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zardoz03

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Eternal Senseless Frustration Be Upon Thee.
Very Interested in Lisp and Smalltalk.
Fairly Vulgar and Fairly Paranoid.

READ DUNE BY FRANK HERBERT.
Eternal Butlerian Jihad is required until sanity improves
#nosearch #noarchive #noai #noindex #nobot

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aral, to ireland
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Ireland votes that a woman’s place is in the home. A sad day for social progress. The whole way the government handled this referendum was a shambles.

https://chaos.social/@antiaall3s/112070455326810487

zardoz03,
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@aral i don't think its as simple as that as apparently the disabled in ireland weren't consulted and the constitutional change would have affected their rights. in general the information about the referendum was scant and seems to mostly have been posturing

lanodan, to random
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$ stat -c '%N' /bin /sbin /usr
'/bin'
'/sbin' -> './bin'
'/usr' -> '..'

There, setup that isn't a clone of Bell Labs' PDP from ~1972 which had a full root filesystem.

zardoz03,
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@lanodan wait so what does /usr point to, / ?

futurebird, to random
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There is this notion in futurism and scifi speculation conversations that "technologically advanced" species are less vulnerable to extinction.

I'm skeptical. Technology solves many problems but causes new ones.

The primary factors that protect against extinction are:

  1. Sheer numbers
  2. Dispersion
  3. Diversity

Technology can aid in improving these factors, spreading people over more continents, or worlds, increasing population.

But there are other ways to meet these goals.

zardoz03,
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@futurebird
it seems bitingly similar to the thing Niklas Wirth was on about for tech history and constantly re"new"ed ideas borne from ignorance, computers seems to be the most brazen example, and is not terribly surprising its a wider trend.
@benni

zardoz03, to scheme
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does any1 know the specific reason why does not have a unified falsity and empty list?

trying to do ``(,@(and=> (member foo bar) cadr)) ...)` is v.annoying realising #f is not a list

ctietze, to emacs
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Anyone here browing SQLite files with using sqlite-mode who has a workaround for having to use `sqlite-mode-open-file'?

I want to use `sqlite-mode-open-file' when opening a .sqlite file automatically.

zardoz03,
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@slackline
i currently push a closure into magic-mode-alist' that does (sqlite-open-file buffer-file-name)', since it matches on first few characters/bytes rather than file extension.
@ctietze

drewdevault, to random
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NixOS 🤮

zardoz03,
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@drewdevault NixOS is probably the worst cases of functional fervour i am aware of. Some of the OK ideas like "the package manager has a full picture of all software on the system" makes sense in a vacuum. But NixOS does it in a way that breaks too many assumptions and in such a way that makes using it, makes you suffer from dogmatism.

consfigurator for Debian is probably saner overall while keeping the "declarative OS" lark

zardoz03,
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@sandro
NixOS makes more sense on a server than a desktop operating system. I would rather things work and pay the price of breaking my system every static release than have to learn packaging outside software that is another level of complexity felt steeper than standard NixOS.
@drewdevault

zardoz03,
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@sandro
Ideally you'd force most onboarded users to already know what a derivation and mkShell before NixOS is as its practically the only way for outside software outside of hacks and emulation
@drewdevault

amoroso, to Lisp
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"Common Lisp is not a beautiful crystal of programming language design. It's a scruffy workshop with a big pegboard wall of tools, a thin layer of sawdust on the floor, a filing cabinet in the office with a couple of drawers that open perpendicular to the rest, [...]"

"This historical baggage is a price paid to ensure Common Lisp had a future."

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

#CommonLisp #lisp

zardoz03,
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@galdor @amoroso
it also doesn't help there's like 4 or more interest groups for scheme beyond "i need a decently large amount of things to get things done quickly". the failure and controversies of the last 2 scheme standards is a case for BDFL-style direction like mr. hickey behind clojure

lanodan, to random
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> Run configure on GNU gettext
> Seems to scrolls endlessly
> 4m34.30s real 1m21.57s user 3m10.81s system
> tests for like half of the libc including gethostbyname, inet, IPv4, IPv6, …

Yup, that's GNU for you, they're really good at this.

zardoz03,
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@lanodan wonder if the only reason they haven't cached autotools shit for a given system is because of either legacy or they don't care about wasting money on build farms

zardoz03,
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@lanodan and in fairness the only non-homogeneity would be simple switch cases like musl/gnu and the complexity would be in versioning which is nearly the onus of the installer more than some sort of build tool

icon_of_computational_sin, to random
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"Wayland proxy is load balancer between Wayland compositor and Wayland client. It prevents Wayland client to be disconnected by Wayland compositor if Wayland client is bussy or under heavy load."

