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Is it all that different from indexing for search? That does not seem to require a license from the copyright holder under U.S. law (but other countries may treat as a separate exploitation right). If indexing for search is acceptable, then
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by fweimer 3y ago
I think it's a reference to Google's book scanning product, which is structurally similar: they use copyrighted material to provide a new kind of service, which contains an echo of the original material. The book scanning and the
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by fweimer 3y ago
This research is related to the Koka programming language: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/
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In the future, these games could come with their own nested game stores, bypassing the platform store. It wouldn't be an issue for Microsoft because they own both games and platform. It might be tough to accept for Sony.
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How can he promise that, given that it's a walled garden and they can't publish anything without Sony's approval?
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I'd expect this to be related to virus scanning. It's hard to use demand paging for that.
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As far as I understand it, crushing/injecting it makes it more likely to induce pronounced euphoria and other side effects that encourage abuse. But it was known from the start that it was addictive (causing a physical dependency) even
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by fweimer 3y ago
Haha, it's already merged. I should have run “git pull” before writing my comment. The “Dumbest possible strategy” comment is already gone, and appropriately so. This is one reason why invokedynamic is so interesting: it is possible to
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by fweimer 3y ago
If the entire page is 50 KB, it think within five minutes, it can be served 20,000 times over typical commercial broadband (assuming 30 Mbps net capacity)? 20,000 requests can't really form a huge spike. Most personal-ish sites won&#x2
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Thanks, that actually looks appropriately elementary.
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The implementation uses invokedynamic (which has been available for ages) and dispatches to java.lang.runtime.SwitchBootstraps#typeSwitch(…): https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/api/j
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by fweimer 3y ago
Maybe that's simply because you are older now? Sorry. More seriously, I suspect this is mainly an artifact of how we currently perceive every form of human activity from a purely economic and commercial perspective. That automatically
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by fweimer 3y ago
For a piece that warns of homogenization, it's rather unoriginal, even down to the historical inaccuracies. (The early internet was not a “place where anyone can say anything“, it relied on the NFSNET backbone, whose policies banned ma
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by fweimer 3y ago
Any idea what the derivation in [1] looks like?
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Currently, 14% of pupils (of any gender) in Germany are not eligible for military service because they are not citizens. Conscription (which was never formally abolished) does not extend to females. Based on what others have told me about t
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Some companies just don't have a full career track outside of people management. It's not really a matter of company size or age. I suspect most developers are okay with stunted career tracks for office management, system administ
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by fweimer 3y ago
This is a more recent article that offers a more nuanced perspective, even down to the title: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/why-crimea-is-... (The Guardian is pretty much pro-Ukraine, pro
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by fweimer 3y ago
OCaml is a much larger language than SML. SML feels cleaner in some ways. For example, it has overflow checks (or infinite precision) for integer arithmetic. (Although OCaml no longer has writable string literals …) SML has multiple, mostly
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by fweimer 3y ago
You should be aware of this: $ file /usr/lib/smlnj/bin/.run/run.x86-linux /usr/lib/smlnj/bin/.run/run.x86-linux: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynam
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Some settings do not show up until you know the strings and add them, though.
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64-bit Linux does not have 32-bit kernel modules.
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There's already a government office for exactly that: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac However, it does not apply in this case because the U.S. does not recognize Palestine as a country, and
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by fweimer 3y ago
Unlikely, it's not even open source: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...
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Not just online, the CD re-releases (and LPs) are only available second-hand as far as I can see, except for the Tron re-release from last year.
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by fweimer 3y ago
That's fairly underwhelming? I don't think it's correct for any version of the JVM. Really old versions had offset/length fields, but never a length field on its own. (Back then, substring() didn't make full copies.
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by fweimer 3y ago
gitk and “git gui” are written in Tcl/Tk. Some components of the GNU toolchain use dejagnu in their testsuite, which is based on expect and written in Tcl. The SQLite testsuite uses Tcl, too.
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What's interesting in this context is that (some?) healthy brains can adjust to an upside-down view of the world: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable...
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These papers typically contain (semi-)formal descriptions of the type system and various proofs about it. The technical material for this paper is in an appendix: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/gallifrey-t
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by fweimer 3y ago
Perhaps Fira Code? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764527 But I think it's different: it uses double-width characters for two-character ligatures, so this
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I suspect is just a bug: the ligature tables were copied from the regular variant, and perhaps no one noticed for some reason. Maybe the assumption was that the renderer would turn of ligature processing in monospace mode at the time, and t

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