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by cxr 2y ago
Nothing prevents anyone from trying to eat spaghetti with a spoon. (Or from modifying the lexer to accept a different set of terminals, even.) > Kramer: "Yeah, well, I could do it. I don't wanna do it." > Jerry: &
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by cxr 2y ago
I maintain conviction in my position that if AdaCore and/or other champions of Ada were to undertake a serious project (i.e. not an April Fools' Day joke blog post[1]) to ship a compiler that accepts a curly-braced dialect of the
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by cxr 2y ago
No.
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by cxr 2y ago
> [JavaScript's] constant fundamental backwards-breaking changes wat TC-39 literally has "Don't break the Web" as an explicit goal. You are conflating "JavaScript" with something else (possibly some popular
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by cxr 2y ago
You end up getting what is basically spam from dickheads and their apologists. And that's just the sociopath tech CEOs who're trying to "cast a wide net" wrt recruiting (i.e., lying in their email responses to you about
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by cxr 2y ago
> So if you collect things in an undisclosed database without archival rights you probably are violating bajillion copyright claims, right? No.
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by cxr 2y ago
No amount of solidarity from support groups comprising clusters of likeminded folks on internet message boards who're opposed to settled law is a substitute for an act of Congress, which is what it will take to give the position of fol
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by cxr 2y ago
There's not really much of a debate, just a bunch of clamoring and wishful thinking by rightsholders who don't understand copyright law insisting that precedent should be subordinate to mimetic outrage over LLMs.
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by cxr 2y ago
> But it's hard to argue University libraries aren't mostly study areas That's fine. For good study areas, you end up with a lot of dead space, anyway, which might as well be filled with books. What sucks is libraries tha
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by cxr 2y ago
You either cannot read or have me confused with someone else. My guess is characteristic laziness that's involved with posting kneejerk reactions related to politics.
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by cxr 2y ago
This is a great example of how right people are to have a low opinion of news organizations over the rage- and clickbait that even ostensibly respectable ones are willing to traffic in for engagement. The entire basis for this article seem
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by cxr 2y ago
> modifying Chromium is hard, but this seems harder Prove it.
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by cxr 2y ago
If your target is consistent enough (perhaps even stationary), then at some point "JIT" means wasting CPU cycles.
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by cxr 2y ago
> this means it is written in a top down style where every reference is defined somewhere above the usage. It then naturally falls out that programs can be easily read bottom to top So not top-down[1] then, but the opposite. 1. < http
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by cxr 2y ago
It'd be great if you folks would stop showing up and derailing the comments with threads like this.
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by cxr 2y ago
Better: keeping putting "vegan" and "contains nuts" on the label like every manufacturer already is, wherever they want it to be, and however they want it to appear, but mark it up appropriately, and make the file for th
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by cxr 2y ago
It is a misconception that a JS array is "just an associated [sic] array with consecutive integers as keys". Even the early (most readable) editions of the ECMA spec have a whole set of carve-outs that belies that claim.
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by cxr 2y ago
I implore you to (a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and (b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-s
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by cxr 2y ago
> According to Ken Kocienda's book (he was one of the original developers of Safari), that email is a post-hoc rationalization. Kocienda's book doesn't say that Melton's email is a post-hoc rationalization. It doesn&
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by cxr 2y ago
> what's the "verb" form of "source available"? "We are publishing the source code for our Wasm backend." It's not hard to work out.
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by cxr 2y ago
You didn't answer the question, and overall you're being very mercurial in this thread. Write coherently. > i just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating You're calling watching a TV show without
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by cxr 2y ago
> a contrived way to excuse away getting the thing you simultaneously hate and crave > just don't watch Is your position a value judgement on the morality of not watching ads + technology that enables you to watch as few as possi
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by cxr 2y ago
There is way too much incoherence and righteous indignation in this comment for it to be the top thread here. > "full ownership" - of what? By a reasonable and charitable reading: full ownership over your legally-obtained copy
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by cxr 2y ago
You're describing Wikisource, a Wikipedia sister project. Pros: - no setup - WMF foots the bill Cons: - you have to deal with the fragile egos of wikijerks
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by cxr 2y ago
The Internet Archive's OCR is built around tesseract nowadays, but you're right about piggybacking off their pipeline. Upload a text to archive.org and get hOCR for free.
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by cxr 2y ago
> Wiki, open source projects, stackoverflow and democratic country, all are different, but they definitely have similarities. A unicycle and a hula hoop have similarities. As I said, the distinction matters. The argument by metaphor in
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by cxr 2y ago
Running browser extensions through minifiers is pretty representative of the absurdity of the NodeJS/NPM cargo cult. No one who's writing an open source browser extension should be using minification, and no one who's install
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by cxr 2y ago
Editing Wikipedia is not the same as developing software, and they're different enough for the distinction to matter. Wikipedia is not Nupedia, and the comparison in this comment between Wikipedia and open source software maintenance
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by cxr 2y ago
> same complaints and conflicts have been happening all along in broadly comparable ways You're really doubling down on this line of reasoning, even though once was already too much. I'll be even more blunt: it sucks. It&#x27
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by cxr 2y ago
Your pivot from "newcomers who followed the rules [i.e. those who took the time to educate themselves beforehand about the speed limit so they don't break it]" to "newcomers who are having a tough time [because they need

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