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Fox News was notoriously famous for having extremely negative coverage on African Americans during the 1990s through 2014. They still are famous for that. National Review was extre…

Journalism was rarely feigning objectiveness: during the 1920s through the 1970s, some of the strongest voices in favor of labor were journalists. "Neutrality" is largely a constru…

No, they say that hackers "not only broke into their database; they changed the names and passwords of profiles" but they admittedly do not attribute that to the group. You can't n…

That link is transparently pushing something, and what it's pushing definitely isn't "the truth." The only thing, and I repeat: the only thing that absolutely ridiculous, fearmonge…

Drew is an Alpine maintainer. Alpine, which you might know as probably the most-used server-side Linux distribution in the world right now, bootstraps everything in its repositorie…

I figured that was implied with the mention of Ken Thompson in the same sentence ("Ken Thompson's APL") and all.

Morten Kromberg (big guy at Dyalog; coincidentally, author of the post we're discussing) in "justifying" why Dyalog isn't libre, just a few days ago: There is little risk of the de…

Yes, the one mentioned in the post. https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52405/the-apl-orchard/

"the best syntax" Yes, absolutely. By a long shot. For starters, J can actually be parsed. (k can also be parsed, for what it's worth.) "Easiest to learn"? Spend ten minutes using …

If you're interested in recent developments in array languages, I recommend checking out: BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ ngn/k https://git.sr.ht/~ngn/k/tree/master/item/readm…

He has a lot of really good blog posts and software toys on his site and on itch. I recommend looking through them. He also has a web comic that's pretty good, but he hasn't update…

http://beyondloom.com/tools/specialk.html

The SE chat is really worth lurking if you're at all curious about APL; nearly everyone who has written a publicly-available array language implementation who isn't dead or over si…

You could check and see if it was ever posted on the Shootout site with archive.org, but when I checked coverage was spotty. The point of these benchmarks is everyone being able to…

If you look at my post history, it's actually primarily free software APL implementations! ngn/k is amazing. John Earnest's work with his own variants is really fantastic. I dislik…

He wrote solutions for Shootout (predecessor to that Debian page) problems a few years ago; a lack of k in benchmarks is not due to a lack of k being volunteered: http://www.kparc.…

There is privacy. Citing a philosopher that made his life into a joke doesn't magically make privacy disappear.

He didn't say his name, though. At minimum it's a desire to stay pseudonymous, and I think it should be respected. The idea that privacy can be violated like this solely because ra…

Why do those people deserve to know anything? They obviously haven't sought it out, and given he hadn't contacted them in years, it's completely pointless to assume they were close…

Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html…

It's amazing how rude Facebook, reddit, and in this case, greedy companies, can be. If he cared enough about anyone knowing who he was, he'd have told someone. This is just blatant…

Did you mean KDE Plasma 5? Plasma 4 was comparatively short-lived (and arguably, far from perfect).

(This user was lying, and their link is, as 'dredmorbius notes, a thinktank funded by Exxon and the Koch brothers.) https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira... …

Consider: it's not that Linux users are hostile to criticism, it's that your criticism is of the laziest, least-intelligent part of the spectrum of criticism.