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Sincere question for the people who think paywalls are bad: How are journalists and writers to be paid?
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> Commits are unique and immutable, and are anchored to a specific point in the graph of history and causality. This means that a commit’s identity is made up of both its content and its context. > This in turn means that you need to
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> The SQL part seems to double-down on a conceptual failure rather than demystifying it though. She talked about a mental model to help her understand the query (it can be useful), and mentioned that it probably is not how the database a
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> The man pages are readily available. True, but I find the man pages not easy and quick to parse.
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Excellent talk. She seems to be a very likable person. She is right about Bash being full of "gotchas" and trivia and memorizing them all is very hard, but I think it is nice to memorize some trivia. For instance, I tended to forg
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> Well. I don't quite see how formenting revolution fits the bill Oppressive regimes like to use these sorts of rhetorical ploys to discredit social movements. Do people under authoritarian regimes have any agency? Or are they just
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Add to the image someone making exaggerated faces, maybe?
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If you have a penchant for Ayn Rand and her general outlook, I do not think your stance on her can change through rational discussion. There are "primal world beliefs" [1] that are irremediably incompatible. [1] https:/&#x2F
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I have not read her novels, but I stumbled upon her writings many times before. You'll perhaps find Massimo Pigliucci's critique [1] of her whole philosophy worth your time. [1] http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com&#x
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> I think we lose an important part of literature discussions to allow a discourse as simple as "Rand bad". Sometimes, it is that simple: "Rand bad".
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When I saw Ayn Rand in the list, it immediately lowered its credibility for me.
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Is killing sentient beings with a will to live just as strong as ours, and with whom we share a common genealogy, physiology, and even psychology, ethical? This question trivially trumps all other considerations, be them about health, or th
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I recently got a Keychron Q11 split keyboard. The quality of the keyboard is so good that I think the people involved in making these keyboards must be truly keyboard lovers.
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All I gathered from your comment is that "Mozilla is lost," and some other negative epithets, but nothing on why you think that.
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I really wish them to succeed. Imagine centuries from now, a future civilisation where human-inflicted cruelty towards billions and billions of sentient beings is ended...
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According to Merriam Webster [1], "revolutionise" is the British spelling of "revolutionize" (I did not know). [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revolutionise
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Are people hallucinating? If so, why? Mere prejudice?
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It also has conscious experience: sensation of (probably) colored sight, it can feel pain, fear, etc. Where are these sensations located in the material universe? They are nowhere to be found under a microscope!
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It's a new technology (in that sense, it's not "retro"), and "punk"? I don't know what the author means.
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I may be mistaken, but since I have to work with different machines that all have bash as a shell, I try not to mess with my muscle memory and stick to bash even on my own machine. But maybe I should try Fish.
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(Nix) The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model (PhD Thesis) [pdf](edolstra.github.io)
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> Seems 90% of riders get angry when an exhaust isn't loud as a jet and it's often one of the first mods people make. I am a motorcyclist, and I get angry when I hear a loud motorcycle. I want my next motorcycle to be as quiet
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How come Hacker News rarely is down although the traffic seems to be huge?
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> In terms of engineering (QC, processes etc), modern day software industry is worse than almost any other industry out there. :-( How do you know that?
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Are all "engineers" trained on human error, safety principles, and the like? The failures described in the article are precisely not software failures.
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Remove privacy (from state and society) and you will live in constant fear of being shunned, ostracized, persecuted. The result is less individuality, less creativity, less exploration.
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Currently using Fedora Silverblue. I am tempted to learn Nix and NixOS, but I have red several accounts that Nix is hard, documentation somewhat lacking, the ecosystem frustrating. Can anyone tell me if I should invest time to learn Nix, no
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Sincerely saddened. Farewell Bram, and thank you for all the things you have brought to the world.
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No, it does not natively, but there's discussion to do that [1]. There was a discussion here about it a few days ago [2]. [1] https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-windo... [2] htt
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The developer has been missing on GitHub since 2020 [1] [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/issues/845

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