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I do not think this extra justification is necessary, but it is valid.

This distinction is a more useful one that the article made. I love dockerfiles and immutability, but there are good cases for mutable containers, too.

it's like a very small part of a thesaurus.

Does anyone here know if and how the IHO's S-100 data formats relate to this?

I can't see from the docs what this gives me over a Makefile, Asciidoctor (or pandoc, Jekyll etc), and D3?

does that apply to installations from apt?

This also happens to me in Chrome on Pixel 4a.

asciidoc is my favourite too, thanks to Asciidoctor. I agree, asciidoc hits the sweet spots as a format. Been frustrated by the tooling lately though. I can see the huge effort put…

I have no expertise, but this is my sleep. It turns out I have sleep apnea. I can "sleep" for 8 hours, but it does very little good. With apnea, you wake up as much as a few times …

Philosophy of Science by Jeffrey Kasser

I have to disagree with other responses. I think you could make a career of this for the same reason management consultants can. You could swoop in and "fix" some stuff and then le…

I have been getting tired of node dependencies and not knowing what I'm running or when it will break. I make simple things for small number of users and started playing with just …

I find this pervasive idea that "documenting" things is just a thoughtless dump of facts very troublesome. Certainly, most "documentation" I read is just a thoughtless dunp of arbi…

I agree with all of this. Submodules aren't easy but they perform a useful job. It's hard to see how they could be made significantly easier. Where else in software is dependency m…

I believe this has less to do with software in particular and just generally reflects the typical dynamics of the line/staff distinction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_…

I agree with your view on UML, but now I'm curious what you consider documents to be for.

I sometimes try to edit a file in neovim only to be warned that I have the same file open already (in some other tmux window or pane). I imagine having tmux in vim instead of vim i…

Hmm. I might be a "the internet is altering the course of human evolution" person. But it depends on what you mean by "the course of human evolution". Do you mean "human evolution"…

If something is worth $10,000 to me and I can get it for $0.99, I will not pay $10,000 for it.

Someone has made and maintained the app over a few person-months of effort, and can sell millions of copies of it. In order to pay for their time spent making the app, I need to gi…

It's not that your app doesn't have value. It's that the marginal value compared to a free app is small.

Pardon me for being so naive, but why does Netflix have no competition in their market? There's no alternative to switch to, and once I've taken a step back and thought about it, t…

Study with others. Preferably others who are motivated, but don't know quite as much as you. You'll end up teaching them the material. This forces you to explain the same concept f…

Agreed. I'm aware of a few small businesses that seem to be doing well at undercutting the big players with SCADA.

I'm also an electrical engineer, planning to start working this summer. I took a little detour to study for a M.Sc in mathematical ecology after finishing my B.Eng. I did some fair…