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by Reelin 6y ago
Not GP but Markor is fantastic for anyone running Android ( https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/ ).
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by Reelin 6y ago
> licenses are usually written more strictly for legal purposes Well written legal documents are precise (not strict). The trouble is that you haven't unambiguously defined what qualifies as personal use, and there are a rather larg
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by Reelin 6y ago
Open source software is readily and legally user modifiable. It is often (but not always) readily extensible - it can actually be quite difficult to extend in some cases. (There's plenty of difficult to work with spaghetti on GitHub.)
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by Reelin 6y ago
If we're internet armchair lawyering then I'd point out that a carpenter building something is "exercising their trade or profession" but a carpenter reading a textbook or watching a how-to video is not. Analogously, a s
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by Reelin 6y ago
> I’m in the EU so my opinion scarcely matters, to be perfectly honest That's not really true (I say this as an American). Sure, the US government is highly unlikely to change their policies based on what people living in the EU thi
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by Reelin 6y ago
It's actually a drone ship ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_shi... ) named "Of Course I Still Love You" after the fictional ship of the same name from Bank's novel "The
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by Reelin 6y ago
"for learning" + "to explore a concept" -> to understand why things are (or were) done a certain way -> to test the boundaries of what's possible Surely no one thinks that current languages are the most effici
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by Reelin 6y ago
> this is clearly a hostile act That's not my reading of the article you linked. A bad actor compromised the credentials of multiple researchers with access to various supercomputers (over some unknown or at least unspecified period
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by Reelin 6y ago
This might be naive, but it bugs me that protocol ports are visible to intermediaries. HTTPS encrypts the URL path. Why don't TCP and UPD encrypt (or otherwise scramble) their port numbers? (Yes, I know, those protocols don't incl
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by Reelin 6y ago
Perhaps the idea of brutalist web design fits? ( https://brutalist-web.design/ ) HN is a good example of it IMO.
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by Reelin 6y ago
Would it be correct to describe Rust's generics as parametrically polymorphic templates then? I'm still not seeing how C++ templates aren't proper generics though - parametric polymorphism isn't a requirement for that, i
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by Reelin 6y ago
What do you mean by C++ templates not really being generics? Aren't Rust's generics also implemented as templates (as opposed to parametric polymorphism)?
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by Reelin 6y ago
> a number of reasons why it was round Except that question in particular is a fairly silly one. A satirical rendition exists that illustrates why, and happens to have been discussed long ago on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.co
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by Reelin 6y ago
Ack my bad! I wrote "2nd generation Zen" but I meant to write "Zen 2" which is (confusingly) the 3rd generation. I found some historical price data and I'm surprised - the 2700 really was $150 back in January! Vendo
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by Reelin 6y ago
Regarding thread local storage - isn't that typically implemented using the segment registers (on x86 at least)? So you would need to vary those between fibers (instead of just between kernel threads) and your scheduler would have to e
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't think it's attacks we need to worry about (there's even an XKCD about dropping rocks off of overpasses). The issue is that without good depth and velocity data (so probably LiDAR) there are lots of fairly common situa
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by Reelin 6y ago
I think you've vastly understating current hardware prices. An 8 core 2nd generation Zen chip appears to retail for $290. The PS5 reportedly has a custom GPU design, but for comparison a Radeon 5000 series card with equivalent CU count
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by Reelin 6y ago
It looks like you're correct. * systemd-resolve --status -> 74.40.74.40 (my ISP) * dig archive.is -> 212.80.216.76 * whois 212.80.216.76 -> Serverio technologijos MB * Firefox -> Preferences -> Network Settings -> DNS
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by Reelin 6y ago
It seems conceptually similar to the firefly (and closely related particle swarm optimization) algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_algorithm ).
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't use Cloudflare DNS though ... do I? Seriously, WTF is going on here? The DHCP on my router is configured to distribute the DNS server provided by my ISP!
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by Reelin 6y ago
You say you don't want to debate here, but from my perspective you're actively spreading misinformation and FUD. I agree that there might be better possible licenses out there - you might notice that I described the set of possibl
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by Reelin 6y ago
What is this site? Firefox gives me an invalid cert error - the page is apparently presenting a certificate issued to cloudflare-dns.com. The site has a Wikipedia article (archive.today) which mentions something about blocking the Cloudflar
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by Reelin 6y ago
You are either severely misunderstanding or misrepresenting the FAQ that you quoted. It's simply clarifying that copy-left and permissive licenses are both compatible with the meaning of the term open source (ie they're disjoint s
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Give me a practical reason. Your legal ability to apply patches to the software you run to better suit your needs, and in extreme cases to fork and continue development if the maintainers can't or won't accommodate your useca
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't think (most) people take issue with source available licenses per se, but rather attempts to misapply the term open source to them. The Timescale license is great if it allows them to provide source code and a free product whil
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by Reelin 6y ago
I second this. I'm quite puzzled by the apparent dislike for open source ideals expressed elsewhere in the comments here. Licensing is a complex problem and open source isn't some magical solution. It isn't the right model fo
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by Reelin 6y ago
> pedantry around the definition of Open Source, which I understand ... it's close enough if you squint Then I think that while you might have read and understood the definition, you seem to have missed the broader idea behind it.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> not the official definition of the OSI but more like the global idea behind it The trouble is that it _isn't_ the "global idea behind it" - the idea behind open source is the unrestricted freedom to modify and reuse. Clo
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by Reelin 6y ago
Luckily I haven't run into that, but then I'm not using any commercial software currently and the stuff in the official repositories tends to work the way you would expect it to. Generally your settings should work pretty much ind
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by Reelin 6y ago
Yes, oddly enough. It can be used by a website you visit to gain information about your local network which turns out to be incredibly effective for fingerprinting.

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