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by xedrac 1y ago
This rant sums up my thoughts exactly. I want firefox to be the most functional tool it can be. Not some presumptuous furry animal that is emotionally and politically charged.
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by xedrac 1y ago
As someone with 5 kids, I can attest to #1. Kids are hard and expensive, but they are also the single most rewarding aspect of my life. I rushed into having kids in my early twenties, and those early years were very difficult. Now that my
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by xedrac 1y ago
> especially if they can't pay trump to ban open source? Huh? Do you mean for official government use?
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by xedrac 1y ago
Yes, it certainly is. But isn't it interesting that Comcast is almost universally hated? I used the word "exploit" simply because had they treated their customers better and focused on putting their best foot forward, I don
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by xedrac 1y ago
Comcast is notorious for exploiting places that don't have any other real options. Just before Google Fiber was activated in my area, Comcast stepped up their game big time. The only problem is that they had spent years nickel and di
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by xedrac 1y ago
I always felt like those click to unsubscribe links were nothing more than a "please prove to us with certainty that this is an actively used account so we can set a sticky bit on it and sell that info for $$$"
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by xedrac 1y ago
I haven't played a MUD in the last 25 years, but I think I would enjoy playing this one if I had time. In some ways MUDs were much more fun than modern games. I wonder what codebase it derives from.
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by xedrac 1y ago
Bespoke tooling makes me think that the standard tooling is lacking. How does it compare to Rust's tooling?
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by xedrac 1y ago
It's like a military palindrome...
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by xedrac 1y ago
> for the purpose of hurting and killing other human beings. I would phase it as "for the purpose of deterring conflict because everyone knows they can hurt and kill human beings".
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by xedrac 1y ago
On the surface, yes, it looks like he has a strong case for asylum. But the judge denied it for some reason, which I assume is based on something more than personal feelings. I am not familiar enough with him or his case to judge for mysel
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by xedrac 1y ago
If he was a citizen, then I would definitely have a problem with it. The problem I see is that asylum claims have been so abused recently that they have become an entitlement rather than an exceptional case. I don't know the specifics
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by xedrac 1y ago
I have no problem with legal immigration - people who have worked hard to become citizens via legal channels, and who love our country. They wouldn't dream of rioting or committing violence, all while waving another country's fla
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by xedrac 1y ago
What do you call it when people flood into a country without due process?
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by xedrac 1y ago
You're ignoring the massive elephant in the room. The previous administration let millions and millions of completely unvetted and undocumented immigrants into our county, creating an unprecedented crisis. I view Trump's actions
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by xedrac 1y ago
Maybe it's the domain I work in, or the languages I use, but the 20 lines the LLM comes up with is almost certainly wrong.
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by xedrac 1y ago
I wanted to use FreeBSD for my home gateway/firewall/dns/dhcp server, but unfortunately my 10 GbE NICs didn't seem to have drivers, so I ended up going with Nix instead. I used FreeBSD many years ago as a workstation, a
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by xedrac 1y ago
Zig's cross compilation is awesome, and it's nice to see FreeBSD on the supported target list.
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by xedrac 1y ago
For me it was the content to ad ratio. So many of these magazines are filled to the brim with ads, and have very little real content. Why would I spend money to look at a bunch of ads?
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by xedrac 1y ago
Guix solves the biggest problem I have with Nix. The awful Nix language. Scheme is so much nicer it's ridiculous.
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by xedrac 1y ago
Retirement doesn't mean I won't contribute to society anymore. It'll mean that I can contribute in ways that I am most interested in, without having to make money doing it.
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by xedrac 1y ago
I used Nix for two years on basically everything, and I would sum it up as: Nix makes hard things easy, and easy things hard. This post mirrors my own experience and I no longer recommend Nix for desktop use. I agree that it makes a wond
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by xedrac 1y ago
Interesting. It might take me some time to adjust my workflow to use these new tab groups, but they at least seem like a good idea. Hopefully they work great in practice.
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by xedrac 1y ago
Explicit lifetimes are not super common, and I haven't had any trouble with them causing refactor headaches. Generics obviously do leak, the same way that C++ templates do.
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by xedrac 1y ago
I like Zig as a replacement for C, but not C++ due to its lack of RAII. Rust on the other hand is a great replacement for C++. I see Zig as filling a small niche where allocation failures are paramount - very constrained embedded devices,
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by xedrac 1y ago
But not nearly as many as my Emacs config.
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by xedrac 2y ago
I know you're being down voted, but I've struggled with my Emacs config breaking quite frequently over the years. Nearly all of the breakages were due to plugins. I assume these breakages would be far less common if I was only u
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by xedrac 2y ago
How so? Everything I've seen from them indicates they are purely focused on illegal immigration.
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by xedrac 2y ago
If we had fair trade coming into January, then I would agree with you. But we didn't have fair and balanced trade with many nations. So Trump's actions are at least understandable.
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by xedrac 2y ago
Norway's economy is heavily reliant on oil and gas. What of countries that don't have such abundant natural resources?

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