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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time capitalism has built almost everything we have.

  Almost everything I can see and touch has been delivered by a for-profit business operating in a capitalist society

  There’s a couple ways to interpret these statements.

  Are you talking about innovation, progress, invention? Realistically, no. Occasionally capitalists put enough resources in the right hands that somebody working under capitalists manages to invent something good, but most real innovation doesn’t happen without government funding. Capitalists are very hesitant to risk their capital on the kind of critical R&D that is necessary to make progress. Even when it happens under capitalism, there’s no reason to think that capitalist control of the market caused it to happen - any system that gives creative people the time and resources to work on things will have as good results, at least, and it’s easy to construct a system that gives that time and resources to more creative people, with fewer bosses interfering and squashing anything that’s not seen as profitable. Capitalism is, though, very good at capturing and controlling innovation, sometimes even just killing existing innovations outright - see “embrace, extend extinguish”.

  Are you talking about manufacture and delivery of final products? Sure, under capitalist systems, of course it’s all done by capitalism, as other options aren’t available, or at least, aren’t given any room. If somebody builds a fence around the lake that everyone fishes in, and takes over the fish and sells them to people who used to catch their own, do you praise that person for providing fish? Do you think landlords are providing housing?

  Capitalism isn’t just commerce. Capitalism is an antidemocratic economic trait, where the production and distribution of goods, services, and information is controlled by unelected, private owners of capital. Does it “destroy everything we build” as the person you were replying to said? No, not everything, but it does destroy a lot, and control and pervert most of what’s left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guthib⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it has a whole set of options based on common ls options. Classic and brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time of the year again!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cut to Mrs Claus baking a spice cake:

  She’s all alone, all alone, in her time of spice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s a categorical error. The analogy is about “git”, not “git repositories” or “DVCS repositories”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time of the year again!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how including a final semicolon can protect against an injection attack. In fact, the “Bobby Tables” attack specifically adds in a semicolon, to be able to start a new command. If inputs are sanitized, or much better, passed as parameters rather than string concatenated, you should be fine - nothing can be injected, regardless of the semicolon. If you concatenate untrusted strings straight into your query, an injection can be crafted to take advantage, with or without a semicolon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill is a pro grammer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume they were using source control under that manager…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill is a pro grammer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But an irreplaceable liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill is a pro grammer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But an irreplaceable liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then try Waterfox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Markdown everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not markdown but same spirit: www.passwordstore.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't it ironic, don't you think?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually just start from typing it up in emacs, then copy paste it to the fussy little form. Anything over six words, it probably saves me time, even if nothing was going to go wrong. And then… Just as you said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love all my statements equally. (I don't care for GOTO)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Using “self documenting” as a blanket excuse to not document things that need it is inexcusable, yes, but I’d rather work on code written by somebody who seriously thinks about how to make it clean and self documenting, and then documents whatever still needs it as well, than on code written by somebody who doesn’t make that effort, but documents heavily. And as for people who claim they’re documenting everything, when the documentation is function fooTheBar() // foos the bar, they can eat a bag of docs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you agree?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Who, exactly, do you think would “sell out for money”, and why would they have the power to do so? Linux is huge, and the pressure to monetize is there now. Plenty of people have been trying to monetize Linux - and in many cases, succeeding - for decades now. Why do you think being dominant would change that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recursion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yikes! Pull the lever now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recursion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You weren’t wrong, the meme implies an infinite series, and I might be cheating to apply real-world constraints to an absurd hypothetical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bleeding edge tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Inevitable. AI is Artificial Intelligence. Nobody can define intelligence, so how can they define an artificial variety?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recursion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your logic, so far as it goes. However, there are, currently, just over eight billion humans in existence. If my quick, over-tired math is correct, that means only 34 people have to say no, until we run out of people to tie to the tracks. Assuming, at that point, the system collapses and nobody dies, I’d guess 34 people would refuse - might be the better choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always gets me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  C-/ for undo. C-/ for redo. All you need.