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compyman

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    Reading that - I'm really not sure that AT Protocol has a much better story there either. (as I understand it) the data has to live in a PDS, PDS are keyed by accounts, so you are …

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    Comment #47723247

    You might be being too pedantic :) https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html It's a specific GPL license (as opposed to GPL 2.0-later)

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    Comment #47615837

    What did you need to fix! And what did you need KKP for? are you running emacs in eat?

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    Comment #47615157

    You might be sort of interested in the Emulate-A-Terminal (EAT) package: https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat which provides a very fast terminal emulator entirely in emacs lisp.

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    Comment #45760126

    This is a very flat view - the Roman empire is born in a period of civil war, and after a relatively brief period of peace in the imperial core starts imploding and rebuilding itse…

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    Comment #45573355

    I also think that a lot of the problems with yaml specifically are overblown, but this post is actually not about that! It is specifically saying the same problem exists in JSON/YA…

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    Comment #44377778

    I think this might underestimate how gambling + kids games can reinforce destructive behavior. There are lots of similar tools that casino owners/game designers/sports betting apps…

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    Comment #44359094

    It seems very similar to an earlier paxos optimization called 'pig paxos' https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452834

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    Comment #43697157

    I think the meaning is that the idea that compilers can only compile for their host machine is an ananchronism, since that was historically the case but is no longer true.

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    Comment #43647981

    I guess they are willing to take that risk to fulfil their religious obligations - If you aren't allowed to do business it doesn't really matter if that business is online or in th…

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    Comment #34931569

    I think this really underrates the 15 years of work that has gone into creating interlocking systems to generate geography, civilizations, people, artifacts, emotions, poetry, &c, …

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    Comment #32770531

    This really misstates an important point - the Unification Church is not "believed to be behind" the assassination, it was a man holding a grudge against the Church. Pretty much th…

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    Comment #24907639

    I think it's interesting that Lamport chose this style for Paxos Made Simple[0] Which iteratively goes through a process of proposing a solution for a problem (proposal 0: accept t…

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    Comment #24293623

    It's a pun! :)

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    Comment #14139862

    The specific event (i.e. having a barbecue) is a direct descendant from the Caribbean practice. It actually goes over this in the article, along with a very brief description of ho…

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    Comment #14139778

    Regional BBQ joints are afraid customers will forget their white supremacist past?

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    Comment #8752145

    In a similar vein, on of my professors is describing stringed instruments in scheme (based on the picture language) http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/Papers/ICFP062-mairson.p...