mtrower

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by mtrower 2y ago
> He mentions in the thread that he had to delete posts offensive to the developers. Maybe that's why? Maybe. As those posts have (allegedly) been deleted, it is now impossible to say. It seems probable though. I do find it inter
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by mtrower 2y ago
> It's of course work to do, and I'm not super motivated to send them that patch, and there's the question of it it would be merged That's my issue; he calls for people to send patches, but anyone capable of writing s
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by mtrower 2y ago
Have a go at it in the wilderness and you’ll realize really rather quickly how disconnected modern … durations have become. But yeah, for some it’s definitely an escape. Particularly at work.
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by mtrower 2y ago
My first programming forays were with the assembler feature of DEBUG.EXE, on an 8088. Extraordinarily cumbersome in retrospect, but it was existing at the time. Definitely a gateway experience.
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by mtrower 3y ago
> socially badgering > pressure is not real. > real consequences that I'm aware of (as in legal, regulatory, etc) So if I understand correctly, the argument is that social pressure isn't real pressure and can be dismissed
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by mtrower 3y ago
..."pop off"? I get the impression that you're inferring things about me that aren't actually real. Such as a lack of respect for the fallen.
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by mtrower 3y ago
I would guess that having it drilled in from childhood probably has something to do with it. By taking issue with it, you're going against the flow and people in general seem to be uncomfortable with that sort of thing. It also seems
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by mtrower 3y ago
So in other words, you disagree with the post I'm replying to? > I don't believe there is any pressure whatsoever. You've clearly not been to some of the events that I have. Also, there's the whole matter of various
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by mtrower 3y ago
In fact, I generally don't. On the other hand, that is not because I am bothered (or not) by such practices. I'm really not sure what this has to do with the opinions being expressed by myself, parent, and GP here. I can avoid a
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by mtrower 3y ago
> It's like people forgot that non-web-interface rss readers existed. I'd wager that a lot of people never even knew these existed. To a lot of people, the browser became (or simply always was) the only real interface to eve
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by mtrower 3y ago
Probably, they are like me, meaning we seem not to be on the same page as you regarding the term 'podcast'. To me, a podcast is just an audio talk session, mastered and distributed as a digital audio file. That's it. Distr
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by mtrower 3y ago
Honestly I struggle to think of a more complicated program than a modern browser that expects to fully support the existing web.
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by mtrower 3y ago
That may be true, and it may be of personal value to pursue this for yourself. That's different from socially badgering others into it at group events.
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by mtrower 3y ago
This is the exact reason* I bought a 4090 for my recent rebuild instead of the rDNA card I actually wanted. I really wanted to go with AMD for the driver integration with the Linux graphics stack —- I’m so, so tired of shenanigans when it
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by mtrower 3y ago
The letter or the intent though? Because if it’s the letter, we’d better throw in wheel chairs, surfboards etc. as well. The law does not specify motor vehicles, even though I would believe that to be the intent.
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by mtrower 3y ago
Improvements to property often bring little to no return at time of sale —- especially if those improvements have worn in a few years. More than a few years? Forget it. Improvements are generally made to improve immediate rental value (si
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by mtrower 3y ago
> End of the day, landlords don’t deserve more money and I don’t know why anyone here argues for it. It’s like you want bezos to have even more money - it’s super weird. See, to me, this vitriol is what seems super weird. It seems like
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by mtrower 3y ago
> If an engineer spends an hour writing a commit message that no one reads, that's an unproductive engineer, compared to where they should be. Okay, maybe don't spend an hour. It would take a special kind of commit to need mor
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by mtrower 3y ago
> I think it's optimized for discussions before integration, which is largely what PR descriptions and comments are largely used for now. This isn't even a git concept though; it's something that was tacked on top of it.
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by mtrower 3y ago
I mean clearly he’s a menace. Something needs to be done about him. That can be true, and it can simultaneously be true that he is not 100% “evil” or anything else. A few incidents (or even many incidents) can paint a bleak picture, but the
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by mtrower 3y ago
You know, I'd actually like to add to my earlier comment. > Yeah, it’s not quite the same. I actually don't know quite why I wrote what I did, because the concession really isn't true. I can only imagine we were discussin
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by mtrower 3y ago
Yeah, it’s not quite the same. On the other hand the tools are mostly very simple and highly standardized. The simple tools are applied to the problem through a combination of applied experience and constructed jigs. I guess the equivalent
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by mtrower 3y ago
At least in woodworking, tool setup and maintenance is a significant portion of the craft.
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by mtrower 3y ago
He started out with an unpopular but semi-interesting viewpoint, then immediately went down the rabbit hole to somewhere terrifying. Notice how he deleted a bunch of comments (perhaps justifiably, but who can say now...) and then closed com
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by mtrower 3y ago
> It's also why certain groups respond very lively when you call them by their true name: they are utterly in denial about their possible futures give or take an unlucky turn of events or two. I don't think that follows. Or ra
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by mtrower 3y ago
I’d be interested to hear how you reached that conclusion, and what that conclusion is meant to imply.
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by mtrower 3y ago
In some sense, you might consider it to be a crude one. If you configure your computer to boot directly into full screen emacs, never leave it, and do your damndest to interact only with in-process elisp, you might get some feel for what su
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by mtrower 3y ago
Well, in my opinion, inertia is a dominant factor. There is an enormous amount of inertia present in the current systems and thought patterns. Redesigning the world from scratch while applying different principles is hard, especially when
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by mtrower 3y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding here. They aren’t trying to keep the kennel GNU exclusive —— they merely want the option for a pre GNU toolchain.
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by mtrower 3y ago
A goodly number of people appear to want just that. I don’t agree, mind you, but someone reading your comment with this mindset will probably be reinforced rather than swayed.

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