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  • Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name - Phoronix

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  • hey, a/s/f?

    Also seems ripe for jokes about the missing d.

    Though I guess the reasoning for why they're changing it up is actually decent:

    changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists.

    It's the sort of thing that I think a lot of europeans will go "huh, what does a feather … ohhhh, riiiiiiiight …". Like, my associations to the name are mostly the LAMP stack and a model of children's bike that my parents have talked about. But we're collectively also always rolling our eyes at people, especially foreigners, using stuff related to our heritage as marketing. Can't imagine what that'd be like for the native americans and their history.

  • Meet the water sommeliers: they believe H₂O can rival wine – but would you pay £19 a bottle?

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  • laughs in norwegian

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  • No, but the weirdos who insist on spelling it "SystemD" always seem to hate systemd.

    systemd is pretty great. I tend to start long-running processes as user services, and I've even taken to starting some apps that give an old laptop trouble with systemd-run and a slice with some memory restrictions. Easy peasy, works great, all declarative, no wibbly-wobbly shell scripts involved.

  • Read the Following Manual

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  • Well, bash should show up quickly enough. But yeah.

    I'm also no longer much of a bash guy. Back when I was my scripts were a lot simpler, and broke in weird ways a lot more. And every time I picked up a new defensive habit, my bash became a little bit uglier, and I thought to myself "maybe I should just do this in Python".

    But this script would be a lot longer in Python.

  • Read the Following Manual

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  • IME I'll rather find some openapi docs for Google than their actual product docs. As in, I'll start out trying to read their kubernetes docs, then shortly after it's "fuck it, I'm going to docs.rs/k8s-openapi".

    My actual worst case are Elastic's docs, though. Somehow they have plenty of stuff in there, just never the stuff I'm trying to figure out.

  • Read the Following Manual

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  • For those who want to give it a go:

     bash
        
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

while read -rd ":" path
do
  for bin in "$path"/*
  do
    # don't error out if there's no manpage
    set +e
    man "$(basename "$bin")"
    set -e
  done
done < <(printf '%s%s' "$PATH" ":")

    when you get sick of it, hit ^Z (ctrl-z) and go kill %1. Then you get to start all over from the start next time!

    Bonus points for starting a tracker so you can count how long it takes to go from "eugh, what's with that overwrought and excessively defensive bash script" to "fuck, now I'm doing it too"

  • Explaining Why Devs Burn Out So Often

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  • Humans also frequently need to try a wrong approach first to get the idea of a better approach, no matter if we're rested or not. Which is why it's important to be able to throw away prototypes rather than push an "it seemed like a good idea at the time" to prod.

    But having a good sleep, walk in a park, shower, etc lets us think better than if we're just banging our heads in the same corner all day long. Breaks are important. General health, too.

  • Something is wrong with the Anglosphere

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  • Nah. If we take the US as an example they have rampant NIMBYism, a suburbanism ideology that isn't sustainable financially (or ecologically or socially, for that matter), and rather strict zoning, with the worst stemming from the city of Euclid, and thus being named "euclidean zoning".

    If you're up for some videos, then StrongTowns, CityNerd and NotJustBikes all talk about this at length.

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    SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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  • But what did you learn? What are we supposed to learn? Did you get any context, like how he actually went to anger management therapy later?

    Or is this just guffawing and gawping at an old angry email from a tech celebrity?

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    SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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  • This mail is 13 years old, and doesn't seem relevant for anything? This post seems like a lazy attempt at shit-stirring.

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    Crypt Dash delivery [OC]

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  • The fourth … appendage on the left hand is being used like a thumb, and doesn't have any indication of knuckle even though it'd be the most bent finger if it was one. I'd say we can see four fingers on the right hand, while the left is in an indeterminate slop state where it's only partially a comic/Disney three-finger hand, with one extra slop appendage that's not clearly either thumb or finger.

  • Why is it often cheaper to buy new than repair old and how can repairing be encouraged on different levels of society?

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  • Part of the answer here is also integrated design. To be able to be repaired a thing has to be designed for that, and to have identifiable parts that can be adjusted or replaced in isolation, and non-destructive disassembly.

    If you have to destroy one part to adjust another, it's not really repairable. If several functions/components are all one thing then you can't really replace just the one.

    To use a bike as an example, you can exchange wires, brake pads, seats and most other things in isolation, especially the things that are expected to wear out and need replacement. But you're not going to replace part of your bar tape or frame, because they're essentially one whole thing.

    (Ok, you could probably weld a steel frame if you really wanted to, but I think the intent is readable.)

  • Privatize or downsize the USPS? Rural customers worry either option will hurt them

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  • If usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.

    The fundamental problem here is that the US population doesn't really want to pay for stuff where they don't directly benefit. In "me first" politics, rural populations are screwed.

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    Crypt Dash delivery [OC]

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  • Same reason as the vampire has one hand with four fingers and fingernails, and one hand with three fingers and no nail: LLM slop

  • 1/2 off haircuts

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  • Kinda. At the last strand I expect them to switch to length.

    But yeah, at some point should be good enough

  • Yep

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  • Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

    Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

    So more or less joining a union if you're not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

    Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn't make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn't really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

    We need actual politics for that.

  • I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.

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  • Varies. In Oslo Foodora started as bike deliveries; the cyclists unionised and got better pay and working conditions, and nooow it seems to be a lot of Romanians in beaters that don't look like they'd pass their next EU inspections, don't pay tolls or for parking, and apparently there seems to be something like trafficking going on.

  • Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd

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  • Yeah, JSON is essentially a side effect of having JavaScript already. It makes sense that it shows up a lot of places, especially web. But just like with JS, it's not really good, just ubiquitous.

  • Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?

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  • A wave with an infinitely long period isn't really recognizable as a wave. It'd just be interpreted as a flat line anywhere in the universe. And as mentioned, the energy of light is tied to its frequency: E = hf. (Or with hbar • omega, but that's just multiplied with and divided by 2π, so, the same thing.)

    So an infinitely long wave would have f=0 and thus no energy.

    The highest frequency you'd get would be 1/planck-time, so the energy would be the Planck constant divided by Planck time, which would be roughly 12.3 GJ. That's a lot of energy for just one photon, but if it's just the one, likely not world-ending.