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by smlavine 2y ago
Yeah, but they still have to argue something in the decision that isn't "we don't like this law". They have to argue that the state doesn't have the constitutional authority to make the law, or something like that.
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by smlavine 2y ago
> With this US Supreme Court, I expect this New York Law will be overruled. Why? Just because the court is conservative and this is a progressive law, or is there is an actual legal basis for the court to overturn this law?
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by smlavine 2y ago
I think commenters are missing that the author is talking about this in the context of typesetting their own book. They aren't claiming that rST is better than Markdown in the general case; in general, Markdown's simplicity is a r
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by smlavine 2y ago
Great Britain's election season is shorter compared to the US in part because they don't need to spend so much time choosing the candidates. Various prospective parliamentary candidates were already selected months before, and Kei
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by smlavine 2y ago
Your comment is rude and unhelpful.
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by smlavine 2y ago
Here's the EPA report: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqvretg7yyhfx0ohx4/AGZduVX...
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by smlavine 2y ago
Sounds like he wants the -B option.
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by smlavine 2y ago
Would you mind sharing the exact steps you take and what happens next when you do this?
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Modal is a matrioshka language based on pattern-matching to rewrite trees(wiki.xxiivv.com)
92 points by smlavine 2y ago|21 comments
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by smlavine 3y ago
The GPL is so much more happy! https://suno.com/song/392f03a9-97a4-4bfa-b11f-7d993615d26e
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by smlavine 3y ago
Molly White wrote this neat piece a few months ago about migrating from Substack: https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghos...
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by smlavine 3y ago
How many of these suggestions actually exist?
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by smlavine 3y ago
I've never heard of the story this one is apparently based on, and I thought it was kinda neat to read.
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Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack(fosstodon.org)
233 points by smlavine 3y ago|141 comments
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by smlavine 3y ago
How do you verify that what it's teaching you is actually true? Do you spend other effort reading native Polish and speaking Polish with others?
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School Cars: how trains brought classrooms to children in remote communities(cbc.ca)
3 points by smlavine 3y ago|0 comments
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by smlavine 3y ago
The author is a woman, by the way.
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by smlavine 3y ago
The author is a woman, by the way.
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Happy Fourth Birthday, Hare(harelang.org)
2 points by smlavine 3y ago|1 comments
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by smlavine 3y ago
Exactly, because most companies like it or not don't have "honesty" as a core value.
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by smlavine 3y ago
Interesting this in comparison to Signal's recent post about their finances. An honest organization that actually cares about providing value to its customers would be able to make a frank appeal about the situation the company is in,
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by smlavine 3y ago
I've heard this about Lisp, but I don't really get how this doesn't apply to other languages. How is writing special operators in Lisp different from writing special functions in any other language?
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by smlavine 3y ago
> The problem with written sets of rules is that they can be subverted and misused. That's also a problem with unwritten sets of rules that are based on vibes. If the baseline expectations are written down, at least people can notic
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by smlavine 3y ago
At my university (RIT) they made us all read this and do a report on its importance in the seminar class before we can go on internships. It's all well and good but I don't think it has any teeth without a culture to support its e
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by smlavine 3y ago
20 years old. Not an iPad kid. It might just be shitposting in the end but I watched around a half hour of it a few weeks ago and I found the sci-fi war story interesting, the occasional moments of "humanity" touching, the action
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by smlavine 3y ago
Was expecting this to be a visualization of the data.
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The Hare programming language now supports OpenBSD(fosstodon.org)
20 points by smlavine 3y ago|0 comments
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by smlavine 3y ago
Well, stable for now. Give Discord another two decades to figure itself out and see what happens. When it hits the fan, there won't be a "Discord 2" right next door that everyone can migrate to by changing a URL.
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by smlavine 3y ago
It's a British highway.
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by smlavine 3y ago
"legal" structures, sure -- but it's certainly not uncommon for people to casually adopt different names in different contexts, especially in online communities. Your mother doesn't call you "h2odragon". I woul

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