Longlius

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by Longlius 4y ago
That bartender's name? Albert Einstein.
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by Longlius 4y ago
You're not expected to trust NIST. They write standards documents. It's up to cryptography researchers to formally verify and reason about the standards and for cryptosystem implementers to choose carefully based on available rese
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by Longlius 4y ago
I was alive during the era and almost no one had commercially released games on their phones. For one thing, storage was incredibly limited. For another, the cost was incredibly high vs what you got - not just the game itself but the actual
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by Longlius 4y ago
It depends on the nature of the test. I recently did an assessment for a company that wanted a DP leetcode problem done in 4 minutes. It also doesn't help that, as previous HN comment sections prove, a staggeringly high number of peopl
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by Longlius 4y ago
More than you can trust encryption in pretty much every other part of the world.
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by Longlius 4y ago
The GPL has teeth. Vendors are routinely sued over infringement. This is why a lot of things like routers and IoT gizmos you buy nowadays come with a notice about your rights under the GPL along with a link to a form to request source code.
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by Longlius 4y ago
No one is complaining about copilot making programming easier or automating it. We're upset because it's quite literally infringing on intellectual property. Infringing on intellectual property that's been set aside for the e
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by Longlius 4y ago
IANAL but fair use is primarily about the public interest. What public interest is served by allowing proprietary software vendors to copy GPL code that's reserved for the commons? I don't really think this argument passes muster.
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by Longlius 4y ago
Yeah, that's definitely the impression I get from the few Copilot examples I've seen. I've not personally used Copilot so I refrained from making absolute statements about its behavior in my top comment. But I think the concl
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by Longlius 4y ago
This is definitely the orthodox take. If shared source code was the norm and software wasn't subject to copyright (or really if either of those two conditions were met), there'd be no need for FOSS as an ideology. The purpose of c
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by Longlius 4y ago
Except in the case of the GPL license, your rights to reuse and redistribute the source code are contingent upon your derived work also being licensed under the GPL. This is not a hypothetical untested legalese requirement but a real legal
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by Longlius 4y ago
The question is ultimately going to come down to - "Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS? Or is Copilot
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by Longlius 4y ago
If benchmark the success of sanctions as being able to direct countries towards more liberal-democratic policies, then they're a failure. If you benchmark the success of sanctions by the ability of the US to completely torpedo a geopol
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by Longlius 4y ago
His prediction of the Russia-Ukraine war had a specific timetable back in 2014, namely the period between 2018 and 2022.
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by Longlius 4y ago
He's not incorrect on that point. Huawei sources its SoCs from Taiwanese and American fabs, which is why the trade war has absolutely gutted their bottom line. HiSilicon licenses chip designs, adds their specific stuff on top of them,
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by Longlius 4y ago
Japan has seen an explosive growth in poverty, especially among young people.
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by Longlius 4y ago
Willful copyright infringement for monetary gain can be prosecuted as a criminal act in the United States (and many other countries including Japan) and it's highly possible Github themselves can end up in hot water for facilitating th
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by Longlius 4y ago
The CD-ROM format was a godsend for certain genres of games. RPGs could pack a ton more content into a CD and even games that weren't like that could be made better thanks to the co-processor on the SegaCD.
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by Longlius 4y ago
Every time the topic of cheating comes up on HN, I become increasingly disheartened by the amount of people chiming in who think it's not only alright to cheat but also laudable to do so. Ethics are foundational to engineering. Jettiso
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by Longlius 4y ago
The USA was hardly a backwater compared to Europe before WW2. Princeton had a world-class mathematics department where people came from all over the world to study and research, among them Alan Turing (whose collaborations with Alonzo Churc
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by Longlius 4y ago
Location: US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only if the pay is good and a suitable relocation stipend is provided Technologies: Java, Python, Common Lisp, C, C++, Javascript, node.js, Express.js, Flask, Docker, Terraform, gener
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by Longlius 4y ago
Software has not improved since LC took off, and in fact has gotten worse in many ways. LC is just the newest hiring cargo cult (a spot previously occupied by transcripts, internships, and 'open-source contributions'). The biggest
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by Longlius 4y ago
Netflix is giving them a way out of perceived culpability by asking them to leave though.
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by Longlius 4y ago
The complaints about national quotas are strange. The prevailing assumption that everyone outside of the US should ideally have an equal opportunity to receive permanent residency. But that's not a goal of US immigration policy. US imm
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by Longlius 4y ago
Not necessarily. My forebears came to this continent before there was a country, roughly 400 years ago.
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by Longlius 4y ago
You can basically engage with the entire story of XIV without touching the MMO part at all. Especially now that they're going back and enabling NPC party members for the story dungeons.
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by Longlius 4y ago
I mean, Final Fantasy XIV has something like 1.7 million active players at the moment. That's just people paying a sub at endgame. $25m in monthly revenue at the low-end is pretty impressive for a single game.
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by Longlius 4y ago
Depends on the immigrant family. The ones from Mexico and Central American certainly don't have much, but those coming from East and South Asia who immediately start businesses on arrival have access to more wealth (either personally o
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by Longlius 4y ago
It has one of the highest of the developed countries and has only recently declined. South Korea and Japan have had terminal birth rates since the 80s.
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by Longlius 4y ago
>Does it though? In a typical marriage, one side goes to work and the other stays home. This is flat out incorrect. More than 2/3rds of married mothers in the US work.

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