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I think what you're talking about is part of a much larger pattern. Autotools imagines that the most important thing is the "user" in a world where people want to download your sof…

I do find that "signalling expertise" is important. "I have a significant background in biblical scholarship. You can assume I've read the most important works in NT studies in par…

I absolutely understand what you're saying. It makes complete sense. But I will never, ever shake the sense that software that isn't as fast as possible is offensive, immoral, deli…

I'll put TB Barricade against Pro-L 2 and TB Reverb against Pro-R for sure. I mostly use other stuff for EQ and compression, but those two are really very similar to the FB offerin…

And honestly, if I was on a desert island with just u-he plugins . . .

This. Is. Awesome. Really. It amazes me that I still find out about new Linux plugins after years of producing music on the platform. It could not have been easy to compile this; t…

Thank you!

Author, here. This is exactly the question I was trying (perhaps ineptly) to pose: If we designed a programming language with the idea that it would be primarily or exclusively vib…

There might be. And I certainly bear no ill will of any kind toward the project or its devs. But I am in terminals all day long, and I hesitate to use one that is written in a lang…

I keep hearing this, but I fail to see why "the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based" is not a good reason to use C in 2025. I have never see…

Truly, one of the most original artists of our time. I am among those who think Einstein on the Beach is one of the greatest theatrical works of the twentieth century, but I don't …

> I'm not a scholar, just an amateur, but two sentences were strikingly ridiculous. Well, I am a scholar, and if you mean "Noah clearly did not hide these texts," then yes. Of cour…

I remember megatons of Java Servlet(tm) hype convincing us that real programmers do OO. Java remains the only programming language I've ever heard covered in a feature story for NP…

Actually, what's amazing is that many of the people being mentioned fit within any coherent statement of the boundaries. Schaeffer is on it but not Radigue? When it said, "There's …

When translating ancient Greek in class, one often slips into a weird translation-ese that would be pretty funny if you didn't know what was going on. You end up saying things like…

It's funny you mention Kiril. I keep thinking about Pope Francis's (apparently deep and genuine) friendship with Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church. It is tra…

I was really struck by the antipathy toward GCC. I'm not sure I quite understand where it's coming from.

This has more-or-less been my setup for over twenty-five years. I've used gentoo and vim that entire time, but have changed desktops a few times (i3 currently, but always something…

I'm talking about who can sign the forms that say you fulfilled the requirements of a degree. Random people cannot do that. Emeritus professors usually retain that ability. I've se…

> That's just an honorary title It's true that it's an honorific, but I think it has a little more teeth than you think. At the institutions I've worked at, it comes with a few per…

The question is, who among is willing to be the object of tomhow's first official Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty? ;)

> Everyone may pick their language based on their aesthetic preference and attraction to certain features, but we should avoid sweeping statements about software correctness and th…

Last release was four years ago.

I don't think people realize just how important XML is in this space (complex documentary editing, textual criticism, scholarly full-text archives in the humanities). JSON cannot b…