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I haven't used s6 much, so I can't really comment on that, but Chimera tends to boot significantly faster on the same hardware, compared to Alpine with OpenRC, mostly because of di…

I've switched to Chimera from Alpine a few months ago. It's much nicer for desktop use. The service supervision is great, and many things that require some setup on Alpine just wor…

> Christianity considers any sexual activity other than heterosexual sex for procreation within marriage to be sinful, Mostly true, except the "for procreation only" part. That's s…

It works as a fork deterrent; forks can't easily prove they are still correct without the test suite, so if a company needs to tweak SQLite for any reason, they are better off payi…

Because the whole goal is to not need any sort of "pointer discipline". The way he does it, you can store as many pointers to the arena as you want without keeping track of them, a…

They have already shown themselves to be both able and willing. Hopefully the backlash from this current decision will delay their plans long enough for GrapheneOS, Lineage and oth…

They didn't. They implemented the WebExtensions API for WebKit. It's not complete (e.g. Stylus doesn't work yet), but it's enough to run uBlock Origin.

You can install full uBlock Origin in the Orion browser, on iOS. It also has decent built-in ad blocking (though uBlock Origin is still better). I had been thinking for a long time…

Common Lisp does have plenty of warts.

It was originally designed to be used by government software in the EU. AFAIK, it doesn't really get used for much else, but it fills a niche not covered by the GPL family, which i…

If you are already considering the AGPL, I'd like to suggest the EUPL. It also covers SaaS, is copyleft (forbids nonfree forks), but non-viral (can link to nonfree software), a lot…

As a Brazilian, I'm a bit torn on this issue. On the one hand, our social media regulations are terrible, are being approved without due process, and will certainly be used for (po…

It's a lot easier to get a large team of artists to follow the same artstyle when that artstyle is just "realism". Also, photoscans are convenient.

I've been trying to solve that for a few years now. The closest existing thing I could find in my research was acme from Plan 9, which actually does a pretty good job. The trick it…

It also uses them correctly—with no spaces. I have never seen anyone do that on the web.

The write(2) libc function is just a C wrapper for the syscall. It's the functions from stdio.h that are buffered.

I have different reasons for avoiding AI. I enjoy understanding what my programs do to the deepest level, so making or using AI are both boring; they remove the fun part of program…

If copyleft is desired, the EUPL is very similar to the AGPL, but isn't viral, so you can link it as a library to a closed-source program. It's also compatible with most open-sourc…

I agree that abortion is evil, but in my perception, once someone gets to a situation where they're willing to murder their own child, it won't be a law that'll stop them. This pro…

Just finished it (APL beginner). It's really fun as a game.

SAaaS: Staying Alive as a Service

It feels like this is aimed more at intermediary programmers (and seniors with careless attitudes). A lot of them have this bizarre idea that since bugs will happen anyway, there's…

I have a theory that this generalizes to some extent. Pitch perception is also logarithmic; an octave in music is a 2x ratio. Memory is sort of logarithmic; you'd say a thing happe…

If we're counting only programming languages (and not fill-out forms), Prolog had it in 1971, before ML. ASCII didn't include _ until its 1963 draft, so it's probably somewhere in …

I used to not use any of those tools. In C, I split my source into logical modules, and added a short module prefix to each function, to make it easy to find. Later, I found out ab…