bentley

10 ms·

121.
by bentley 2y ago
As an OpenBSD developer who frequently fixes portability issues in external software, this doesn’t match my experience. Upstream developers are typically happy to merge patches to improve POSIX compliance; often the result is simpler than t
122.
by bentley 2y ago
“Free software” does not imply copyleft, not even to the FSF. The MIT license is a free software license even by their definition.
123.
by bentley 2y ago
> I honestly found your response not just flippant, but passive-aggressively rude to the original poster. I didn’t read it that way at all. How would you have worded it in such a way as to sincerely express the stated sentiment without c
124.
by bentley 2y ago
For every book, Standard Ebooks provides a hyperlink to the original scan, a hyperlink to the original transcription, and a full revision history in which all spelling updates have been clearly marked. To me, this already seems to be going
125.
by bentley 2y ago
Fun fact, the “open” in OpenBSD doesn’t refer to open source licensing, but to an open development process, including the ability to anonymously checkout the CVS repository without an account, which was a novelty in the 90s.
126.
by bentley 2y ago
<samp> would be more semantically appropriate.
127.
by bentley 2y ago
> How many times have you had an idea guy come to you with a "great idea for an app" if only they could find someone to program it for them? Many. And I love it when those people code something up with Scratch, Matlab, or eve
128.
by bentley 2y ago
Well, this divine decree isn’t talking about food. It’s actually a metaphor for Christianity opening its doors to Gentile converts instead of just Jews. This is how Peter himself interpreted it: 27 As Peter talked with him, he went inside a
129.
by bentley 2y ago
Last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40032473 Can’t find anything from “years ago,” though. So maybe my search skills are weak, or maybe I confabulated the memory of finding others, so I’ll withdraw that. Either
130.
by bentley 2y ago
> How many times have I ever attributed this site [to jcs]? I don’t keep track of people’s HN comments—but I noticed one time some months back, and figured someone should point it out next time. :) [edit: struck “found several”]
131.
by bentley 2y ago
I don’t care one bit about the code of conduct conversation you’re having. Just found it funny that you’ve been attributing this site to jcs for years based just on a common surname.
132.
by bentley 2y ago
It might! But unless jcs changed his appearance and his accent since I last met up with him in Chicago, this is one of the millions of other people named Stein.
133.
by bentley 2y ago
I don’t think OpenBSD is clamoring for code contributions from the companies with proprietary SSH forks. Just money to support continued development. > Use GPLv3 or AGPL then. If you want companies to "give back" when they use
134.
by bentley 2y ago
My general experience has been that it’s great at turning rare crashes into frequent crashes, which are much easier to fix.
135.
by bentley 2y ago
This is “stein”: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10519-a_systematic_evaluation_of... Doesn’t look like jcs to me.
136.
by bentley 2y ago
Zero‐days are worth less if they’re for a platform so insecure that zero‐days are easy to find.
137.
by bentley 2y ago
There are none. Japan is in the midst of a 20‐year public domain drought (2019–2038), like the US from 1999–2018 and Canada from 2023–2042, because they extended the copyright duration from life+50 to life+70 due to pressure from the EU. Ao
138.
by bentley 2y ago
> If I see someone shoplifting from Walmart, no I didn't. So to take a recent example from my city (one of those cities so full of rampant petty theft that stores now inconvenience everybody by locking up toiletries), you don’t have
139.
by bentley 2y ago
The passport card is also an option, one that’s small enough to fit in a wallet. It can be used to cross land borders, and to fly domestically (but not internationally). Unlike most driver’s licenses, a passport card doesn’t expose one’s
140.
by bentley 2y ago
Yes, I mentioned that.
141.
by bentley 2y ago
Even within the last millennium powerful and accomplished civilizations like the Inca survived and excelled without writing. I think a better lesson to take from this is that though humans are inherently communicative and inventive, these c
142.
by bentley 2y ago
> Under the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, there's 8 groups that MUST be labeled: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybeans. Nine groups, since 2023: the FASTER Act mandates labeling se
143.
by bentley 2y ago
Amtrak can be decently comfortable by coach, and the ability to stand, walk around, change cars, and (on Western routes) vary seating position by visiting the lounge car outclasses Greyhound in every way.
144.
by bentley 2y ago
There’s no intellectual property law that prohibits me from hiring an expert to reupholster my chair.
145.
by bentley 2y ago
I think a lot of people reasonably believe that “buying” digital content provides continuous, permanent access to that content, as opposed to the common alternative of either paying for a time‐limited “rental” or for a monthly streaming sub
146.
by bentley 2y ago
Do people of Estados Unidos Mexicanos count as estadounidense?
147.
by bentley 2y ago
The source of this terminology difference is that continents have no universal definition, only societal convention. Romance language–speaking countries tend to teach the six‐continent model with a single America, whereas Anglophone countri
148.
by bentley 2y ago
It’s often suggested in HN comments that keeping a TV disconnected from the LAN will soon be insufficient to prevent data transmission, because companies are on the cusp of including subsidized cell modems in the devices. Have you ever enco
149.
by bentley 2y ago
I too find the domestic TSA photo opt‐out to be quite painless. I recommend simply saying “I’d like to opt out of the photo” as soon as you walk to the platform, because saying so as soon as possible minimizes the chance of holding up the l
150.
by bentley 2y ago
It’s still possible to take one’s own passport photos with a plain old digital camera. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...

More ›