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by aragilar 3y ago
Windows usage has steadily been decreasing, and is now lower than android: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-201501-20... It's also worth realising you've self-selected for tools that work on Wind
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by aragilar 3y ago
No, most of the plugins for pidgin were reverse engineered.
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by aragilar 3y ago
This HN page is feels faster (I did the clean refresh before doing the ping, to avoid bias): ping is ~185ms (so speed of light is likely the difference), Goodreads is similar to HN, ping ~236ms, Google(.com) feels fast, but not as fast as t
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by aragilar 3y ago
As an aussie, it's noticeable that it's not a fast local site (it could either be a slow local site or a fast overseas one), but that's to be expected (ping time is ~300ms FYI). IMHO your site is fine! It's if you'r
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by aragilar 3y ago
Or the kiwis!
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by aragilar 3y ago
There's great-circle distance and then there's internet-cable distance though (I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all). But yes, I primarily thinki
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by aragilar 3y ago
While I somewhat agree with the premise, "Plop one in Virginia and you can get the English speaking world in under 100ms of latency." is just false (unless you only count the US+UK as "English speaking", ignoring the res
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by aragilar 3y ago
In 2001 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory lists this as the "start date")? Unlikely much could have be done about it, other than introducing regulation to block their creation.
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by aragilar 3y ago
Mozilla Corp is (solely) owned by Mozilla Org.
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by aragilar 3y ago
It depends what you mean by a "normal telescope" (all telescopes used for astronomy are designed for specific tasks/roles, even if that's not called out in public-facing material as much). LSST is not the first large sca
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by aragilar 3y ago
There's also the problem of where things are being shipped from, they could in a warehouse down the road, or coming from the other side of the world. For something regular/you shop often at, entering your shipping address to have
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by aragilar 3y ago
I feel part of the problem is the adversarial environment created by the lack of proper consumer laws e.g. returns/warranty and credit card fees are strongly regulated in Australia, whereas in the US taxes aren't included in the s
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by aragilar 3y ago
90 days now, which actually makes free-tier Slack really bad.
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by aragilar 3y ago
FYI, the Australian comment is wrong, WA (which uses UTC+8) does not DST (there's a party to add it, and multiple referenda which failed to add it), given ASIS is in Canberra (as far as we know ;)), it probably wasn't them.
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by aragilar 3y ago
In some cases I wouldn't be surprised, in others sure maybe the founders did believe in open source at some point (there are definitely individuals who claim to have never changed their opinion, but their writings would suggest otherwi
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by aragilar 3y ago
It's in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/docker.io
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by aragilar 3y ago
There exist shared-source licences which do this ( https://prosperitylicense.com/ is almost what you describe, but it's the one I can recall of the top of my head), but you can't (by definition) have a open source
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by aragilar 3y ago
Define "fix". By definition you cannot have an open source licence which says "cannot be used for bezos yacht". Either you accept that, and don't rely on exclusivity for income (which really what the whole relicensi
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The Web That Never Was – Dylan Beattie (2018) [video](youtube.com)
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by aragilar 3y ago
CSV is fine if you control both ends (in which case it's worth asking why not use something else, but CSV is a totally valid choice). The problem is typically you don't, and what you expected to be simple ends up with lots of hack
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by aragilar 3y ago
The problem is is that it is simple until it's not, then you have problems. You need to validate immediately after export, and work out what happens when that fails.
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by aragilar 3y ago
Academic positions (especially more senior ones) typically have candidates give a talk on their research. Most countries have PhDs do a viva.
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by aragilar 3y ago
What (if anything) do the colours of the non-black squares represent (or is there no scheme)?
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by aragilar 3y ago
I think more accurately, yes, but when is more the question instead of will it happen. I would expect current LTS to keep the open source releases for now (assuming security releases for older versions are still released as open source, if
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by aragilar 3y ago
Isn't that just the standard Oracle playbook: increase prices and push people to alternatives? k8s has long dropped docker as a base technology, it really is the dockerhub default that makes docker relevant.
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by aragilar 3y ago
Both were noped by lawyers pretty quickly (who actually know their stuff and how licences work, rather than random engineers), so I'm not sure what you are trying to suggest...
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by aragilar 3y ago
AGPL and SSPL are quite different (around how it works with other licenses and software), and those differences are what makes AGPL still FOSS, and SSPL not.
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by aragilar 3y ago
Raises eyebrows We're already having the discussion of what we should do about redis at work, given it's a cache, and the tooling we use allows for other caching tools, we'll likely switch away from redis fairly quickly...
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by aragilar 3y ago
But Apache I believe specifically is bound to offer code under the Apache licence?
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by aragilar 3y ago
That's why it's dual licensed.

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