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@mykhaylo @rml @joel OpenJDK. I have been programming Clojure for years and have never touched Sun/Oracle/Whoever "official" JDK. Great discussion about the tradeoffs of being a hosted langage (though it got a little sidetracked in the middle with "Clojure's useful distinctions") https://clojureverse.org/t/benefits-of-a-hosted-language-vs-the-host-beyond-syntax/9738

@dekkzz76@emacs.ch Yeah. It's when you are using a TV for one of your monitors.

Nah; I made that up. It was a typo :)

It's a beauty of open source #emacs that I thought, "with my three streens and multiple emacs windows per frame, it would be great to blink the modeline which one has received my focus." A short function later and boom; done!

@ianp5a ah! That makes excellent sense. I live 45 miles from my on-site office, so drive to the nearest train and take transit the rest of the way. I did consider figuring out how to tie cycling in to that process, though, but didn't get it worked out.

@ianp5a how have you gotten out of driving?

@ianp5a haha :) that made me laugh. I forgot about that company even more than I forget about WordPerfect

Often I search for something like, "What's the OS Alt for XYZ?" But now I wonder, "what's the proprietary version of it?" In particular, I have no idea what is the off-the-shelf equivalent that a lay user might know for #Inkscape?

All the businesses and companies and content creators are still on Twitter. And so a bunch of users stay on Twitter because they need IRL updates from those guys. So it's a cycle...

@rml ah! I didn't realize that Haskell had that problem. Yeah, I find that Clojure spoils me whenever I work in other environments where I need to be fearful of breaking changes when updating. I forget to be careful and get stung!

@rml it took me a re-read to grok that, but you make good points: programmer first, and pragmatism

@icedquinn I would take heart if they ever displayed some sense of regret, but it's not on their radar at all

@icedquinn inspired by the fact that I hate Twitter but they don't, and they are also shamelessly entrenched in Twitch and YouTube

I just realized that the career of "content creator" may be incompatible with tech ethics in the same way that "prostitute" is an incompatible career with "Christian preacher." And all gamers I'm aware of (see what I did there?) are content creators, too.

I just learned of https://gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html, which seems to be an alternative to #git forges like Github and Gitlab. If I'm not mistaken, I don't manage repos large enough to need it. But I love to see #GPL #FOSS stuff and to learn that some really big players are using #gitolite (Redhat, the Linux Kernel, KDE).

@samplereality was that a self-imposed restraint or were you using a tool that enforced it?

Those in #clojure who have not read the History of Clojure paper by Rich really should; great to get a step into Rich's head and to see the evolution of the language. https://www.scribd.com/document/470916091/clojure-hopl-iv-final

@carnage4life I have not had a capslock key on my keyboard for years...