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by eschaton 3y ago
They’re not that fragile.
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by eschaton 3y ago
I doubt you’ll be able to buy working ICs to decap since they may be needed to bring a broken system back to life.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Rumor is he presented an unpaid invoice for on the order of $10K to Topping’s estate and got the IP that way. If it’d actually gone to auction I was l prepared to pay quite a bit more.
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by eschaton 3y ago
As with any asset, it would become part of his estate, to be sold to pay its debts and/or divided among his heirs or left in his will. It may result in another opportunity for someone to acquire it at probate.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Yeah, and I wouldn’t give Mallery a single cent for any of it unless he can demonstrate that Andrew Topping actually paid the executors of the Symbolics bankruptcy for it; if not, it shouldn’t have been a part of Topping’s estate. I absolut
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by eschaton 3y ago
You’re assuming economic inequality will always exist, and using that to at least imply that the answer to “What should we as a society do about economic inequality?” is “Nothing.” There’s a whole lot that a society can do to address the ne
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by eschaton 3y ago
Parents doing things for their children *to give them unearned advantage* is in fact *a* root cause of social evil. It’s saying “Because this person is a Jones, they deserve a spot at Yale even though others are more academically deserving,
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by eschaton 3y ago
There’s a gulf of difference between “helping family and friends” and, say, allowing legacy admissions at the universities that feed the majority of the highest status jobs in our society, or even allowing public schools to falter (much les
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by eschaton 3y ago
And then none of the benefits are available to existing code without a rewrite. That’s why some solutions to this involve applying attributes to function prototype arguments and variable declarations instead, so you don’t have to rewrite ev
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by eschaton 3y ago
I expect that there are probably a few significant points of technical resistance: 1. Introducing a new syntactic token (`..`) when there are already a lot of those in C. 2. Transforming an argument `char foo[..]` to the argument pair `cons
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by eschaton 3y ago
Neither NeXT nor the Mac OS used X11 so Mac OS X didn’t either. X11 has always been an option atop the native window system.
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by eschaton 3y ago
How is anyone surprised by this? This is who they have always been quite open about being.
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by eschaton 3y ago
No it hasn’t. What’s been happening is that if someone operates a place of public accommodation, they don’t get to discriminate against members of protected classes. Bigots attempt to reframe this as “conservative speech is being suppressed
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by eschaton 3y ago
This should already be prosecutable as wire fraud. Does an FTC rule make enforcement easier?
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by eschaton 3y ago
What I said is not mutually exclusive with that. I said that’s how EOF maps stored procedures to local entities. EOF also maps tables to entities and supports queries via its own qualifier (predicate) syntax. It’s not exclusive to one o
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by eschaton 3y ago
Humans have almost certainly been eating “stuff on bread” and “stuff in bread” since the invention of bread. Same with using sauces.
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by eschaton 3y ago
NeXT’s Enterprise Objects Framework supported this 25+ years ago. (And TopLink probably did too.) This is how it handled mapping between stored procedures and local entities.
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by eschaton 3y ago
I have probably been using IRC longer than you’ve been alive.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Yet another web page pretending to be an app, reimplementing IRC from scratch including the server. Just build on IRC already and add support for your new features to the open source native apps.
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by eschaton 3y ago
The biggest advantage of ActivityPub, NNTP, etc. over any web forum is that you do not have to go to a bunch of different places in a browser and use a bunch of different UIs under a bunch of different identities for something that is funda
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by eschaton 3y ago
Not everything has to be ActivityPub. If you want to recreate Reddit, the protocol already exists: It’s called NNTP, and it’s already federated and there’s a variety of software out there for running sites from individual to Internet-scale.
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by eschaton 3y ago
This is how you prevent the credible-sounding misinformation like this from running around.
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by eschaton 3y ago
No, it’s the business model of YC and “New Silicon Valley.” The original companies that caused people to start calling this entire region Silicon Valley were making—and, in a few cases, are still making—real things intended to make their us
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by eschaton 3y ago
If you really want serverless, there’s this thing you can write called a “native application” that, once deployed, a user can interact with entirely without a network connection!
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by eschaton 3y ago
What do you mean by “disabled static linking?” You can make and use static libraries if you want, but on Darwin-based platforms it’s never been supported to make direct system calls; everything has been required to link libSystem.dylib for
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by eschaton 3y ago
> we work in the affiliate business and this has the potential to completely desotry the business model. Good. The world does not owe you a “business model.” Find some positive way to contribute to society instead.
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by eschaton 3y ago
I’m fairly confident that at least certain employers who have deep pockets and are obsessed with non-competes (like that EMR) company would spend many, many times someone’s annual salary to ruin them for daring to try to work in an even tan
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by eschaton 3y ago
Really, the lack of a stable base platform is what ultimately kills Linux as a commercial deployment platform. You can’t install a “Fedora 38 SDK” or an “Ubuntu 2023.04 SDK” and reliably build software that will be binary-compatible from th
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by eschaton 3y ago
I’m sure your anecdote will be comforting to all of the people who have worked for a certain Wisconsin EMR company and have tried to work for an even vaguely medically-related company within a few years of leaving. “If your previous employe
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by eschaton 3y ago
You’re presuming the employee is suing to be released from a non-compete. Usually it’s the other way around, with a former employer suing to hold a former employee to a non-compete.

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