kentrado

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by kentrado 7mo ago
This is extremely helpful. I have never considered the possibility that there could be a better method to deal with emulation than visual commands. You have no idea how much this helps me.
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by kentrado 10mo ago
I don't usually respond to snide comments but this one is very easy to disprove so I will make an exception. There are a lot of them active all over the world. CNT is a great example https://www.cnt.es
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by kentrado 10mo ago
In order to bring understanding to this discussion, we can separate unions into two types: vertical unions and horizontal unions. Vertical unions are hierarchal. They have administrative staff that are not necessarily workers and they repro
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by kentrado 1y ago
You are conflating JLR and the suppliers. They are different businesses. JLR has enough money and will be fine. That's not the issue. The unions are talking about the small businesses down the chain.
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by kentrado 1y ago
I don't well understand this. How is clojure more efficient than common lisp? Would you explain further?
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by kentrado 1y ago
Seems like a problem with the client rather than the protocol.
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by kentrado 1y ago
So you are saying it is better if the candidate lies. Otherwise you will be forced to reject him because there might be a possibility that the problem was him. Seems like you are hiring the best liars. Or at least the best at playing an arb
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by kentrado 1y ago
He Is talking about a worker cooperative. You can search information about current ones if you are truly interested in how they work. I agree with him that software engineers should be making the decisions in Mozilla.
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by kentrado 2y ago
Reality is often complicated and ideology fails to fit everything in a neat little box. So, it could be that central planning is good for some use cases and bad for others. Likewise, with liberalised economies. There may even be some overla
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by kentrado 2y ago
China has central planning.
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by kentrado 2y ago
I would argue that it is way easier to build a business around GPL licence than MIT. I think the subject at hand is different from what you are writing. What you are saying doesn't apply to the debate between permissive licenses and co
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by kentrado 2y ago
That's where you make your fundamental mistake. We are not programmed for self preservation. Inside us, there are different drives that shape our behaviour.
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by kentrado 2y ago
This is a slippery slope argument.
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by kentrado 2y ago
Open source misses the point of Free Software. The distinction is important. I have some tips that might help you develop a better relationship with Free Software. Try to be egotistical about it. Contribute because you want a change in a so
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by kentrado 2y ago
Maybe us, animals, don't have an instinct of survival. That's a bit of an assumption. Maybe we have another very strong instinct and survival is just the observed side effect but not the operating driving force. Indeed, animals ta
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by kentrado 2y ago
This is the case with most software "foundation". As much as I disagree with Ayn Rand on a lot of things, she did make an important observation. Parasites will be attracted to high value things in order to extract value, not to ad
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by kentrado 2y ago
The biggest issue for me is how slow guix is when doing guix pull. Also, the amount of space taken is unacceptable. Several times I had my HD filled with guix garbage.
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by kentrado 2y ago
Here's what I have found regarding this: "Thanks F3nd0! There are currently no plans to switch to a less permissive license. And we're perfectly happy using proprietary services like GitHub and Discord as long as they make ou
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by kentrado 2y ago
I have a friend who stopped being a dev and went into management because of this practice. Makes sense, he is older and has two daughters. I even considered leaving the field myself.
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by kentrado 2y ago
Ok, I get that from someone coming from vscode but Vim certainly takes more than one hour to grok. My point is Emacs+evil-mode is close to indistinguishable from Vim. I know this because I come from Vim. I think @reddit_clone hit the nail o
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by kentrado 2y ago
I don't understand. Why not just use Emacs with evil-mode?
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by kentrado 2y ago
Lets say it isn't a TV but a malicious person trying to cause damage to your system. It is a security issue on the side of the OS. On the side of TV, it is also bad. Therefore, both the TV and the OS have blame in this.
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by kentrado 2y ago
And what's wrong with that?
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by kentrado 3y ago
I love programming in common lisp. It has made programming fun again. I don't know if that makes me a lisp person. I just know it makes programming fun for me.
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by kentrado 3y ago
I search for a lot of messed up stuff.
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by kentrado 3y ago
I've never stated that I was contradicting you. By the way, sex and sports are social activities that rank very high on enjoyability.
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by kentrado 3y ago
We are social creatures but it doesn't follow that all activities should social.
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by kentrado 3y ago
If you live outside the EU, you can usually vote in the EU elections in your home country's embassy or consulate. However, some countries don't allow you to vote from outside your home country.
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by kentrado 3y ago
Surely a blog should precisely be about what he finds interesting, that includes current-events political junk.
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by kentrado 3y ago
As a black person, the switch from master to main, is the most condescendingly racist thing that has been widely adopted in tech. It says "black people are too stupid to understand context. We (small group of white people) must protect

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