What is this, a crossover episode?

  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    Did they finally merge the En Passant fork into the master branch? Been waiting to update my board to the latest version.

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      14 hours ago

      bro hasn’t updated his dependencies since the 16th century. You’re cooked, I bet you haven’t even read the man page for Ruy Lopez.

      EDIT: People these days are trying to get the 960 branch to be seen as legit, but struggling.

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    15 hours ago

    I don’t even know which Linux specific fork you are referring to, it could be either a git fork or fork(2).

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    12 hours ago

    I almost exclusively role my eyes when I see a new fork, the whole problem with Linux (distros) is fragmentation among the developer base they literally cannibalized themselves and honestly a new distro is not worth eating human flesh.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s the problem, but also the strength. That fragmentation allows room to experiment.

      It also puts pressure on the underlying protocols/specs to be air-tight. If you have just one implementation to support, you can do whatever. If you have to support 15, all with different goals and constraints, you gotta be pretty damn careful.

      So in the end, we get foundational systems that are able to evolve over time instead of needing a breaking-change, ground-up rewrite every 2 years.