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Cyclohexane

@ cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

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West Asia - Communist - international politics - anti-imperialism - software development - Math, science, chemistry, history, sociology, and a lot more.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Thanks for your response! You are making an assumption that most or all immigrants wish they didn't have to immigrate. I will answer assuming this is true, though I am not confident it is. But let's go with it.

    Changes in material conditions of a country typically occur due to political action. That may be in terms of voting, political movements, or outside forces like war or sanctions. Addressing each of those:

    1. Immigrants typically can still vote, so no issue here
    2. immigrants are unlikely to affect political movements when they are immigrating for reasons like work, study, reuniting with other family, or enjoying lifestyle of another country.
    3. Immigrants have little to no effect on wars and sanctions.

    And last, even if what you quoted is true, I bet whoever said it is likely not considering putting the effort of making their country better in the same way they want immigrants to. Maybe that's not one of the worse forms of racism, but it is one.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Thanks for a thoughtful response. My thoughts:

    1. In most cases, illegal immigrants do not benefit from government welfare programs, but they do work and contribute to the economy positively.
    2. In cases where data has been collected, immigrant populations tend to put more into the economy than take through social programs, when compared with native populations. I can provide sources and data on this if you'd like.
    3. Illegal immigrants may often not pay income tax, but they do pay most other forms of taxes that still end up paying more into the system than they get back. I can also provide evidence on this if you'd like.
    4. If tax isn't being collected from someone, when they're willing to pay it, that is 100% the fault of anti-immigration policy, not an immigration issue.

  • Pijul - DVCS, based on the theory of patches, inspired by darcs

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  • When working with git, and I have a separate working copy, my options to sync are either rebase or create a merge commit.

    It sounds to me like the pijul workflow is almost equivalent to just doing a merge commit instead of rebasing. Am I correct here? What's the difference then?

  • Pijul - DVCS, based on the theory of patches, inspired by darcs

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  • It's hard to understand what exactly will change for me if I used pijul vs git. What will be noticeably different?

  • Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

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  • This is mostly due to inertia and, to an extent, SEO.

    Most people use github because it's all they know and its name is almost synonymous with git hosting. Publishing elsewhere leads to people asking you why you're not on github, how else can we contribute, etc. Moreover, github seems to score better on Google SEO than other platforms.

  • Locked

    lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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  • Not a libertarian if you were referring to me. I envision a system in which we all contribute and take part instead of throwing all the effort on someone already providing you with the space and expecting them to do it all, when you can more easily do it yourself.

  • Locked

    lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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  • Sure, if I want a community about cooking and instead of finding cooking content I find insults and harassment, then I will leave. That's essentially an equivalent of the blocking feature I spoke about.

    But I find it hard to believe that such a cooking community would become good by just having a moderator ban all the offenders, when they occupy most of the posts.

  • Locked

    lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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  • On the topic of admjn burnout, I find it ridiculous that we choose to put so much burden on instance and community admins. Why don't people just utilize their block functions instead of expecting admins to clean up bad posts and users as fast as possible?

    Not saying admins should do nothing, but it should be sufficient for an admin to only do what's absolutely necessary to keep the instance alive (including removal of illegal content). Anything else should be considered extra credit and no one should be entertained complaining about it.

  • What do you host for your finances and why!

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  • Weird question, but what does GnuCash do that you wouldn't get easily from excel? I haven't used any of these apps and wondering what I'm missing out on.

  • Ideally, what would "discovery" look like on a social network?

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  • I wish we had a nice tagging system (and I don't think they should be hashtags) that was also in common use.

    I want to be able to search any post related a certain topic, and sometimes, these may not always be in that topic's community, because topics can overlap. For example, I might want to read posts about Ukraine war, but those might be in world news, US news, or combat footage communities. Could be a community about Ukraine in general, or Ukraine war specifically.

    I also may not want to get it from a single Ukraine community. Maybe by finding posts with the "Ukraine war" tag, I'll see several communities and join the one I want. But there needs to be a way to group them somehow.

    Such a tag system may be useful for combined topics. For example, I may want to look for posts about music software. They might not be common in the music community, or software communities. But I could filter by both tags and find what I want.

  • Lemmy.ml will have around 1-2 hours of downtime tomorrow, Friday at 1430 CEST.

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  • Contribute code on github!

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • As someone who is not deep into type theory or functional programming, can you please explain why you mean by "ergonomic overloading"?

    My understanding is that ocaml mitigates the need for type classes through its more advanced module system. So far I have been enjoying the use of OCaml modules, so I'm curious what exactly I'm missing out on, if any.

    Thanks for taking the time to talk with me btw!

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • Tell us more about unison

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • I know double semicolons are a thing, but I've never had to use them. I forget what they're for, but yeah it's supposed to be an escape hatch for something that shouldn't be happening iirc.

    The curried snd uncurried functions... Maybe you are confusing with SML, because everything in ocaml is curried by default. Though admittedly the standard library could be more complete, but I personally am happy to use third party dependencies for less common things.

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • Sad I had to scroll to the end to see this.

    Ocaml is brilliant and has the nicest type features. It's almost like Haskell but more approachable imo.

  • How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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  • Maybe because I'm not from an English speaking culture that I don't see the far right stuff

  • How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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  • People prefer centralization, and it makes sense. The Fediverse resolves most of the issues with decentralization, but so does centralization, which came way sooner, and arguably did it better.

    Also, people seem to forget that Facebook was pretty cool back then. It had superior features, and was not the buggy mess it is today.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • Is anyone here opposed to bringing more people? I'm upset that people are going to an unfederated platform like BlueSky. I wish more people to join, no matter who they are.

    I haven't been on mastodon much, but lemmy is quite diverse.

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    Why isn't there a way to make near-native desktop UIs that's similar in ease to browser and electron UIs?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    Downsides of self hosting fediverse from homelab / locally?

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    Podman is a daemon-less alternative to Docker, but with Rootless containers, grouping containers in pods, and systemd integration. What do you think of it?

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    (How) do you automate setting up your local development environment?

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    Hear me out: A scripting language that compiles to bash or sh (any suggestions?)

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    Cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

    If you want to host and manage your own Lemmy instance but are intimidated by the technical requirements, I can help!