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> if you actually had any insight into Chinese culture Thanks for the blind assumption. I'm Chinese myself.

yup. toxik's comment disgusts me. So much for being against the government and the bad apples and not against the common citizen. Let's just cut off all the devs doing their jobs e…

I tried a couple pages from SourceHut, which famously prides itself on its fast performance. The projects page (dynamic, changes with user activity on the site) https://sr.ht/proje…

There it is again. Care to name any of those timeless philosophies without resorting to the minutiae of cons cells? Clojure has very tangible and definite downsides and tradfeoffs …

as an addon, I'd love to see more organizations try to tackle this problem without just lifting the flawed GitHub model.

As others have mentioned, this is a shame. I found the Phabricator review model much more flexible and easy to work with than GitHub and Github-clone workflows. It's basically the …

You can have a "Messenger-only" FB account, which would allow you to keep in touch with said friends.

A great example of this is how Dijkstra used to conduct final examinations where students basically showed up and had a real-time, in-person discussion with him. It must have taken…

You have really high hopes for the standard American. The offhand racism against Chinese people (not the PRC) I see in online communities, even supposedly liberal ones like Reddit,…

Most of the papers were a joy to read. The C++ one just seemed like a massive changelog, though.

Like clockwork. I first started using the system in 6.4, so each release is a reminder to me of how quickly time has passed. Looking forward to a painless upgrade of my two servers…

Web logic is in Hack (offshoot of PHP), but all of the surrounding infrastructure has always been heavily skewed towards C++.

Probably because it's a log-structured file system, and those _really_ don't like running low on free space. They work by appending to the log then compacting sometime later, not m…

I don't understand the rationale of people tying the state of being a "real Lisp" with cons cells. As if that were the only contribution lisp has made, instead of homoiconicity, RE…

Personally, I'm skeptical of the "great for beginners" point. I've helped a few beginners in Python who had subtle, yet program-breaking bugs just because their return statement wa…

I would argue yes. There has been an impressively little amount of churn in the last 10 years.

No mention of arc4random(3)? Seems like a solved problem in BSD land. The key takeaways I feel like are: 1. You want as simple of an interface as possible. arc4random(3) returns a …

I'm not on the team that handles this, but I highly doubt that this is the case.

If you've been following the development progress, they've gotten the VM side largely ironed out and under testing. Nothing on the language side has been polished yet though. As an…

I also find it funny how in every browser related thread there's inevitably someone selling Brave in the comments, usually near a Firefox comment. I've never personally used Brave …

I tried plasma-wayland on Arch a couple days ago. Log in, open firefox. Minimize the window, and the entire machine freezes. This is on an AMD GPU as well. Every time I try Wayland…

I donated to a couple last giving Tuesday Arch Linux: I've been a user for 10 years and haven't given back financially. OpenBSD: Underpins some of the most important tools in the m…

It's more likely for these systems to slowly evolve into something new rather than being replaced entirely. MacOS and Linux, at some level, are already very, very different than ea…

Here's a small collection https://pyre-check.org/docs/pysa-additional-resources

agreed. Clojure is probably the most pragmatic FP language in the space.