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by cygx 6y ago
You can't just change the license of code contributed by someone else without approval. But you can relicense your own contributions, which - unless that code can be trivially ripped out - would basically have the same effect as placin
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by cygx 6y ago
/sci/, actually - cf https://web.archive.org/web/20181024190314/https://warosu.or...
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by cygx 6y ago
Curious definition of 'kids trolling', I have to say. DDoS attacks as well as actual hacks were performed in the name of 'Anonymous', and at the time of the Stratfor hack, various LulzSec members were already in their la
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by cygx 6y ago
That was a rhetorical question, pointing out the incorrect capitalization...
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by cygx 6y ago
There's also a CTL fork that might be of interest: https://github.com/rurban/ctl
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by cygx 6y ago
Allegedly, in the timespan 2003 to 2010, the US detained (in some cases for months) or even deported over 20k US citizen: https://jacquelinestevens.org/US-Unlawfully-Detaining.Steven...
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by cygx 6y ago
Supposedly, some relevant performance characteristics changed after Spectre mitigations got implemented. I never got around to looking into this, and have no idea how things stand right now...
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by cygx 6y ago
> so long as you immediately relicense that code Without a copyright transfer agreement in place, only the original author may relicense the code. The permissively licensed parts of the code will stay permissively licensed, but neverthel
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by cygx 6y ago
It's not entirely unrelated: Nuclear plants make bad peakers, and I suspect the older plants probably also aren't too good at load-following. The French also not only get into trouble when demand is high in winter, but also when i
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by cygx 6y ago
There's always something. Did you know that nuclear-power producing France comes close to crashing the grid basically every other winter? See eg https://www.cre.fr/Actualites/RTE-fait-appel-aux-industriels... for
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by cygx 6y ago
Quote: > nybble: /nib´l/, nibble, n. ^---- see that word over here?
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by cygx 6y ago
For reference, here's an excerpt of Galileo's Papal Condemnation of 1633: > We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare that you, the said Galileo, by reason of the matters adduced in trial, and by you confessed as above, have ren
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by cygx 6y ago
Not sure which 'you' that refers to. Let me clarify. In the words of the author, > This post is for you if you’re tired of screaming The Middle Ages weren’t dark and bad! and want somewhere to link people to, to show them how
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by cygx 6y ago
Yeah, there was some interpretation of the intent behind the comment on my part (cf "you probably want it to be a static type error"). How you view the claim itself depends on your thoughts about the level at which equality should
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by cygx 6y ago
The headline of the first (non-introductory) subsection reads > Part 1: Renaissance Life was Worse than the Middle Ages (super-condensed version)
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by cygx 6y ago
Indeed. But instead, the article comes with the headline Renaissance Life was Worse than the Middle Ages , eg citing life expectancy in Italy in the 1200s compared to the 1500s in support. That can easily lead to new misconceptions.
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by cygx 6y ago
I hope you agree that's ridiculous. No comparison without explicit casts is a valid design choice. I think Ada and Rust work that way, though I've never used either language and might be mistaken...
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by cygx 6y ago
Instead, now we have this new myth that because the 12th century wasn't so bad, neither was the 6th...
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by cygx 6y ago
Who knows about this particular burial ground, but large chunks of Europe did go through a 'rough spot' (cities depopulating, total population declining, industries collapsing, ...) in late aniquity/the early middle ages that
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by cygx 6y ago
Instead, the heir now descends from the houses Battenberg ('Mountbatten') and Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ('Windsor')...
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by cygx 6y ago
Most of the hard stuff is there no matter the encoding (normalization, user-perceived characters spanning multiple code units, paths vs strings, ...).
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by cygx 6y ago
Nothing per se, but more declarative code is often nicer to look at than imperative code. In the for loop example, you need to name and explicitly initialize a variable, you need to explicitly write down the comparison, and you need to expl
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by cygx 6y ago
> The term you are looking for is "pass by reference". Nope, just parameter declarations. I also kind of doubt the by-value semantics will surprise anyone the way you describe: If you pass things by value without explicitly t
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by cygx 6y ago
True. After sending out a photon of energy E, a spaceraft of mass m will have its (invariant!) mass reduced by a factor of sqrt(1 - 2E/mc²). In terms of energies, this is all rather trivial conceptionally: Rest energy (aka 'mass&#
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by cygx 6y ago
That terminology is outdated. Today, mass generally means invariant mass, corresponding to rest mass in case of 'massive' particles. The invariant mass of photons is 0, hence it's 'massless'. The gamma factors hidde
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by cygx 6y ago
Note that in contemporary usage, the term 'mass' without qualifier is normally understood as a reference to invariant mass (aka rest mass). Photons have energy, but no mass. They can be used for propulsion due to having nonzero mo
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by cygx 6y ago
The code is permissively licensed (2-clause BSD according to the LICENSE file, 3-clause BSD according to the comment in the source file).
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by cygx 6y ago
A copyright disclaimer just got added: https://gitlab.com/lucaapp/android/-/commit/7c378ac21fefe0ad...
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by cygx 6y ago
Implementation-defined as far as I'm aware. If pointers with all bits zero actually represent null pointers, things will be fine. edit: I haven't found any smoking gun quotation in the C11 standard on short notice, but there is
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by cygx 6y ago
In the matrix multiplication example, the measurement is done via a simple t = time() results = calc(n) elapsed = time() - t So startup time at least isn't included. One might argue that this is still biased against Ju

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