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  • Some of the "misleading" statements were Harris neglecting to enumerate the reasons why a stated policy goal might not succeed, which would be incredibly unusual to include in a speech of this nature.

    I guess the point the author was trying to make was that saying you "will" do something in office is a promise, and if you don't have the ability to guarantee that promise can be kept you shouldn't say that thing at all? I love me some NPR but they're really bending over backwards with some of these...

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
  • Agree. I may be misunderstanding something here, but to view votes one would have to spin up their own instance. This would prevent your average abusive moron from harassing users who down voted their post/comment.

  • C++
  • Typically, I can read an "average" open source programmers code. One of the issues I have with C++ is the standard library source seems to be completely incomprehensible.

    I recently started learning rust, and the idea of being able to look at the standard library source to understand something without having to travel through 10 layers of abstraction was incredible to me.

  • Do you need a better solution to a problem to criticise obvious flaws in someone else's solution?
  • Agree with this. I think tactfully pointing out minor issues you see can be helpful because the implementor is closer to the problem and may have just overlooked the issue and can come up with a solution easily. I've been on the giving and receiving end of this, and so long as everyone is behaving professionally, it's always been helpful.

    On the "tactful" note, I'll generally say something like: "I don't have a solution, but I see problem. I don't know that this is reason enough to hold up this PR. I'll leave it up to you."

  • Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
  • Just curious, if Marianne doesn't get the Democratic nomination do you still plan on voting for the Democratic nominee?

    Regardless of your feelings about Harris, (I have similar feelings) you must recognize that having her as president would be, by far, the lesser evil when compared to Trump especially if you're concerned about excessive imprisonment / decriminalization of marijuana.

  • What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed?
  • Yep. I use both quite a bit. Chocolatey is great!

    The point Im trying to make is package managers are better suited for developers and the lack of a great alternative for installing software on the distros I've used is not helping with the mass appeal of Linux.

    I could be wrong here as I've never tried any of the "home computer" distros (mint, ubuntu).

  • What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed?
  • Why do you think its bad? From a secruity standpoint its obviously not great, but its undeniably more convenient than running a curl command to pull in a third party .repo file, yum update and yum install to get something that isnt easily available in my base repos.

  • What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed?
  • Im not sure the software center being half baked is even the real problem.

    One of the nice things about Windows is that you dont need a central, curated, repository for software. You can google the thing you want and just download an msi/exe of the latest stable version and, 99.9% of the time, leading back to your first point, it will just work.

  • Should I bother learning Podman?
  • This is what prevented me from using podman, unfortunately. That and the setup for devcontainers in vscode wasnt exactly seamless.

    Unfortunate since their windows support is great.

  • What made you pick the Lemmy server you are on?
  • It does seem like some servers have specific niches, so if you're really interested in a specific servers niche using that instance would prevent you from having to sync those communities with your instance.

    I'm new, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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