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by bdowling 6y ago
> ...which is arguably not compatible with the GPL: From what I can tell, most if not all of the driver is licensed with an MIT-style license. But even if it was GPL, AMD would be the licensor , so it gets to decide the “preferred form
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by bdowling 6y ago
> the driver is pretty abominable compared to the code quality of most of the rest of the kernel. Could you say more about what specifically makes the driver abominable? Is it just those files with largely duplicated code?
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by bdowling 6y ago
> When you “buy” software, you are actually entering into a lease contract to use the software This is inaccurate, at least as to purchases software. A license is not a contract because the licensee is not required to do anything. A lice
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by bdowling 6y ago
> I think that's misleading then, because when I buy a GPU, they make me believe I own it, when, apparently, in reality I don't. If you buy a GPU you own it and the copy of the software it came with. You are free to use that co
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by bdowling 6y ago
> people with undeveloped prefrontal cortices Someone with an “undeveloped prefrontal cortex”, a vague and insulting description, would be a liability on a battlefield. Not every soldier needs to have a genius IQ, but they need to be com
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by bdowling 6y ago
> In current combat deployments, soldiers usually direct their animals with hand signals or laser pointers - both of which require the handler to be close by. Handlers also use radios with earpieces for the dogs and cameras and microphon
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by bdowling 6y ago
> not permanently exploited without his knowledge. You may be thinking of the narrow use of exploit in relation to computer device exploits, which may or may not grant permanent access. In general, to exploit something means simply to ta
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by bdowling 6y ago
It's an idiosynchratic system which deviates from traditional grammar. That's a strong reason not to use it. The author claims pedagogical benefits, but provides no hard evidence or even endorsement from educational authorities. T
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by bdowling 6y ago
> But it's still good for a step, no? No. The site here is advocating a non-standard method of parsing and understanding Japanese sentences. In the long run, that will be counter-productive because the method is counter to standard
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by bdowling 6y ago
> This site seems to make a big deal about not following standard terms for Japanese grammar, eg. calling 形容詞 "na-nouns" instead of "na-adjectives" and 形容動詞 "i-verbs" instead of "i-adjectives". The
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by bdowling 6y ago
Quotes from Judge Albright himself: “I didn’t come to this job to retire,” Albright said. “I came to this job and I took this job in Waco because I thought it was the perfect place to try and establish a serious venue for sophisticated pate
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by bdowling 6y ago
District judges receive an annual salary currently $216,400 for 2020. [0] When judges retire, they receive an annuity equal to their salary at the time of retirement for the remainder of their lives. [1] [0] https://www.uscourts.
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by bdowling 6y ago
The hash functions used for hash tables are designed to be fast to compute and typically just involve a couple of operations. See, for example, this Stack Overflow answer about Python dict hash functions. https://stackoverflow.c
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by bdowling 6y ago
A simple hash function may be something like dividing by K and taking the remainder, which is probably considered an "elementary operation" by definition. But in general, keys and the hash function could be anything. For example,
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by bdowling 6y ago
> hash function with larger key size, you necessarily need more computations to compute K You're right and I saw your other reply on this thread after I posted my reply. The time complexity is only O(1) if we ignore the cost of the
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by bdowling 6y ago
> If you do a worst-case analysis, hash tables just degenerate to a single linked list ... That's where you have 0(n) performance. Even under a best-case analysis, hash table lookups are O(N) when using a single hash function. Assum
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by bdowling 6y ago
> who owns the copyright to my creation? It is better to think about whose rights would be infringed if your edited version were published. If you were to publish your edited version, then you would infringe the original author's ri
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by bdowling 6y ago
> the idea of a guitar tab being copyrighted is strange to me. The copyright lies in the musical composition itself. A graphical representation of that musical composition, whether in the form of classical sheet music or guitar tablature
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by bdowling 6y ago
> I personally think it's an outrageous outcome Could you say exactly what you find outrageous about it? Is it the idea that someone could spend a lot of time and effort on something only to find out that the product of their work
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by bdowling 6y ago
> The tabs do not alter the original song in any way, they are merely a derivative work. If the tabs do not alter the original song in any way, then they are more like a literal copy than a derivative work. A literal copy, even one that
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by bdowling 6y ago
As I understand it, this is basically correct. OLGA and the tab creators couldn't publish the tabs because they didn't own the musical compositions. The only ones who could publish the tabs without being sued were the owners or li
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by bdowling 6y ago
The products here may be considered legally counterfeit for one or more reasons other than simply using the word mark APPLE. For example: (1) trademark or trade dress infringement if the product's decorative features (color, etc.) or p
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by bdowling 6y ago
Yeah, I just wouldn't call $190k "ruthless wageslavery at BigLaw".
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by bdowling 6y ago
The radio work of Joe Frank [0][1] often had a similar surreal and captivating quality. [0] https://www.joefrank.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Frank
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by bdowling 6y ago
> can’t arrest people for something you have evidence they might do if they haven’t done it yet. If “might do” means actually planning to commit a crime and then taking some material action to further that plan, then they can be charged
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by bdowling 6y ago
> average salaries of $70-$80k USD > ruthless wageslavery at BigLaw Big law associates start at $190k, straight out of law school. Big law associates are, however, the top graduates from the top law schools. Most new law graduates don
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by bdowling 6y ago
> the article sounds like the rants of a loser. The article is published in the humor section of the New Yorker magazine. It’s clearly a humorous work of fiction written by a writer who was certainly paid for his work. It’s grandiose and
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Shareholders can sue if they do not think their interests are being properly represented/manifested. In general, shareholder recourse is limited to electing a new board that will do what those shareholders want. The exceptions are
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Or are all the extensions patented as well Yes. So, if you want to reimplement a CPU from 1999, you will probably be fine without any kind of license. If you want to add features or use new methods, however, you may run into infringeme
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by bdowling 6y ago
You're right that we don't have a whole lot of information and shouldn't make assumptions. To that point, the number Gamemaster gave could have been an amount that he personally would have settled for and not a number that hi

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