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Right. You have absolutely no idea.

What actually would HN be like if it were perfect in your eyes? What would tech be like?

Really? HN is probably the most feminised tech forum that's ever existed.

It's only OK to parse something with regex if it was defined with regex. Far too often I see people wanting to match postcodes and things which are not defined by regex and your heuristic could break at any time.

Did you mean to start the video half way through?

Why does it keep mentioning .so? Nobody refers to it like that. Just say dynamically link.

> Why would it be public domain?

Copyright is supposed to protect creative works. There is such a thing as a threshold of originality. There are database rights, but that is separate from copyright.

Some plants need a lot of water. Basil does, for example. But succulents in particular don't want much.

Succulents are easiest. Things like peace lillies are also classic. Anything you could get from a supermarket is probably fine.

It's nothing to do with men being "forced" to do anything, it's simply that in every sexual species the selective pressures on males and females is very different. In mammals the females have to be strong enough to carry a baby until birth. While the males have to be stronger than all other males; long term health is much less important.

You can get it now with free software and have been able to for many years. What you won't see is a major distro including it.

They could start by being not evil/truly friendly. I'm amazed that people will happily forget all the bad things that company is still doing after a couple of token gestures.

Two wrongs don't make a right?

It is true. Learning any Lisp changes how you think about programming. Learning Emacs Lisp will make you wish all development was like that.

When I put music on my shitty earbuds I can't hear anything else either.

Prompting actually means it's no longer a CLI.

Apostrophe?

GPL draconian? How do people misunderstand it so? The GPL is there so that your contribution will actually benefit society in the long term.

A wrapper around emerge? Nope...

I used to use gnus and liked it. I don't think I can use this at work because I need the exchange invitation crap which thunderbird thankfully supports. I just can't be bothered to put significant effort into making that work. But I think I should definitely look into this for home.

Except that the ultimate OS is open source, completely under my control, and not riddled with spyware and other malware.

I've concluded that Excel is never the best tool for any job whatsoever. I actually think it's incredibly harmful.

Never say that.

What's wrong with boys? That was your fault.

Yeah, but is it because people actually like the syntax? Some languages seem to be attractive to people right from the start, like Python. Some take a while to grow on you but then you realise their brilliance and don't want anything else, like Lisp. C isn't either of those.

It's very bad. The US is an outlier when it comes to developed countries. It's closer to third world levels.

I use the option "use theme colours" in Firefox and therefore my default background is grey and default color is whitish. Basically, if you change color, make sure you change background appropriately, and vice versa. Don't assume background will be white and color will be black for everyone.

True that. I want to see the output of OpenRC when I boot to make sure it all looks familiar (I only reboot after a kernel upgrade really). Then I login and type startx.

I understand I'm completely out of touch with how normal people use computers. I don't care.

That stuff happens to men too, though.

Sounds a bit like "Programming from the Ground Up" [1].

[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/