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Re:FyneDesk – Linux desktop environment in Go on Saturday April 13, 2024 @03:39PM (#40025434)
Cinnamon

Best obtained via LMDE

A better counter is private jets (and other perks) are not fair to regular employees.

CEOs will cave fast rather than loose their toys.

Re:Ask HN: What does FB gain in making LLAMA free? on Sunday April 07, 2024 @01:55PM (#39962424)
You can also look at it as a "scorched earth" strategy.

If an adjacent business can profit, it can build a war-chest and invest that in attacking your niche.

So destroy the potential profitability of their sector by giving away a free alternative.

Re: on Saturday April 06, 2024 @03:29PM (#39954770)
Create a browser bookmark with this as the URL:

javascript:window.open('https://archive.ph/'+window.location);self.focus();

Re: on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:02AM (#39952955)
Re:Go's Error Handling Is Perfect on Friday April 05, 2024 @02:23PM (#39945467)
This, and sooo many other shortcomings, begins to explain why a submission extolling Go's error handling is already flagged.

Go, and it's error handling (and for that matter it ludicrously verbose failure to bubble up errors) is a steaming pile of shit.

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