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Recovering sysadmin. Finnish weirdo. Totally not a robot.

  1. And roughly zero security.
  2. Like there's going to be a (non-fake) election once you've elected a fascist dictator.
  3. It has stopped existing several times. And each time, the next version has turned out to act exactly the same again.
  4. There's several here in cold north as well, but they're kind of hit by the population density problem. Only the few biggest cities have a lot of activity.

    It's kind of funny to note that the negative comments here are ones calling it the Make (tm)(R) Magazine spaces and the positives are hackerspaces, as the real ones are.

  5. It's more tribalism than actual politics.
  6. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
  7. Since that seems to be the (frankly bs) slogan that almost entirely makes up the languages lading page, I expect it's really going to hurt the language and/or make it all about useless posturing.

    That said, I'm an embedded dev, so the "level" idea is very tangible. And Rust is also very exciting for that reason and Rue might be as well. I should have a look, though it might not be on the way to be targeting bare metal soon. :)

  8. Well, it's never too late to learn reading skills or civil behaviour, junior.
  9. Or family is the cat.
  10. Calling it Sequel would have been made it easier to pronounce. I think I'll just pronounce it that way in my mind.
  11. > The only other Hugo I know is a character in Bob's Burgers.

    Really? It's a very common name, including certain Victor and Boss.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(name)

  12. Yes. If someone complains, just rename it to Firebird.
  13. "There's a repo called Beyonder. That's got to be what came after Galactus."
  14. Avatar was a famously wrong use of the very old term for something that is (no longer) available anywhere.
  15. Well, "Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan" is not random but entirely unrelated to it's use.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

  16. Thirty years for me and several more since I learned what sed does and what it's called and never forgot.
  17. And these all pretty much came from an era before glass display were (affordable) in computers. A terminal was roughly a keyboard and a printer attached together, or a typewriter cut in half. Paper. No cursors. No arrow keys. Mostly after punched cards and mostly before transistors. And that was only a few decades ago, there's people still alive that have used these machines.

    Funny that they are still some of the most efficient and powerful interfaces.

  18. If every yard in a town or city was full of chickens, I wouldn't call it decentralized. Just one very broad centre.
  19. I thought they asked about the dang_fan username.
  20. I'm kind of curious how many there are left and how long they'd last. Also, how far are they already picked and what would be the absolute last resort choices.

    Someone must have done the math. (Actual plans would actually probably be up somewhere as well, given Debian orgs nature.)

  21. Or a lot of people are feeling threatened by Rust and trying to push more C.
  22. > experienced people often are more hesitant to learn new things

    I believe the opposite. There's some kind of weird mentality in beginner/wannabe programmers (and HR, but that's unrelated) that when you pick language X then you're an X programmer for life.

    Experienced people know that if you need a new language or library, you pick up a new language or library. Once you've learned a few, most of them aren't going to be very different and programming is programming. Of course it will look like work and maybe "experienced" people will be more work averse and less enthusiastic than "inexperienced" (meaning younger) people.

  23. No sign of alacritty :(
  24. Worked fine on mine.
  25. And plan9 users worldwide!

    (There's dozens of us!)

  26. Being a one person company with one client is circumventing employment laws. Sensibly illegal in many countries.
  27. Because they're essentially always dictations, not discussions.
  28. The trick to actually melting chocolate in a microwave is to do it in pulses of only a few seconds, see if it stirs yet, and repeat. Longer runs will quickly destroy it.
  29. It's clearly a snake. There's even a forked tongue.

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