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by hvis 5y ago
> Please re-read my parent comment. I just said that it's severely overstating the case. > In any case claiming that Apple is somehow at fault for not adopting Vulkan doesn't make sense. Why not? They could have adopted Mant
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by hvis 5y ago
> Metal is the reason Vulkan exists That seems to give way too little credit to Mantle. Which was released in 2013 and became the basis for Vulkan.
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by hvis 5y ago
> I own Delphi Do you?
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by hvis 5y ago
I guess someone could, but it ends up being more practical to use a translation layer (which inevitably ends up having at least some overhead) on a niche platform, while being able to wring every last possible bit of performance using Vulka
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by hvis 5y ago
> They have a device in the hands of more than a billion people who spend hours per day staring at it. Including 99% of Russian legislators. They're suckers for luxury. To be fair, though, executing political pressure through this k
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by hvis 5y ago
No they weren't. The app doesn't need the name of the user at any step. It wasn't storing the address either - it just has a search field where you input your address any time you need to use it.
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by hvis 5y ago
I think the problem was more along the financial side: like why the whole of FAANG benefits from the tech while Mozilla foots most of the bill. And apparently that couldn't change until Rust went off on its independent journey.
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by hvis 5y ago
And Mozilla has earned a lot of credit (apriori trust) over the years. Which the newly formed foundation has not.
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by hvis 5y ago
> What the M1 gives you is an incredibly powerful processor that's also very power efficient. While true, the benchmarks show that recent AMD CPUs have comparable power efficiency, even on single-core loads. And it might be that a s
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by hvis 5y ago
> I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it Did you quote them your business rates?
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by hvis 5y ago
Some 0-days - sure. But we're talking about a major corporation continuing their business uninhibited. If the NSO Group has been active for a number of years, couldn't Apple make an effort to purchase their products (through some
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by hvis 5y ago
Suppose we trust what they're saying, what proportion of "children abuse" photos is supposed to be flagged in "multiple nations"? How many children is this going to protect, to weigh against the loss of privacy acro
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by hvis 5y ago
Imagine some state decides to focus the "war on crime" efforts on scanning people's phones for selfies with handguns and/or white powder. That's what the CSAM initiatives sound like to me.
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by hvis 5y ago
> Switching to manjaro resolved 95% of my issues and steam out of the box ram games much better. Was that just due to a newer kernel?
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by hvis 5y ago
It would be easy to choose a narrative that casts the first player in the bad light as well. Chess is a game of war, isn't it? So whoever goes first is the aggressor. So if Black goes first, that can also play into certain racial biase
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by hvis 5y ago
Did "instructions" recreate this? https://twitter.com/stefankarpinski/status/14109710611816816...
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by hvis 5y ago
You won't be able to do much typing in the portable mode, though, right? Looks fairly attractive otherwise.
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by hvis 5y ago
Sounds similar to Apache 2.0 License.
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by hvis 5y ago
This article is about private communication, however. And that one does not necessarily contradict current pandemic measures. Most of the harm of content with anti-vaccination stuff or whatever comes when it becomes publicly available. We c
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by hvis 5y ago
> that code was also licensed to github for the purposes of indexing, analysis, and sharing with other github service users Even if said code was licensed to Github for sharing with other users (e.g. displaying it when another user brows
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by hvis 5y ago
GPL allows commercial use. Under certain conditions.
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by hvis 5y ago
> My non-expert reading of the AGPL seems to indicate that using AGPL code in a commercial project is find as long as you don't change it. When you combine some [A]GPL code with said commercial project, you create a derivative work.
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by hvis 5y ago
Don't forget the usage restrictions, as specified in each individual license.
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by hvis 5y ago
Reproducing copylefted code is neither indexing nor analysis. To be clear, a piece of code that creates a copy of some GPL code is not a problem by itself. However, it's misrepresented as something the tool "generated" rather
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by hvis 5y ago
Seems like it's Vim with a VS Code extension/adapter instead. Intriguing idea, though not sure how viable.
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by hvis 5y ago
Imposing limits on intellectual property for public benefit is nothing new, though. Expiration terms, for example. So the system might still work fine even if all patents get shut down when a company that acquired them does. It's not w
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by hvis 5y ago
> One potential way to do legislate this is to require that plaintiffs place funds in escrow pending the outcome of the case, to pay for the other sides fees if they lose. Occasionally courts will already order this under current law. I&
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by hvis 5y ago
Ruby-like language with imports inspired by Python, what's not to like.
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by hvis 5y ago
I'm not sure it's feasible to meaningfully regulate/legislate what a "healthy bank account" is for such a company. There is always risk that, when the going gets tough, the company will transfer funds (e.g. by purch
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by hvis 5y ago
> But you probably have a point that if patents are legitimate than an otherwise ethical patent troll would also be legitimate I'm not sure it's possible to be an "ethical" patent troll. It is a structure explicitly c

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