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For what it's worth, I completely disagree with this site. Even if you only look at Linux as a kernel, one can compile it with whatever combination of options one likes.

But Linux is an entire ecosystem, not just a kernel. One of the advantages to the openness of the Linux ecosystem is that there are usually at least two options for whenever there could conceivably be a choice. I like that opportunity for customization.

When people say Linux is not about choice, I usually find it's because they're defending systemd. I'll be the first to admit that systemd has some good ideas. But I don't like how it spreads like kudzu across the system until common, low-level programs depend on systemd and systemd depends on their own versions of those programs instead of relying on a commonly agreed upon interface.

This comic mentions Flatland, which is an excellent book. Reading it might give some insight as to what observing our 3D world would be like from a 4D context. You have to extrapolate it from the idea of viewing a 2D world from our perspective. Honestly, it would probably be disturbing. You'd be able to see everything at once. Like, inside and outside of everything from all perspectives at once. I'll pass.

This probably won't help you figure out how to play Miegakure, though. Although I thought the comparison to FEZ was apropos.

It's hard to imagine a time before hierarchical file systems.

Privacy was my first concern about it, too. Okay, so maybe not worse than Manna, but at least as bad as, if in a different way.

Well, this is terrible news on World Turtle Day.

I can't wait to kick the tires on this feature. I wonder how it compares to the integer implementation in WebAssembly.

That's exactly what I thought of. I thought, dear god, it's real. I really hope someone didn't read Manna and think, gee, that sounds like a good idea!

I have to disagree with Marshall Brain's "solution" to the problem. When I read those final chapters, I couldn't help but think the Vertebrane system was subtly and insidiously even worse than Manna.

What I'm disappointed about with AppImage is that it doesn't deal with differing architectures as far as I can tell. Which would really help me right now as I had to send my laptop to Dell for repairs and I'm now using just my Android phone and my Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a desktop. And compiling stuff on the Pi is SO SLOW!

What if I just want my browser to be a browser?

I don't know if the solution proposed here is the answer, although I use it every day of my life. In fact, I've started to resent having to use it as it should be the understood default. But then I'm not prone to puffery.

I can say that "strong opinions loosely held" is basically an oxymoron and never works in practice, assuming it actually means anything in the first place. The few places I've seen proudly proclaim this motto have been the most toxic, poorly managed businesses I've seen. That phrase has, to me, come to represent a big, giant glowing neon warning sign to stay far, far away.

I don't actually have a strong aversion to compilers. I use tools like Babel and Webpack regularly. However, I've seen the types of transformations the Svelte compiler does and they tend to hide complexity, making it harder to trace and debug code at runtime. Source maps can only do so much. It's much harder to debug code that doesn't resemble what you wrote in the first place.

This feels like it's leaning pretty hard on a stereotype.

Other projects in my company are still using Angular 1.x and Backbone. I guess it depends on your definition of modern.

First, I think anyone using React solely because of the virtual DOM implementation is largely missing the point. IMHO, the real win of React is the functional and composable way components can be designed and implemented.

Second, no disrespect to Svelte, but I think there's a huge trade-off between the React approach and the Svelte approach that developers should be aware of. React is a pretty unopinionated library, all things considered. The only compilation step necessary is JSX to Javascript. JSX maps pretty directly to React's API. This means compilation is pretty simple. So much so that you can do it by hand really easily if you really wanted to. Svelte, on the other hand, is pretty compilation-heavy. There's a lot of what I'd consider to be non-trivial transformation going on between the code you pass to the Svelte compiler and what comes out of it and runs in the browser. Personally, I'm less comfortable with that compared to React's runtime library approach. But if you are comfortable with that trade-off, that's perfectly fine. It is worth being aware of it, though.

That's weak. Now he's just printing Monopoly money.

I wonder if anyone cashes these things? We should all gang up and cash these checks together and overdraw him. Or at least really screw up his check book balance.

Wow! Note to self: maybe having a slack bot or something that yells really loudly whenever someone gains or loses admin privileges would be a good idea.

Or does it? You certainly wouldn't run into an arbitrarily imposed device limit.

What do the comments say? Only one is in English and that's the only language I can read.

This is baffling to me. IANAL, but I was under the impression that any documents created by the government were automatically in the public domain and couldn't be copyrighted (with the exception of classified documents, of course).

I think the original article title should be used. "A mysterious gut doctor is begging Americans to throw out “this vegetable” now. But, like, which?"

I'd love to know more about how the server is run on exclusively green energy.

I reject the thesis of this article. Specifically that a shortage of helium, and therefore balloons, is hurting parties. Not even at a child's birthday party would I think, "Where are all the balloons? This party SUCKS!!!"

I get that, but you can waste all of your time baling out water, or you can plug the hole.

I don't see how that's relevant to this particular problem.

I disagree as the article clearly states they have other payment processors and were already moving away from PayPal.

True, but as long as there are rules, somebody is going to find a loophole or a way to game the system. I'd personally be more concerned with Google improving their product or with society's increasing reliance on a single company's service and our unwillingness to consume information critically.

PBNs are garbagey, but trying to put them all down is unrealistic. And even if they could be stopped, it would only be a band aid fix, not addressing the real problems.

Why are you booing magduf? He's right.

That post is the only thing on the entire site.

Then it's misleading that the site prominently says "Latest release — Luakit 2017-08-10"