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Fun fact: Airbus doesn't choose the seats, the airline does. Airbus only installs them.

Free software hasn't concentrated corporate power, explicit policy to enable monopolies did. Without free software, there would still have been consolidation because that was the e…

Depending on the job, you can likely be fired without cause anyway. You can pretend to not poke the bear, but in a place that plays power games like that, it doesn't really matter.…

Thanks for this interesting bit of history! Fun little read

I taught a remedial math class. There are thousands of books for such a topic. I was required by the university to use a specific new edition (something like 9th) from a specific p…

So much commit hygiene and fuss appears git induced. Use something other than git and the problems disappear.

Dead wrong. Because I see so many people who believe otherwise, here's a direct quote from a prior contract: > I UNDERSTAND AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MY EMPLOYMENT WITH THE COMPANY IS F…

If you're talking about binary files, then it has similar limitations to Git and Mercurial, AFAIK. Fossil, git, and Mercurial are not really designed for large binary files. Otherw…

> only a handful of VCS besides git have ever managed a full import of the kernel's history. Fossil (SQLite-based, by the SQLite team) never did. I find this hard to believe. I sea…

> I love it how RMS has both these quotes in the same text: > > "Please don't fall into the practice of calling the whole system “Linux,” since that means attributing our work to s…

It would introduce some basic humanity into the situation. It would be a form of accountability.

I never understood the Handmade Network. AFAIU, it came from people who watched Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero, a game developed on video over several years from scratch. But Casey…

How does one become to be a professional agitator? Indeed.com comes up with no results. I have a friend who's bored with their job.

Americans are not passive. Look at the videos of any of these incidents. People are supporting those under attack, collecting evidence, and protesting. The message is clear. Peacef…

This is pretty neat! The calendar didn't work well for me. I could only seem to navigate by month. And when I selected the earliest day (after much tapping), nothing seemed to be u…

This is an interesting observation. One could argue that some AI generated or driven things does have utility, and thus qualifies as "slop" (although not for those on the receiving…

I'll also take the bait. As far as I understand it, these rules come, fundamentally, from the German Basic Law which was drafted, in part, with direct support from the US after the…

Sounds like the kind of thing a union or works counsil could help with: enforcing a fair policy. That and revisiting the concept of at-will employment.

Do you have any particular resources lined up? Regarding how computers work under the hood, i can recommend Nand2Tetris. https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Re: 8 complete info-manual Yes, it has an info manual and, I agree, info is the superior documentation viewer. However, a good browser is no replacement for bad writing. The Guile …

Excuse me if someone already asked and I missed it: how does one prepare for such a world? Is it some Viktor Frankl level acceptance or should I buy a copy of the Art of Electronic…

GPT3 was released in May 2020. Its been nearly 5 years.

The article doesn't talk about how did it got so bad. It just says "decades of neglect". It gives little vignettes of bad experiences and a quote from a French person saying the Fr…

Have you used fossil? If so, what are your thoughts?

That's interesting. I consider git the worst software ever written! I speak specifically of the UI. Obviously the underlying system works. Yet it's totally within reason that the U…