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by spauldo 2y ago
It's not. Think about it. The Scotsman fallacy is when you claim that no member of a group meets a certain criteria that is not a defining criteria for that group. "No true Scotsman wears green shoes" is a fallacy. "No t
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by spauldo 2y ago
IIRC, the guy donated some money to some anti-LGBT groups back when he was CEO of Mozilla Corp. People associated it with Mozilla in general (even though they were personal donations, not from Mozilla) and he ended up having to resign. He t
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by spauldo 2y ago
No, and it shouldn't. Firefox is a general purpose browser, so it should display web pages as the author intends. Security/anti-malware is expected, but changes in content are outside its scope. That's what extensions are for
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by spauldo 2y ago
I pay for premium because I watch a lot of youtube and it's not worth my time to fight their anti-adblock stance. I use Firefox with uBlock and I don't see any slowdowns or breakages. Just another data point.
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by spauldo 2y ago
But I like Perl, and I'm never giving it up.
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by spauldo 2y ago
Yeah, it's such a disgrace that people report on updates for software that's still being used and maintained. Linux is even worse about it. They should be writing articles about Multics and ITS instead.
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by spauldo 2y ago
And just like that brand of cigarettes, it was a lot of fun back in the day (seriously, Camel did cool stuff), it's frowned on today, people constantly disparage the people who stick with it, and those of us who still use it will stick
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by spauldo 2y ago
Nobody's forcing people to be doctors. Nobody's forcing people with religious or moral objections to commit suicide. If they object to paying for others to do so, then they can stand with the people who have similar objections to
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by spauldo 2y ago
Quite a few of us believe you shouldn't require seat belts for adults.
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by spauldo 2y ago
I'm sure they do. I've seen 3270s in use in a few places in the last few years. I'm not sure what they use for new designs, though - I don't hear much about the mainframe world from my part of the industry.
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by spauldo 2y ago
I've always considered premature optimization to be a different problem than premature abstraction. Premature optimization is something I struggle with - "hey, if I do this a different way it'll be faster/smaller!"
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by spauldo 2y ago
IBM terminals are a completely different thing than what the popular minicomputer systems had. From what I understand, the 3270 wasn't a simple serial device. IBM had the advantage that they had control of the entire ecosystem, so thei
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by spauldo 2y ago
Depending on what you consider Emacs to be, it is either unlikely to be replaced, has already been replaced, or the concept makes no sense. Emacs is an interactive Lisp environment that just so happens to have everything you need for a prog
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by spauldo 2y ago
None of that seemed to dampen recruiting among my generation, whose parents fought in 'Nam. Things are a lot better for Afghanistan War vets than they were for Vietnam War vets. I suspect it's more a cultural change than anything
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by spauldo 2y ago
Google is trying to beat potential competitors to the punch. They hold the search market, but if people start querying AI instead of searching they need a product in that space of they'll lose their lead. I just got back from a job whe
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by spauldo 2y ago
None of that is defined in POSIX, hence the perceived need for XDG.
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by spauldo 2y ago
Why would your average American need to know what 20°C is in Fahrenheit? Very few people use Celsius here. All our appliances use Fahrenheit, weather reports use Fahrenheit, our recipes use Fahrenheit, and for science and physics we use Kel
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by spauldo 2y ago
which-key made it in? Sweet! I've been saying for years it should be in Emacs and turned on by default.
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by spauldo 2y ago
I've made life changing decisions based on them. I do industrial automation. Wanna know why I (and my entire integration team) don't use Labview? Because when I went to their site to learn about their product, they were more inter
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by spauldo 2y ago
Unless you're on a UNIX system the number isn't important. If you are on a UNIX system, then it's useful for telling the difference between commands (like write(1), hostname(1), or printf(1)), system calls (like write(2)), li
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by spauldo 2y ago
I'm not a spreadsheet guy, so I can't say how "good" they are, but Emacs has a few. Of course org-mode can do some of it (what can't org-mode do?), but in my experience it bogs down with larger datasets. Simple Ema
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by spauldo 2y ago
Thousands of people do it every day. And yeah, I've tried it - I'm the one that does integration and testing.
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by spauldo 2y ago
The trend in industrial automation these days is to use grayscale graphics for most HMI elements and use color to indicate alerts and alarms. The theory is that an experienced operator can navigate and view everything they need for normal o
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by spauldo 2y ago
I'm not interested in communist nonsense, so waste your time bothering others.
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by spauldo 2y ago
I'm one of the only ones being paid what I'm worth, so I'm not going anywhere.
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by spauldo 2y ago
Yep, I see this in industrial automation. My company is particularly bad about it, since the corporate office is in Houston where you can hire people for the duration of a project fairly easily. Problem is, my part of the company isn't
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by spauldo 2y ago
There's SXML, which is equivalent to XML but in S-expression form. Seems to have only caught on in the Scheme community, though. There are a couple standard ways to do dictionaries (a-lists and p-lists). Object systems like CLOS and GO
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by spauldo 2y ago
Lisp System Implementation by Nils Holm is pretty good if you're a C programmer.
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by spauldo 2y ago
The Jennifer Morgue is a better story and just as fictional.
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by spauldo 2y ago
Charlie's commented about that before. Last I heard he's planning to come back around and give the Laundry series a proper ending once he's done with the New Management novels.

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