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Or, sadly soon, the UK and the EU ?


The rest of Europe =/= the EU.


It's also the same logic you can observe everywhere in business : pushing down responsabilities, outsource resources, leave a paper trail etc.


I've seen people write Java or C# like I would write plain C. Those first two are insanely high level with large standard libraries.


I disagre with "Those first two are insanely high level" but totally agree with the "with large standard libraries." part.


Java: "I've got a huge standard library!"

C: "See, you're doing it wrong! I've got a really lean standard library!"

Java: "Ah, so you just focus on the basics. You have a dictionary structure? That's pretty basic."

C: "...no."


BSDs have <sys/queue.h> and <sys/tree.h>; the former is standard on Linux as well.


To my eyes just having generics and hiding away pointers and vtables make them very high level, but I think my argument was more about what is coming with the language (aka their standard libraries) and I've definitely seen people ignore the available libraries, even in python.


Generally you could do something like `select(identifier).parentNode` ? pseudo language because I'm tired


So you're running everything under `/home/Epskampie/Epskampie` ?


It's /home/Epskampie/.home


It's often worse on Windows, since dotfiles aren't hidden and meny dev tools assume they'll be running on *nix even when they support Windows. https://imgur.com/a/Im6G20B capture from my windows box of my $HOME.


Plus if you try to rename a dotfile through explorer, it won't let you

Then if you try to make a dotfile through powershell, it has a different text encoding than *nix, which some programs (git) rely on


Plus if you try to rename a dotfile through explorer, it won't let you

It does, rename it .dotfile. so with an extra . at the end.

it has a different text encoding than nix,*

You don't specify how you do this, but most text output commands out there have an -Encoding parameter. Or else set it globally to what you want, good read here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40098771/changing-powers...


At least "My documents" is separate (as a subfolder) from %HOME isn't it?

(I never used MacOS, but from the article it seems not the case for MacOS?)


It's just ~/Documents, which I symlink to ~/Desktop so that if any asshole developer dumps a file into it I'll be able to see it and remove it immediatelty.


Is it falsifiable ? Is it testable even ?


Theoretically, yes it is falsifiable. If you had sufficient data about a system you could perfectly forecast micro- and macroeconomic results.

Now, is it testable? Only in a very limited sense. You can suss out trends in a decently empirical way, but because you're working with independent agents you can't really get sufficient data to obtain rigorous results.

Economics is not unlike high energy physics in these respects. You can move the needle in legitimate ways, but there are very hard restrictions that make it more difficult to make rigorous observations.


When people are proven wrong, does the conversation move forward, or do large swathes of people grip onto their beliefs anyway?


That has nothing to do with whether or not something is a science.


It is when the people who don't move on are the people doing the "science."


No, even then it has nothing to do with whether or not the subject of debate is scientific.

Bad deontology on the part of an individual doesn't discredit the field as a whole.


>MIT/BSD, on the other hand, are about developers.

Also, as a developer without much legalese, MIT/BSD are easier to read and understand.


And grey areas are useful to society, they allow some imprecisions.


It's not a bug, it's a feature!


aria2 https://aria2.github.io/

But maybe keep to what's installed by default in your image ?


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