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631.
by aflag 6y ago
Kernel maintainers are not human. TIL
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by aflag 6y ago
Besides that, if their "research" patch gets into a release, it could potentially put thousands or millions of users at risk.
633.
by aflag 6y ago
You probably can learn more and faster about new drugs by testing them in humans rather than rats. However, science is not above ethics. That is a lesson history has taught us in the most unpleasant of ways.
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by aflag 6y ago
I think the point is that, if you don't send the GPL + IPC layer to user, then it is not counted as distribution. Certainly there is a distinction between distributing the full software and allowing network access to it, otherwise ther
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by aflag 6y ago
I don’t think there are clear cut answers. It has to be tried in court. The desire of the creator is sort of obvious, the discussion will be whether the creator can set that as a condition to use their IP or not. EULAs are a thing, so I wou
636.
by aflag 6y ago
I don’t understand the analogy very well. But software is very different to the material world because it’s fungible and copying it is essentially free. I think a more appropriate analogy would be the mechanic that fixes your car explaining
637.
by aflag 6y ago
Sure, they are not the same thing. I’m just pointing out that the freedom in free software is all about users having the freedom to do with the software they use as they please, not about the freedom of people hiding parts of how the softwa
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by aflag 6y ago
What do they do about external contributors? Do they agree on giving the copyright of any patches they make to the PM2 owners?
639.
by aflag 6y ago
What about the users of the software you provide via the network, don’t they have the freedom to run, modify and study the software they are using? If you stop providing the service, don’t they have the freedom to run it somewhere else and
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by aflag 6y ago
CLion is capable of adding missing includes, I'm not sure if it tells you about unused ones. They have a free trial, may be worth a try.
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by aflag 6y ago
Indeed, the least I was expecting was some kind of graph showing how accurate lip readers in each language are or something.
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by aflag 6y ago
> Not true. If they hadn't been forced to rotate, they would have stuck with P@$$w0rd1 the whole time, and P@$$w0rd2 is not weaker than that. The thing is that with the requirement you can guess the last one or two characters of pre
643.
by aflag 6y ago
What do you mean by stealing? Other companies could offer the same products you offer already. If they know what people want they will spend resources trying to optimise things based on data, instead of guessing. Some other company may find
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by aflag 6y ago
Often times it's because there is no good solution. That is, you can't really fix the problem without being overly strict and making common use cases impossible or awkward to use. So you settle for something that usually works for
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by aflag 6y ago
I'd select a redundant mechanical device.
646.
by aflag 6y ago
I think he's looking at it from the user's perspective. Some privacy advocates may say that analytics have to be private not to make user's private data public. However, the point was that the only reason making the data publ
647.
by aflag 6y ago
I am not disagreeing with you, but imagine if all business were completely open about all those things. Yeah, maybe your particular business would fail, but the net result would be the truly most effective business to succeed. Which would b
648.
by aflag 6y ago
I see the point that unicode_literal being quite important, but what about print_function? How does it make coding more difficult or awkward?
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by aflag 6y ago
It is surprising that they missed this change, though. Given how core type hints are for their projects and how broadly publicised the changes and developments in type hints were. I'd be surprised if there weren't any issues raise
650.
by aflag 6y ago
If most of the bytes are indeed cruft, can't you just send binary diffs around? I imagine they should change that much between compilations? It seems to be an issue for db developers but not for users.
651.
by aflag 6y ago
What's the use case where a 200MB binary size is a problem?
652.
by aflag 6y ago
Thought it has been there for some time, it was added to core Python on a "provisional" basis (it says so in the docs), meaning that they were not bound to keep backwards compatibility with it. In other words, it's an experim
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Did a worldwide lockdown help in the fight against climate change? No(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by aflag 6y ago|0 comments
654.
by aflag 6y ago
It allows you to connect from multiple devices simultaneously and you don’t need to have your mobile charged and connected. That’s second only to actually be able to send messages to me.
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by aflag 6y ago
I was really hoping these privacy concerns would dissuade people from using WhatsApp. But I have a hidden agenda: I hate their web app. I just want a chat software I can use from anywhere.
656.
by aflag 6y ago
I guess it would make sense if you want to archive it and save some disk space. It also not always clear to the system that you are sharing a directory, if you drop it on a network drive, for instance. But yes, I think zipping a directory i
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by aflag 6y ago
TCP/IP is still strong with us today. The whole web is built on top of that. Given that browsers today already support HTTP/2, it is hard to imagine that in 25 years the web would have moved to something else. HTTP/1 has been
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by aflag 6y ago
It would be kind of neat if changing the extension of a file caused it to be converted automatically. It would save a bunch of typing and browsing around. Just rename a directory to foo.tar.gz and it gets compressed and tarred. I'm not
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by aflag 6y ago
He probably meant web and not Internet. The IP protocol, which is arguably what is closest to what internet really means haven’t seen a change since the 80s. We are still struggling with moving to IPv6.
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by aflag 6y ago
What is the sort of guidelines it violated?

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