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This was not a case of “I agree with you, but…”, though. “But” is perfectly appropriate here to contrast between the first statement and the second.

I already eat pineapple on my pizza, might as well make it a piña colada.

Armed Bear in the same vein

C shell

Hmm… I admit I didn’t follow the video and who was speaking very well and didn’t notice hostility that others seem to pick up on. I’ve worked with plenty of people who turn childish when a technical discussion doesn’t go their way, and I’ve had the luxury of mostly ignoring them, I guess.

It sounded like he was asking for deeper specification than others were willing or able to provide. That’s a constant stalemate in software development. He’s right to push for better specs, but if there aren’t any then they have to work with what they’ve got.

My first response here was responding to the direct comparison of languages, which is kind of apples and oranges in this context, and I guess the languages involved aren’t even really the issue.

I think most people would agree with you, but that isn’t really the issue. Rather the question is where the threshold for rewriting in Rust vs maintaining in C lies. Rewriting in any language is costly and error-prone, so at what point do the benefits outweigh that cost and risk? For a legacy, battle-tested codebase (possibly one of the most widely tested codebases out there), the benefit is probably on the lower side.

I agree. Not only is this blaming homosexuality as the cause for oppression of gay people, but it implicitly gives homophobes a completely made-up excuse (“they can’t help it because they’re so ashamed of who they are deep down”). Don’t give your oppressors the benefit of the doubt.

Boxing is a dumb sport.

In The Little Engine That Could, it’s 3x chug, 3x puff, 2x ding-dong.

Surprisingly good as far as I got. I’m gonna read the rest later.

Probably isn’t worse than the live action of Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Trying to define jazz is going to be a bad time, like trying to define art or the meaning of life. Jazz originated and developed over time as an African American take on popular music; bands playing popular tunes all night at dance clubs developed their own style, swinging the rhythm to keep people dancing and improvising to keep the music fresh.

I think the development of bebop had a huge effect on jazz, taking it from being primarily dance music to then focusing on virtuosic players. Bands got smaller and soloists became much more of a focus. Since bebop popped up in the 40s, most jazz has been heavily influenced by it.

Since the early 60s probably, there’s been a lot more branching and specialization in different jazz traditions, along with the growth of free jazz and other avant garde styles that explore breaking various “rules” of trad jazz.

It’s hard to recommend more than a few certified classics without knowing what you’re looking for. I’d say early John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, and Charlie Parker are a great place to start. If you want to go earlier, Louis Armstrong’s early stuff is great if you can get over the recording quality. If you want to go later, good luck, there’s a ton.

Well it wasn’t a website, for what it’s worth.

Tangentially related, I remember at one of my jobs being tasked (several years in a row) with updating the copyright year in all our source files’ headers.

The sequel to cbat

Everybody on .world thinks I’m a tankie. Everybody on hexbear thinks I’m a lib. I just want to be loved.

Hot sake poured by a cute twink in a kimono and idk some grindcore or some bossa nova. I’ve never been to a gay bar, but I think I’d go to that one.

Dude Dipes

I got super sick from this. It probably didn’t help that I was trying soothe my upset stomach with more peanut butter.

Whoa, so cats came from coconuts?