sorrybookbroke

Oh hey, been a bit but I'm glad you came back to this. I honestly really liked the book. Very rushed ending though I'd argue. I like a lot of what they did with the mercenaries and with nightblood along with the general lore. Everything with lightsong and blushweaver was great too but at times the book dwadled around and when it came to it, answers seemed to just be tossed together and regirgatated (can't spell that shit). Lightning always kept me entertained though.

I know that's a lot of complaining but other than the end the book was very good. It is his style to have everythingfall together at the end it seems but the other four books I've read by him seem much more-like a bunch of pieces falling into place and a few things blowing up spectacularly than this one which felt like "and then it turned out some people are bad and the others are good. Here's why it all happened and some lore too. They also fight. But wait? Happily ever after too."

I don't regret reading it at all though. All three stories were great in their own right and the world is certainly my favourite. The system is so interesting along with the culture. I hope he revisits it.

God, sorry for the novella, but you did make the mistake of asking me about a book. You fool.

Took a break but now I'm 400 pages into way of kings BTW. Liking it a lot so far.

I'd argue this is more like "I want to build a competitor to spotify so let's decide between using mariaDB or writing an SQL compliant database from scratch"

In your example, a database is the end goal and you can either start with a premade or make your own.

Here, a social media platform is the end goal. Activitypub is a very important part of it but it's not the entire piece.

If we replace the parts of your analogy with the original your example would parse out to "I want to make a competitor to lemmies ActivityPub integration, so let's start with fedify" which is not the same as the article states.

Now, should you re-impliment a protocol yourself or use a generic library is the real question. Both have their benefits. With option A you have full code ownership and can wrap your solution around your end goal without the issue of dealing with the original to get needed changes accepted. You don't have to worry about code not written by or understood by you. With option B, you get a more robust and almost certainly more accurate implementation. Along with, for free, better integration with any service using the same library. Very useful for a federated service when talking about cross platform.

Both have many more positives and negatives of course and each person should decide on their own how to proceed.

My opinion? I think it's usually best to own anything which could feasibly be understood by a single dev. Even if each dev doesn't. Anything larger shouldn't be internal in my strong opinion unless very good, specific reasons apply that makes an external solution impossible or increadibly difficult. Most negatives of an external library also apply at that point with enough time.

That is wild man. You have a +350 from me on Voyager. I've seen you around interacting constantly, with well thought out a soften insightful comments. I've never seen anything truly hateful from you either. Why on earth do they think you're a genocidal racist?

And if you're not, which is likely, why try and bully off someone with so much use to the platform? If you left people would notice the loss quickly.

I know, from other images it looks like an old Dr. Dabber e-rig glass piece

We can't do anything about the boat sinking gun, or try and take it away from the boat sinker, because that would be against good decorum. Don't worry though, we've thrown that guy who called the boat sinker a fuckhead off the boat. We have to take the high road and follow the rules or who knows what the boat sinker will do next. We'll calmly convince them to lower the amount of holes they put in the boat while cmpromising by understanding that some of those holes were needed.

Vote for us, and we'll only put a few holes in the boat

Native Linux version too btw and it works great

Or do like me and install to a 200gb partition, then carve down the window partition to create a third partition to keep new files, repeat untill you have 5 partitions on your drive. After that, find that you haven't touched windows in forever and wipe it now that everything is spread between an unethical amount of partitions.

At least I can give them funny names

I'd suggest the hands on approach personally. It may take some time to get up though.

You can install a distro onto a USB stick and boot from it to play around and see if you like it.

Here's a quick tutorial:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/preparing-boot-media/

And separately the distro I'd reccomemd using:
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/

After you create the live CD you should be able to keep it plugged in and boot to using this method from howtogeek:
https://www.howtogeek.com/129815/beginner-geek-how-to-change-the-boot-order-in-your-computers-bios/

To be clear if you stop there Linux will not installed, you won't lose any data, and you can just unplug the USB stick to allow windows to boot up when you restart.

One note, sinceit's installed to a USB stick it'll be a bit slower than if you installed it on your PC. Still though, it'll be the same idea.

Here's a full guide on how to install it:

https://www.howtogeek.com/693588/how-to-install-linux/

OK. That's a wild thing to say. If you're willing to say that the red states may illegally fail to hold elections can you not recognize the likelyhood that they'd stop, by force, blue states from doing the same?

Do you seriously think blue states wouldn't fold if pressured to stop elections?

I'm not convinced that any of this will come to pass and elections will be stopped but if they want to they can and will.

Thank you, unless someone else gives be reason not to I think I'm going to take your suggestion. Next will be warbreaker, then the way of kings.

Thank you for posting it by the way. This is both good, and important news