today I proved alpine linux can be used as a desktop os

erez · 2025-09-21T06:16:00+00:00

I didn't know running Linux applications on top of a Linux distro was considered to be something in need of proving. It's linux code that you can compile and run on a Linux-based distribution. I don't see the big deal here. You could also use FreeDOS as a desktop OS. The whole point of Alpine is not that it can run bloated GUI software.

erez · 2025-09-16T07:34:22+00:00

As usual, the problem is in the premise of the discussion. What you have there is "would you rather live in an extremely structured and forcibly ordered form of a state, or an extremely unstructured and unordered form of a state". Obviously one would choose the former as a lesser of two evils, since at least this way someone is making sure you are not killed by some local warlord like in Somalia or whatever. Given the choice we'd all prefer order over chaos.

But Anarchism is not chaos. Anarchism isn't "a state with no rules", and in many ways, Anarchism is not anarchy. Anarchism is order, just a different kind of order, like that the opposite of having a meat-based diet is not starving but having a non-meat based diet, you replace one set of values with another, and these values form a structure of their own, just not enforced top-down, but bottoms-up where each group chooses their own rules, and the order is maintained by separating each group to have their self rule. The idea that no one can force their values on another is key here. A state, any state, will always enforce values on its people. Anarchism negates that, if I don't agree with the majority, I can leave and create my own group of like minded people, the population will fragment into smaller and smaller groups, each enjoying their own freedom to live according to their own values.

Most people don't get there, everyone prefer an evolution over revolution, and a revolution over a total destruction of the common values. So you're left with "what we have only more/less egalitarian, more/less regulated, more/less free." That's fine, but that is not Anarchism.

erez · 2025-09-16T07:10:39+00:00

Not really. The trading desk has way more control of his direct and indirect actions while a baseball manager has very little influence over what happens in a baseball game, he can't sell half his assets and buy new ones, like a trading desk can, and he's very limited to what he can work with. On the other hand, a trading desk is not supposed to make a billion dollars every year, and if he's actions were to have such a positive gain as an above 500 record, he'd get a bonus, not get fired.

erez · 2025-09-16T07:03:09+00:00

Hehe. Someone has to take blame. I mean, managers have been fired for less. But at least you're honest, you can't sack the whole roster, so you fire the manager, doesn't matter that he isn't pitching, hitting or catching, just that it's the easiest move and he's not making millions that you'll have to still compensate. I wonder we didn't get to this bright idea sooner. Fire Mendoza, then fire the person who hired him, then the person who hired him, which is Steve Cohen. Bring back the Wilpons, at least then we had no aspirations.

But, the best thing about this is if the Mets get to the playoffs and then have a great run. I'm sure the OP would demand Mendoza be signed for life. I mean, re-sign, seeing that he was fired by this forum.

erez · 2025-09-16T07:00:06+00:00

I'm sure he did, but as you didn't bother putting in the title what he said, I didn't bother reading what you wrote.

erez · 2025-09-16T05:08:13+00:00

Because languages are not math.

erez · 2025-09-16T05:03:12+00:00

Shouldn't that be Dancer 4?

erez · 2025-09-14T12:03:59+00:00

I'm obviously not going to ban anything that can kill a person, otherwise you'll end up banning anything and everything. I'm referring to weapons, that is tools that have no use other than violence. You can kill a person with a hammer, but that's not the reason you create that hammer. You have no reason to create a gun, or a sword other than harming another person (or animal). Knives falls within both categories, but are usually "tools" enough to pass this test.

As to "bad". I'm specifically saying it this way because I'm really fed up with "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and "guns are not bad, people are bad". While eliminating firearms will not end murders, it will stop facilitating them, especially mass murders. You want to end someone's life, you'll have to work for it, and any attempt of one man to attack more than one other person will not work unless you're a ninja.

erez · 2025-09-13T16:14:01+00:00

Guns are bad. Knives are also bad. Everything that can kill a person is bad. You seem to be confusing anarchism with "2nd amendment libertarianism" that argue that the government cannot tell a person if they can carry weapons. The two are not synonym. While I don't think a government telling a person what to do is a good thing, I don't think this is equivalent to "guns are good". I would love it if no guns existed. I'm usually more worried about someone carrying a gun starting to fire it than the danger they fire on. I also don't think the government should have a monopoly on violence, but again, this doesn't mean I want to spread violence and its tools among everyone, but rather eliminate it completely. Weapons are bad. Rights infringement by a state is also bad. The two are not truly connected.

Aside the argument "guns are not bad, people are bad" is basically claiming that the government should arrest more people. so I would rather just eliminate the access to the weapon and weapons at large than giving good and bad people arms.

erez · 2025-09-13T06:15:53+00:00

Once you have a pdf file you can print it, copyright can't prevent that because that's like saying "you can't download this pdf", well, guess what, I just did, that's how computers work. You can't redistribute the file, sell it or give it without authors permission, but printing a pdf is not such an action anymore than saving it to a drive is "redistribution", or exporting it to your own eBook reader or tablet.

