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by troad 2y ago
It's neither a solution nor a workaround, for the simple reason that it doesn't work either as a matter of law or in practice. You began this thread with a deeply incorrect assertion about a federal law, then someone corrected you
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by troad 2y ago
So your solution for a prejudiced law is the hypothetical possibility that some other state passes some other law, for which you have absolutely no evidence. Also, even if it did - your solution takes absolutely no account of how federalism
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by troad 2y ago
> But like...also, I just won't buy one. The fact that the car isn't my ideal one does not require me to despise it, or really care about it at all. There are a lot of cars that I don't like for one reason or another. Norm
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by troad 2y ago
> I still wonder if it matters all that much. It's a daily reminder that you're a second class citizen, that your family isn't really a family worth respecting. It matters a great deal. Imagine a state prohibiting mixed ra
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by troad 2y ago
The person was Egon Kisch, a Czechoslovak communist, who arrived in 1934 for a speaking tour to raise awareness of what was happening in fascist Germany, and who the Australian government found far too 'revolutionary' to let in. T
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by troad 2y ago
I second Fastmail. The interface is very solid, and it syncs very well to my iPhone (I've not had any syncing issues myself). They also have great (human) support, which I find important when it comes to backbone services like email, c
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by troad 2y ago
> It's a load-bearing statement. I do understand how someone who lacks grounding in the physical sciences might not realize that. Glad to help. Condescending and wrong, and all in defence of the facially farcical statement that th
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by troad 2y ago
> The US uses the metric system, just with very non-standard units. All of the fundamental customary units are defined precisely in SI terms. "Uses the metric system" = uses standard metric units. By the logic you lay out, the
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by troad 2y ago
The FOSS movement is not a monolith. There are many individuals and organisations pursuing many different goals, many of which are at odds with or even antithetical to the goals pursued by Fortune 500 companies. The kind of company that won
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by troad 2y ago
I really like this anecdote, and I very much think you're speaking for a lot of people here. Tech is tooling. Some people make a hobby out of the tooling, others merely use the tools to build something. It's totally valid to make
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by troad 2y ago
> This is possibly why a number of Fortune 500 and government organizations avoid GPL like the plague. This being, in turn, a fantastic reason to use the GPL for your code.
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by troad 2y ago
Well, now that's a meatier point. I'd say there are natural limits to tolerance. One is under no obligation to tolerate racism, for example. One may choose to be a friend to a racist in the hopes of being a positive influence, but
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by troad 2y ago
> Confronting you in good faith isn't forcing you. Christians sure do seem to get an awful lot of leeway to 'confront' others, and it never seems to work the other way. Not forcing, but certainly 'trying to control&#x
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by troad 2y ago
I'd respectfully submit that Christians "confronting" me over what I decide to call my business is a fantastic example of someone trying to control the conduct and speech of others. There's a horrendous double standard a
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by troad 2y ago
The hotel guest was certainly not right to complain. There are people - often religious - who have a funny definition of "welcoming" which comes perilously close to "either believe as I do, or at least have the decency to
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by troad 2y ago
I love stats like this. Endless hype cycles for web stacks behind us, endless hype cycles yet to come, and meanwhile everyone in the real world is merrily pottering along with the same PHP + jQuery config they've used for decades.
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by troad 2y ago
This is spot on, well written, and perfectly reflective of my recent experience doing some recreational language hopping. Incoherence through gradual accretion of complexity is the probably fate of most non-trivial systems, beyond just prog
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by troad 2y ago
Yeah, but Lucia is just going to be immediately replaced with some other popular auth library. The thing is, 99% of people really do just need 'log in / log out', and this is an incredibly useful thing to have as a library. I
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by troad 2y ago
I am a fan of Rust for systems programming, but so many people are using Rust for things that are nothing even remotely close to systems programming. So many projects you see being written (or rewritten) in Rust are projects where I just
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by troad 2y ago
> There was a soviet era joke: optimists practise their english, pessimists practise their chinese, and realists practise stripping their Kalashnikovs. Hah, that joke is more widespread than I realised. The Czech version is that optimist
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by troad 2y ago
I think you misunderstand my objection. I have no problem with style guides or linters. I have a problem with a compiler that deliberately emits compiler errors on the use of \t, just as an example, because the author likes to throw Lego br
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by troad 2y ago
> It's not like the Zig compiler will refuse to compile unformatted code, either. I mean... the use of tabs or LF+CR / CR line endings was a compiler error, last I checked. So, yes, it is exactly like that. And this was a delib
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by troad 2y ago
> editor.formatOnSave will control it for all files. You can also use editor.defaultFormatter to change which formatter is used. You can set these for all languages or for specific languages[1]. Ah, I see. The Zig module silently overrid
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by troad 2y ago
You're implying I'm not a grown up, but characterising a language created in 2016 - current version zero point something something - as immature is 'extreme' to you? C'mon now. Zig is immature. That's not som
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by troad 2y ago
> The primary justification for "you can have any color as long as it's black" approach to coding style & formatting is precisely that the language is a tool, not an art project. Having a single standard well-defined s
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by troad 2y ago
> But you can turn it off, can't you? Can I? How? There is no setting I can see in e.g. VS Code to disable format-on-save. (Not trying to sound snarky here, I'm legitimately open to advice on this.) > it's clear Zig has
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by troad 2y ago
I'm willing to cop the slack from the Zig brigade for this take, but I'll get excited for Zig again when I'm allowed to turn `zig fmt` off in e.g. vim or VS Code. It leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth when stylistic pref
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by troad 2y ago
> https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ (5 minutes ago) > https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx (13 hours ago) Also https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Ryujinx . These
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by troad 2y ago
I've always liked Drew, but I must admit these articles are wearing me down. The tech-capable, opinionated Drew of yore is being eaten by the hyper-online new Drew, who seems to be perpetually caught up in some social media outrage or
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by troad 2y ago
Considering the most important remaining use case for 32-bit is embedded systems, wouldn't static linking be a non-starter due to space and performance constraints?

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