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by blihp 4y ago
I agree that this is the biggest blocker, though I wouldn't go so far as to say stay away from it. Rather it is one of the most important things one needs to understand (trust me, you will after you've run into it a few times) wh
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by blihp 4y ago
See Russia and SWIFT for the most extreme example to date.
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by blihp 4y ago
BASIC and (UCSD) Pascal were the mainstream choices on 8-bit micros... with BASIC being far and away the dominant language in the amateur and low-volume professional market mainly due to ease of use and that it came bundled with every 8-bit
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by blihp 4y ago
When the subject is a generic or overloaded name, it's very common. For example, I've often done searches related to Smalltalk or Lisp (the programming languages) combined with names of various popular but generic libraries and g
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by blihp 4y ago
People don't need it, but governments want it very badly. It would provide governments with greater visibility into and control over the money supply and flows. This would be both at the macro (arguably good) and micro (arguably
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by blihp 4y ago
True, from a technical standpoint. I was referring to the business standpoint as it seems like other than IBM, what businesses are still making any investments in it? (i.e. no consoles using it anymore, Apple is long gone, Motorola (spino
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by blihp 4y ago
Not really... they're at opposite ends of their life cycles. POWER is a dying, dead-end[1] architecture while RISC-V is just getting started. Open sourcing something already in steep decline won't typically bring it back unless
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by blihp 4y ago
Tolkien created one of the most fleshed out fantasy universes to date. As a result, there's a not inconsiderable number of die hard fans who don't react well to disregarding canon as there is a rather insane amount of detail spel
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by blihp 4y ago
Some of the better sci-fi movies aren't received well initially and take time to pick up a following. If they're lucky they go on to be 'sleeper hits' or 'cult classics'. Sure, re-releases help but a lot of i
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by blihp 4y ago
It was one of those sci-fi movies that was just too different for mainstream audiences and critics. It also didn't help that the marketing of it sucked for likely the same reason.
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by blihp 4y ago
The default behavior made it multi-user unfriendly. A lot of that likely came from trying to remain dBase compatible and beginner friendly. It was actually one of the better (behaved and performing) multi-user DOS and early Windows data
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by blihp 4y ago
FoxPro was a competitor of dBase, not built on top of it. It was at least mostly source code compatible with dBase III programs though, IIRC. For its day, it actually could produce some of the better looking DOS-based database apps if yo
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by blihp 4y ago
Tell him what he wants to hear. There's likely no upside to doing anything else.
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by blihp 4y ago
Manual repair of just about everything was worthwhile to do back then. Partly it was because labor was cheap and physical stuff was expensive (which has inverted) and partly because the overall <pick the appliance> was well built eno
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by blihp 4y ago
Any chance you might have entered 1200 thinking you were entering 12? I've run into this situation more than once where there is/isn't a decimal where you think it isn't/is.
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by blihp 4y ago
The lawyer didn't care... they just used their power to block the release. Since it wasn't something that mattered to them, they likely never gave it a second thought. This isn't terribly uncommon (it's not just an iss
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by blihp 4y ago
1) Most likely 2) TBD 3) Not likely. Worst case a judgement will go against them, they'll effectively pay a fine and then they'll retrain it on a more restricted set of source code. 4) OSS has a pretty tragic history re: enforcem
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by blihp 4y ago
Copyright law doesn't work that way. I'd bet this is going to be litigated to a final decision before anyone can say with certainty if/when a NN is violating copyright (i.e. via the training data) or not.
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by blihp 4y ago
Derivative works don't need to be referenced in the GPL as it's a concept from copyright law. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
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by blihp 4y ago
Can I trouble you for some stock picks?
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by blihp 4y ago
He was decades ahead of his time, as were the folks at PARC, in terms of something that could be turned into a profitable business or consumer product. The time horizon was just too long for the most powerful ideas to really take root in t
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by blihp 4y ago
My impression was that people were able to make a living while devoting the vast majority of their effort turning their vision into a reality. If one really has a passion for their work that's about as close as one can get to being pa
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by blihp 4y ago
The money was in blind banner ads back then. (to the extent there was serious money in ads back then... I don't recall the flood of banner ads until 95/96 or so)
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by blihp 4y ago
XMPP was never that popular... it was IRC that was the (relatively) widely used open protocol. SMTP was early enough and good enough to get widespread adoption. IRC in its original form was never good enough (esp. re: scaling), so services
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by blihp 4y ago
Power consumption and the resulting heat.
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by blihp 4y ago
Wasn't ECL in use for high speed logic around that time? I assume if the parent was at MIT they would have had access to all the cool toys back then.
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by blihp 4y ago
The 'all you need' part is the part you can't hand-wave away. One typically can't both satisfy the requirements of generating a rate of return needed to remain viable[1] with low risk and keep the funds liquid. In th
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by blihp 4y ago
It's not snake oil, it basically provides customized client-side meta search. For people (especially non-programmers) who have search-heavy workflows, I could see it as being a useful tool.
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by blihp 4y ago
The problem is that 'unless there is a massive run' is nearly assured over a long enough time horizon. The fact that the major players know that they are reasonably safe unless there's a run is the thing that will cause a ru
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by blihp 4y ago
Nope. Just watch... this has all happened before and it will all happen again.

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