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So, when you’re licking the boot, do you start at the heel or the toe?
So, when you’re licking the boot, do you start at the heel or the toe?
If we were selfish, we wouldn’t be sharing our files in the first place, and the system would fall apart.
It’s the fact that we aren’t selfish that filesharing works at all.
Piracy is. Filesharing isn’t.
When you steal books from a library, you’re preventing others from accessing those books. When you download a digital copy of a book, you aren’t.
Same thing with money. If you stole my money, I’d be upset, but I wouldn’t be upset if I had infinite money.
Why should I?
It was a cost-cutting measure to save money on tapes by reusing the old ones.
Lots of people come have a choice in who their ISP is. I don’t. For my area, there’s one provider. If I want to change that, I have to move.
Yeah, if that’s the only reason, changing your shell is overkill.
Define “anonymous”. I use Soulseek, but you need an account for that.
I like Podbean.
I don’t have any problem using those. A lot of times, your can just say “search”, and people will know it’s a web search because it’s implied.
Yeah, and then I still use ddg to search Google (with !g).
~95% of the JS code you see on the Web has semicolons. Apparently, a lot of programmers think it’s worth that extra keystroke to avoid these types of bugs. I agree with them. The difficulty with programming isn’t “Arrgh, there are too many keystrokes, my hands are tired!” It’s “Arrgh, HTF did this bug get in here?!?”
Programmers who care about best practices. Here are a couple of scenarios where not using a semicolon will bite you in the ass.
Microsoft is an abomination (true).
Reflexive MS hatred is just as dumb as any other kind of reflexive hatred. TypeScript is free and open source, so what’s the danger?
Typescript is an abomination.
Why? (I’ve only used vanilla JS and jQuery.)
Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page
And that is, of course, what it was designed for.
JS is brilliant considering that it was created by one dude in 10 days. Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.
Renting music sounds like hell to me. If the songs can’t exist as files on my computer (Opus, Ogg, MP3, etc.) then I’m out.
I think that funding creators is great if you have the money and the inclination. I just don’t think that it makes you an asshole if you don’t.
There are creators whom I fund because they give me exclusive extra content on their Patreons or sometimes if I just think that their work is important enough and I want to see it continue. If I decide that I need that money for something else, that’s up to me.