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by teddyh 2y ago
Having functions which do nothing but computation is core functional programming. I/O should be delegated to the edges of your program, where it is necessary.
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by teddyh 2y ago
> you can prevent this by setting `browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction` Setting it to what?
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by teddyh 2y ago
Nothing prevents the ECharts project developers themselves to package Echarts and contributing the package to Debian, either by being sponsored by existing Debian Developers, or possibly becoming Debian Maintainers themselves, allowing them
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by teddyh 2y ago
The number of significant software projects which are licensed as GPLv2- only , and which are therefore incompatible with GPLv3, can probably be counted on one hand. Normal GPLv2 projects are licensed – as instructed by the text in the l
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by teddyh 2y ago
It has nothing to do with weirdness; Unix itself was plenty weird for its time. The relevant difference between Unix™ and Plan 9 is that Unix source code was given away (or cheaply licensed) to hardware companies which all wrote their ow
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by teddyh 2y ago
> writing good documentation is an art and not a well-taught one. Some recommendations here: < https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.htm... >
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by teddyh 2y ago
• Info¹ • Gnome Devhelp² • Zeal³ • Local RFC archive⁴ dumps (by Debian⁵) • Man pages 1. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/info/ 2. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/
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by teddyh 2y ago
If you have ever used the terminal-based standalone “info” program, please try to forget all about it. Use Emacs to read Info documentation, and preferably use a graphical Emacs instead of a terminal-based one; Info documentation occasional
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by teddyh 2y ago
No Debian package. Requested since 2022: < https://bugs.debian.org/1014408 >
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by teddyh 2y ago
Then, pray tell, how should your original comment be interpreted?
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by teddyh 2y ago
> If your work isn’t clearly connected to company profit, your position is unstable In my experience, only salespeople are clearly connected to profit. Everyone else is percieved as a cost. > In other words, you’re probably depe
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by teddyh 2y ago
> nobody cares if it functions and I don't know why. It pulls in the money every month and if it makes mistakes the company loses money.........!!!!..... But no individual manager loses anything compared to their colleagues. Th
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by teddyh 2y ago
Encrypted disks saves you from an unsophisticated attacker. Also, full disk encryption enables the feature of using a power plug switch as a ”lockdown mode” button.
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by teddyh 2y ago
Are cigarette ads still free speech? Are you saying those should be legal again?
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by teddyh 2y ago
An adversary can usually only modify code that executes in the boot process if they already have root privileges, or if they have physical access. In either of those cases the game is already over anyway.
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by teddyh 2y ago
> What countries are you talking about? I did not have any specific countries in mind; I’m just pretty sure that there are such countries. I’d have to look it up to get any references. > Do you think Trump and the GOP are doing it
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by teddyh 2y ago
It really is not. People will still do it.
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by teddyh 2y ago
People still behave terribly on platforms which require real ID's, like Facebook. Also, requiring real ID's have much larger drawbacks than you think: < https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_
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by teddyh 2y ago
If your country outlaws slavery and child labor, but imports freely (i.e. without tariffs) from countries which allows it, why does your country even have those laws? It’s certainly not to protect children or people from slavery; they’ve j
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by teddyh 2y ago
This – eliminating costs and other negative effects of transportation – is one of the major reasons people started living in large cities, instead of spreading themselves out in small tribes across the land.
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by teddyh 2y ago
The problem is people at large companies creating these AI models, wanting the freedom to copy artists’ works when using it, but these large companies also want to keep copyright protection intact, for their regular business activities.
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by teddyh 2y ago
You’re talking about static typing, the opposite of which is dynamic typing. User hamstergene is talking about weak vs. strong typing, which is another thing entirely. Python has always been strongly typed, while JavaScript is weak
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by teddyh 2y ago
JavaScript is indeed weakly typed, and is widely lampooned and criticized for it¹². But Python has strong typing, and has always had it. (Both JavaScript and Python have dynamic typing; Python’s type declarations are a form of optional
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by teddyh 2y ago
> Is there a name for this fever dream style of writing, that even if you follow up on all the loose ends dropped throughout, find that some of them evaporate under scrutiny? Journalism.
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by teddyh 2y ago
People will do anything to avoid learning SQL.
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by teddyh 2y ago
Python is a strongly typed language. But Python is not statically typed; Python is dynamically typed, with optional type declarations which enables static type checking (by third-party software).
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by teddyh 2y ago
Physical pomodoro: < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Il_pomod... >
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by teddyh 2y ago
< https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BLUF_(communicati... >
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by teddyh 2y ago
The only reasonable zero-value for temperature is 0K, which unfortunately leads to unreadable graphs. (All other temperature scales are completely arbitrary.) So for the specific case of temperatures, it is in fact completely reasonable t
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by teddyh 2y ago
This should make it easier for people to adapt when their job adopts Manna™.

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