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by josefx 4y ago
Why the hell would you perform a credit check if someone who works for you needs some of their salary two days early? Would you stop paying their salary if the credit check came back negative? Of course that seems like exactly the pointless
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by josefx 4y ago
I am not sure I would call an article that praises Facebook controlled media access woke. However every reminder that Mozilla considers Facebook a decent business partner is a reminder that they are still a corporation and where your privac
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by josefx 4y ago
> Honestly, I think someone needs to ridicule the ridiculous. Imagine thinking that Galileo was pushing a remotely modern model of planetary motion when the Copernican model still had crystal spheres and perfect circles due to lack of se
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by josefx 4y ago
> virtually nobody used the compression method in question and JBIG2 came out around 2000, when the compression issue went public in 2013 it was in widespread use by many Xerox scanners that could scan to PDF and could not be turned off.
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by josefx 4y ago
> It is like the whole "is prohibiting slavery reducing freedom" problem. Except there are dozens of incompatible (A/L)GPL (2,3) licenses alone and an uncountable number of minor modifications of the same. So you end up w
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by josefx 4y ago
If I understand the simple Australian guide bellow correctly anyone who knows your name and home address can vote in your place. The only good thing about it is that abuse of that probably doesn't scale well. https://www.aec
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by josefx 4y ago
Luckily the courts don't answer to it and most of the crazy is contained.
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by josefx 4y ago
> You don't point to the max and state that's the typical experience of the network. The test uses 64 packages which is a tiny sample size for streaming use. If we blindly scale that up you would hit the max several dozen times
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by josefx 4y ago
> An honorary doctorate is still a doctorate, though. A honorary doctorate is to a doctorate as a honorary citizenship is to a citizenship. It does not imply any rights or qualifications and trying to pass it of as the real deal may be (
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by josefx 4y ago
Germany is also rather strict about it and using an academic title like doctor when you do not have the right to it can be considered fraud. A honorary doctorate is not considered equal to the academic title and has to be explicitly disting
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by josefx 4y ago
I am not sure if I remember it correctly, but wasn't the problem that you had to explicitly call INTO after every operation? You didn't have a global flag to set or a flag bit in the add instruction, you had to explicitly emit the
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by josefx 4y ago
The footnote for point 4.3 in the linked document above explicitly calls out optimization modes and possible non compliance. Yeah, its the x87 80 bit registers all over again.
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by josefx 4y ago
Wasn't that a gigantic issue with x87 floating point implementation? It would internally use 80 bit registers and the result of any computation was completely at the mercy of how the compiler used those 80 bit registers as every move t
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by josefx 4y ago
> that they managed to kill off Kik/Kin and Telegram TON before they launched Going by this[1] SEC complaint from 2019 Kik had already illegally sold $55 million worth of tokens to investors in 2017. I am not sure how you can look
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by josefx 4y ago
Modularization "broke" a few public APIs since they had to remove an interface declared in swing from some classes outside of the package. I am not sure if there is even one known case of anyone being affected by that change.
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by josefx 4y ago
> In this context Q means push/save the graphics state and q is pop, but again, it's all very similar. is there a point in saving one or two letters on each command? Shld w ll g bck t th gd ld dys f C nd drp rndm lttrs?
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by josefx 4y ago
> they can't go to war with us without loosing their economy Have those people ever looked at how much wars cost? We are talking about creating cities from scratch to support the war effort amounts of cash. Hundreds of thousands of
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by josefx 4y ago
My family has/had a handful of generations worth of records. The problem is finding out who last had what. Some of it has been backed up digitally, but finding a thumb drive is a lot harder than spotting a man sized pile of boxes.
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by josefx 4y ago
How many languages actually take advantage of the fact that they could get more performance out of "small" register sized integers? You tend to lose a lot of performance to arbitrary sized integers in most languages even if your i
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by josefx 4y ago
> if MSFT made IE a necessary component to upgrade the operating system, > then insisting the OS Arguing that a change that had no technical merit made IE necessary, when you are under scrunity for abusing your market position to push
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by josefx 4y ago
You are supposed to stream your video data as base64 encoded xml embedded in a json array.
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by josefx 4y ago
> Which is hilarious, because where else is your core HTTP fetching DLL, your core HTML parsing DLL, etc, going to go otherwise? Microsoft insisted that the OS needed the internet explorer executable, not only the rendering engine compo
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by josefx 4y ago
> I suspect the difference is in how object lifetimes are handled & Rust's lack of a language-level concept of a constructor or a new keyword. Object lifetimes certainly play a role. The data structure used by the shared pointer
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by josefx 4y ago
The deal isn't just "all or none" on a single phone, it is all or none over the entire inventory. If you sell an android phone with the play store you are no longer allowed to sell any android devices without it.
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Another way to look at this is 2% if you split it over all the years the illegal behavior has been going on and then going through the courts.
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> Android has created more choice for everyone Same way IE did back when Microsoft provided it for "free".
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by josefx 4y ago
> with Google branding Then the rule was overly broad, since it also prevented them from selling Android phones without Google branding. I think Amazon was involved in that lawsuit after it had issues finding a manufacturer that wasn&#x2
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> many of which would be really useful for newer players Some of it is outright bad if you blindly rely on it because it goes by global statistics. How was that old story about the air force trying to create a perfect seat for the "
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by josefx 4y ago
On the other hand if someone offers you a cookie for a dollar and you say "I don't care about cookies" you now owe them a dollar.
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by josefx 4y ago
The 6-7 era was as far as I remember blocked by the community process, as there was a dispute over open source Java implementations and the restrictions in Suns certification process (no embedded use without license). Sun instead invested t

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