eadmund

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by eadmund 4y ago
> "calling an api which uses agpl code" is equivalent to using the code itself No, not at all. If a server is AGPL-licensed, clients may have whatever license they want. If a client is AGPL-licensed, servers may have whatever
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by eadmund 4y ago
That depends on what you mean by ‘crashing,’ doesn’t it? One could at least fail gracefully: at start-up, request enough memory for a buffer reading ‘request to allocate memory failed; exiting’ and then print it to standard output, then exi
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by eadmund 4y ago
I am glad to pay for software, but I want it to be free as in freedom: I insist on being able to modify, fix, extend and share it. So all of my tools I rely on are AGPL, GPL or BSD-licensed.
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by eadmund 4y ago
Now that buildah & podman are mature, would it be simpler to just use them in a container?
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by eadmund 4y ago
> the update description mentions the evil rival mobile platform Do Apple really forbid apps mentioning that they are also available on Android?
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by eadmund 4y ago
Little-known (nowadays) fact: A.D. properly goes before the year. Also, there was no A.D. 0 — the calendar goes straight from 1 B.C. to A.D. 1.
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Meritocracy Is vital(imightbewrong.substack.com)
2 points by eadmund 4y ago|0 comments
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by eadmund 4y ago
Nonsense! That’s just the name of the country in English.
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by eadmund 4y ago
I never log into LinkedIn on my phone, and I would never in a million years install their app — OTOH it’s easy enough to type in a LinkedIn URL when I get to my home computer and an isolated browser instance.
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by eadmund 4y ago
> the software provider wants to charge a monthly figure and doesn’t want their server to be fungible Sounds like yet another reason to use free software and pay services for their actual services, like storage. > I want to be able to
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by eadmund 4y ago
I wonder how much of the traditional music and theatre businesses has been money laundering. One could put out a record (which presumably has a nice margin on it) and pay folks a small amount of money to buy many many many copies of the re
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by eadmund 4y ago
You realise that Germany invaded Belgium and France because France and Russia mobilised against her? And that they mobilised because Germany was supporting Austro-Hungary against Serbia, whose intelligence service had commissioned the murd
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by eadmund 4y ago
> There are lots of things that make you look like a dork -- PCs, airpods etc It still blows my mind that actual adults wear AirPods in public. Sometimes actual professional adults who want to be taken seriously (e.g. in business meetin
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by eadmund 4y ago
> What's more, using a Segway to "walk fast" somewhere removes all of the benefits of walking, except the "getting from point A to point B" part. So it's actually worse than the thing it purports to improve.
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by eadmund 4y ago
Is there any way to avoid this?
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by eadmund 4y ago
It sure feels like it was targeted. Is trying to re-register a Signal account the sort of thing an attacker is likely to do at random?
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by eadmund 4y ago
> > there is a very real sense in which programming languages haven’t really progressed since the early 80s. > 1980 is the debut of Smalltalk. 1972, actually! > Standardisation of CommonLisp happened sometimes in the mid 1980s.
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by eadmund 4y ago
> Is dynamic scope hard to understand or be explained or isn't it just the case that most find it to be a terrible idea for general purpose software development? I think that dynamic scope is strictly better than global variables: a
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by eadmund 4y ago
There’s some real gold in here: > Though it seems funny now to think that Scheme lexical environments were ever difficult to understand, you must take my word that in 1976, people with PhDs in computer science required careful explanatio
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by eadmund 4y ago
Believe it or not, this increases the likelihood of me recommending Tailscale for business use. Good for them!
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by eadmund 4y ago
I thought that this was going to be about ASDF (Another System Definition Facility; a module manager for Common Lisp): https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/ Turns out that it’s a version manager (now there’s another overloading: ‘V
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by eadmund 4y ago
> Consciously or not they bet that in 40-60 years the system they live now would remain unchanged … laws to protect savings of the regular people still would be in place I really worry about that. I have been steadily saving in my 401(k
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by eadmund 4y ago
> US truck manufacturers have very little presence in European markets. If they have any presence at all then they are subject to European regulations of one form or another.
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by eadmund 4y ago
> the American pickup truck industry isn’t dominated (or even particularly influenced) by European demand It is , however, influenced by European regulations to the extent that American pickup makers desire a) to sell in the European ma
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by eadmund 4y ago
I honestly think that it still makes sense. It’s a nicer language than most of the popular ones out there right now: more-easily embeddable than JavaScript, better designed than Lua. In a lot of way it would have been great had it replace
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax(stopa.io)
3 points by eadmund 4y ago|1 comments
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by eadmund 4y ago
I do. A phone without a headphone jack is like a car without an air conditioner.
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by eadmund 4y ago
‘To ransom’ means to pay a ransom. ‘To hold ransom’ (or hold for ransom) is the intended usage here.
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by eadmund 4y ago
> the violence directed towards the French by the various coalitions arrayed against it at that time I’m not extremely deeply familiar with the history and consequences of the French Revolution, but I recall that it was the French who st
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by eadmund 4y ago
> So that's nice, when your own national anthem called for you to be crushed. It’s not calling for loyal Scots to be crushed, just rebellious ones!

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