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glandium.org 1y ago

I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

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escapethealgorithm.substack.com 2y ago

The New Turing Test

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smoogespace.blogspot.com 2y ago

Where did 5M EPEL-7 systems come from starting in March?

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www.phoronix.com 2y ago

The Compositor Modules "COMO" to Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How does a website and a search engine reconcile clicks?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Cloudflare Lied to Me

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roboticsandautomationnews.com 2y ago

Carnegie Mellon builds killer robot to save economy

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www.moneyweb.co.za 2y ago

Only fund beating Nasdaq long-term is defying stock-picking odds

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www.magicearth.com 2y ago

Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

GPT-3 generated deletion reports for Wikipedia

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blog.jetbrains.com 3y ago

JetBrains – Addressing the New UI Comments

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socialism.tools 4y ago

I ditched Cloudflare (and you should too)

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github.com 4y ago

Labwc: Wayland Stacking Compositor Based on Wlroots

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Windows 11

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feaneron.com 5y ago

OBS Studio on Wayland

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blog.hansenpartnership.com 5y ago

Creating a Home IPv6 Network

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hackaday.com 5y ago

RISC-V: Why the ISA Battles Aren't over Yet

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blog.ipfire.org 6y ago

Why Not WireGuard

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blogs.gnome.org 6y ago

Jcat: A New Alternative to Microsoft Catalog Files

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libcamera.org 6y ago

Libcamera – A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS

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libcamera.org 6y ago

Libcamera – A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS

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internethealthreport.org 7y ago

How healthy is the internet?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Besides inkscape and Fdroid are there any noteworthy projects on gitlab?

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addons.mozilla.org 7y ago

Buster – Firefox addon for solving captcha challenges

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spreadprivacy.com 7y ago

Three Reasons Why the “Nothing to Hide” Argument Is Flawed

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meta.wikimedia.org 7y ago

Results from the 2018 Wikimedia community engagement report

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www.internetsociety.org 8y ago

State of IPv6 Deployment 2018

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mybroadband.co.za 8y ago

Saldanha Bay municipality’s fibre network will be a basic utility for residents

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spreadprivacy.com 8y ago

What U.S. Adults Think About Facebook After Cambridge Analytica

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seealso.org 8y ago

Seealso.org – A collection of visualizations built on Wikipedia data

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Stop Sloppypasta 4 months ago

No, you completely had it correct. And sending an AI response to a question is the same semi-rude way to respond.

The context here is that the person logging the ticket (or asking the original question by using AI to do it) is the one who is ALSO being a lazy piece of shit, and deserves and equally lazy useless response in the form of a LMGTFY or AI response, because they were too lazy to actually think about their original query and spend time to craft a succinct but useful ticket/query.

For example, the main "customer" of the module system is the JDK itself

As mentioned in TFA, "The general advice seems to be that modules are (should be) an internal detail of the JRE and best ignored in application code"

So yeah, why expose it to those who are not the "main customer"?

Vibe engineering 10 months ago

His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers.

Okay sure.

I'll use myself as another example then. When I was a dev I used to write a lot of code. Now I'm a tech team lead, and I write less code, but review significantly more code than I used to previously.

I feel more confident, comfortable, and competent in my coding abilities now than ever before even though I'm coding less.

I feel like this is because I am exposed to a lot more code, and not in a passive way (reading legacy code) but an active way (making sure a patch set will correctly implement feature X, without breaking anything existing)

I feel like this principal applies to any programmer. Same thing with e.g. writers. Good writers read _a lot_ and it makes them better writers.

This is my opinion and not based on any kind of research. So if you disagree, that's fine with me. But so far I haven't seen anything to convince me of the opposite.

Vibe engineering 10 months ago

Tell that to Linus Torvalds.

His whole job is just doing code review, and I'd argue he's better at coding now than he ever was before.

Well that was a whole other topic. And luckily it links to a page that explains the whole topic of what a "celestial sphere" is. Going to the page, I see I was indeed wrong about what it was, but now I see it is an abstract sphere, with a radius that can be whatever size you want, and that is centered on the Earth, or on the observer.

Once again, not so difficult to figure out even if you have no experience in the specific technical field of a Wikipedia article. So I have no idea what /u/casenmgreen's problem is.

I've never heard of it before, and it makes perfect sense what it is from that intro.

On a celestial sphere (planet, star, etc) the declination angle (being 0 is at the equator, being 90 degrees is the north pole of the sphere, being -90 degrees, is at the south pole).

You also need another angle known as the "hour angle" to locate a point on the sphere. It doesn't explain what that is, but as can be seen on Wikipedia, you can easily click on that word to go to the entire page that explains what it is.

What don't you understand?

Game dev at the top tiers is an arms race. Being able to do proprietary things is attractive to big players.

Yeah, so I don't see how helping out the big players and not everyone else is a good thing.

Multiple projects have gone closed-source from open source. Assurances are a nice thing to have (but certainly no guarantee).

Yeah but the open source ones ARE guaranteed. Even if they later become closed source, the code up till that point will remain open source forever. So it is guaranteed whereas "some assurances" mean nothing.

You can make proprietary changes to the engine without releasing them (unlike GPL).

Why is that a good thing?

You can freely monetize games built with the engine,

You'd also be able to do the same if it had a GPL license

and they make some assurances that there won't be a bait-and-switch.

If it was licensed under a GPL license you wouldn't need to rely on "some assurances"

Now it makes much more sense.

I realize I misread "One solution is text-wrap:pretty" as "OUr solution is text-wrap:pretty". Combined with the fact that this was on the webkit blog.

Thanks.

Yeah, corporations have the resources to do that kind of investment in Linux which random hobbiests don't.

But why do they do it in the first place, instead of investing in their own obviously supiriour massively invested in OS's? Because Linux IS better, and the whole idea of it is better than some closed source crap. By nature of the GPL license it will snowball and everyone else will be left behind.

It's very easy to hate on him for that very reason. He's just buying a good reputation for the fraction of his wealth that is completely insignificant.

If I could buy that kind of reputation by tossing a few coins into the void, why not? Especially after I've stolen billions from others.

Yeah, because the cost of an internet connection/computer/cellphone got cheaper over the years.

Microwaves were also for the few, and now they are cheap and most people have them.

And microwaves got cheaper without having to resort to displaying ads while the user cooks food.

What a stupid argument.

Person surfing the web, clicks on link, ads blasted in face. (Just don't visit this random URL, nothing is forced on you!)

Person drives on road, billboards blast ads in face. (Just don't drive on this road, nothing is forced on you!)

Oh, and if you are going to argue that a website is not a public space like a road, then why the hell are you making it publicly accessible? Just lock that shit down behind a login if you are so private about it.