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by duskwuff 2y ago
That may be true but I think you're missing the point here. The "network sharing" behavior in these SDKs is the sole purpose of the SDK. It isn't being included as a surprise along with some other desirable behavior. Wha
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> Police are nothing more than State-sponsored gang members. Sometimes very literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...
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by duskwuff 2y ago
Latency is actually a pretty big deal for live sports events. No one wants to hear the cheering start at the neighbor's house ten seconds before you get to see the team score a goal.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> With the AGPL license being legal kryptonite I wonder if license compatibility drove the decision Unlikely. There's a number of other strong indications that basic maintenance was being neglected, including shell transcripts showi
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> It's funny how movies from the same rough period seem to be all similar underneath. The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, Dark City, eXistenZ... there was definitely something in the air at the close of the 90s.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> I think they were concerned about overlap with a famous series of sifi novels that I won't spoil by naming, but that is currently being produced by Bradley Cooper at Warner Brothers. That may be a coincidence. That movie deal wasn
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> Say I create a logo with one of these fonts, and immediately cancel afterword. Do I get to continue using the logo? Or is my license to the font technically revoked? From the perspective of US copyright law, a font file is an odd sort
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by duskwuff 2y ago
On the other hand: having your standard string type limited to 255 characters - requiring a completely different set of functions to manipulate longer ones - is painful in its own way. (You can avoid some of the pain by using a big-endian
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by duskwuff 2y ago
I'd hesitate to say that Lua "didn't catch on". It's extremely popular as an embeddable scripting language, particularly in game development. Another counterexample to consider is Python. It's quite unlike Al
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by duskwuff 2y ago
If someone unironically saying "works on my machine" [1] is the funniest comment your model can find on Github, you might need to send it back to clown college. [1]: https://github.com/RadioAktywne/ra-app&#x2F
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by duskwuff 2y ago
I'm talking about compatibility for web content, not for browser extensions which are a more volatile environment.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
For applications which displayed 3D graphics, sure. But using graphics acceleration as a more general tool on the desktop took a while longer - the first, experimental window compositors for X11 showed up around 2006.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
There's a lot of churn in what's used in green-field development, but browsers rarely drop support for old features, outside of extraordinary cases like the Flash plugin. Old web sites will usually work just fine in a modern brows
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by duskwuff 2y ago
Reality check: GTK 2.0 was released in 2002. At that time, most computers had under 1 GB of RAM, many were running 256-color displays at ~1024x768, and anti-aliasing was an exotic, showy feature which was rarely used on desktop systems. Har
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by duskwuff 2y ago
And feels like a spiritual relative to the Itanium sales forecast chart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Itanium_Sales_Foreca...
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by duskwuff 2y ago
EPUB isn't all that different from what you're describing. It's bundled as a ZIP archive with a couple of XML metadata files - and the content is split into one HTML file per chapter or section to make it easier to handle - b
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by duskwuff 2y ago
I'd advise looking at the actual language of the GPL, not the FSF's (non-binding) statements about what they intended it to mean. The relevant text is at the end of section 6 of https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gp
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by duskwuff 2y ago
Current versions of macOS use a signed system volume [1], much like iOS - under a standard system configuration, the user can't replace system executables or other files, even as root. Unlike iOS, the user can disable SSV, but I'm
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by duskwuff 2y ago
On one hand, it's a little annoying that openrsync doesn't support some features that rsync does. On the other hand, it's great that there are multiple independent implementations of rsync now. It means that it's actua
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by duskwuff 2y ago
Worse yet: that big blob of weights only works at all because it's been trained on a huge corpus of data from existing games. Doing anything actually novel in a game - like implementing new game mechanics, or even using a distinctive a
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by duskwuff 2y ago
There's a system for describing that - the "Game Cruelty Scale": https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale A lot of early adventure games were Cruel - requiring the user to replay the game over and over because th
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by duskwuff 2y ago
And it's worth considering that this issue isn't unique to image generation, either.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> The list of dropped components is quite large. The cryptsetup, cryptenroll, unified kernel images, kernel signing and systemd-boot work nicely together. These are also all components which would be extremely difficult to make portable
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> A new steel mill won't magically appear in the middle of the US within a month. And yet, I'm sure Trump will show up at one to take credit for its existence within the next month or so.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
Yikes. Meanwhile, the people who took the buyout last year got 6 months (or 9 if they waited for the second round).
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by duskwuff 2y ago
Well, yeah. Because that isn't a question about the law.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
> wait, did he put his name in the company name? Yes.
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by duskwuff 2y ago
I wonder if it's better or worse than the voluntary termination deal they offered to employees last year (first 6 months, then 9 months pay).
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by duskwuff 2y ago
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How Mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports to many men's decay? (Edmund S
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by duskwuff 2y ago
It's considered acceptable within bounds (i.e. no tricking the user into tapping "accept"), but not required. At least, not by Apple.

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