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I agree. But at least in a democratic system, the "each and everyone of us" are politicians that each and everyone elects. So it starts from the basis, IMHO.
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It is important to keep reminding ourselves that climate change is a real problem for humanity and that each and every one of us contributes to its intensification or mitigation through our decisions.…
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It's a pity. It's also a step back from valuing the Unix philosophy, which has its merits, especially for those with a "learning the system from scratch" mindset. Sorry, but I have…
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From the article: > I am also deeply sick and tired of maintaining large Python scripts recently, and crave the modularity and type safety of OCaml. I can totally relate. Switching from Python to …
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Cool, I like these kinds of projects. When it comes to embedding a scripting language in C, there are already some excellent options: Notable ones are Janet, Guile, and Lua. Tcl is also worth consider…
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Same for me. I would love to use it on my Sway desktop, but never managed to make it run there.
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And Void Linux. And Gentoo. And Alpine Linux. And Slackware. And others.
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I use Fossil extensively, but only for personal projects. There are specific design conditions, such as no rebasing [0], and overall, it is simpler yet more useful to me. However, I think Fossil is be…
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Not all reading is the same. In other words, I wish this article had differentiated between different types of reading. For example, I read that many young adults have picked up reading "new adul…
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> Every bad day for microsoft is yet another glorious day for linux. Nah. If that were the case, Linux would dominate personal computer statistics. The reality is that most mainstream users just do…
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I spent a long time tinkering with the tooling, which meant that writing always took a back seat or was put off. As a transition, I decided to use Bear Blog [0] for writing, and when I eventually find…
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You make a good point. From a philosophical point of view, abstractions should hide complexity and make things easier for the human user. It should be like a pyramid: the bottom layer should be the mo…
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Let me expand on this with a link to the article "Rebase Considered Harmful" [0]. I also prefer Fossil to Git whenever possible, especially for small or personal projects. [0] https:/&…