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by autarch 6y ago
I agree that you won't think about this too often. However, if you're trying to use the reflect package to get type information about variables, you may end up having to think about it (and like me, you may end up feeling very con
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by autarch 6y ago
But it looks like things that use the system libc, like ping, _are_ accepting this. So there's clearly a case where your Perl code could treat it one way, your system another, and that skew could lead to bugs, including security bugs.
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Security Issues in Perl IP Address Distros(blog.urth.org)
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by autarch 6y ago
I've written a fair bit about hiring processes on my blog. My most recent post about is at https://blog.urth.org/2019/07/11/a-technical-hiring-process-... We use this process at my current employer, and
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by autarch 6y ago
Anyone setting out to watch this should be warned that they will cry like a little baby. At least I did.
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by autarch 6y ago
As a further data point, Freddie deBoer just published a post with details about his Substack Pro deal - https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/financial-transparency
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by autarch 6y ago
I meant that if you know Hebrew, Arabic, or Hindu, learning the Latin alphabet is a lot easier than learning Chinese characters. And Latin user will probably find Arabic easier than Chinese too, even though the Latin alphabet is a bit simpl
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by autarch 6y ago
Those all use alphabets or syllabaries, so it's just a matter of learning a small new set of symbols.
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by autarch 6y ago
What do you hope to achieve with this? Ok, you win, the term "open source" predates the OSI. So what? Using the term "open source" without any definition is useless. If we can't agree on a definition, it's impo
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by autarch 6y ago
As far as I know, the term "open source" was coined by the same people who were involved in founding OSI (though the OSI founders were a subset of the people who first used the term). I'd be very curious to see examples of wi
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by autarch 6y ago
If we're talking about "free software" in the context of licensing the FSF's definition is the only one that matters. Obviously there is free (no cost) software as well, at least in English where we have one word for bot
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by autarch 6y ago
> So open source means only licenses that are most favourable to the big tech monopolists now? No, open source means the same thing it's always meant since the term was first coined. See the Open Source Initiative's Open Source
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by autarch 6y ago
> The right question isn’t “What is my favourite tool?”. It’s “If this project had a soul, how would it want to express itself through code?” I somewhat disagree. What you're saying is basically "pick the right tool for the job
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by autarch 6y ago
Having spent many years volunteering for various nonprofit, and having been deeply involved in fundraising and budgeting, I cannot upvote this enough! Restricted donations add overhead while making it harder to fund important things like bo
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by autarch 6y ago
> People often claiming they would donate if they could support only specific parts of the organization. I think this may simply reflect lack of faith in Mozilla as a nonprofit. People don't trust them to use an unrestricted donatio
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by autarch 6y ago
I'm not defending his colleagues (or him), just responding to the GP comment's suggestion that ignoring the complaints of those under the drinking age might not be relevant.
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by autarch 6y ago
But it's not just those under the drinking age who were offended. If you read the whole story it sounds like he was fired in part because some of his black colleagues at the New York Times also said they were offended and that they wou
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by autarch 6y ago
ActiveState | Full-time | REMOTE (core hours North American west coast) | https://grnh.se/772329f92us ActiveState Platform - made by developers for developers! We are reinventing build engineering with an on-demand SaaS Pla
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by autarch 6y ago
Maybe we're using two different definitions of "endorse". I think of it as saying "I approve of this thing", not "this thing exists and is worth reading, even if I do not approve of it". For me to consider
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by autarch 6y ago
As others have noted, this is a good time to think about Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Here's some points in the article that I think are particularly sketchy that others haven't yet noted ... > He denounced the neoreactionaries, t
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by autarch 6y ago
On a related topic, I recently watched an excellent documentary on disordered eating among rock climbers, especially professional climbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtDQJGrO5s
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by autarch 6y ago
Where's the stick? How would the US enforce the "get vaccinated or wear a mask" rule? I can't think of any way to do this that isn't massively invasive, and I don't see this as being politically viable in most
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by autarch 6y ago
I went to an Italian place in Kaohsiung a couple times many years ago. I was surprised that focaccia was really good. The pasta dish I ordered was a bit odd. I remember they put baby corn in it and the tomato sauce was much sweeter than I w
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by autarch 6y ago
I'm an American married to a Taiwanese woman, so I've been there many times. I've had a lot of amusing "Western" (by which they mostly mean American) food on these trips. The last time few times I was there I went t
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by autarch 6y ago
ActiveState | Full-time | REMOTE (core hours North American west coast) | https://grnh.se/772329f92us ActiveState Platform - made by developers for developers! We are reinventing build engineering with an on-demand SaaS Pla
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by autarch 6y ago
> it makes us feel bad about our foreign holiday and makes entire countries switch to more expensive energy supplies But it sure feels good to tell people that we're skipping that foreign holiday and switching to wind power for our
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by autarch 6y ago
The SSPL is not open source because it does not meet the definition of "open source" per the Open Source Initiative ( https://opensource.org/ ). See https://opensource.org/osd for the definition in
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by autarch 6y ago
I'm not defending Amazon here, just pointing out that they are correct to say that the SSPL is not open source. I _do_ think it was very shifty of Elastic to say that switching to the SSPL was "doubling down on open".
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by autarch 6y ago
The SSPL is not an open source license. This is quite clear. The Open Source Initiative, stewards of the term "open source", have said so at https://opensource.org/node/1099 . While AWS may be disingenuous, th
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by autarch 6y ago
My wife is Taiwanese and over time I've heard some anti-black racist stuff from some members of her family, almost all from older members of the family (people who are in their 70s and 80s). I'm not sure exactly where it comes fro

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