throwiforgtnlzy

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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Very sensible. While libertarian and anarcho-capitalist outfits like Reason and Freakonomics may have strange views (and sometimes held climate denial views), they do also sometimes offer uncomfortable, factual truths. Unfortunately though,
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
An anecdotal examination of a low-volume book written of someone I used to know. You can guess what also happened to their printer. [0] Dead tree carcasses with alternating dark and light patterns are quietly evaporating the way of piano tu
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Came here for this. It's a cost thing that the craptastic, corporate inversion power tool megacorps and Hazard Fraught's have resisted. Btw, here's the video I got gargling for "!yt ave table saw", which compares a
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Apples (stow) and oranges (containers and exo-package builders and management). When using commands in conflict with the installed base combined and with things that should run unmodified, it gets tricky, usually in the form of shim binarie
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
And the mega corp requires use of a fork of vscode with a limited number of plugins, including ones that run completely client-side that would increase productivity greatly. Next, they'll demand RTO, Colemak keyboard layouts, and faded
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
:D One of my late friends was a core XEmacs dev. Edit: I intended to make a quip about systemd being orthogonal to UNIX philosophy, and how churn novelty and platform-specific idiosyncrasies break the contract of robust, portable, stable co
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Have you tried the post-vim vim-alikes? neovim and such?
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
There maybe up to 1.5M ± 50% emacs users but they tend to clump in academia, around Dvorak keyboards, and rms. :] By contrast, there are roughly 27M software developers in the world. Suppose 30-50% of them primarily use a vi-derived editor.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Emacs, web browsers, and hypervisors are systems/platform inception. Not sure which critter in Animalia it is all the way down, but it could be turtles or giraffes.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
While some languages are safe or safer now, the concerns of correctness and robustness are not solvable by unit testing or code coverage alone. Other holistic layers of smoke testing, property testing/fuzzing, integration testing, and
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Yep. /s But honestly a % of people will instinctively and stochastically Google anything that happens to them. It's readily apparent that using AI to identify potential bioterror attacks and pandemics by looking at both medical pr
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Vermont appears to have been sunny. Most of TX was cloudy as London in winter.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Poor stow. We used it in the stone age about 20 years ago for unpackaged, shared software management on academic research clusters (Think "/usr/{{other hierarchy}}" over NFS). The problem with it is it depends entirely o
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by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
"Something else hasn't had a problem before so it must be okay" isn't proof of anything and a fallacy. There are known unknown structural issues with 737 NG's (-6xx to -9xx non-MAX) beginning around 1995 that have n