I have Thots™ about this one (from the braying Tim, urging you to write software with 0 dependencies, which I think it is literally impossible unless you are the kind of person who does hardware bringup via bit-banging, but also that's not what he's talking about): tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
By “zero dependencies" he means “none of *those* dependencies”, you know, the ones we shudder at when we look at node_modules and count, not the ones that quietly make entire software ecosystems possible.
Is a dynamic library a dependency?
Postgres?
An operating system?
All of these things are software modules we use that are successfully bundled away behind often very successful interfaces (libc, sql, posix, etc).
But probably we're talking about leftpad. He mentions `xz` specifically, a dep that most people don't realize is in use in most of the places it's used.
“Minimize and think about them" is a stance I can get behind.
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Trump rebrands his ramblings as
‘I do the weave’
– but is he just losing it?
GOP candidate tries to fend off criticisms of mental acuity that plagued Biden, as he waffles about sharks and batteries
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"The range of presumable direct and indirect deaths could be between 15 and 20% of the population already by the end of this year," said U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
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Italian 'sì', Spanish 'sí' and many more Romance words for "yes" come from Latin 'sīc', which meant "so; thus; like that". In Popular Latin it got an extra meaning: "yes", born out of the sense "like that", i.e. "like you said".
French 'oui' has a completely different origin. It comes from Old French 'oïl', a univerbation of 'o il', literally "yes, it (is/does/has etc.)".
'O' stemmed from Latin 'hoc' (this), which became 'òc' (yes) in Occitan, whose name was derived from this very word.
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Libresource 2 uses Netlink sockets for faster network statistics
Oracle releases Libresource 2 with better performance, extended modules, Netlink sockets and scalable bulk API for efficient data processing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, she said, "has done nothing to stop settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank, often encouraged by right-wing ministers."
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Bamford, Warburton, Dyson, Martin, Hargreaves, Ratcliffe, Hester, Odey, Banks....those rich? The ones that got themselves rich in our society, using our workforce and infrastructure, then conspired with Farage & Gove to confiscate British Citizens' rights of European free movement, & whine about paying tax? More money than sense, & utterly selfish. Let the fleet of private jets set their course for Kigali. They won't be missed.
🤬 🤬 🤬 "This is what state-authorized election interference looks like," said the ACLU of Florida.
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"We demand our government completely stop arming Israel and push for a cease-fire now," said the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
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I made a similar joke about the French for nuts just last night.
The French for nuts doesn't distinguish between singular and plural. It's just noix!
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Spacewalks on the International Space Station (2021) (filmed by the astronauts themselves)
Miscellaneous footage of astronauts working on various spacewalks outside the International Space Station during 2020-2021. As it's taken by the astronauts themselves, it features a variety of unusual angles and perspectives. Spacewalks are done very slowly and carefully in order to avoid any accidents, so please don't expect this video to be action-packed :)
This video was made by NASA and is in the public domain.
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We don't like paying for our software dependencies, do we. We really hate it. We don't like paying the people who write the things that entire worlds of software depend on. We demand things from them to protect ourselves from *our* supply chain deficiencies without offering them anything in return.
Example: every somewhat off-target demand that maintainers of something popular turn on 2FA. Is 2FA helpful? Yes. Does it absolve you of responsibility for your own software supply chain? No. See blog.ceejbot.com/posts/multi-f…
That blog post gives you a first take on what my response to Tim Bray's post is going to be.
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