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throwawayyy9237on Slack is retiring its status account on X

The real question is not why they left, but why they didn't have a nice dedicated status/info page, with RSS feed, from the start.

note: I've just read similar comments, with an actual explanation of what happened.

throwawayyy9237on Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered

I think most of Europe is like that.

It is true that British people do make more of their identity about it, and they tend to ignore _really_ old stuff (i.e. most of the quirky stuff is Victorian, not _that_ old).

(disclaimer, am British)

throwawayyy9237on Napflix – Siesta Video Platform

The other day I've found a podcast on Medieval Walrus ivory trade. It's perfect for listening in bed and diving into a deep sleep.

It's not that it isn't interesting (it is!), but the soothing voice and calm delivery is the best sleeping aid I've had in many years!

throwawayyy9237on Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America

This is an important point.

Take a look at Switzerland with four different official languages (five if you include English for many official settings), something not found in the US.

throwawayyy9237on Show HN: Crystaldoc.info – Crystal Shards API Documentation Hosting

Not OP and not a professional Crystal dev (not even a Ruby hobbyist). But I use other languages professionally, including Java, Python and (to a smaller degree) Rust.

But my $0.02: what Crystal does best for me is the "fun factor". It has a very good balance between a dynamic language "feel" with the safety of static typing, and with native compilation.

I can just prototype things willy-nilly with minimal ceremony and not worry too much if it starts getting big.

throwawayyy9237on Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)

> "Godot is not production ready"

Personally, I find this a refreshing admission.

throwawayyy9237on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off the streaming site

Free speech is not the same as being entitled to a spotlight on YouTube.

He is free to use whatever other means he wants to spread his ideas. It's not like he's being shipped off to a forced labour camp.

throwawayyy9237on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off the streaming site

Well, I have no idea why they make their decisions, but purely from an argument point of view, if we take the concept of prison as a "debt to society", ex-convicts paid theirs, if guilty, Brand hasn't.

throwawayyy9237on Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive for meth

I don't know the first thing about it. But when thinking, jokingly, along the lines of "forbidden condiment", does it actually have a "taste" (I mean in the taste buds, literally)?

throwawayyy9237on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat

Regardless on where you stand about Red Hat's decision, I can't imagine any company relying on a distribution that's built from these methods (Rocky, I mean).

Scraping source using dodgy methods almost sounds like "pirated" Linux.

throwawayyy9237on I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)

I hope I'm not misunderstanding this, but isn't the current arrangement perfectly valid under GPL? GPL states:

- If I provided _modified_ binaries

- I also have to provide the sources

That's what's happening now for people that can download the binaries.

What happened before was:

- _Anyone_ could download the sources

(Not a GPL requirement).

So, now, IIUC if you can download the binaries you can download the sources. If you can't download the binaries (not a customer, for instance) you can't download the sources.

The contract termination is not related to GPL in this sense.

throwawayyy9237on MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

I'm sorry, but I don't buy into this concept of "charity" myself[1].

It is wonderful that people can see, but how much money you have should have no bearing on whether you stay blind or not.

These people are victims of a system and charity is just painting over the cracks.

Perhaps he could devote his energy to start the change.

Charity (and alms) is what people did back in the day. Some societies moved on.

[1] Better said: I'm not against charitable acts. I'm against charity as a replacement for an humane and fair society. Sometimes it feels like having a water station next to workers being being whipped to build the pyramids. Perhaps stop the whipping?

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I don't know anyone that wouldn't consider someone, whose family lived in country X for 100 years, to not be native to country X.

throwawayyy9237on The Diderot Effect

I feel like I'm the same.

In my case, personally, this is a product of my upbringing. My parents were the first generation of our family to have a little extra income (grandparents were poor farmers).

I have a good salary by all accounts, but still count the beans, since this was what my father taught me. I am extremely weary of spending large sums of money in anything.

throwawayyy9237on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff

Exactly what came to mind.

If you do what everybody else does, you can blame outside factors if it goes wrong.

If you decide to be the one that _doesn't_ follow the trend, if it goes wrong, the blame falls on you.