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811.
by __d 6y ago
This is a sad tale. At best, the competitor has behaved very poorly. Their removal of copyright claims in particular is a clear indication of malign intent. But the author is correct in their assessment: the primary purpose of the GPL, and
812.
by __d 6y ago
I think this is an instance of a fairly common pattern. Not all good ideas/implementations arise from the FOSS community. And sometimes, there's something that's so clearly better than the alternatives, that it becomes widel
813.
by __d 6y ago
Maybe 5 or 6 times a year for my primary laptop. So it's an old MacBook Pro, and it gets security patches that require a reboot sometimes. I'll usually defer them for a few weeks until I'm in a state where I'm ok to shu
814.
by __d 6y ago
Many standards groups require payment for their published standards: the ISO and most national standards bodies (ANSI, etc) are maybe the most prominent examples. This is their business model. You pay for access to the standards documents,
815.
by __d 6y ago
Source?
816.
by __d 6y ago
As a user, it's been great to see Exist/Hello Code/Belle&Josh continue their growth over the years. I'd love to use more services like this, rather than the faceless FAANGs.
817.
by __d 6y ago
Yes. I already pay for Fastmail / POBox. ~28c a day. It's not a big expense to control what is a fairly important service.
818.
by __d 6y ago
I've been thinking about this. I can't see Apple realistically being able to produce multiple variants (phone, tablet, laptop, speaker, tv) of multiple elements (cpu, gpu, neural accelerator, wireless/network, etc) packaged
819.
by __d 6y ago
No. Recent A-series chips are fabbed by TSMC.
820.
by __d 6y ago
fixed, aka 6x13
821.
by __d 6y ago
I think it was Greg Stein who made a significant attempt on removing the GIL back in the 1.x timeframe? IIRC, the penalty was much less than 50%, but it was still a significant cost. I think that as time has passed, the inability to simply
822.
by __d 6y ago
The big problem with the 2->3 transition was that the cost exceeded the perceived benefit. Removing the GIL would have increased the cost, but also the benefit. I think the core team over-estimated the benefits of the change, hence peop
823.
by __d 6y ago
Also, it says "Click to register" ... which I feel like I've already done. I think the wording should be revised to say something more like "Confirm your registration".
824.
by __d 6y ago
I didn't hate it -- quite the contrary, I have quite enjoyed working in various offices, but working from home is better. Unlike some people, I find online interaction with people is fine. And I get much more flexibility and control
825.
by __d 6y ago
I've been a very happy user of https://fruux.com/ for years now.
826.
by __d 6y ago
100% WFN since 2013: never want to go back.
827.
by __d 6y ago
I cannot remember the last time I changed my mind on something important. But ... I try not to make a decision before I've had a chance to evaluate the question. Sometimes I find myself having to act prior to having a decent understan
828.
by __d 6y ago
I think that should be reversed: they "sowed" the Assistance and Access Bill, and then "reap" (harvest, get) the scepticism? But yes. Combined with the census, the "robodebt" project, etc, etc, there's no
829.
by __d 6y ago
Why is time needed to "clean up the code"? Why not just develop the code on GitHub, in the open, with full transparency?
830.
by __d 6y ago
Started CS + EE degree; dropped EE (hated the non-digital bits) and escaped with decent CS qualification. 2 years: Worked in a very old-school bank: using mainframe COBOL, part of a team trying to find a migration path to Unix and C (the so
831.
by __d 6y ago
I've used Atlassian's Fisheye and Gerrit, plus GitHub and GitLab. And I played with Phabricator briefly. I haven't found any useful IDE integration. IMO, none of them is great. In fact, none of them is even good. I haven&#
832.
by __d 7y ago
Second this: the key to the left of 'A' (for QWERTY) should be control for regular Emacs use.
833.
by __d 7y ago
Docker runs just fine on macOS. eg. https://download.docker.com/mac/stable/Docker.dmg
834.
by __d 7y ago
Python. I find I can more-or-less do intermediate-level design using the prototyping language, fleshing things out in successive passes, until it actually works. Dynamic typing means it's easy to evolve the particulars without needing
835.
by __d 7y ago
Ok, so I just measured with a C "hello world". My dynamically-linked executable is 8296 bytes on disc. My statically-linked executable is 844,704 bytes on disc. So if I had a "goodbye world" program as well, that's
836.
by __d 7y ago
My second sentence was arguing for dynamic linkage (I called them "shared libraries", but I think that's a fairly common nomenclature).
837.
by __d 7y ago
LWN includes https://mailchi.mp/pythonweekly/python-weekly-issue-441 in its weekly roundup of language newsletters.
838.
by __d 7y ago
Note that when using static linking, you don't get a copy of everything , just everything you actually use. It doesn't alter the fundamental point: shared libraries save both persistent storage and runtime memory.
839.
by __d 7y ago
The chip has a CCPI (Cache Coherent Processor Interface) with 24 lanes @ 25Gb/s for 2-socket NUMA interconnect. This technology came from Cavium (who bought the Raza, then NetLogic, then Broadcom, and very briefly Avago XLS/XLR&#
840.
by __d 7y ago
I worked at a regional bank. Like many banks, we offered mortgages, so starting in 1970, the 30 year mortgages had a maturity date in 2000, and our bank had begun the process of adapting its systems from 2-digit to 4-digit dates. Basically

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