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by cyphar 1y ago
I think that the contractor would be required to change the software to include a notice, and if you removed it you would be modifying the software again. I suspect a judge would not look kindly on such shenanigans in any case. My view is t
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by cyphar 1y ago
Calling C code from Rust? Pretty nice. Writing Rust code to be called from C (but within the same application)? Doable but somewhat painful. Writing Rust code to act like a C shared library? Quite painful and some pretty important features
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by cyphar 1y ago
> the CA would be immediately distrusted by browsers, not as punishment but to deter state actors This is not practically possible for browsers to do, as it would also cause all of the legitimate certificates signed by that CA to become
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by cyphar 1y ago
Sure, warrants and subpoenas need to exist in order for the legal system to function. However, they have limits. The modern abuse of the third-party doctrine is a different topic. Modern usage of the third-party doctrine claims (for instanc
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by cyphar 1y ago
> Demanding access to Gmail or Facebook doesn't sound like it. I would argue that Gmail (or at least some kind of email service) is actually a necessity for modern life -- and if "access" includes sending emails to @gmail.
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by cyphar 1y ago
I know that Solaris (or at least, ZFS) has VERIFY and ASSERT macros where the ASSERT macros are compiled out in production builds. Is that the kind of thing you're referring to? You can aslo mark certain codepaths as unreachable to hin
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by cyphar 1y ago
We'll find out in the investigation, but "get-there-itis" is a very common condition amongst pilots and can lead to them delaying making decisions (such as going to alternates) so it's possible that this happened without
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by cyphar 1y ago
> Corporations are free to impose requirements for access to their platforms. To wit, hardware that I bought is not "their platform", but many corporations sure like to pretend it is. It's already not illegal to reverse en
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by cyphar 1y ago
My understanding is that the SOP for low fuel is that you need to declare a fuel emergency (i.e., "Mayday Mayday Mayday Fuel") one you reach the point where you will land with only reserve fuel left. The point OP was making is tha
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by cyphar 1y ago
> But where the Go authors tried to make the step easy and kept their ego out of it That is very different to my memories of the past decade+ of working on Go. Almost every single language decision they eventually caved on that I can thi
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by cyphar 1y ago
> The Coca-Cola Company has been working to increase Coke Zero's popularity, and it is now much more popular than it used to be, but I think Diet Coke continues to be more popular than Coke Zero even now. This might be a per-country
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by cyphar 1y ago
I agree there appears to be very little interest in subtitles in Japan from most Japanese people, but it is absolutely not true that Japanese subtitles are as haphazard as you say. The overwhelming majority of official Japanese subtitles I
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by cyphar 1y ago
> I think there's a reasonable chance to have groups emerge with a reputation to defend This already exists today -- translation groups rush to be the first to translate a new series, and some fans have strong preferences around w
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by cyphar 1y ago
Some of the issues you often run into with Japanese subtitles are: * Almost all Japanese subtitles include subtitles for every noise made as well as including SDH-like information about sounds. This means that a naive attempt to just ma
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by cyphar 1y ago
The NSA phone-tapped Angela Merkel's phone while she was chancellor as well as her staff and the staff of her predecessor[1], despite the two countries also being close allies. "We are allies, why would they need to spy on us?&quo
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by cyphar 1y ago
It seems New Zealand is one of very few countries where that is the case, and that's because you guys have a government scheme that provides equivalent coverage for personal injury without being a form of insurance (ACC). As far as I u
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by cyphar 1y ago
Sure, but it's also fine to say "my hourly rate is $X, if you want feature Y or bugfix Z I'm happy to charge you $X*N for it".
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by cyphar 1y ago
Okay, but how many of them are going to have new software running on them built using C++31? If the toolchains are all stuck on C++11 (or more likely, C++98) then it doesn't really matter what C++31 will or won't do.
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by cyphar 1y ago
> Also, in not into the faux shock at him paying himself $200-$250/hr as his rate for RT. The article has been updated and the correct figure appears to have been $150/hr. That seems very cheap for a contracting rate -- another
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by cyphar 1y ago
The license also says that the software comes with "no warranty of any kind" but companies still tend to pressure maintainers to do unpaid work on their behalf to fix issues or otherwise maintain maintain the project in a way that
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by cyphar 1y ago
It is a little funny to make this comment under an article about a contraversial decision made by a government agency. Believe it or not, government agencies tend to have some overlap with politics.
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by cyphar 1y ago
The idea that not using the "fork" button on GitHub is somehow obscuring authorship is unhinged -- the actual license only requires you keep license headers intact (if your license headers don't convey authorship properly, yo
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by cyphar 1y ago
On the flip side, contributions have financial value, otherwise what are we all doing here? I don't think they want a tax deduction necessarily, they're just pointing out that because of how voluntary labour is valued by the tax s
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by cyphar 1y ago
Just because some administrative decisions are permanent and destructive doesn't mean that every operation should be made permanent or destructive. Should every software config require buying new hardware because the initial config get
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by cyphar 1y ago
My local library has soundproof conference rooms (we made heavy use of them as high-school students when doing group study for exams), so in some libraries you can.
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Oh man, I would've killed for snacks as a student...
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by cyphar 1y ago
Most libraries in most countries I've been to have community spaces intended for (among other things) study and work. Most have dozens of services completely unrelated to loaning out books.
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by cyphar 1y ago
> Before Go, Rust, and the like arrived on the scene I'm glad you now agree that Go and Rust have enough similarities to be grouped together in this discussion. ;) > There may have been some glimmer of understanding of needing
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by cyphar 1y ago
> I do recognize this confused the Rust crowd, who bizarrely think that sum types are known as enums, and think that systems are programs that run on raw hardware (think kernels, embedded software, etc.). But nobody else randomly redefi
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by cyphar 1y ago
TSAN is not perfect but Go has had built-in TSAN support for a very long time (go build -race). Also, strictly speaking all Go programs are multithreaded. The inability to spawn a single-threaded Go program is actually a huge issue in som

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