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More data to train on?

I can easily imagine a comment like this being written 30 years ago where "LSP" was replaced by "tags files".

> since the time I've joined the site (three years ago), I haven't seen a single ban that wasn't warranted, be it due to a single incident of flouting the site rules or a pattern of behavior.

That is hard to say, if you were to look up my final thread, all my comments were deleted, and you have no way of evaluating if the judgement was fair or not. I held the same position, assuming the moderation team was doing a good job until the hammer hit me.

> Regarding the thread you linked, I'll agree it was the admin's fault for writing the passive-aggressive banner that led to that (well-respected) user leaving.

That is what I am getting at. He has "joked"[0] that the job of moderation is stressful, and it is known that he has other problems[1] that aren't making the job easier for him. I believe that this shapes his moderation style, and not for the better. He errs on the side of over-moderation, which was exactly one of the faults HN hat, that motivated the creation of that site.

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/mox75k/2021_mod_applications#c_ad4hj0 [1] https://lobste.rs/s/ugprwi/what_does_it_take_get_new_tag_acc...

I think I first found out about the site in 2015. It look me 2 1/2 years to get an invite, and I visited it every day, and frequently contributed links. I belive at some point I was among the top 10 users, but I was kicked out because the main admin had some grudge against me, so when I wrote a controversial comment he banned me. Fair enough, his site. Retroactively I think this was for the better, as the climate was getting worse and worse. I have met some of the most dishonest people on that site and had some of the most frustrating discussions I can recall. In this respect, HN is preferable. What is sad is that I don't think this was always the case, and is it Lobste.rs that deteriorated over time. There was a long thread on this last year: https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site.

When I was banned, I sent a message to the administrators whether I could get a machine readable file of all my comments. I thought to myself, if I had already spent all that time commenting, I might as well repost them on my own site. But the administrators all refused to even discuss this with me. I sent them SQL queries and everything, but they didn't even regard me worthy of a response. This was very disappointing and unprofessional.

So what I want to say to the sibling comments who are looking for invites, consider it twice. There are annoying people everywhere, and I haven't found a website format that can prevent these from popping up.

You could also check out rtorrent: http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/, but I remember reading that development has stalled on that project.

Not necessarily, this actually sounds like a great bootstrapping tool. All you need to write on a new platform is a BLC interpreter, which should be easier to implement. Using the C->BCL translation, you might be able to build something like TinyCC and work up from there.

I was under the impression that the Pixel 6-7 have a far more visible and perceptible bump than other devices.

Perhaps, but my point is that the bump is too prominent. It would be nice if it could be more flat.

Most people I talk to dislike the camera hump on the back, but Google insists on it. I guess it is their new design language. Sad, because I think the simple design from the Pixel 4 to 5a was quite nice. But from what I hear, the series 6 hasn't been that much of a hit as they had anticipated it. I even once saw an ad for it in a cinema, which surprised me as non-internet Google advertisements have been rare in my experience. Not sure if the 7/7 Pro will be better, or if they will just throw everything away in a year or two, and start all over again.

Then again, the only reason I was even interested in following the development was because I had been considering to buy a new phone after 5 years to use Graphene OS.

I want to believe that this is not a necessary conflict, or rather is at best one that can be resolved. The choice still remains difficult, as you don't know the future, so it is preferable to have both on board.

OK, but just because a serial murdered can be charming, doesn't mean that every charming person in a serial murderer. It is true, I can't deduce anything with certainty from my personal and public correspondence, or the messages I see him send to others. But as opposed to the serial murderer, the issue here is the way he communicates and behaves.

I guess you could try this out empirically, by creating a throwaway Email address and sending him a dry, technical question under a female name, and see how he responds.

I am male, and I do get what you mean, which is why I wrote "Of course, I might have just caught his good and kind side, who knows?". As a person living in Germany, with a non-German accent, I also understand that not everyone perceives everything. Any person who feels excluded from participating in the Free Software movement is a loss. The more people with more perspectives, the stronger the movement is, which is in everyone's interest.

That being said: I do agree that some of the statements made in the past were tasteless, and I am disappointed that he did so. Yet when reading his own texts like https://stallman.org/articles/necessary-changes.html, I have to either conclude that he agrees but has made mistakes or is himself lying.

Another thing might be that I have only had contact with him via Email. Perhaps he is different in person, that I cannot say.

This is a good summary.

> ...because one of the letters against Stallman stopped accepting signatures at three thousand people, but the "pro" Stallman letter never did.

It was always a hunch, but I suspected that part of the reason they stopped is that they reached a plateau, while the open letter was continuing to rise in popularity.

https://linuxreviews.org/Grass-roots_Richard_Stallman_Suppor...

Regarding the other accusations, my understanding is that they are unfounded or intentional misrepresentations

https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...

I have personally communicated with RMS, even privately, and see a discrepancy between the way he is portrayed and the way he behaves on a regular basis. Of course, I might have just caught his good and kind side, who knows? Either way, my impression remains that those who see him as bad want to see him as bad.