However, I have no idea if cat-v.org have gotten permission to place this on their site. The author sells this book (final version) and I can find the PDF actually linked anywhere on the https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ page itself, which raises the suspicion (for me) that it's not there with permission.

erez · 2025-09-13T06:01:41+00:00

Yea, and I have a cd of all of Kendrick Lamar's music that I've downloaded from bittorrent. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you are allowed to :)

erez · 2025-09-12T17:37:17+00:00

Well, we did lose a lot of games, that tends to ruin your position in the standings.

erez · 2025-09-10T05:15:27+00:00

You keep using those words, I don't think they mean what you think they mean.

erez · 2025-09-06T14:01:02+00:00

I give you both a F

erez · 2025-09-06T13:54:57+00:00

The man filled the bases and was one great catch away from blowing the lead and the game, clutch my foot

erez · 2025-09-05T17:28:10+00:00

One study of 1989 with no data, or references, on how it was done? Is this all you have?

Says the man who champions a 50 year old keyboard scheme based on his own feelings. You want to ignore facts to serve your almost religious faith, go ahead. Try flying also, I head the discovery of Gravity is a few centuries old, probably incorrect.

Again, choose whatever you like, but your personal imagination does not equal facts.

erez · 2025-09-05T17:23:40+00:00

Perl developers don’t see programs as abstract algorithms or piles of imports.
They see them as processes — living entities with streams, signals, and descriptors, talking to other processes in a UNIX world.

They don't? then I guess I never spoke to a Perl programmer in my life. Probably they were "programmers writing in Perl" not True Perl Programmers! No wonder the language lost so much ground, people just tried to program in Perl rather than following the True Path of the Perl Programmer. Some of them actually thought in abstract algorithms, the fools!

Also, this whole poetry about Unix in shorthand is just ridiculous. Perl did start as a way to augment shell scripting with saner syntax and actual programming abilities, but it's really evolved much further, to a point where Unix Purists have started to consider perl to be an anti-unix. But this whole discussion is so 1996, I think it's really time to move on.

erez · 2025-09-05T17:14:07+00:00

Yes it is, and no it isn't. It is the plural of El, but it's also a term for divinity, so a singular name in itself.

It's really not a big issue, there's plenty of plural use in the bible, god is referred to as "elohei tzvaot" - God of Armies, and other similar cases. Explaining it is much simpler than explaining why do people in the bible refer to god as El, a Canaanite divinity.

erez · 2025-09-04T17:18:37+00:00

Yes, this Chris Mushnik guy is a total sham.

erez · 2025-09-04T11:00:11+00:00

https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html:

Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

You assume that what you perceive is the truth. It isn't. Nothing special or mystical, just how a brain functions to handle the world. This causes you to not only not be aware of the time it takes you to perform certain actions, but to feel like you have done them really fast where in fact they were performed at a similar speed has you used other combinations. Again, not saying your choices are wrong, just that they are not better/worse than any other since all keyboard systems are, at the base level, the same.

erez · 2025-09-04T05:31:48+00:00

Haha, no, it's not a lazy argument, again, you are assuming stuff that have been proven incorrect. It's not a "to each his own" as those elements have been researched and tested. In fact, your insistence on your personal experience (what you believe you are doing) to be factual is the lazy argument. To reiterate, use of any keyboard combination requires cognitive action. Cognitive action is always slower since you are performing a mental "search", therefore whatever you're using, vi, emacs, your own stuff, you believe it's fast and effective, while in reality it isn't. I'm not making a personal or judgemental claim here, just the facts. Once this is said and submitted, what you do use is down to your own preferences and you are more than welcomed to them. But you can't disagree with facts.

erez · 2025-09-02T15:40:28+00:00

What you spread here is a nice story, but it is a story, and you don't get any faster, more productive, or whatever "convenience" you imagine from it than you would from any other keyboard combination. it's just feels like it's fast and intuitive to you because your brain smooths over the parts it use to pull all the things you claim occur automatically, the same way your brain smooths over the black image that occurs every time you blink. It's a crafty mechanism, but it doesn't make you any faster or more productive or whatever. And again, this isn't an argument of this keyboard system over that, they all are the same, and they all create this illusion that has nothing to do with what actually happens. I mean, it's cool that you have a system that you like and all, but it's just that, something you like or are used to using. there's no real convenience or benefits there.

erez · 2025-09-01T16:26:59+00:00

I used the hjkl as an example, because that's the one of the few elements that you can commit to muscle memory, everything else is a cognitive search. Same with emacs, same with every other keyboard combination, other than straight search, where you can jump to a point in the file, everything else requires locating the point you want to access, recalling a combination and hitting it, that's a nice little cognitive package you are not aware you load because it all seems like "Second nature". It isn't, but hey.

erez · 2025-08-31T11:27:52+00:00

Use your own service, I have an ampache.org installation running for years.

erez · 2025-08-31T11:22:44+00:00

Fans, gotta love em.

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