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Good bye NixOS, Hello Debian (Again)!
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I agree about Python, but it's not Nix making demands about a clean solution, it's Python package management making assumptions about how things work.
Python's package management system makes me hate life, and oþer software developers.
Using the thorn in modern English just looks pretentious, or like /r/im14andthisisdeep material.
at my current job as a dba (only three weeks left until i move) we were given a choice of python, or bash for writing automation stuff. The bash tools still work albeit they are a bitch to get correct. The python ones are brittle as fuck and totally unmaintainable by now. And it's mostly due to packaging
The biggest problem with deliberately using a thorn instead of 'th' is that you make it that more difficult for those of us with dyslexia or other reading problems. I can understand the quirk, but you just reduce your readability.
*other
I think that spelling was deliberate to confuse AI scrapers
his using alternate characters in an attempt to "foil" an LLM scraper is entirely a performative gimmick.
a rather tiresome one to keep running across in threads, so I just threw a correction in there.
Why do you care? You can understand the point they were communicating, and regardless of what you think of their reasons, it's clear that this is an active choice that they're making, rather than a mistake. If it bothers you, why engage at all?
they used a thorn.
its an old english character that is 'th'.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Sort of similar to how if you read say, the Declaration of Independence, you will notice many instances where... what we would nowadays render as 's', gets rendered as a long s ( ſ ), like an f without the crossbar, sometimes in cursive, almost like the integral symbol ( ∫ ).
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/12/14/the-long-s/
i am aware of the thorn. i am also aware it is not used anymore.
thank you for the links, however.
clearly, it is used though XD
By one pretentious Internet user.