prince781

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by prince781 5y ago
Did you forget this happened only a few weeks ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_hea...
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by prince781 5y ago
> Workers don't want to hear about their alienation. They want a raise, dignity, childcare and a stake in the game. They don't want to be surveilled, or fired by an email generated by an NN. All of those things are encompassed
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by prince781 5y ago
The term remains easy to understand. Whether you agree/disagree with it is a separate matter. > What's the non-alienated version of an amazon worker? An Amazon worker that can exclusively determine who gets to be on the board o
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by prince781 5y ago
Alienation isn't a historical event. It's a term that describes how a human being, in the present, relates to the things he creates. The concept is simple: Most people today are put in the unusual position (anthropologically speak
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by prince781 5y ago
Ah, I misread your comment. My apologies. Yeah, perhaps this does make neovim more a monolith, as there are already great plugins like coc.nvim that can be used. However, I believe the expectations of a modern text editor have been raised s
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by prince781 5y ago
> This feels like a move away from plugins and into monolith territory, which feels like a big step. I don't consider LSP to be a monolith. You still have the decentralization of language server development. Rather, LSP is just a st
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by prince781 5y ago
> gravitational dynamics are time-reversible, so if gravity could capture you like this you could also start in orbit around a planet and spontaneously be ejected. I don't have a strong background in physics, and perhaps this is spl
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by prince781 5y ago
a better layout engine and notation style are the most visible changes I've noticed
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by prince781 5y ago
It's not sunken cost. Vala is performant, plays well with a multitude of languages, doesn't require a VM, and makes it easy to write Gtk applications. Unlike Rust it's very simple to learn and the elementaryOS project likes i
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by prince781 5y ago
It's #7 on DistroWatch and rising, right behind Debian and Ubuntu. I don't know how well that translates to real market share, though. https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=popularity
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by prince781 5y ago
> gnome project felt that they had to n.i.h. an entire programming language. This isn't what happened. When Vala came out (2006), it was at the time the only programming language advertising such high-level concepts as found in C# (
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by prince781 5y ago
> I'd love to use Elementary OS, but their use of Vala is just such a turn off. That language is dead except for a tiny gnome niche. I'll go out on a limb and say that while this might have been closer to the truth 3 years ago,
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by prince781 5y ago
So this is a study about political diversity where it's specifically relevant to the organization's work. In this case, Wikipedia. I'll admit that political diversity is necessary when the "product" is unbiased arti
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by prince781 5y ago
The author conflates "viewpoint diversity" as it pertains to a workplace setting with political diversity. There are many benefits in a workplace to a diversity of views on how to approach the work and this kind of diversity impro