Jerkface (any/all)

It’s really disturbing how everyone sees this practice through the lens of (mis)trust. Can you really think of no other reasons? Absurd.

Don’t spend one more dollar on educational material. If a person had to pay for every textbook and online subscription, education would be impractical.

Ran an ISP on a Pentium 90 and a few 486s. Linux and FreeBSD!

Yes. Piracy in the sense of stealing from ships in international waters is different from piracy in the sense of copyright infringement. Thanks for that.

It doesn’t have a head like that. It places things in a conceptual space, not a numerical space. To it, a number is just an adjective, like a colour. It is learning to play chess by looking for language-like patterns in the game’s transcript. It is never attempting to model the contents of the board in it’s “mind”.

emacs has been with me since the 16-bit era, across paradigms, across generations, across careers. When I use emacs I think in terms of what the elisp is doing. It’s such a deep and developed relationship, I would be throwing away so much personal power to use anything else.

I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.

You dropped your friggin’ > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.

Alternatively, why wait twice as long for your python code to execute as you have to?

It’s very convenient not to have to remember a bunch of different means/methods for performing the same conceptual operation. You might call len(x) == 0 on a list, but next time it’s a dict. Time after that it’s a complex number. The next time it’s an instance. not works in all cases.

Truthiness is so fundamental, in most languages, all values have a truthiness, whether they are bool or not. Even in C, int x = value(); if (!x) x_is_not_zero(); is valid and idiomatic.

I appreciate the point that calling a method gives more context cues and potentially aids readability, but in this case I feel like not is the python idiom people expect and reads just fine.

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Strongly disagree that not x implies to programmers that x is a bool.

Weird that they removed the reference to ESP32, one of the most common and widely known microcontrollers, from the headline.

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/usr/ports & /usr/sbin/pkg

SIGINFO bound to ^T

native ZFS root

Jesus, the “plandemic” explanation for why the Internet is dying. The Internet IS clearly dying, but this is stupid. Even if we got rid of all the bots and AI, the Internet would still be dying, because open protocols are not as exploitable as walled gardens. The value of capital in the world overwhelms the value of human labour and human interest, and all our social structures conform to the needs of capital over time.

It’s aggressively bad.

r/titlegore the fault of the original article

By context “we” refers to google.