Althorion

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by Althorion 2y ago
You won’t know if you’ll get a 404 until you make a network request. How many of those can you make per second? Hundreds? Thousands? Let’s be very generous and say millions. That means you just need millions of years to go through the e
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by Althorion 2y ago
Not quite. We are saying that adding `not_available_before: 2026`, or similar, ‘right away’ is usually not a good thing; therefore anything that helps with doing that is not something we desire. It should be a multistep process. Yes, it wil
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by Althorion 2y ago
It is what they meant by ‘tracking’, which is what you’ve asked about.
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by Althorion 2y ago
I mean, sometime along the way you’re going to have something that consumes the data (otherwise, why bother keeping it in the first place), and that something will have certain expectations about the way things are structured. It will pro
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by Althorion 7y ago
It still does the same thing, but now in a non-general, distro-specific way. Hundreds of distributions customize their software like that: for example, I believe it is actually more common to find gnome-terminal with patched-in transparen
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by Althorion 7y ago
I agree, but still think it might be considered reasonable not to want to rebrand in some cases—like patching Cargo to try and check with the package manager first when installing packages. It obviously won’t (and shouldn’t) get accepte
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by Althorion 7y ago
Unfortunatelly, neither. Main problem with his surname is the ‘ś’ (proper spelling is ‘Kościuszko’), which doesn’t appear in English at all. The closest equivalent I can think of is Japanese sound at the beginning of words such as ‘ sh inob
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by Althorion 7y ago
> Yeah, so like the other poster your point reduces to "I trust Fedora to build Mozilla code more than I trust Mozilla to build Mozilla code". Which is nonsensical. I don’t think it is. That way, you have two authorities checki
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by Althorion 7y ago
I don’t think restricting the changes to default settings is enough, you can still do quite a lot of malicious or just plain annoying things with that—for example, I didn’t change the default browser theme, but that doesn’t mean that I woul
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by Althorion 7y ago
The one that is remotely done for you, without any action on your part. Typically, a user has to click the installer or use package manager or something to get the update, it’s their decision they make locally. If a setting is in place wher
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by Althorion 7y ago
No, not with the _regular_ update. Only with the _remote_ update, which is a part of what makes SaaS SaaS.
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by Althorion 7y ago
Changing a default setting _remotely_. That is a huge field of possibilities, from not SaaS-y at all to very SaaS-y. Like for example you could make it so the script to be run when a browser encounters a pdf file is put directly in the sett
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by Althorion 7y ago
`app.normandy.enabled` has a default setting of `true`, at least on my machine, so yeah, it’s now opt-out.
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by Althorion 7y ago
I guess the application changing it’s behaviour remotely, as is the case with Normandy, can be somewhat reasonably considered SaaS.
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by Althorion 7y ago
Yes, sort of. The change is made to _default_ configs, so if you changed something, it won’t touch it. And while I get that changes to that can be annoying, I also find them necessary to keep the application easy to use and productive and c
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by Althorion 7y ago
> Then you're not disagreeing with me, because those functions pass my test as I demonstrated above. Yeah. I must have misunderstood your definition of ‘obvious’—I though you meant ‘an obvious inclusion to the standard library’, not
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by Althorion 7y ago
There’s nearly a limitless amount of standard and well-defined functions with a single usage, like those. There’s hardly a point in implementing them in the standard library and C++ is the only language that I’m aware of that has those. If
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by Althorion 7y ago
> include only elements that have a somewhat settled, "obvious", lowest-common-denominator semantics Can you, from the top of your head, tell me what irregular modified cylindrical Bessel functions are and the last time you nee
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by Althorion 7y ago
Corporations aren’t people, thus are incapable of making any decisions. People run corporations and these people make decisions. And they make them, as most of us do, with their own interest in mind first.
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by Althorion 7y ago
> Obviously, but that's because businesses act unethically -- ie, for private profit over public good. I don’t find that unethical. What’s more, I do it all the time—for example, right now I’m watching Netflix instead of doing any k
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by Althorion 8y ago
I don’t know… I’d rather say that learning curve is more of a journey from ‘I can write code’ through ‘I can write code that compiles’, ‘I can write code that works’, ‘I can write code that works well’ to ‘I can write code that works well a