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sping

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  • Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?

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  • What about a lightweight variant like Lubuntu or Xubuntu? 4Gb should be usable for a lot of things.

  • Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC News

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  • Yeah, why can't they just quietly trudge towards our own extinction with resignation like the rest of us, instead of making a fuss.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.

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  • We can't imagine anything but unfettered capitalism, so onward we go to our own destruction!

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.

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  • But our ignorant misconceptions are ubiquitous so they have become truth!

  • Which are your preferred laptops?

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  • What problems with AMD Ryzen? I've been happy with them, except one that had excessive power drain on suspend.

  • What industry do you work in and what are the LPT the general public should know about it?

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  • Really.

    AFAIK the ID law is a consequence of a centuries-old right that you cannot be required to identify yourself if you're doing nothing wrong, and then even if you did do something wrong, you still can't be required to have brought ID with you since it's likely you didn't set out knowing you'd be doing that today.

    But the surveillance/camera thing is recent, when rights of ordinary people apparently are less fashionable.

  • What industry do you work in and what are the LPT the general public should know about it?

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  • You know I said UK but this is exactly the sort of law that tends to be different in NI.

  • What industry do you work in and what are the LPT the general public should know about it?

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  • I'm the UK England and Wales you can't be required to carry ID at all.

    If the police ask you for them, you have 7 days to present them at a police station.

    (Edit: really not sure it extends to Scotland where such laws often vary, and pretty sure it doesn't apply to NI, where they vary even more, especially on driving/licensing, so UK was inaccurate)

  • This word was rejected by geologists. But it’s already taken over the world. A panel of scientists rejected the term “Anthropocene” — but others keep using it.

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  • We're not in the Anthropocene because the next epoch hasn't taken shape yet. What humanity has done is create a transition from the holocene to whatever epoch will come next, the nature of which is unknown though we can predict some aspects. The idea that this right now is the new geological epoch is absurd hubristic misunderstanding of what a geological epoch is.

    It's not an epoch any more than the crash that totaled your car is your new car.

  • University Students

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  • Well on Reddit, programmerhumor was mostly populated by people weirdly proud of how bad they are at their job, so I don't see how Lemmy was going to be different.

  • University Students

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  • I've worked in a few startups, and it always annoys me when people say they don't have time to do it right. You don't have time not to do it right - code structure and clarity is needed even as a solo dev, as you say, for future you. Barfing out code on the basis of "it works, so ship it" you'll be tied up in your own spaghetti in a few months. Hence the traditional clean-sheet rewrite that comes along after 18-24 months that really brings progress to its knees.

    Ironically I just left the startup world for a larger more established company and the code is some of the worst I've seen in a decade. e.g. core interface definitions without even have a sentence explaining the purpose of required functions. Think "you're required to provide a function called "performControl()", but to work out its responsibilities you're going to have to reverse-engineer the codebase". Worst of all this unprofessional crap is part of that ground-up 2nd attempt rewrite.

  • University Students

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  • What do you think comments are?

  • University Students

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  • These are arguments talking past each other. Sure 1 useful comment and 9 redundant ones can be better than zero, but comments are not reliable and often get overlooked in code changes and become misleading, sometimes critically misleading. So often the choice is between not enough comments versus many comments that you cannot trust and will sometimes tell you flat-out lies and overall just add to the difficulty of reading the code.

    There's no virtue in the number of comments, high or low. The virtue is in the presence of quality comments. If we try to argue about how many there should be we can talk past each other forever.

  • anti-snap stance is anti-consumer

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  • My guess at the stance is I'd imagine it's that switching away from snaps is switching away from Ubuntu's support and security monitoring and updates to some less known/reliable/diligent third party?

    Popey (Alan Pope) used to work for Canonical / Ubuntu, so he's presumably not inclined to jump on the bandwagon of Canonical/Ubuntu/snap hate since he knows a lot of Canonical and Ubuntu people and their motivations and work. Not that there aren't good reasons to criticize snap or other Canonical decisions, but it's also plain that a lot of people just join a hate bandwagon and don't even know what about it they object to. There is masses of wrong-headed criticism of Canonical out there e.g. I've frequently seen people criticize creating Upstart, saying Canonical should have used systemd, or bzr vs git! Presumably these people were annoyed at Canonical for not inventing a time machine.

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    At 11,000 feet up, scientists find Earth broke a scary record

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  • What? We're burning more fossil fuels than ever and the earth feedback loops seem to be kicking off. Just because we're also expanding use of less destructive energy sources doesn't mean we're curbing output. Making things worse slightly less quickly isn't making things better.

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  • Black/white as bad/good is a clear case where there is a clear logical reason to change IMO. That perpetuates unconscious bias.

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  • And yet there's a big push to rename git "master" branches, which have no slave connotations and are more analogous to master recordings.

    Its not like I'll fight it, but it's stupid.

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  • You do? Because I don't. There is nothing racist about the concept of master. Is a masterpiece racist? Are master tapes, Are post-graduate degrees racist? We may as well declare "work" insensitive because slaves had to work.

    Don't get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can't see how "master" is one of them.

  • This, but unironically

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  • I have to say this is always my thought when I see those signs. "Road work ends" would convey what they mean in normal English.

    Similarly the strange US habit of text on the ground being written bottom to top. I get what they intended, but I don't get why, then they first saw the effect, they didn't laugh and realize it didn't work. There's a road lane near me that says "BUSES NO" "TRUCKS NO" and I always picture someone disciplining a naughty bus.