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Now that's a fair criticism, the article is very light on birb pictures too.

You guys really need to step out when you start to get too cynical.

It's a cute story about something that is out of the ordinary and left a emotional mark in someone, enough that they wanted to write about it.

No need to be so judgemental.

I think it's pretty indicative of your point that every time that I post something here, I get anxious. I use my real name here, and I'm terrified of posting an opinion that's not carefully apolitical or overexplained, and possibly losing everything.

Now we need a double-blind version.

And that's why you don't get your term definitions from people that don't understand it.

Same, I then went back to the original comment and thought "damn, that's a clever joke".

These days? I remember in the late 90s, early 2000s, and it really felt like 1/3 or so of all websites were vulnerable to things like PHP injection and SQL injection. I remember having to bypass login pages to do benign things like changing my password.

Isn't "boring" also a function of "would I see myself doing this?"?

People don't seem to find being an Uber driver boring, because you talk to people all day. This sounds extremely boring and tiresome to me.

That's an oldie, but the experience was the same for me. I was reading Metaprogramming Ruby at the time, and going over the implementation made everything much clearer to understand.

Starlink is a money cow, but having your competitor rely on you for the most expensive part of the job sounds like a great proposition for SpaceX.

For OneWeb, they just don't have other options anymore.

Oh, I meant in the sense that this book will not bring you obscure information or something really new if you have read more than some books from Stoics.

Also, I don't think there's such a thing as a "stoic blind adherent", as self criticism is a big part of it. Examples would be Cicero, highly regarded by later Stoics as an egocentric asshole, or the early cinics, that molded stoicism for the future by criticizing it.

Oh, smalltalk is neat, indeed, but would need both optional and named arguments at the same time to get the same effect, right?

Would still make sense to you to get one without the other? I think optional is much more possible than named :P

Can you elaborate a little bit why it would be important? I get the appeal, of course, but having spent lots of time in Rust the past few years, it feels like polymorphism/traits cover that hole quite well, and will get better once/if GATs get fully implemented (different implementations for different enum variants).

Maybe I'm too biased by the current state, how do you think optional arguments would make it better?

If you haven't gone too far into the stoicism rabbit hole yet, I really recommend "Life of the Stoics", by Ryan Holiday. It's a compilation of the history (and probably myths from their time) of all of the biggest minds of stoicism.

Shows that they weren't always perfect, some of them were assholes, but others (notably Marcus Aurelius and Catho) lived the live they preached, and fought many battles (including literal ones) in ways that were different from their time.

The Salmon of Doubt was the one from Douglas Adams for me. I loved hitchhiker's, but there's something so earnest in that book. Like a late goodbye from someone you would've loved to be friends with.

Made me go on a life-long quest to understand what I am leaving, and how I want to be remembered after I'm gone. I've never met him and read his books after he passed away, but he still makes his presence aware through his words.

By indexing rape victims DNA?

I use it professionally, and can say: it's worth it. Even the warts are minor compared to how polished and intuitive the language feels after you accept it's dogmas (or die fighting against the borrow checker).

The error messages are very good, cargo is awesome, rust analyzer is already good but still needs some time to flourish, and the performance in production is really predictable. It's for sure not perfect, but in many aspects it feels like a step forward, so much that sometimes I'm wary on how much I'm relying on the compiler to check my decisions for me.

Most of the incorrect code on the article for rust is quite contrived though. It's not perfect, just better, or more strict.

God, same to me. I'm very conflicted about the guy, but it sank my heart to think that he died. Glad it's just a (possibly bad) post about his books.

Except it is, check the Nuremberg tribunal case.

With your naked eye, you won't be able to see them, except on deploy, which most of the pictures you see around are. The satellites themselves are getting better at "being dark" and the image processing algorithms are getting better at removing them, so I don't think it will be much of a problem, specially for deep space astronomy that is nearing a revolution with more launches more cheaply.

Astrophotography might be a different story, but I haven't seen much uproar after the dark starlink satellites got deployed, but maybe I didn't look hard enough. Either way, it is still a smaller problem than ground light pollution, so maybe fixing that can give us more slack to deploy more stuff.

I haven't tried as I started using an old fb account that i don't use anymore for nothing else, but if you still need a Facebook account to use it, you'll still have to give them heaps of data, including verifying your phone number.

And warts and all, brave is a really good browser.

They are very artisanal, though. I used to do timing for anime fansubs when I was a teenager, and there's a lot of subtlety going on, specially when you don't speak the language (you're guided mostly by sound and phonetics, as the translations come more or less untimed).

Timing is much more automatized nowadays, but still doesn't feel as high quality as handicrafted timing does.

It's not an English word, so yeah, kinda. I use "singular they" nowadays, but I'll not speak "gender neutral Portuguese" because English people want me to.

As a Latino: it's bullshit. I'm willing to accept the changes you do to your English, it's completely fine, your language your rules.

Trying to change my language is a no-no, in my opinion, and feel dehumanizing, as if my culture isn't "progressive" enough and had to be changed.

Mine is 30 gigabytes or so. Using mbsync, it takes up to half an hour for the first sync, then 10 seconds or less to sync after that.

I do that once every minute using Cron, and it has been serving me quite well.

I don't usually open up my archive folder, when I do it takes quite a lot of time to open on neomutt at least. Notmuch works really well after indexing though.

You can add mbsync to Cron or something like that, then use claws mail or astroid (if you use notmuch) to search on it.

If you make the tools transparent I think he won't notice, or even notice how fast it is to search everything locally.

Actually, thanks a lot for the recommendation. I'll be migrating my custom domain from Google apps into something else and this will be of great help.

I've used OfflineIMAP for many years, and recently (less than a year) moved to mbsync. It's much faster, and the end result is largely the same (I did some sanity tests, downloading both and comparing).

I'm not exactly sure if you can migrate to a new provider by providing the mailbox yourself, but you can still use things like notmuch to index and search on the mbox.