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by enriquto 4y ago
I find it strange that you liken the OS to a hotel. Shouldn't it be your house ? But even on an airbnb, the owner is not allowed to record you secretly, and even then it is very creepy, and they cannot put cameras on the toilet, on y
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by enriquto 4y ago
The problem is the execution-time verification (which calls home), not the compile-time signing. Think about it: the exec(3) function of the OS connects to the internet ! This is absolutely crazy stuff, yet folks don't seem to care
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by enriquto 4y ago
Sounds like Canada proper would benefit greatly by letting Quebec go, then? Thus they would't bear the heavy burden of these concessions that they are continuously forced to do.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I love the stagit file view, with sizes displayed as numbers of lines.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> they can serve you anything they want. Great. More books! No really, I don't understand this argument. A static site served by plain http is perfectly appropriate. It's like a poster hanging on the wall for all to see. Of
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by enriquto 4y ago
The ESA is just as open as nasa, and the freely available Copernicus images benefit US citizens as well. This pissing contest that you try to start is ridiculous. Americans and Europeans are very happy with each other in this regard.
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by enriquto 4y ago
It's not only the USA, European citizens also pay for freely availabe earth observation data via the Copernicus program. It includes optical multispectral, radar, and hyperspectral images with weekly coverage.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> the development model is not the one we've come to be comfortable with Says who? There are many free software projects, with public source code and free licenses, that are not developed openly. For example, lua itself (on which
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by enriquto 4y ago
Yet every day you get in the road with new teenager drivers (and drunk people, and idiots of all sorts). Doesn't that scare you? Driving is terrifying.
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by enriquto 4y ago
...which doesn't mean anything at all (unless you are quoting firefly, of course).
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by enriquto 4y ago
> as legacy as Fortran is now what are you talking about? There's a lot of numerical code written (and actively developed) in Fortran today. If you are anywhere near numerical mathematics, you are running algorithms written in For
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by enriquto 4y ago
Hahhaha, I love good sarcasm. My favourite: the spinning wheel delay at the beginning.
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by enriquto 4y ago
In fact, if we want to go all-in with this style, we could remove the if/else construction altogether (from the language!) and do everything using exceptions. Since they are good for control flow, why stop here? The old-fashioned
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by enriquto 4y ago
Sure, but people here are talking about exceptions as a control-flow feature of high-level programming languages like Python. It has nothing to do with cpu exceptions or interrupts.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> What about them do you find confusing? They are non-local jumps. They make reasoning about the code very difficult. When you read code, you have to treat all conditions symmetrically and equally likely (e.g., whether a file exists or
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by enriquto 4y ago
> And the error handling... Shudder. As an anecdotal data point... I like Python and prefer it to Go for the most part. However, in the case of error handling, Go seems to get it right and Python does it very wrong. Exceptions are extr
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by enriquto 4y ago
This does not seem to criticize copyright law as much as people who abuse copyright for nefarious purposes. If anything, it vouches for a reform of copyright rules to clarify the situation, not for their demise! And in no way anybody is &
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by enriquto 4y ago
> the idea of the free software movement (...) was born as a response to fundamental conflict between a business environment (...) and independent individual creators This is a skewed and very narrow view. The main contrast is not betwe
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Make lets you download shit from the internet. ...sure, by specifying the whole url and calling an external program where the actual shit downloading happens. The same as bash, C and so on. Of course, it is in very bad taste to do so
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by enriquto 4y ago
So happy to hear that! I hope this starts a tradition of cargo-less rust that is sorely missing. Rationale: just like Rust does not let you segfault, a decent build system should not let you download shit from the internet. Much less so,
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by enriquto 4y ago
That's great. But please, no cargo! It would be horrifying! Also, having rust in a serious project like linux, (and omitting all the cargo madness), would be a great thing for the language.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Example here, from the Star Trek pilot: https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/star-trek-pi ... If you have enough zoom, you can place the camera far enough and take such a photo of our moon
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by enriquto 4y ago
beautiful html, indeed!
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by enriquto 4y ago
Spam omelette with spam sausage and spam does not have too much spam in it!
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by enriquto 4y ago
Notice that today you can download all the raw data sent by the voyagers and create your own mosaics and false color composites (each image was taken with a separate multispectral filter). This is a very beautiful and inspiring project fo
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by enriquto 4y ago
There's surely two orders of magnitude more people working in academia than in rocket science. Does your argument prove, then, that SpaceX is not the real world, either? We are all in the same world; this whole "you are not real
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by enriquto 4y ago
> At your place of work, circulate a document criticizing leadership and how they're all wrong. Make sure to publicize this loudly to people outside the organization. See what happens. Ha! We do that all time at the university and n
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Why can't we have a language easy to read and maintain but also have the speed of C? Fortran is fine. Also lua (using the luajit interpreter you get really close to C speed) and julia (except for the atrocious startup time).
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by enriquto 4y ago
Except that publishing stupid papers does not harm millions of users, but yes.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> someone with Miguel de Icaza's experience should know better Surely RMS told him this exact thing would happen when he left gnome for ms.

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