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by erk__ 4y ago
The most well known example is probably the Portal mod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHBl5yWqJk
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by erk__ 4y ago
A example of a "Affero LGPL" would be the EU license: EUPL https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/custom-page/... Edit: This paper also gives a good overview of the license https:&#x2
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by erk__ 4y ago
I think Firefox aims to have this in Firefox 113, WebGPU was just enabled by default in nightly last week. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1746245
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by erk__ 4y ago
This [0] video from the YouTube channel Objectivity looks at Thibault's book which was the first thing I thought about when I saw this post. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdVZzB2nR5M
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by erk__ 4y ago
The history of the freebsd file is interesting in itself
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by erk__ 4y ago
SteamCMD can download any game, I used to use it at uni to download games to transfer at home since my internet was very slow.
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by erk__ 4y ago
I checked with Javascript disabled and it did not make any difference, so I think it is just Firefox being a big strange with the overflow parameter.
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by erk__ 4y ago
That is just not always a possibility especially if you use apps that connect to online services, this is something that has quite recent come up again as Steam is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 in nine months which have caused som
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by erk__ 4y ago
For some reason auto scroll (middle mouse scroll) just breaks on this site which is rather annoying, it just seems to always want to scroll horizontally. Does anyone have an idea why this happens? Edit: After having a look it seems to be be
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by erk__ 4y ago
There is even a SML that does not use a GC* but instead does "region based" memory mangement. https://elsman.com/mlkit/about *most of the time.
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by erk__ 4y ago
Greenland has a militarised coastguard as part of their self-governance, but the general defence of Greenland (and the Faroe Islands) is done by the Danish military. More specifically by the Joint Arctic Command https://en.wikipe
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by erk__ 4y ago
Jpeg 2000 is not the same codec as Jpeg, it was an attempt to make a more modern image format, but it never really caught on outside of science and medical imaging. For example satalite images are often jpeg 2000
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by erk__ 4y ago
It is used by Fastmail (who was also developers of the standard) I think it is not a great idea to say that it is not a good idea to not implement things that no one uses, because that is a certain way to not make more people use it. There
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by erk__ 4y ago
He was also involved in the case McCormick v. Manny about patent infringement of the Manny reaper. Though if Wikipedia is to believed he ended up not being directly involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Man
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by erk__ 4y ago
Well it does already exist https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=works-integrated...
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by erk__ 4y ago
There does exist at least one sml implementation that computes the memory allocations at compile time a bit similar to how Rust does it.
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by erk__ 4y ago
I was taught about the eras with the bronze and Iron age. I think one of the reasons is that teachers have a lot to say about which parts of history they want to teach. This is because the history curriculum (læseplan) is more built up as a
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by erk__ 4y ago
Actually this is a point if you are not writing in English. My dad used to do some technical translations and he disliked English namely because you cannot invent words like in Danish or German, where you can just put words together to make
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by erk__ 4y ago
One of the tools used is Buffer [0], and they seem to support both Instagram and Facebook, and it seems that they are going to continue with Twitter as well. [0]: https://buffer.com Note: They seem to support "Instagram, Ti
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by erk__ 4y ago
One of the big ones Buffer [0] do not believe that they will be impacted this may not be an issue [1] [0]: https://buffer.com [1]: https://twitter.com/buffer/status/1616418191718207488
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by erk__ 4y ago
The program for it seems to be the one here https://typst.app/
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by erk__ 4y ago
Yeah I surely don't want to be owned by them in both meanings of the word, they also recently shut down Revue which was a pretty cool thing https://www.getrevue.co/
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by erk__ 4y ago
TweetDeck would be really strange since it is owned by Twitter itself, but yeah it is apps like Tweetbot and other mobile apps. It is rather sad since 3rd party apps was a big plus for Twitter users especially before they made their API wor
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by erk__ 4y ago
One of my favourite things about the question between compilers and interpreters is the Futamura projections [0] which is a way of using partial evaluation to construct both things. It could be interesting if we see that getting used more e
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by erk__ 4y ago
A interesting factoid about this paper is that the first author Kjeld Møllgård, is a 80 year old former rector of University of Copenhagen. The Danish articles about that have been highlighting that, and that he now have to change what he i
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by erk__ 4y ago
I very much know that, but it is still interesting to see the differences in how the threads are. Even if it is not the same people arguing in both.
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by erk__ 4y ago
It is curious how different the sentiment is in this thread compared to the other thread currently on the front page regarding GitHub Copilot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274326
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by erk__ 4y ago
Another guess seperate from the sibling could be the Danish company PDC, they are also the developers of Turbo Pascal, and continue to develop it under its new name Visual Pascal. https://www.visual-prolog.com/ https:&#x2F
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by erk__ 4y ago
Some yeas back a DR2 made a satirical parody of it called the 80 years birthday (in Danish it is called "the 90 years birthday") where all the characters was played by a series of Danish comedians https://youtu.be/
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by erk__ 4y ago
> That we cannot get laptops or even desk machines with ECC The Xeon series of laptop processors does support ECC just at a quite large premium.

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