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Re:DNS SRV Records for HTTP (2009) on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:27AM (#33314857)
Does this deprecate TTLS records? I've only just begun to generate those
Instead of saying you're autistic, say you have autism. What you are is a human being, most likely. Having autism is just one of your traits.

TL;DR Autism is what you've got, not who you are.

"Disorders"?!

What's this, "person of color" instead of "black" or N*, that's all cool and agreeable, but then how on earth is "disorder" still okay? Bull.

Re:This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes on Saturday July 23, 2022 @05:38AM (#32201790)
Having used KDE 2, 3, skipped 4, and now 5, it's the most polished desktop environment I can think of. OSX is too weird and Windows is a hodgepodge of "GUI trend of the day". Not that either of those matter, since they're not FLOSS.
Re:Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:41AM (#32054406)
The way I'd do this, is by separating concerns into separate tables. If you have a table with (id, name) and a table with (id, parent_id), any doc with a parent will have a corresponding record in the second table.
What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Re:The SQLite Code of Ethics on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:03PM (#31886863)
Why is it a list and not a table?

Seems like a pretty simple case of CREATE TABLE ethics ( id INT PRIMARY KEY, rule TEXT );

Software tends to get thrown away after a few years. Nothing I've written as a professional programmer has survived the test of time. No regrets, though. Why would I carry the burden of self importance to even be bothered about this? Do we really need to cast our work in stone? It's just work and you probably got paid a bunch. Nothing wrong with that.

My advice would be to find whatever motivates you in your life. What makes you happy? Challenge yourself and everything you've got.

Re:Orkut on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:18AM (#31808933)
This won't be a thing in Holland. Not that it matters much, but just saying.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=nl&tl=en&text=kut&op=transl...

Re:Oldschool PC Fonts on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:54AM (#31808324)
Thanks but I prefer this one: https://sciops.net/downloads/vga/ ("The only font you'll ever need")
Linux always boots perfectly fine with TPM hardware support disabled, even when there actually is such a chip built in.

The real showstopper would be if "SecureBoot" would be enforced. I hope it never actually happens for personal computers. Everything else in the consumer electronics business is pretty much a lost cause already.

Kids these days...

Go read a book!

PHP: My own, so not known by anyone else ;)

I made it because I don't like all the existing frameworks. That said, it uses Laminas Diactoros because not using that would be to reinvent the wheel.

Re:Show HN: Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:45AM (#31581721)
This extension is pretty cool and I already found a bug. It doesn't work for elements whose font-family has been set with a !important flag.

It would be crude to set font-family to "Flow Circular" !important on every element (in the style attribute), but it would probably be much more effective.

Re:NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:21AM (#31292771)
IIRC, noatime is useful everywhere except /var/spool or /var/mail where certain daemons may depend on access time correctness.
Re:Can I PHP? – caniuse.com but for PHP features on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:04AM (#31270457)
This site provides a nice overview, cool. It makes me wonder though, because IMHO PHP is adding too much new features that are often somewhat half-baked. What would be better is to have an actual specification to improve the core language. IIRC, Python gradually adds features where they are opt-in first (from __future__ import foo).

I'd gladly take a language which offers stability and gradual improvement over a language that just keeps adding new toys to play with. The software development cycle can take many years and from my experience, changes in the language or runtime are a burden.

But my biggest gripe isn't with PHP, it's that cheap web hosting still comes with PHP and MySQL. And I honestly can't blame them.

/rant

Re:Testing my system code in /usr/ without modifying /usr/ on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:20AM (#31189023)
It's pretty cool actually that this is possible and I also can't help but think that this is a solution to a problem that need not exist in the first place. Systemd has this problem and the solution is to use a feature in systemd, right?

IMHO systemd has amassed too many features, both documented and undocumented. Having worked with GNU+Linux for over 2 decades, I still find Devuan and Void easier to manage than Fedora and Ubuntu. The latter is fine for basic desktop needs though.

Re:Patching dependencies is easier than forking on Sunday April 24, 2022 @06:38AM (#31142800)
The way I deal with dependencies lately is I place them in a separate directory (called lib) right next to the project source itself (called src). So the project and its dependencies are the same repository and I can have peace of mind. Also, I've got a few patches for those dependencies and those commits consist of only the patch and a clear log message. This helps when the time comes to update the patched dependencies.

Would I recommend this method to everyone? No. Is it useful in certain cases? Definitely yes.

Re:The New Homophobia on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:47AM (#31132513)
I wonder why this article got flagged. It's insightful and well written.
Re:I want to give Oracle money but I can't on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:57AM (#31024387)
It's strange though, the best software (including RDBMS) is free.

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