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What's a "dark pattern" company? I've never heard that term before.

Would it make sense to implement a peer-to-peer protocol for sharing git repositories, similar to torrenting, with the goal of overcoming these kinds of issues?

Article mentions Altaic theory without mentioning that Altaic theory is utter horseshit. Still an interesting article though.

I wonder if this is at all related to the common pairing of citrus fruits with psychedelic drugs. A lot of people recommend eating an orange or drinking orange juice when you take LSD, and a lot of people recommend using lemons to enhance psilocybin mushroom trips. Maybe grapefruit would pair even better with these drugs.

How come the Jargon File hasn't been updated since 2003?

That sure sounds like GNU. Instead of building tiny tools that each do one things, just make one big tool that can do a bunch of things depending on which of a hundred flags you use. Not to shit on GNU; I use GNU/Linux on all my own computers. But I notice that a lot of GNU software suffers from severe feature creep.

Funny, today one of my coworkers was talking about how she used IDL at one of her previous jobs, and later I happened to see this comment. Neat coincidence :)

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Saw this in a salvia trip once

Edit: Why the downvotes? This was clearly supposed to be a joke.

Why?

Don't forget posts about psychedelic drugs.

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I'm a professional developer and I use Nano as my main text editor, entirely by choice. I've never missed the cool features that other editors like Vim and Emacs have, even though I've used both in the past.

Kilos? Jesus, what would that even look like? I can't imagine that that much LSD would exist in the world at the same time. Amazing

> about 15 years ago, back when psychedelic use was still a relatively underground phenomenon and the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance was just beginning,

15 years ago? Huh, I thought it had only started a couple years ago.

This is pretty minor but I like how in Rust you can use constructs like if-statements and match-statements as expressions. For example:

  let foo = if some_condition {
      "condition is true"
  } else {
      "condition is false"
  };

  let bar = match x {
      0 => "string",
      1 => "another string",
      _ => "default"
  };

It's not super significant but I think it's an elegant syntactic feature.

How would we write our own libraries?

How will we write our own libraries, then?