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Re:Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:41PM (#29680179)
Exactly this, the "why?" section sounded weird to me. Paywalls (specifically subscriptions and paying for a service directly) are a way to not need AdWords, if those don't work then what can websites do to make back their hosting, dev, writing and all other costs than using Ads
Re:Pop_OS 21.10 has landed on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:46AM (#29563131)
Is there a simple way to just reenable all the ppas at once?
Re:All Horses Are the Same Color on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:53PM (#29446081)
Isn't that just how proof by induction works? You assume the hypothesis is true for n and prove it for n+1
Does this only show for the current directory? It doesn't seem so from the documentation
Re:Your users will do what you make easy on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:40AM (#29146872)
Exactly, I played RuneScape a bunch in highschool and would spend some weekends just grinding. Sounds boring af, but the fun thing was talking with my friends, or with complete strangers. MMO may be able to use social interaction to offset the problems of grinding, although it's probably not for free. Some incentivization for interacting with others, and safety features to feel comfortable to reach out, are needed.
Re:Command line tools for productive programmers on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:11AM (#27992979)
Use broot as tree is not necessary of course `tree | less` works for that but as hinted in the article broot contains a lot more features. Fuzzy finding, preview, multiwindow copy/paste, renaming, directory navigation etc
Re:Compile your software on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:23PM (#27968273)
Is it required for open source software to support every combination of compiler, kernel, libc etc? We wouldn't say it has to support every version of any other dependency (not provided by system)

It's definitely a nice to have, but I think it's also valid for some project to say we support the version we used in CI and for releases. On the other hand you could say being stuck on a specific version is skin to relying on implementation details, which is a code smell atleast.

Re:Bash PS1 Generator on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:40AM (#27629066)
The tide prompt for fish has an option to add a horizontal rule and spaces between each command
I would love to know what the errors actually were, maybe a deeper dive into what and why compatibility was supposedly broken. Did the rust developers know that they were breaking compatibility? Firefox is a pretty big high profile user of rust, a breaking change couldn't have just snuck by.