Discord is a mind virus.
A friend of mine from elementary school explicitly will not communicate with me unless I used Discord to do it. I was even okay with using Steam chat, but he would only use it to tell me to use Discord.
It blows my mind that people can actually be more loyal to companies whose sole propose is to extract value from them, than friends they've had for most of their life. That's just such a weird hill to die on.
I bid him farewell and to enjoy his relationship with Discord. He said he will. Now I am down one friend.
I connected my #XMPP account with JMP Chat and installed emacs-jabber. Now I can send SMS from #Emacs :D
I haven’t ported over my current number yet so I have to convince everyone that it’s me on a new number when I reach out to someone haha
@c8ef4612 Huge assumption at 1:30.
Q: What group of people are most likely to be unvaccinated?
A: People who have certain health issues related to vaccines (ie allergies)
Q: What group of people has an abnormally high concern for their health?
A: People who know they may be killed by things that would not kill other people.
Q: What group of people is least likely to die over any given period?
A: People who have an abnormally high level of care for their own health.
People who are unvaccinated may have a lower death rate because people who are unvaccinated likely *can't* get vaccinated, and people who can't get vaccinated likely pay attention to their own health to an abnormally high degree. This seems like an absolutely reasonable line of thought.
The "clever way of looking at it" does not account for the fact that people who had gotten the vaccine would be spreading the virus at a higher rate, causing people who are more vulnerable to be more likely to be exposed. The clever way of looking at it is clever because it creates imaginary numbers to push the narrative that they want to push.
@c65b183b@c39d2605@4c603b88@462ebf4c Do you have access to change the implementation of (X)? If so, could you define a as a parameter object? In that case, you could at least change the value of a for all of its references in the dynamic scope of (Y).
@123e16e8@6adcf666 How about sending a PR over email, instead of the patches themselves?
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
It seems like this flow would minimize complexity of email based development, while retaining many (but not all) of the benefits for offline work. I have never actually used this flow though, so I'm not sure how well it works in practice.
What should be considered in-scope for a standard library to be productive writing applications? What would you expect from a "general purpose" language? I'm looking for a fairly exhaustive list, so err on the side of inclusion if you're on the fence about something.
Boosts appreciated for more perspectives :)
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