS containers really is only actually useful for proprietary software, with free software being adaptable for a &
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by sham1 3y ago
Well, both Guix System and NixOS can do this, where they construct a containerised environment with FHS layout. IIRC neither uses overlayfs and they do the namespaces by themselves instead of relying on Bubblewrap, but inside the container

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