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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
It's hard to measure this. British Telecom lost its monopoly around the same time it was privatised. Is today's (very competitive) telecommunications market more a result of privatisation or of the loss of BT's monopoly? Anot
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
The VM used for Erlang and Elixir.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
I recently came across a particular GUI quirk in a Linux distro, which went against my experience with similar UIs in Windows, Mac and Chrome. There were existing bug reports for it, attributing the cause to upstream. Upstream project said
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
It's the third one I am seeing from Google specifically.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
This could be due to the bureaucratic parts of the company being too slow initially to gain influence over cloud administration, which results in teams and projects that use the cloud being less hindered by bureaucracy. As cloud is more wid
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> you bought one and had an accident that totals the car but oops, the steep depreciation curve means you have to go out of pocket to pay off a total loss That can happen with a conventional car as well, which is why gap insurance exists
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Not just some people. It's more like if the Cheese Association of France came up with a definition, and that definition then gets accepted by cheese lovers and major dairy industry companies worldwide. The OSD holds significant weight
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> and their ARM Architecture License allowed them to do tweaks FWIW, both Intel and AMD also have architectural licences from ARM.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
You have it wrong. The clapping ban was at the Oxford University Student Union (a student union), whereas the blind student incident was at the Oxford Union (a debating society unrelated to the student union).
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
People will still ask if you work in the 'interest' sector, but it is still better than having to explain why their company name is in your e-mail address.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Sofort used to do this. I don't know if they still do.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
I like how well-thought-out the licence revocation clause of the AOMedia patent licence is. It takes effect when a licensee sues over an implementation specifically over the relevant patent claims--so lawsuits unrelated to these patent clai
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Privatisation should be accompanied with legal responsibility to build/maintain infrastructure for the future. If a government agency blocks the development, this liability should shift to them, to disincentivise unnecessarily blocking
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
AMD themselves ended support for these CPUs a year ago, so it is reasonable for third parties to also do so.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Because GB is also a possibility. You are not told that the existing boy is the elder child.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Because of this, I put off signing up for services that automatically have a premium period at the start, followed by the free tier after one fortnight/month/year (as opposed to a time-limited trial you can manually activate). Wha
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Are these rules decided at the county level? And can municipalities override them? I am wondering if the rural folk can incorporate to free themselves from these absurd restrictions.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Can't they at least get together, hire some tanker lorries and bring in water from somewhere else? Sure, it may be more expensive than the $43k they currently pay, due to transport costs, but at least they will have water. > A more
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Solaris is still developed and sold by Oracle, and expected to be supported for a very long time. The current version, Solaris 11.4, is planned to be supported until 2037 at the earliest. The previous major version, Solaris 10, was released
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
OpenIndiana is more of a downstream distro than a fork of illumos, much like how Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro. Whereas illumos itself is a fork of OpenSolaris.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> we're richer and can object > some online ID law Texas and Utah in the US also have similar online age verification laws. Texas is the second richest state in the US by GDP per capita, but even that was not enough.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
You could even extract out the parts that do not call the GPL library into an upstream project under the Apache 2.0 licence, and pull in both that and the GPL library in the downstream project, relying on Apache 2.0 -> GPL 3.0 compatibil
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
I wonder if this can be integrated with Electron and Tauri to provide native-looking user interfaces. Combined with a theme-to-CSS convertor, imagine an Electron app looking like a Windows app on Windows, and a GTK app on Linux, while follo
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> giving them the object code to relink it wasn’t enough for them (which would satisfy the spirit of LGPL) Doesn't that also satisfy the letter of the LGPL v2? > Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> There was a short period in the switch-over from Fennec (old FF for Android) to Fenix (new FF for Android) when the stable version didn’t support all extensions, but this hasn’t been the case anymore for years now. They got rid of exte
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Try copying it to an otherwise empty folder in your Drive, then download the whole folder instead of the individual file.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Copy it directly to your own Google Drive, then download it from there, and it will use your quota instead of theirs.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> their code that uses Ultralytics code [...] if it was okay for them to change the licenses Did they copy Ultralytics code and change the licence from AGPL to MIT? Or does their code rely on AGPL code without copying it? The first is no
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Their customers who would have bought Nvidia chips are instead giving money to Huawei even though they prefer Nvidia. With more money, they can deliver better tech faster. It is costing these customers more, but in return, they get domestic
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
OpenJDK includes HotSpot and the class libraries. OpenJDK licences do not cost money, even if you use the one from Oracle past a certain patch point. Builds of OpenJDK from other vendors like Red Hat and Microsoft are based on the OpenJDK s

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