This was written by Yusuke Endoh, who also wrote this submission to the IOCCC that I remember being arguably more astonished when I saw it for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg (ASCII fluid dynamics).

See iso646.h, and https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_alternativ....

> 1) "Jumping from one project to another. How do you stay focused ?" : that screams ADHD to me (not a doctor, not a shrink). Full disclosure : I have ADHD.

I've been hearing this a lot recently, and while I don't doubt that there are people who are affected by ADHD, it seems to me that the condition can very easily be treated as an excuse. Certainly people without ADHD can get distracted, and someone with ADHD wouldn't be indistractable if they didn't have ADHD, right? So how do you distinguish between cases where ADHD is actually the cause and where someone uses it as an excuse (e.g. there was this guy on Twitter recently who claimed he could only use Twitter and not a blog because of AHDH, which sound like an excuse for some other behaviour to me)?

You can pass git blame -w to ignore whitespace changes, though yes, in general it is annoying.

> and then you can just press "e" to repeat it again and again.

You can also pass C-x e a 0-prefix argument (M-0 C-x e) and it will repeat the macro until the bell rings, which usually happens when a movement command like forward-line, forward-sexp, etc. reaches the end of a buffer.

Another strategy is to record a macro that only operates on a single line, then mark the region you want to repeat it in for every line and then execute it on all these lines using C-x C-k r.

I don't recall the implementation details, but I have heard of undo-tree landing in invalid states that can break the history. It might just be that vundo is newer, but I haven't heard of these kinds of stories for that package.

In my eyes it is the more idiomatic implementation.

You might also be interested in vundo: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vundo.html. It is a newer alternative that is to my knowledge more robust, but depends on Emacs 28.

So this is only for the installer, right? The software that is not needed for basic functionality will not be installed permanently, right?

Also, if there are two driver implementations, as is often the case for GPUs, which will be preferred?

VSCode is a common denominator. While enough for most, it doesn't do the job for everyone. There is nothing bad about it one way or another.

You could also consider the Firefox forks Fennec and Mull.

I'd still object, Emacs has nothing to do with command-line interfaces.

To me, it seems lesser because online communication is inherently lesser to real life communication. It always appears as a restricted emulation of of "the real thing". Even now, you don't know my tone, you don't see my body language, what I emphasise, etc. I started writing this sentence, then rephrase it because it didn't sound good. I cannot hide this when speaking face-to-face.

Again, to me "easrng" means nothing. When starting to read your comment I had no idea what perspective you were coming from, if you were about to agree with me or not. All I know about you are the 99 words you have written in this comment.

Setting aside scams, if you meet someone online, when you get along well and become friends, would you reject the opportunity to meet them in real life instead of communicating virtually? I think most people would take that opportunity. I guess I am still young, and I think that most people my are inclined to agree with me -- especially after the lockdowns.

But what you say is interesting: When I hear "I can craft and change representations of all that I am", I hear someone saying that they can make up a fake persona, instead of being the person they actually and inherently are. An online persona starts blank, just like I have no image of you before our first message. Even the most generic person has something that makes them ever so different from most other people, that they cannot deny.

On the contrary, I think that anonymity makes people more honest, because they don't have to fear the repercussions of saying something that either a real person or an online persona. They both have to hide, while the lack of an identity makes you free.

Aren't all "line editors" also "command line editors"? Either way, that is not my point. I just wanted to point out that Emacs shoudln't be boxed into the same category as Vim, because while Vim ist most commonly used in a terminal, Emacs isn't.

Emacs is a visual editor (which also applies to Neovim, btw). Ed is a command line editor. But even if we assume that "command line" means "terminal", then it would still be wrong to describe it as a "command line editor", in the same sense at is wrong to describe a computer as a facebook client.

> For command-line editors, you could consider Neovim or Emacs.

A friendly reminder that Emacs is not a "command-line editor".

> Watching someone be genuinely enthusiastic about something is wonderful.

But isn't the question what they are being enthusiastic about? I would certiainly agree that there are some things that considered noble and respectable (helping the sick, science, the right kind of activism for the right kind of people, ...) that most admire. At the same time I think most recognize that there are destructive or non-productive things one can be enthusiastic about to the point of obsession. While having an anime girl on your website or being a furry is usually not destructive and ignore the cultural popular images of people like these, then they are at least non-productive in the sense that neither society nor the individual themselves grows from engaging with the topic. You can study engineering and improve human technology or write and learn how to better express yourself, but I don't see how anyone can progress as an anime weeaboo beyond a self-contained culture that might value if you know the names and details of all characters by heart. As soon as you step out of this bubble, the value disappears.

> Maybe it's a generational thing, maybe it's my circles, but I've seen plenty people appreciating and gushing about people sharing their interests.

I don't know what generation you are referring too. I'm Gen Z and obviously have different feelings about this. Sure, I enjoy talking to people who share my interests, but I know when and where the right place is. I don't go out with friends and insist on talking about e.g. Emacs, and I certainly don't want to be perceived as someone who superficially is only interested in my own topics, not caring to engage with topics that others care about.

(Btw. thank for your respectful tone, I appreciate that).