EntrePrescott

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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Haven't looked at the Bazel codebase, but it would strongly surprise me if the language support rules were implemented in Starlark. More likely, I'd suppose them to be almost exclusively written in Java (and highly based on quite
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> the natural right for people to free copy whatever Practical as it may be, that's not a natural right but merely a physical possibility. More generally, the concept of natural rights - except for a very narrow niche of special sub
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Neither do I. For that matter, I don't use it for anything where privacy is a requirement (be it for personal or for business/work reasons). That being said, I've way too often encountered people for whom git oddly only exist
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> pooling resources though that too comes with its own set of privacy issues, especially when done at a larger scale with strangers on the internet as opposed to just with your personally known and trusted buddies… and rare are the peopl
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> give up a "natural" right to copy certain information Practical as it may be, that's not a natural right but merely a physical possibility. More generally, the concept of natural rights - except for a very narrow niche o
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> I think OP meant "An ideal MOSFET" That would be somewhat unfair towards MOSFETs and their quite versatile spectrum of applications though: MOSFETs are actually also being used for lots of linear applications. For high power
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
The Pulitzer fundraiser wasn't for the statue but for the pedestal on which it was to be placed. The statue was a gift of the people of France. That being said, crowdfunding campaigns were also a part of the the fundraising for the sta
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
It's not at all about "labels" though (who cares), but about the very pragmatic and practical consequences, such as: * in my comment above, the necessity of being able to evaluate whether a product is even fit for the job (w
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
I'm all with you about the principle i.e. that having the biggest number in a set (whether or not that number is even still minoritary by itself, though that does make the claim even more ridiculous) doesn't imply being the best l
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
that sounds like you either never tried Linux… or maybe sometimes 25 years ago. The reality is (and has been for quite a long time) that Linux actually takes far LESS time than Windows. Heck, when I see the type of shitty problems I hear fr
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
So I Had a quick look at https://sciter.com/prices/ and my understanding is that it does not satisfy the "permissive open source license" criterion of my last comment. In fact, it seems that it's not ope
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
I don't even require "native" in the sense of a look and feel identical to that of the platform-specific GUI framework provided by the vendor of that platform… that would indeed be an additional layer of difficulty for a cros
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
What's really sad imho isn't that XUL is gone (when I considered using it, I quickly gave it up for mostly the same reasons that several others already wrote about ITT)… … no, what's really sad is that there is still no satis
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Immutability is an important step in the right direction. What I'd like to see come up is a distribution that in addition to immutability provides the following: 1. separate install prefix directory for each currently installed package
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> This is anti-AI bias, pure and simple. ^ found the AI-based Chatbot
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
The demo images look impressively realistic, congratulations. It would be interesting to see some fps figures, including both sides: maximal realism on "gamer PC" hardware… but also reduced detail compromise on average hardware, w
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Well, first of all, while the GPL is one particular FOSS license (out of many), it's not as if it was compatible with all FOSS licenses, far from it. So while imposing GPL or commercial may not be a problem for a FOSS project that happ
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> Both of your examples are in terms of absolute percentage points No, they are both about relative increases. I didn't even write about absolute increases because (unlike relative increases, where the article makes a mistake) absol
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
That article (i.e. the author) seems to have a weird understanding of mathematics: > "Note that there are two ways to calculate increases. We can measure an increase in absolute terms, e.g., a rise from 5% to 15% of teens with a dia
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
reminds me of julia (the language): wanted to give it a try recently, until I read in their documentation: "In Julia, indexing of arrays, strings, etc. is 1-based not 0-based"… which made me wonder for a moment how many off-by-one
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
First of all, it's not just the LTS binaries, it's also the LTS source and license for it. Commercial-only. No FOSS. But it goes further: even for what is still FOSS (i.e. the non-LTS), the licensing gets progressively more and mo
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Indeed, the ongoing fashion shift from locally installed software to external services is quite problematic, as it shifts the control over the user's data from the user themself to… whatever tree/graph of third parties somewhere i
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
maybe by emailing pull request to all your contacts ;-)
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> if it had never been developed In all fairness: Gnome was absolutely great at its beginnings… until the clique around Havoc Pennington took over and decided they know better than the users what's good for them and ruined Gnome… th
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
given the strongly diverging views and controversial nature of forum discussions whenever the subject "systemd" comes up, I feel like I have to ask, for the sake of clarity: was the mention of systemd meant positively (in favor of
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> "For example, from the formal Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 to the popular byname of Moonlight Sonata, or in multiple languages, such as Mondschein Sonata in German." "Mondschein Sonata"? WTF Apple? Not only is th
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> Schreibe mir bitte ein Python script, dass 50% "I don't understand" oder andere 50% "I need a cup of tea" (nicht überserzt, nur auf English!) drucken. Alle Code Comments muss auf Hindi sein. Deine erklärung aus
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
lemme guess: your phone is an iphone whereas your wife's phone is an android phone?
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> We are thrilled to be sharing our new model really? that's a nice gesture… so where can I download it?
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Was culitho ever a "word in the English language"? Anyways, if it's just about finding a trademark-able sequence of letters that can be done with the restricted latin alphabet used in the English language and keyboard, then t

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