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overboard2 commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
mpalmer · 17 days ago
With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste -

and in my personal capacity -

I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site.

With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Cloudflare for things like this, but I would not use Anubis unless I could disable the imagery, and every time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?"

overboard2 · 17 days ago
I for one don't see anything wrong with anime characters, though I suppose neither of us are likely to change our minds.
overboard2 commented on The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)   github.com/X11Libre/xserv... · Posted by u/throwaway1482
const_cast · 3 months ago
At this point I think you're just arguing in bad faith and you have some strange ideological reasons to cling to X.

As I've already said, if this maintenance effort works out, then great! You, and maybe some other's, can continue to use X and the world will be happy.

I doubt that's going to be the case, but I do actually wish you the best of luck.

overboard2 · 3 months ago
Debates, especially on highly subjective issues, will not always be resolved quickly and definitively in the absence of bad faith. That "ideological reasons" you're sensing is the worldview of the person you're talking to.
overboard2 commented on Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?   mathenchant.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/jamespropp
Maxatar · 4 months ago
Correct, it's impossible to specifically and formally define the natural numbers so that addition and multiplication work. Any definition of the natural numbers will also define things that look very similar to natural numbers but are not actually natural numbers.
overboard2 · 4 months ago
What do you mean by "not actually"?

Edit: do you mean literally impossible?

overboard2 commented on 20 years of Git   blog.gitbutler.com/20-yea... · Posted by u/videlov
qntmfred · 5 months ago
I think the git usage patterns we've developed and grown accustomed to are proving inadequate for AI-first development. Maybe under the hood it will still be git, but the DX needs a huge revamp.
overboard2 · 5 months ago
What do you mean?
overboard2 commented on What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=JfZxO... · Posted by u/ecliptik
Tiberium · 8 months ago
Am I overthinking it or is this blog post heavily AI-edited? The way the text is very similar to what modern GPT models would give you.

This paragraph was the last straw that made me think so: >This story isn’t just about a TV; it’s about preserving history and celebrating the people who make it possible. Shank’s journey serves as a reminder of the lengths we’ll go to honor the past and connect through shared enthusiasm.

Also

>Shank Mods’ video is not just a celebration of retro tech but a love letter to the communities that keep these technologies alive. From the daring extraction to the meticulous restoration, every moment of this story is a testament to what can be achieved with determination and collaboration.

overboard2 · 8 months ago
It does seem strange, but there's a decent chance the author is ESL or just has an unusual writing style
overboard2 commented on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts   apnews.com/article/suprem... · Posted by u/_rend
jcranmer · a year ago
The case of Anwar al-Awlaki is exactly the kind of case where I think the president should face criminal liability for murder. Although, as he was murdered in a foreign country, no court in the US has jurisdiction for the president to be prosecuted; but if he had been murdered on US soil, it would be absolutely appropriate for a jury to decide whether or not it is justifiable for the president to order the death of somebody merely for speaking the wrong words.

Another topic that hasn't come up quite as much is the fact that this is an immunity proposition, not a defense. What SCOTUS is saying is that we aren't permitted to even ask if the president is reasonable in his beliefs; any trial on the merits is completely and totally foreclosed--that's what immunity means. Just a few days ago, SCOTUS decided that it's absolutely important that administrative law procedures need to go through the step of being heard by a jury trial, and now here it's saying that it's absolutely important that the president never be burdened by the prospect of having to have a jury weigh their actions.

It's just... really galling that SCOTUS would decide that the constitution requires that the president be a king above the law, exactly the sort of thing that England fought a few civil wars over before the US even sought its independence.

overboard2 · a year ago
Wikipedia says he was a higher up in al-Qaeda. All things considered, it doesn't seem like that much of a human rights violation.

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overboard2 commented on --libcurl   everything.curl.dev/libcu... · Posted by u/Tomte
sph · 2 years ago
We have dlopen and we can list exported symbols, but we have no information about a function's arguments, ABI and calling convention, so it's pretty much impossible to turn UNIX into a fully late-bound and interactive REPL. Same issue with syscalls.

The only way is starting from scratch, with a novel approach and programming model.

overboard2 · 2 years ago
Or you could add some more sections to object files. Just make clang and/or gcc export function signatures, structs, enums, and typedefs
overboard2 commented on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?   jcarlosroldan.com/post/31... · Posted by u/juancroldan
jampekka · 2 years ago
Thieves and other "bad actors" are often a consequence of deeper underlying problems. People don't tend to steal that much when they are economically comfortable. OTOH with no legal resort to get sustinence, you're guaranteed to get people to resort to illegal means.

I'm rather baffled how educated adult human beings keep on analyzing the world using moralistic fairytale level concepts like "bad actors" or "evildoers" as if there are some inherently tainted souls doing bad things just because they are bad.

In my, probably biased, assesment this is especially prevalent in the US public discourse.

overboard2 · 2 years ago
If you were poor, you'd be carjacking people?

u/overboard2

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