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> It is absolutely not a demand that we trample the rights of people whose ideas we don't like.

Good, because that's not what I'm advocating. I'm not advocating an act of destroying Wikileaks, I'm advocating for it getting destroyed by omitting active support to it.

Completely irrelevant. The relevant thing is that the West need not tolerate pro-Russia entities, especially in these times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Funding them would be completely ludicrous, as smart as sawing the branch you're sitting on.

Irssi's UX is better than that of any other chat software, though. Why it hasn't been replicated for things like XMPP and Matrix is probably due to the more difficult and featureful state transitions of those protocols.

I hope they use Mastodon. Because then it'll be trivial for authorities to find out and seize the offending server and probably most of the users if it's part of the global federation.

>Thinking in OOP terms in, say, Java is great.

How did you interpret this statement?

Heh. I'm sure they thought and worked on others things too, but many focused on it, yes.

Sorry for misunderstanding the mood and context. In context of Zig, this makes a lot of sense, making my calls for humility premature and tad ironic.

Well, you've met one now, so you can update that assumption. And also if you look higher up this thread, the author of this article takes it seriously as well. So that's two already in a pretty short time!

/s, right?

> If you had that reaction, you might want to take some time to explicitly free your thought process from OOP-isms.

If you have this reaction, perhaps you should take a humility lesson before claiming that a few syntax tricks is all it takes to outsmart people who spent their entire university careers thinking about these problems.

That's a bit silly. I was a Linux user from 1996 to 2015ish, then went to use macbooks almost exclusively. Apple's UI immediately made sense, even if it was remains tad unoptimal for serious use, when comparing to UX masterpieces like i3 and sway.

KDE has always been bit of an awkward horror, and I've given it a shot now and then for their whole existence. The latest incarnation, Plasma, is quite a lot better than it used to be, granted.

Yeah, I was just thinking few days ago how absurdly large Twitter's workforce seemed to be.

How is following someone on another server with Mastodon difficult? Or is that some sort of a meme now?

With this level of cluelessness, we have to be extra thankful that he cannot become president of USA.

Ideally the society where the companies operate in should provide the safety rails, thus allowing the company to do whatever it legally can to maximize profits.

But that wouldn't be the crony capitalism that we're stuck with now. Also, things have been moving too fast for a long time, making it nearly impossible for governments to keep up.

>After writing Lisp there is just something wrong about how most languages have an additional step in order to generate the AST. Why?

Because it's possible to have a lot better representations of computer code for humans than AST.

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I haven't tried these myself, as I can get 10 packs of matches with 1/50 of the price of one of these...

>Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd

With a much better piece of software, exactly.

Do we know how he defines "dubious reasons" there?

What makes you think there will be?

I'm sure he'll work hard to make that 100:1.

Also, here's your daily reminder to check out Mastodon. https://joinmastodon.org/servers

MacOS costs me $0 also. But of course the open model is better for the consumer, that was never in doubt.

Yes, they frequently fix bugs that have been reported. However, they do this pretty much completely in-house with no communication outside.

They obviously didn't miss this while reviewing the patch, but just wondering: are there any performance/resource implications to making KSYM_NAME_LEN 512 instead of the previous 128 or 256?

Person who is actively working to put the world's energy infrastructure at risk says that world's energy infrastructure is at risk.

Paraphrasing Jim Carrey in the movie Liar Liar: STOP THE WAR, ASSHOLE!

That's probably a bit absurd, and would probably cause a lot of changes since it would also mean that all the oceans are practically covered with panels.

Here's a reference to a study about large-scale panel installations:

https://www.science.org/content/article/solar-panel-shade-wo....

They suggest that there would be an impact, but far less than the impact of greenhouse gases they could replace.

It seems that weed smell travels a lot farther than tobacco smoke. If I smell tobacco smoke, I can do a 360 degree turn in seconds to see immediately which direction I need to move 5 meters to avoid it. If I smell weed and want to get away from it, I usually have no idea where it's coming from.

"Never will" is of course an untrue hyperbole. There are stronger and stronger incentives to make this happen, and while it's probable that non-renewables will never go to 0.0%, they will definitely reach for it.

173TW is the amount of solar energy that reaches Earth. More than 10,000x what we currently use. Sure, we'll probably never (there's that word again!) use all of it, but it gives a sense of scale. And who knows, perhaps we'll use more since there's always the other side of the sun. Apparently, a full dyson sphere around the sun would theoretically give us 400 septillion (10^24) watts.

Slack just released video chat and they've had screen sharing for some time. Teams should start feeling a bit nervous.