young_unixer

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   by young_unixer 6y ago

   The mindset is "I want to choose who I listen to. I don't want the Mastodon instance to decide for me" If you don't like listening to some people, that's fine, don't follow them, block them, whatever, but I won
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   by young_unixer 6y ago

   I left Mastodon because the big "traditional"/sanctioned instances started banning other instances they didn't like, specifically Gab (instance full of right-wing people that allows basically anything that isn't ill
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   by young_unixer 6y ago

   > We are coming to a point where software is developing so fast and the abstractions getting better that soon we will have more software written by a smaller number of people. I think software is just a big pile of garbage. The thing is:
4. 574.▲
   by young_unixer 6y ago

   The Dell doesn't have that obnoxious Thinkpad logo.
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   by young_unixer 6y ago

   Developers go where the money goes. The money goes where the users go. The users don't know the difference between a walled garden and a free ecosystem.
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   by young_unixer 6y ago

   In my opinion, the party that behaved the worst in that exchange was npm. Why do Node developers trust such an unprofessional institution?
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   by young_unixer 6y ago

   Low-level stuff & Linux: RISC-V, Vulkan, Wayland, Sway WM, Wireguard, Zig. Web or high-level stuff: deno, Svelte, Vue, Webassembly, WebGPU, Flutter.
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   by young_unixer 7y ago

   My intuition comes from other uses of "rare" and "very rare" in medical fields. "In Europe a disease or disorder is defined as rare when it affects less than 1 in 2000 citizens." [1] """ In the U
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   by young_unixer 7y ago

   1%-2% doesn't seem "very rare" to me.
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    by young_unixer 7y ago

    From what I've read, it seems like Wayland's "controversial design choices" don't stem from developers being inconsiderate of different workflows, but rather from the intention of making a general purpose protocol.
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    by young_unixer 7y ago

    In my opinion: Being right and nice is better than being right and mean. Being right and mean is better than being wrong and nice. Being wrong and nice is better than being wrong and mean.
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    by young_unixer 7y ago

    I think that a reasonable code would allow the punished party to publicly disclose their punishment, otherwise the punishers (for lack of a better term) would do whatever they wanted. But it should be private by default.
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    by young_unixer 7y ago

    I used to use Twitter. My country's political news and related commentary usually got me into a mental state of frustration and misanthropy. I deleted Twitter. Political news still frustrate me but I rarely see them anymore. Ignorance
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    by young_unixer 8y ago

    >OpenGL: Basically Javascript for GPU’s. Everyday we stray further from god's light.
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    by young_unixer 8y ago

    You can call it nostalgia, but maybe Unity users that were happy with it were less vocal than Unity haters. Unity is my favorite DE and I haven't found a good replacement yet.
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    by young_unixer 8y ago

    I agree with you. The OS should give you only some essential end user applications (a bare-bones text editor, a terminal, a browser) and then the user should get their specific use applications (DAW, 3D modelling software, game engine, etc)
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    by young_unixer 8y ago

    I too prefer the one on the left. However, the one on the right looks more laid back and appropriate for a fun/game kind of application, and the one on the left looks more technical and serious, at least from my uneducated point of vie
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    by young_unixer 8y ago

    Question: would it be correct to have an email of the type name@TLD? Example: John@com Is this kind of name spec-compliant?
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    by young_unixer 10y ago

    2 spaces for indentation.