That's a very nuanced analysis. I've explained it this way especially to people who describe themselves as "bad at computers". Hey, give yourself a break, you've learned a lot about how to cope with windows. But this investment leads to a conservatism--- they dont want to learn coping skills o a new system. The devil you know.

I'd just add that GUI is more discoverable. When faced with a terminal, what to do? Whereas with a GUI you have a menubar, some icons etc. The GUI gives a lot more hints.

In the terminal (which I love) it is more powerful once you know how to crack the lid.

I felt the same way every time I tried to use Twitter as I feel every time I try to use Mastodon. It's either way too much or way too little. I prefer everything about the reddit/lemmy/threadiverse style.

How would we even be having this conversation on microblogging? A bunch of reposts, with or without comments, disconnected from each other... So much nicer to have a "subject" line and a page where every relevant comment is presented.

There are so many niche forums.

Here's one I found a while ago when I was looking at repairing an old electric fan I found: Antique Fan Collector's Forum.

In the way that people would always add "reddit" to their searches, try just adding "forum".

soo you are saying people are tricked into it?

Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger.

It’s not really something developers want to think about very much so they often just use the default.

Do you think it was intentional ideological decision by the Rust developers or some other contributors/interests to make permissive the default? Or a random decision that has ended up being consequential because of the popularity of Rust?

I have noticed for a long time that github promotes MIT license. It lets you use any, of course, but puts a real positive shine on MIT. My perception is that this is a purposeful intervention by MS into FLOSS to promote MIT.

Yes you are correct I mis-used the term. I mean copyleft. So I fixed the post. :)

I assume they are just harvesting email addresses unless a very small site

I am not a big fan pf matrix but I think SchlidiChat was the one I used most successfully on android.

From what I have seen a main issue with Matrix is that the protocol can be implemented in bits and pieces. Which is perfectly fair but it leads to an inconsistent user experience. The default web clients you first use to try it out will be using strong encryption settings by default but then a lot of the mobile or native desktop clients don't support encryption. So it's difficult to get going finding cross platform apps that have all the desired functionality consistently between them.

In terms of the apps, I don't think comparing matrix to lemmy is exactly fair for this reason.

matrix isn't a forum. it's a chat.

This is a case where both tools are invaluable.

The original find has much more comprehensive options. Of course it is extensively documented and you can find all kinds of information online about how it works and how to combine it with other tools to accomplish all kinds of tasks. And it's GPL which is always preferable.

fd has a narrower range of functionality but goddamned it really is faster. fd can run several searches on the whole hard drive's contents while find is struggling to get through just a single comparable search on the same set of files. For simple tasks, the cli usage for fd is less to remember and less to type.

If I had to choose, I'd stick with find because it can do everything, even if it's slower and more cumbersome. But luckily, don't have to choose, just have both and use them as appropriate.

thanks I was wondering about that but forgot to specifically ask :)

Is there any specific reason to keep the docs in the wiki section? Vs markdown documents right in the wiki itself?

For my self I like to document in the code itself. It has one major benefit which is: I always know where the information is to be found. But there are some problems with it such as

• creates conflicts when merging changes from another repo or branch

• it makes the git history a lot messier because you have some commits on functional code and some on comments, all mixed up in a single document. I know with fancier git this could be tidier but I can't reliably work at such a high skill level

• comments are not subject to syntax formatting so harder to read

• source document itself becomes too long to read and hard to understand

• extremely contextual to my skills and challenges at the time when I wrote the code; not what I will need to know in the future and not what others need to know

So not always the way to go.

Can you imagine if the threadiverse was sorted that way? It would be insane and essentially unusable at scale

On lemmy there is a way to basically do this by toggling the filters at the top of the top of the front page. You can see how this looks form my instance: https://programming.dev/?dataType=Comment&listingType=All&sort=New

I've always assumed nobody every uses it like that. I guess if you were bored you might get lucky and see something that interested you, at least if it was limited to Local and you were on a good instance.

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I do not program. So maybe trying to understand all this is over my head. wikipedia describes

A static library or statically linked library contains functions and data that can be included in a consuming computer program at build-time such that the library does not need to be accessible in a separate file at run-time.

I thought that was the idea of binaries in general. In the Arch repos there are many packages appended with -bin. (The Arch repos also contain items of various licenses including proprietary.) Lots of FLOSS packages make a binary available by direct download from their website. Without too much detail, is there something special about Rust? Or maybe I misunderstand the concept of a binary release.

library code licensed under it must be able to be replaced.

Does this mean you need to be able to make a reproducible build? Or need to be able to swap code for something else? Wouldn't that inherently break a program?

Why is it an MIT project in the first place?

Thanks! Searching for this led me to this extremely charming website where in addition to robust folding, the author argues in favor of proportional width fonts and tabstops (not spaces) in coding. Unconventional. It's nice to know someone who processes text in a similar way to me can be a successful programmer. Even if they had to write their own tools. https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/elastic-tabstops.html

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