I'm laughing my ass off. Apparently, Wayland compositors will kill the client if it fails to read events quick enough. This might happen if the client software froze or... if you have a 1000hz mouse that generates too many events. And instead of fixing the compositor behaviour, Red Hat decided... to add a proxy that caches messages for the application to process.

These people are the reason "software engineering" is treated as an oxymoron.

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Proxy-Firefox

zardoz03,
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@icon_of_computational_sin what's so uniquely fucked to me is that while Wayland weenies accurately assess X as being akin to a pile of hacks; within the next half-decade we will see this sort of design-sin recommitted and IDT these people will be as annoyed until/if or when they realise

parismarx, to random
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zardoz03,
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@parismarx JeffBezos and ElonMusk seem more like rubes compared to Thiel and Altman, like Altman is doing mad datacrunching of the entire commons and Thiel literally has a MIC corporation named Palantir of all things. Amazon is an entire machine of human suffering all the way down but Altman uniquely seems worse than Bezos, unless Bezos was on the flight logs

rml, to guix
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There are two sides of me, portrayed as the Charlie Kaufman twins in Adaptation, except instead of the serious screenwriter vs. the amateur/wannabe brother, its me on my desktop trying to get an ISO to work the way I want in QEMU vs. me on in bed on my Pop_OS laptop just opening it in Gnome Boxes

zardoz03,
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@rml i generally just copy shit from qemu scripts from say 9front or the Guix qemu script in manual and keep copying it and moving it and seeing what is relevant or not. never used Gnome Boxes but i think libvirt/virt-manager is too overcomplicated or production grade that i dont want to touch unless i need to

hankg, to ai

With this morning's IntelliJ update I started seeing these AI prompts. While it is exciting to see it coming to desktop software not just up running in the browser I'm still not touching these things until it goes to local only running models. Even if I trusted all these companies with all this data I'm sick of feeding evena higher precentage of our digital lives into the data lakes of the same companies or their proxies (yes I'm referring to you OpenAI).
Introducing JetBrains AI and the In-IDE AI Assistant | The JetBrains Blog

zardoz03,
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@tetranomos Esp. on the correctness front; most programmers cannot be trusted with correctness on even "simple enough" programming tasks compared to trying to emulate the mind. And the "simple enough" programming tasks have killed people (Therac-25) or threatened almost every proprietary UEFI device that wants an image to be displayed at boot.
[DubiousAchievement] probably states it better than I -- however most programmers will look at CHERI/OCAP runtimes and balk at slowdowns
@dimillian @hankg

lanodan, to random
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So glad for waypipe's existence, graphics session forwarding with proper compression and video encoding in place.

zardoz03,
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@lanodan is it also more secure than X's network transparency beyond that compression (since it is quite literally idiotic over WIFI (discovered the hard way))

lanodan, to random
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I wonder if faux-latin (for aesthetic reasons, not stuff like volapuk) is done in non-latin cultures/countries.

zardoz03,
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@lanodan does harry potter count :D ?

mousebot, to anarchism
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Gilles Dauvé's (Troploin) critique of Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything.

https://www.troploin.fr/node/108

Spoiler: it's really no good at all... the critique that is. (Despite the fact that Dawn as well as Debt both deserve a solid critique.)

zardoz03,
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@mousebot @rml
I personally havent read camatte but for.some reason the "proletariat is melded to capital" and maybe the anti-industrial Tracts i have stored somewhere to read.

Specifically early in this thread: Am i wrong but isn't Dauvé or some other important "left"com a literal pedophile behind " Alice in monsterland "

zardoz03,
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@mousebot
more the content of the text. i cannot remember specifically but it was common slander of certain leftcoms on twitter when i used to be an annoying shit on there.

but yeah only remember camatte because anti industrial communist is either a banger or the most weird thing you come across
@rml

zardoz03, to random
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which do you prefer out of the two of them?

zardoz03,
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respectively:

garius, to random
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I've been asked by a digital publication to do a regular column on forgotten or overlooked bits of tech and business history that changed stuff forever.

So what's your favourite weird nugget of obscure history or people in tech or business?

This is LITERALLY your chance to make me write about it 😄

zardoz03,
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@garius LispMs and Aalto smalltalk machines, Plessey 250 system and Rekursiv SBC.

rml, to random
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while I think there is a lot of credibility to attributing 's industry success due to the fact that its minimalism reduces ramp up for new team members while producing less complexity and more clarity/legibility, I think an under discussed factor at play is lines of code as a metric of success.

zardoz03,
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@rml also theres the aspect of its very deliberately a redesign of C

zardoz03,
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@rml is it truly Gr10 if they call in and out of lua?
because nvim/vis both do despite being completely different levels of complexity

also i don't hate Go because Ivy is written in jt and its one of the saner array langs.

zardoz03,
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@rml @vruz @shuLhan js async is still demonic

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