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sizeofchar··on Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity
I am sorry, but this article is a bag of lies. It is just buying and broadcasting the official story from human rights violator Justice Alexandre de Morais, who is persecuting opposition and making up trials as Moscow did in the great purges.
sizeofchar··on Haskelling My Python
Wow, this is so awesome! A shame it didn’t progress.
sizeofchar··on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
There is a big gap between "Turing complete"-able and "real-time, interactive, graphical and performant"-thing.
sizeofchar··on The Power Mac 4400
That is really interesting, in that it is the opposite of my childhood understanding. I started with CP/M and DOS, and the first time I came to a Linux machine, I just couldn't understand how someone could work with drives without the letters (dedicated namespaces, right). My thought was that it was a less polished design.
sizeofchar··on Our audit of Homebrew
When I started using a Mac in 2009, MacPorts, Fink (and I think there was another I can't recall the name) simply wouldn't work for me. They would take very long to build what I wanted, there weren't nearly as many packages as was in Debian/Ubuntu, and many were old versions. Worse, many build attempts would just fail.

In that scenario, brew worked like a charm. It was quick, had most or even more packages than Debian/Ubuntu and they were newer. Failure to install was rare.

Then, Apple started yearly release of OS X, and that both broke brew and my system hard, so I started investigating and found out about the many "shortcuts" that brew took and how it violated systems components. I was dismayed, and abandoned brew for good.

So, I stood a period where I would use many of my tools inside a Ubuntu VM, until probably 2013-2014, when for some reason I tried again MacPorts, and I don't know why, but that time it was much more reliable, and because of Apple's insane atm SSDs with 2 GB/s bandwidth, install became quick enough. Packages were still somewhat lagging behind in available versions, but the variety of them kinda reached the levels of what was in Debian/Ubuntu, so it was good enough for me.

Then, the killer feature, I found out about macports variants and selectors, which I find the most awesome thing to this date in package managers (I haven't tried nix, still, it might be magnitude better in that regard). No needing to use rvm, pyenv, custom installs of gcc messing with make/autotools, and the only sane way of compiling various Haskell projects (before haskell-stack).

sizeofchar··on Brazil's catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories
Truth is much simpler. The rain volume was unanticipated, no matter what government was there, the catastrophe would still happen.

As you wrote, the left governed there for decades, and no adequate containment for this event was built, nor it was built by the following center-left following governments. There was never a right or far-right government there since the 70s. Unless you are referring to Bolsonaro, but then it would be weird since he’s already superseded by the worker’s party by a year and a half now.

sizeofchar··on Accenture to Acquire Udacity
I completed the CompSci X-Series of MITx on edX, and Software Engineering for IaaS, from BerkeleyX. They were so awesome that I can only think they phased them out because it was such a bargain. Practically, the courses allowed me to change career and to be well positioned.
sizeofchar··on Archiving Steam games for fun and profit
It is as old as MMORPGs, at least. In 2001 you couldn't play Ultima Online like you did in 1998.
sizeofchar··on Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
I once worked in a lab where all computers had its own electrical stabilizer, but they were so poor that probably they did more harm than good. When someone turned on a stabilizer, the nearest CRT monitors would distort for a second, then flicker and colors would be degraded.

Luckily, my place was by the wall, so the effect was diminished, but it gave me big headaches. I lasted only 6 months in that company this being the biggest reason.

sizeofchar··on JDK 21 Release Notes
It got better, with containers.
sizeofchar··on FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident
I, myself, fell for that... :(
sizeofchar··on Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
It’s totally a systemic problem, that’s it. Same thing with me. I love teaching, I just can’t stand the faculty anymore.
sizeofchar··on Apple’s Mistake (2009)
Yes, and it is not bad, but nowhere as smooth as the macOS app.
sizeofchar··on Apple’s Mistake (2009)
I love Numbers and haven’t been able to find an easy and convenient replacement for it since I left macOS :(

It’s blended spreadsheeting with presentation in a free infinite canvas is the best notebook app I’ve met.

sizeofchar··on Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux
I do the same with my parents in law, and it’s been like 8 years without call for maintenance, if not for the very rare Ubuntu upgrade.
sizeofchar··on GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware
Seems like the same as in multithreaded programming, in which you can’t let threads share memory without synchronizing else you get data races and corruption.
sizeofchar··on So you want to build a generator (programming)
The best term to describe this kind of generators is procedural content generation, or just PCG.
sizeofchar··on Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
Win95 S/R2 worked pretty well.
sizeofchar··on How my school gamed the stats
You forgot:

4. Government gives money to families whose kids don't have more than 3 day misses per bimestrial.

sizeofchar··on Python Pattern Matching
I hope they can avoid having two block indents, like in those examples. Match could be followed by a case in the same line, and extra cases in new lines.

  match val case True:
      print("Ok")
  case False:
      print("Not ok")
  
  print("Done")
sizeofchar··on Slack is down
Also Google Talk.
sizeofchar··on Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE
Even with the 33.6k modems DC had, games were very well playable. I and my brother played almost thousand hours of Phantasy Star Online, and it was great.
sizeofchar··on Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis
That was an afterthought, so that japanese companies didn't think they were directly tied to Microsoft.
sizeofchar··on Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?
Proper literary training. With it comes memorization skills, structuring of ideas, comprehension of abstraction, naming and defining skills.
sizeofchar··on Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
Time to resilver a failed disk on btrfs depends on the amount of data on the partition, while the same on lvm is constant on the full size of the disk.
sizeofchar··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
> https://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/justica/suspeito-de-ameac.... > > https://jc.ne10.uol.com.br/politica/2020/06/5612890-alexandr....

I never denied that political figures from any party received threats, there are crazy people and plain criminals in every political side. What I said is that none of the censored are involved in those. The two links you enlisted doesn't even contain names.

About [0], they defend the historic military regime (what is a shame, truly), but they have clearly refuted any military coup, even silencing supporters that do [4].

About [3], it is a year and half old, and had no follow up, entirely speculative, by a widely know fake news outlet [theintercept.com].

[4] https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2020/04/20/intern...

sizeofchar··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
There is a internal regiment that postulates the court investigates crimes within the court. Justices then, by their own, and extrapolating interpretation of the law, came out that the Supreme Court abroads national territory, thus any act against it is considered "within". Does it seem fair to you?

Also, can you enlist a single of said crimes against the court?

sizeofchar··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Here is some: https://www.oabpr.org.br/acesso-ao-inquerito-das-fake-news-d...

More here: https://www.oab.org.br/noticia/58247/defesa-da-democracia-e-...

sizeofchar··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
No, they have fined Facebook for not complying with this decision for the past two months and are increasing the fines if Facebook keeps refusing to comply.
sizeofchar··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
> This is not an arbitrary decision made in a vacuum. There’s an ongoing judicial inquiry, and the accounts suspended were linked to persons of interest. They’re currently being investigated for crimes in both civil and penal spheres.

Except that this "judicial inquiry" is anything but lawful. The offended side (the supreme court) is also the inquirer and the judge. There is nothing in the law that allows this, and the constitution plainly prohibits it. They are abusing their power and are censoring activists, journalists and politicians, plain and simple.

> (which the accused parties have access to)

Even the OAB (brazilian akin to advocates' guild) recognized this wasn't the case for at leas two weeks. And when the accused were given access to formal accusation, they only had access to a small chapter of it.

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