skywal_l

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by skywal_l 5y ago
I lean on this. I have a 95.0.1 on ubuntu and got the problem for about 5 minutes. Killed firefox, waited a while and tried again and it worked. So it's not an update issue. A centralized service somewhere failed. Which is, indeed, sca
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I don't think Mozilla's income is a problem. They are making money. The problem is how they spend that money. My impression is that they lost the original spirit. Mozilla lacked a BDFL that would embody that spirit. What's go
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Oh so you are worried about what a union could do at google, but what google does is not a problem?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> I love how I’m supposed to think a middle man acting on my behalf will somehow be better than me acting on my own behalf. Because you do not think that when employees get together as a single negotiating entity they have more negotiati
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Behind async there is a real actual hardware reality. Accessing local storage (or the network) is slow and you do not want to block your UI. You say async were all over the place. Either it makes sense because fundamentally, what you are do
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by skywal_l 5y ago
If I where to write a small command line tool utility that needs to be fast, safe and lean I would definitely write it in Rust. It's got the tooling C++ don't (cargo), the ability to statically compile a minimal binary that small
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Callback hell was before the introduction of Promises. Promises tried to abstract away the callback mechanism and it made things a little clearer, but you still had the pyramid effect of successive Promises. Await/Async kind of streaml
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by skywal_l 5y ago
A couple of strange things: * the use of decorators in even the most basic example * no async/await. You fall back to Promise.{then,resolve}. The example given is not that clear to me. * You can't have two files with the same name
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by skywal_l 5y ago
If we are discussing in good faith, the parent was probably talking about lobbying done by moneyed interests. Which is not necessary for democracy, itself a very broad term in its initial definition which does not include think tanks, polit
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Love this. Such a simple idea yet very helpful. It probably can't do what all jq does but it will solve most of what you usually want to do with json on the command line. Thanks for that tip!
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by skywal_l 5y ago
2010
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by skywal_l 5y ago
One of the first rule of written communication for me: never send an email when angry. You can write it as a sort of catharsis but then just delete it and wait a few minutes/hours/days to cool down. You will realize what is import
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by skywal_l 5y ago
My dream. Set the course and take a nap.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
She'll be fine. Isn't the media market, in the US, free? She'll go to fox news or parler.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Stupid question: why not use nginx? Configuring basic auth is about 4 lines of config. Nginx is fairly simple and is overkill only for dev setup for which you don't need auth anyway.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
For masochistic reasons?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I don't disagree with your point but how a prosecutor must be selected then? If someone is not chosen by a public and popular vote, it must be chosen differently. Any mechanism of choice will have an inherent bias. For example, you cou
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by skywal_l 5y ago
In theory. I believe the system was setup to ensure that the judicial system is independent from the executive branch. However, we have seen the nefarious influence of money in politics which is now starting to encroach on the judicial syst
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by skywal_l 5y ago
If only I knew... Might be worth reading de Tocqueville[0] again I guess. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Has I said in another comment, it is not about education or intelligence. Read the article. The politicians trying to intimidate the St Louis Post Dispatch have a history of intimidation against journalists. Demagoguery is unfortunately a c
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I don't think it's about education. It's about bad faith and cynical politicians abusing the justice system to intimidate reporters. There is nothing to be done about it but vote those people out.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I don't understand your first point. Could you please explain? As for the second, you realize your gain when you sell your house at which point you need to buy another which price has also skyrocketed. So unless you end up renting or y
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Feel the same. I don't understand why a lot of people are rejoicing that the price of their house increases. Unless you move for something smaller, which people rarely do or you are a speculator, you have nothing to gain from ever incr
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by skywal_l 5y ago
What the parent is trying to say is that it's not because we do not know how something works that any explanation is therefore true. The equivalent of "it's never aliens". There might be an afterlife or not. But in order
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by skywal_l 5y ago
What are those alternatives? I believe the common scientific consensus is that of classic materialism: mind is a process supported by the body's matter. There are probably alternative theories indeed but they are at the fringes. For ex
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I believe the sensors are used more prominently and are actually an essential element of the plot in "A fire upon the deep". In that book, giant ships are being powered by computer systems that are so complex, nobody fully master
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by skywal_l 5y ago
But what are the the criteria to decide legitimacy of those needs? Pain is a symptom. It is your body signaling a problem. Indeed, sometimes, there are no solution to those problems but I doubt that all those who got prescribed opioids and
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I think the reasonable good-faith assumption in this discussion about inflation is that people are asking for a raise not to make more money but just to keep up with prices. So in reality, they are asking for the same amount of purchasing p
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Absolutely but this also assumes a fairly "elastic" housing market able to absorb the demand. I am not sure the market is still able to do that with the NYMBYsm and malthusianism around new housing. In high tension area, the price
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by skywal_l 5y ago
And when someone come to you asking for a raise, how often do you give it?

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