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"TERF" is just the newest slur anti-feminists came up with to further the evil feminist trope. Anyone who looks into the conflict between feminism and the transgender movement can …

It's because tech bros hate feminists and their allies even more than they hate the corrupt tech industry.

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[I hope this is OK to share here; the guidelines haven't made it very clear to me what HN's stance on political submissions is. Feel free to ignore / purge / flame me if this isn't…

I was thinking "wow that's a great idea" while reading through this and then noticed it's basically what a Lisp environment does. :-) (And probably the environments of many other l…

Sorry but I have to disagree on pretty much every single point. In part you simply make factual errors. I think the page looks fairly stylish. Could improve, but pretty great alrea…

>And tell me about all of those wonderful command-line games! You can pry my MUDs out of my cold, dead hands, thank you very much. More seriously, it simply says {applications, gam…

I think that's a good thing when the principles are worth it. :-)

I wrote this a while ago, mostly to clear up my own thoughts and document the knowledge for the future because inevitably I'll forget about the details again and again since they'r…

Late reply but: All of the things you list are annoyances with crud that exists to satisfy this or that use-case which I suppose you personally don't need, which doesn't mean they …

I wonder what makes you say CL feels more well-engineered? I can't think of any reasons, unless you simply mean Scheme's under-specification. Scheme is not just "conceptually" clea…

>Common Lido Slipped by one column on your keyboard? :-D I agree that a Lisp is better than no Lisp; I'd be more or less equally content if Guix used CL. Major Scheme implementatio…

This is off-topic but I personally prefer to just say "GNU" these days for what most people call "Linux" (excepting systems that somehow use Linux without GNU of course). It makes …

Guix is a GNU project, meaning it will adhere to a higher code of software freedom ethics. (For instance Nix ships Adobe Flash Player with Firefox if I remember correctly.) Guix us…

>Some day when I have the time, I will rip out all the autocrap stuff and replace it with a 5 line shellscript that calls uname -s. And packagers will everywhere will hate you for …

I also started thinking things along the lines of that when I first looked into how Guix does things, but after annoying the developers a little (many thanks to Ludovic's patience)…

Someone else just pointed that out to me too. I didn't know of all the connotations of the term, sorry about that. :-)

From my understanding, the biggest disadvantage to purely functional package management is that you can't just swap out a package in isolation when many others depend on it. If I u…

Version 0.8.1 of GNU's purely functional package manager Guix has been released. The project develops, at the same time, GNU GSD (Guix System Distribution), a GNU operating system.…

Guix is a big effort at making a purely functional package manager with a large recipe database and all kinds of bells and whistles you want in a full operating system. Emacs's min…

While the phrase "nothing is implicit" was used, there actually are so-called "implicit inputs" in Guix. :-P Each package uses a certain "build system" which can be e.g. "gnu" whic…

Late clarification because I wasn't careful and forgot that "NIH" has very negative connotations: When I say "NIH is sadly a real problem for GNU," what I mean is that NIH can be a…