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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023

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  • Multiple votes is not why we have secret ballots IRL. Votes during referenda where you don’t vote for one candidate are also secret.

    The purpose of secrecy is to protect from repercussions (ie worker vs boss, person vs family, tenant vs landlord…)

    I’m not being pedantic. It matters here, because your votes can have repercussion if they’re easy to see at all times. I don’t want to be harassed because I downvoted an obsessive tankie.





  • I know it is, and I find it to be a pretty ridiculously complex fix for a self-inflicted wound.

    The disruption it’s caused me outweighs by far any minor inconvenience with the multiplication or micro packages in the NodeJS world. There’s that, and the Python 2 vs 3 shitshow from which the world still hasn’t fully recovered from yet.

    I mean it: Python has no business laughing at Javascript. Get your act together, snek 😜


  • Python has other stupid problems related to pip. As much as stupid micro-dependencies suck in Javascript, they’re not the shitshow managing dependencies in Python is. It’s an inefficiency that never actually caused me noticeable issues in my former webdev life.

    And let’s not talk about C++… People reinvent all sorts of wheels all the time because sharing anything is so annoying.



  • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlZed on Linux is out!
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    3 months ago

    Probably because it’s more efficient. GPUs are designed to render things, which editors do. In a text editor, you’re effectively rendering fonts over a fixed background, which I assume is pretty efficient using the GPU.

    We’re not talking about crazy 3D effects here.

    Yay to battery savings!