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throwawaybutwhy··on Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
> if they are given a carte blanch for revival of militarism and left unchecked.

Japanese militarism has been going on for quite a while on slow burner. They can assemble nukes in half no time, they have aircraft carriers called 'destroyers', and they've changed the doctrine to first strike in response to NorK's missile tests. We are rapidly falling into the abyss.

throwawaybutwhy··on What the hell is Forth? (2019)
Yup. Also HolyC (literally a religious undertaking), but the crowd had only one person, and he is no longer with us.
throwawaybutwhy··on What the hell is Forth? (2019)
Haskell, Julia, Rust, Lisp, and Forth are 'esoteric' enough to create an in-crowd, who are quite often deluded by imagined miraculous solutions to people's problems.

Please repeat after Fred Brooks: there ain't no silver bullet.

To a certain extent this goes on outside programming languages per se: OOP, Gang of Four, Agile match the pattern as well.

throwawaybutwhy··on International Space Station Operations, Soyuz Status Update
Souyz isn't intended to land in Russia.
throwawaybutwhy··on John Fogerty Reclaims Creedence Clearwater Revival Catalog After 50-Year Fight
Zaentz was a serial... entrepreneur. His passing away was lamented by musicians and artists all over the world (as in 'why dint it happen sooner?').
throwawaybutwhy··on X Window System Basics (2014)
Maybe xdotool [0] is what you're looking for.

[0] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

throwawaybutwhy··on X Window System Basics (2014)
Not from inertia, but from the overwhelming hubris of those who aimed to supplant it with something new.

IPv6 and Wayland have a lot in common.

throwawaybutwhy··on Delphi VCL and FMX Libraries for Python
License terms [0]:

provided that in no event shall Customer create any Derivative Work that is competitive with or offers substantially the same functionality as the Licensed Software or any other product or software application commercially offered by Embarcadero

A hard pass, sorry. Would be nice to play, though.

[0] https://github.com/Embarcadero/DelphiFMX4Python/blob/main/LI...

throwawaybutwhy··on CBT Tape: a vast archive of mainframe source code in XMIT format
(has nothing to do with cognitive behavioral therapy, I'm afraid)
throwawaybutwhy··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
I'd wager 10¢ that this is primarily driven by AML efforts.
throwawaybutwhy··on Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
You are right, of course, and I stand corrected, performance and/or ability to fully replace less have no bearing on whether a program is a pager.
throwawaybutwhy··on Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
Suppose it is a technicality, but if it can't handle large (larger than available memory, that is) files [0], it's not a pager.

[0] https://github.com/noborus/ov/issues/201

throwawaybutwhy··on Show HN: Semantic search for video
It is generally advisable to announce potential conflicts of interest while touting a particular solution in every other comment.
throwawaybutwhy··on The Algol 68 Genie project
Past submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31283119 (14 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734687 (0 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5268301 (0 comments)

throwawaybutwhy··on China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts
Of course they want to produce plutonium for the nuclear buildup. Yet we shouldn't act offended or surprised - it is nukes that ensure that a country's leader cannot be bombed and easily sodomized to death.
throwawaybutwhy··on Akuntsu (South American native tribe)
Colonization of the Brazilian federal state of Rondônia was accompanied by extermination of indigenous tribes by settlers and widespread deforestation.
throwawaybutwhy··on Japanese Researchers Faked Data in ISS Simulation
...which is a step back from the usual Japanese practice of choosing a kaishakunin to render some assistance
throwawaybutwhy··on Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI
'blessed hell' - Are you talking about Chronicles or Clarity or both? Ain't familiar with either, am I at risk of contracting MUMPS?
throwawaybutwhy··on Ask HN: Why is there so little info on the web about IBM mainframe programming?
These forums are even worse than Stack Overflow in terms of newbie friendliness. 'Ask your systems programmer' seems to be the reply du jour just as SO's default is 'closed as a dupe'.

Reading Red Books has better ROI than trawling for help on the 'Net.

Everybody is welcome to watch Moshix channel on YouTube, though. It's refreshing.

throwawaybutwhy··on Shanghai protestors calling for the end of Xi Jinping's rule
Are the protests in any way related to what happened at the latest party convention?
throwawaybutwhy··on The Rune Programming Language
_without any business commitments_ - not to sound trite, but when is the last time Google stood by its commitments?
throwawaybutwhy··on Promoting the Array Languages
Fortran, Numpy. Pick your poison.
throwawaybutwhy··on The Moorish invention that tamed Spain's mountains
Last name of Matamoros (kills moors) is a thing, and the banner of Santiago defined the nation for centuries.
throwawaybutwhy··on AMD Ryzen 7000 Series performs better with Spectre V2 Mitigations enabled
Probably somewhere in A.A. County.
throwawaybutwhy··on JSON Crack – A tool that generates graph diagrams from JSON objects
Python's deepdiff [0] is your friend (more or less).

[0] https://github.com/seperman/deepdiff

throwawaybutwhy··on Peter Daszak has a new grant from the NIH to study bat coronaviruses in the wild
The NIAID is just a civilian arm of the biological research Gorgon. Without active involvement (and nudge-nudging, wink-winking) of the government there would be no gain-of-function studies.
throwawaybutwhy··on Ask HN: Ideas for a subtle but pleasant home office aroma?
A dissenting opinion: VOCs are evil and harmful, in particular for pregnant women and children.
throwawaybutwhy··on “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety
To put things in context, Linus is being reasonable and wise and well-mannered once again. Wouldn't mind reading a few juicy expletives, to be honest.
throwawaybutwhy··on Data Version Control
The package phones home. One has to set an env var or fix several lines of code to prevent that.
throwawaybutwhy··on Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings
Well, we know Krebs is a part 'social engineering hacktivist' part internet mobster.

Does it really matter when SC judges are harassed and stalked?

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