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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Why? I just point out that what happened to Haskell can happen to Rust, and for much the same reasons.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> You just persist in failing to understand the issue And you just persist in making a "counter" based on your opinion of what my argument is, as opposed to what my argument is actually about.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Well, we are arguing about semantics. No, we are not. "minimal" has a defined meaning, and "minimal" and "minimalism" as a design philosophy are not the same.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> for part of the rust community. part is the important term here.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
That's all well and good, but has nothing to do with my argument. If you need to invoke a program for every prompt, when the alternative is to just let the shell do it's thing, it's no longer "minimal", period.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> "minimal" Here is what a minimal shell prompt looks like: $ Here is another one which only uses the shells own facilities: current-directory@hostname $ Running a complex piece of software every time the shel
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
The fact that this happens should be food for thought for part of the rust community. Because the way I see it, if they keep this up, a few years from now, they could, other than some obscure linux kernel modules almost noone uses and a goo
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> The problem is that all these tokens are defined…in JavaScript. A CSS framework. Using JavaScript for its design tokens. In 2021. And THAT right there is the core problem of such frameworks. The trinity of frontend technologies, by des
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> You've argued that ugliness is a solution I think I speak for basically the entire history of programming when I say that ugly solutions exist and are widely used throughout our profession. > while the problem that needs to be
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> And YAML is a better way and addresses the problem you choose to ignore I haven't ignored it, as shown by us discussing it here. And no, YAML isn't a better way. It does commenting better, true, and at the same time, it does
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> I was just pointing out that you can't No, you were pointing out that some people won't like that solution. Which is completely fine. And yes, that solution is ugly as hell, and it is a dirty hack, and I don't recommend
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
If people absolutely want those, they can use TOML, which supports single line and inline comments. Given a choice, I'd even opt XML over YAML.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
The problem is very specifically the fact that YAML, as a config language, sucks. I have no idea why people started using it. "bUt jSOn dOeSn'T HaVe cOmMenTS" ... oh gimme a break! You want a comment in JSON? { &q
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> The way these ML models and humans operate are indeed quite different. Given that there is no comprehensive understanding of how human learning works, let alone how humans operate on and integrate on what they learned in a wider contex
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
And how is any of that a compelling argument regarding the assumption of a fundamental difference in the MO of learning? Simply stating "it has more inputs" doesn't describe the human learning model, so nothing in this establ
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
GUI file managers are usually used for things where speed is a non-issue. For anything else, Right-Click "Open Terminal Here".
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> The similarities are merely surface level. Then please, feel free to explain the deep differences. > That is precisely why we should not be making this comparison. Wrong. It's precisely why the claim "there is a big differ
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
Please explain, how is a GUI file manager an alternative to a CLI based one?
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
And for users of GUIs who are (understandably) fed up with GNOME and all the GTK Stuff, I can wholeheartedly recommend Dolphin, KDEs standard filebrowser. Which isn't on Hiatus, doesn't require GTK, and has switchable Split views
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> that it’s anthropomorphizing machines. No, it's not. It's merely pointing out the similarity between the process of training artists (by ingesting publicly available works) and ML models (which ingest publicly available works
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
They would be better served with more focused books however.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> but when search engines never point you to it So? This internet existed LONG before modern search engines. We found each other, and still do. How? Links, that's how. One breadcrumb leading to the next. Plus, it's not as if se
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
This is what I never got about the whole "social media ruined the web" - thing. The web, the REAL web, that weird and almost alive thing where people share and create and tell their stories ... never went away. And it likely never
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> The image generator So if someone makes a forgery of, say, a picasso, who do we blame: The forger or the brush? > This isn't complicated This concerns copyright law, which is handled case by case, and deals with very fuzzy defi
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Running this gives us a nice 40 GB file which contains all 4.2 billion comparisons needed to determine if any 32 bit number is even or odd! For some reason I am thinking of npm now ...
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
Almost any law we take for granted goes against the will of at least some part of the electorate. There are more than enough maniacs who would love nothing better than being allowed to put the pedal to the metal whenever they feel like it,
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
The problem is more that printed magazines are not searchable, and having a giant pile of paper in boxes in the attic, stuffed somewhere behind that awful vase and that camping equipment I haven't touched since the late 1990s, simply d
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> If you care about climate change stop protesting and start innovating. The reason for climate change isn't a lack of technical innovation. We have ALL the innovations to change things. The reason for climate change is short-sighte
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
That's a solution to the problem, not an excuse for websites to generate that problem in the first place.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
a) Yes it can b) Pretty much by definition, boilerplate written against the standard library of the language, rarely, if ever, requires maintenance. Not sure we talk about the same thing here when using the word "boilerplate", so

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