Notices by firebreathingduck (firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net)

@clarity

Oh, that's an angle I hadn't considered. Thank you.

I mean, obviously I would consider what car I drive for the reasons you state. My ten year old dream of owning a car with the nifty 'T' logo is dead.

I just hadn't thought to put it into the same category as choosing a programming language.

Edit: agreed completely on production and commodification. One of my daughters refuses to shop at Shein or Temu because of their known use of child labor. My wife counters that every other vendor probably does the same, but does a better job concealing their supply chain.

@clarity I'm thinking of medicine, or construction. Nobody is going to avoid prescribing a particular drug or medical test because the company behind it are jerks. Nobody is going to break up concrete with a chisel instead of a jackhammer because the jackhammer team is arrogant.

But if I am writing something in Basic and find the community insufferable and bigoted, it's valid to switch to Smalltalk. (I picked those examples at random.)

@clarity

I find it fascinating that software development is a rare case where the politics and personalities around a set of tools can (and should) matter more than the tools themselves.

I haven't done anything with the Hare language, but the language creator Drew Devault seems (don't take my word for it) committed to a welcoming community and a specific emphasis on not attacking alternatives.

Good luck, no matter what languages you try.

@ramin_hal9001 @sacha

Agreed. There's a reason no popular infrastructure-as-code tool uses only sed, awk, grep, and /bin/sh. It's the same reason git is a unified project instead of a set of instructions for using rsync, patch, diff, and sha256.

With emacs in particular, I'm just frustrated because the learning curve is steep. It's taken me months of effort to be almost as productive in Spacemacs as I was in a week with VS Code and a few add-ons. I know the longer I put in the effort, the more my Spacemacs productivity will continue to improve. But it's a hard sell on novices.

@hellomiakoda

You're more patient than I am. I just can't watch the show any more, the repetition drives me crazy.

@hellomiakoda

Some hero should take all of Mythbusters and cut out the foreshadowing and recaps. It would cut each 43 minute episode down to about 9 minutes of great content.

@dalias

Wasn't fast compile times a primary design goal in Go?

I think a few other languages have, or at least had, fast compilation as a goal for that reason too. D and Zig come to mind.

@hober @sterophonick @divya

Thanks for calling out his transphobia.

@dalias @jherazob @AlexanderMars @ehproque @rk @SecurityWriter @protonprivacy @nextcloud

No, Microsoft especially has started taking the policy that email coming from a domain without a long-established reputation is automatically spam, and you have to jump through hoops to get it delivered. But all of the major providers have started doing this.

I've been running my own mail server using the https://mailinabox.email service on my own domain with a fixed IP for six years, and I still have delivery problems. I am not a spammer, a quick look in Thunderbird indicates I had 28 email conversations in the past 12 months.

@killyourfm

The hard part is the gentle sell. Nobody likes being pushed to a change that wasn't their idea in the first place. If we push them anywhere near as hard as Microsoft is, they'll go with Microsoft anyway.

I tried the hard sell on Linux to family members ten years ago, and it didn't go anywhere. A few years later, two family members switched on their own.

@quinn

I'm getting my news here and paying for a few brands outside the main - most notably Mondoweiss. I just need more money to support the rest.

@quinn

That's fair. But the assholes are getting an enormous amount of attention and the information holding power to account gets swept to the side.

@quinn

This is just more evidence that the news media exists to protect a conservative status quo. If they talked about the real reasons for the election results, people might want serious changes.

Their owners can't allow that.

@yogthos
there is a philosophical / economic movement around this called 'capability approach' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach

I've seen it expressed as "a man with no money has the freedom to buy food but that's useless without having the ability".

@baldur outstanding.

Another way to express labor arbitrage is "making engineers fungible".

Daniel Sockwell has an interesting video on this with respect to programming languages. https://youtu.be/MCKozTfcWr4?si=dkk17B8hn9Sbefzh