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by cestith 1mo ago
Do you mean production or reproduction? For instance, have you ever looked and the budget or the credits for a major film, TV, or game project?
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by cestith 1mo ago
I'd say shorter but with renewals. Say, 15 years with two or three renewals of equal length, but require that the original protected work is still for sale to get the renewal. This would clear up things like retro games being stuck in
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by cestith 1mo ago
If you get rid of copyright, half of movies will be sequels to other people's work from the previous year.
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by cestith 1mo ago
It could be a new keyword rather than counting on the compiler to prove certain access patterns don't exist. That's a bit of a messy tradeoff. Maybe something like 'unordered struct' or 'packed struct' works, b
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by cestith 1mo ago
The EPA as overseen by Donald J. Thatcher.
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by cestith 1mo ago
I’ve had this book for a few years. It’s nice to see it in this format.
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by cestith 1mo ago
Oh, yes! Dr. Petrov. That film has so many great actors. Connery, Neill, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Firth… it even has a Baldwin and a Skarsgård in the same film.
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by cestith 1mo ago
This is an artifact of doing as the platform is documented to work. You can do what the man page says, or you can do the opposite. The whole article is about how forking on macOS is troublesome.
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by cestith 1mo ago
The man page on macOS suggests that if you need the child to be a copy of the parent like you’d get after fork(), that you can fork() then exec() the same program in the child. That gives it enough independence to be safe. Using fork() with
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by cestith 1mo ago
The manpage suggests if you need the child to be the same as the parent to exec a copy of the parent in the child right after forking.
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by cestith 1mo ago
This is interesting, but instead of tying it to a specific JS library and all I’d prefer putting a list of options and their arguments into the .well-known tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI That way an
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by cestith 1mo ago
Annie, Clue, Command & Conquer, Criminal Minds, Legend, Muppets Treasure Island, Rocky Horror Picture Show He was an icon. It’s said you can tell a lot about a person by from where they recognize him.
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by cestith 1mo ago
Many BBSes in the later dial-up BBS days had gateways between the BBS itself or Fidonet echoes and parts of the Internet, too. Some of them had Internet email for their BBS users. Some kept a copy of parts of Usenet, or had a reader on the
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by cestith 1mo ago
You’re right to a point. The Internet is much older than the Web. Content on the Internet was largely FTP sites, Gopher sites, and Usenet long before the Web existed. We also had MUDs, MUSHes, MOOs, talkers, chat rooms, BBSes, and more over
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by cestith 1mo ago
That is true enough, but that wasn’t the question. This thread started with someone being surprised that Siemens would hold a patent suited to a telecoms company. The patent was issued years ago, hence it expiring.
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by cestith 2mo ago
One might consider this an argument for an integrated curriculum. Teach Les Misérables during a unit on the French revolution. Teach Huckleberry Finn or Roots when discussing the history of slavery in the US. Teach The Great Gatsby as part
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by cestith 2mo ago
Siemens started as a telecom company.
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by cestith 2mo ago
Siemens started as a communications company. The first invention was a type of telegraph. Siemens had a division called Siemens Communications Systems. They split that into Siemens Communications Systems (public networks) and Siemens Info
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by cestith 2mo ago
Someone set us up the bomb.
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by cestith 2mo ago
It is not. It’s created by Ingy, the same person who created YAML in the first place. It can be used for general purpose programming, but it fits best when you need a little more control over a system than configuring it with flat YAML. Thi
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by cestith 2mo ago
For your viewing pleasure (or horror): https://yamlscript.org/
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by cestith 2mo ago
Someone maintains a GitHub readme comparing Delphi and FPC with Lazarus. It’s deeper than a couple of feature checklists. https://github.com/ideasawakened/delphi-and-fpc-lazarus-comp...
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by cestith 2mo ago
There’s always FPC and Lazarus if you don’t want to mess with proprietary Embacadero stuff. It’s not 100% the same, but it’s a pretty good equivalent that uses the same programming language (Object Pascal), has a UI builder, and all that. I
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by cestith 2mo ago
The Inspector Gadget robot, only not necessarily in humanoid form, might be useful. Modular bits it can carry along. As for overall form, a compact and stable form has already come to us in media as well. The astromech droids from the Star
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by cestith 2mo ago
I worked at McDonald’s a decade prior to that, and they were 10:1 then, too. I think it’s possible and maybe likely some other chains might have switched from being 8:1 to 10:1 since the market leaders already had that size. There are much
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by cestith 2mo ago
Sometimes the goat will fill up on the tote and you can get the cabbage across, but you can’t count on it. I’m concerned about the farmer being on the water without supervision when he’s concerned about how his imaginary wolf will get acros
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by cestith 2mo ago
Idiot president of a country where over 10% of power generated in 2025 was with wind says any country with wind turbines (he calls them windmills) is a loser country. Film at 11.
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by cestith 2mo ago
One could think of it as mostly self-repairing with some outside encouragement.
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by cestith 2mo ago
The whole premise seems clueless about security, accountability, and human nature. A free, fully anonymous, unauthenticated, ephemeral chat is like a middle school bathroom at best. There’s not even a concept of screen names to carry a repu
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by cestith 2mo ago
Right now there’s some minor probing, trying to get the site to print variables. There’s racism against Blacks. There’s antisemitism. There are a few people actually trying to say hi to one another. Then there’s a bot that replies to absolu

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