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Beyond All Reason

From the footnotes/references: > 2. Forthcoming article, Kris De Decker, Low-tech Magazine. The veracity of their claim is still in question, but based on that I'm going to assume …

Your solution to a privacy problem vis-a-vis mega corporations involves moving your transaction to a public block chain?

It's not (just) that python is "easier" to learn than python (which I dispute - lisp is as easy to learn as a first language as any other. Depending on the language it may be a dif…

I think the opposite, though I admit I'm very negative on NFTs and crypto. IIRC their NFT snoos came out well after the NFT bubble. A probably not insignificant amount of Dev time …

I always love to see reddit leaking onto this site

> you sure nginx is even going to be around in, say, 15 years? Considering it's been around longer than that, yes I think it will be around in 15 years

I have no doubt these technologies will improve, but there's another argument to be made. The tech will get better and we'll be all the worse for it. Stoll argued the tech will not…

I agree, that is a weak reason to dislike macros. I dislike them primarily because of the additional complexity they add that isn't always justified. All of the more complex macros…

It was probably very true 10 years ago, for some of them it has become less true

Lack of server side decorations in the core spec, and limitations of wlroots, are unrelated so I'm not sure what they're getting at (except to support the larger idea that Wayland …

Author here. Certainly part of the ugliness of wlroots-rs is my fault (unsafe code + macros is not a fun combination). However, I tried quite a few ways to make this safe and ergon…

Depending on how you want to define fraudulent, it already has https://youtu.be/eYzzPBq8GDU

This is a client library only (at least according to the title). There would need to be an equivalent server library implementation, not to mention all of the necessary non Wayland…

> I think part of his Rust criticism was towards the attempt to make Sway use wlroots-rs and it not fitting his idea. That was never a goal, not for Sway and not for wlroots-rs. I …

I use it to check if an app uses xwayland when I use sway

Do you have a link to that discussion?

I haven't done any Linux work (except for some stuff with device tree that I've mostly forgotten), but that post I made about Way Cooler may not be generalizable to all C APIs. It'…

That is not a good reason for choosing such charged language. You can get your point across without comparing a venerable (if flawed) programming language to one of the most feared…

No traditional utility company does what Google has routinely shown to do as in the original post though. There's still a bill to pay and expectations of reasonable service (I assu…

I found your point hard to agree with, until I mentally replaced "HTML" with "bash" at which point I was enlightened of how important context is. Though I was hired to work with la…

Which you'd never write in practice since `expect` exists

Out of curiosity what's wrong with git add -i? That's what I use to stage parts of a file.

As a software developer that, at one point in a job, was forced to confront hardware head on because the code I was writing was firmware, I'm guessing they mean something like Kerm…

I'm not convinced totally that's the case, but I'm definitely more open to that idea after that job. I've stopped using macros in my side projects and I avoid projects that use the…