@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
@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
@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 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
@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
@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
"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."
@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
> 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.
@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
@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
"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.
@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 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
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 #Guix 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
@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
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). #JetBrains#AI#LLM#OpenAI Introducing JetBrains AI and the In-IDE AI Assistant | The JetBrains Blog
@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
@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