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Agreed with 1 and 3, just a tip re 2 though: sops encodes json and yaml semantically, key names of objects are preserved. Iow you can see which key changed.

Whether that is a feature or a metadata leak is up to the beholder :)

Chef John (an American) wrote a blog post in 2010 about why cups are the wrong unit for flour:

https://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-measure-cup-o...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvz0WKanGU

I’m convinced when people say they “love flakes” , 95% of them just love fetchTree and lock files.

(Which is totally valid btw)

We are basically 100-ϵ% the same. I have no doubt.

Maybe the only difference between us is that I think there is a difference between a description and an interpretation, and you don't :)

In the grand scheme of things, is it even worth mentioning? Probably not! :D :D Why focus on the differences when we can focus on the similarities?

That's definitely not what I am doing, nor implying, and while you're free to think it, please don't put words in my mouth.

You mean, when evaluating suppliers, do I push for those who don't use AI?

Yes.

I'm not going to be childish and dunk on you for having to update your priors now, but this is exactly the problem with this speaking in aphorisms and glib dismissals. You don't know anyone here, you speak in authoritative tone for others, and redefine what "matters" and what is worthy of conversation as if this is up to you.

> Don’t write a blog post whining about your morals,

why on earth not?

I wrote a blog post about a toilet brush. Can the man write a blog post about his struggle with morality and a changing market?

If you have a US or Japanese passport and want to try NL: https://expatlaw.nl/dutch-american-friendship-treaty aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT . It applies to freelancers.

Number 2 would be quite damning regardless of anything else, so if there's a lead for that definitely let us know. Assuming it's just nr 1, though: I think I see what you mean but at that point, I guess.. don't hate the player, hate the game? Bit overboard to call it "extortion".

And, yeah, if you're a >$tn company going into the EU, or even just giving out shares, I agree: consult lawyers :) sound advice. In fact they probably did.

On its face, I don't see a problem. If the situation is as insidious as you describe, I definitely agree with you. But then that's the story. Not TFA.

It is the language. The module system is both semantically indispensable and a second class citizen. It's another language, implemented on top of Nix. Once you have a userland "if" reimplemented in your language you know you're in a bad place. (`mkIf`)

Maybe lazy evaluated attrsets can help make a dent, but still the lack of static types for module code is beyond painful. It's hostile.

I believe Nix is worth it in spite of this, and I'll advise anyone to learn it, it truly is the way forward, but by god do I hope it's not the last step on this journey. Please, Lord, please don't let nixlang be the final iteration XD

You mean the EU regulating their market, right? I think TFA is about shareholder voting rights. Two different things.

> Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund said on Sunday it would vote for a shareholder proposal at the upcoming Microsoft annual general meeting requiring for a report on the risks of operating in countries with significant human rights concerns.

The Norway sovereign wealth fund is a large pension fund holding the profits of exploiting their natural oil reserves. It’s not related to the EU.

I don’t know any such rankings which measure envy, I’m afraid. It’s all based on numbers of papers published, etc.

Do you think people in other countries envy the us college system based on rankings? If so I strongly recommend a trip abroad and striking up a few conversations with prospective or enrolled students. In my experience the topic of cost and non dischargeable student loans comes up often. Rankings very rarely.

> Yes, and the US system is the envy of the world

Where in the world have you polled?? because this is categorically opposite to my experience discussing the US college system

Would love to know your reasoning because when I look at SPY there’s quite a few ad companies in there, and heavily weighted, too. Why would Wall Street love ads on them but hate it on openai?

As impossible, as for me to opt out of your indirectly profiting from my contributions to the economy.

Society is a team effort. That’s what the elections are about.

What is the difference between those scenarios and affiliate links? They are literally the same to me: kickbacks. And I agree they all are allowed, but should be disclosed. Why do you consider affiliate links an exception to that rule?

This thread is missing an important detail:

> undisclosed affiliate links.

That's quite controversial, compared to disclosed affiliate links. IMO for good reason.

It's pronounced the same only by people speaking English with a French accent. An American, Brit, Indian, or any other native speaker of English absolutely does not pronounce "bit" the same way a French person pronounces "une bite."

Rather than measuring whose French pedigree is longer, I will put down a wager on this. ₹3? :D

Exactly. OP bought a lifetime license but expects a lifetime product.

Offer 99.something% guaranteed exactly-once-delivery. Compete on number of nines. Charge appropriately.

AFAIK you do , because the hardware key must keep internal state which is also tracked by the server (a monotonically increasing nonce). Offering u2f without this afaik is not compliant and the only way to achieve that would be a central server which keeps state somehow. It’s really fundamentally unsolvable .

In public transport? Or are you changing the subject?

They might be making a distinction between the language and the current implementation. In fact I would call going through multiple different fundamental implementations without changing the semantics, an argument in favor of the maturity of the language.

No I got distracted by the word yubikey. Arguably not the same subject. :)

Which makes yubikey impossible to use with geographically distributed backups. You need the backup available at all times for when you want to register with any new service.

This is why you should use a device which allows exporting the seed, like e.g. multi purpose hardware crypto wallets.

Disagree with this just because it makes everything else easier. The more you stick to common key bindings, the more intuitive various packages will be. Eg navigating lines vs blocks in a magit diff block is C-n and N respectively. Copying a full hash is M-w. All these bindings are intuitive “overlays” on conventional bindings.

Emacs shines when packages combine to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Changing basic key bindings is the quickest way to vitiate that symbiosis.

Unfortunately.

And while they may be old school, traditional, and orthodox, they are by no means idiosyncratic. They’re widely supported: readline , bash, everywhere on macos, even modern browsers. Eg you can actually paste in bash: try killing something with C-w or C-k, and paste it back using C-y. Or transpose arguments using C-M-t. Navigate suggestions in Firefox using C-n and C-p. Bash even supports undo using C-/.

All to say: learning emacs movement keys pays off.

Legacy. It’s how things used to be done. Just like Unix permissions, shared filesystem, drive letters in the file system root, prefixing urls with the protocol, including security designators in the protocol name…

Be careful to ascribe reason to established common practices; it can lead to tunnel vision. Computing is filled with standards which are nothing more than “whatever the first guy came up with”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

Just because metadata is useful doesn’t mean it needs to live in the filename.

I’ll bite : how does open source have nothing to do with a comment discussing “freedom oppressing software” and “Stallman”?

To be honest, I couldn’t imagine a word more related than "open source". Isn’t that junction literally the acronym F/LOSS?

Ok thanks, makes sense.

Since you're speaking as a moderator I'd like to ask for clarification on the official position:

Was that actually a personal attack, or was it a verifiable claim about the quantity and type of submissions by this user? Is the problem that it was labeled "propaganda", and would it have been ok without that word?

I thought it was useful context to have a look at the submission history. There is a slew of recent [dead] submissions. At what point is it fair to call that out? Or is it about the wording?

> softwareC # available in nixpkgs, but because nixpkgs maintainers are hardline purists it takes 15 minutes to compile from source and ain't nobody got time for that

Which package is that? Is it proprietary but source available? Any free software which is built from source is built by hydra and available from the binary cache to downstream users.