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vegai_

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    Comment #33717820

    > It is absolutely not a demand that we trample the rights of people whose ideas we don't like. Good, because that's not what I'm advocating. I'm not advocating an act of destroyin…

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    Comment #33717365

    Completely irrelevant. The relevant thing is that the West need not tolerate pro-Russia entities, especially in these times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Fund…

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    Comment #33705525

    Irssi's UX is better than that of any other chat software, though. Why it hasn't been replicated for things like XMPP and Matrix is probably due to the more difficult and featurefu…

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    Comment #33652741

    I hope they use Mastodon. Because then it'll be trivial for authorities to find out and seize the offending server and probably most of the users if it's part of the global federat…

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    Comment #33652645

    >Thinking in OOP terms in, say, Java is great. How did you interpret this statement?

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    Comment #33636335

    Heh. I'm sure they thought and worked on others things too, but many focused on it, yes.

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    Comment #33636309

    Sorry for misunderstanding the mood and context. In context of Zig, this makes a lot of sense, making my calls for humility premature and tad ironic.

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    Comment #33636298

    Well, you've met one now, so you can update that assumption. And also if you look higher up this thread, the author of this article takes it seriously as well. So that's two alread…

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    Comment #33636124

    /s, right?

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    Comment #33636109

    > If you had that reaction, you might want to take some time to explicitly free your thought process from OOP-isms. If you have this reaction, perhaps you should take a humility le…

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    Comment #33621556

    That's a bit silly. I was a Linux user from 1996 to 2015ish, then went to use macbooks almost exclusively. Apple's UI immediately made sense, even if it was remains tad unoptimal f…

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    Comment #33529935

    Yeah, I was just thinking few days ago how absurdly large Twitter's workforce seemed to be.

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    Comment #33507967

    How is following someone on another server with Mastodon difficult? Or is that some sort of a meme now?

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    Comment #33507741

    With this level of cluelessness, we have to be extra thankful that he cannot become president of USA.

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    Comment #33464324

    Ideally the society where the companies operate in should provide the safety rails, thus allowing the company to do whatever it legally can to maximize profits. But that wouldn't b…

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    Comment #33463424

    >After writing Lisp there is just something wrong about how most languages have an additional step in order to generate the AST. Why? Because it's possible to have a lot better rep…

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    Comment #33449526

    If you like overexpensive nordic gadgets, check out https://kaarilighters.com/ I haven't tried these myself, as I can get 10 packs of matches with 1/50 of the price of one of these…

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    Comment #33420658

    >Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd With a much better piece of software, exactly.

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    Comment #33405159

    Do we know how he defines "dubious reasons" there?

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    Comment #33403138

    What makes you think there will be?

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    Comment #33402844

    I'm sure he'll work hard to make that 100:1. Also, here's your daily reminder to check out Mastodon. https://joinmastodon.org/servers

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    Comment #33340362

    MacOS costs me $0 also. But of course the open model is better for the consumer, that was never in doubt.