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by jwalton 8y ago
GNU has listed "Four Essential Freedoms" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html to meet the definition of "free software". Does the gitlab-ee license meet these? I think for the most part it
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by jwalton 8y ago
> It's easier when there's a little profile picture next to the name. I've been thinking about updating my GitHub profile photo, but this is what's stopping me. No one will know who I am anymore. :P
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by jwalton 8y ago
In the past few weeks: * NPM 6 stopped working with Node 4. Rather than actually fix it, they just left it broken for several days because it was already fixed in the upcoming release, and I guess they didn't want to do an emergency r
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by jwalton 8y ago
As per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324 , the server is throwing 418 because it is a teapot, and can't brew coffee. Perhaps this is a coffeescript related problem.
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by jwalton 8y ago
> No, I certainly propose a city should measure it. I propose it be done with taxpayer dollars, open source software, and in an otherwise fully open and democratic way by the city. This, I agree with. Google is not in this for the &quot
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by jwalton 8y ago
> An IR LED+photoresistor is much cheaper. You mean... A tiny camera? A photoresistor is a device which measures light hitting it. It's a 1-pixel camera. In exactly the same way a decibelmeter is a little microphone. My point is, O
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by jwalton 8y ago
> Does Google have any plans to describe how they will eliminate human-spoken conversations from their noise detection? I am very much not a fan of this project, but I will point out that the problem you're describing has an easy so
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by jwalton 8y ago
That's probably an exaggeration, but I agree with the sentiment of what they are saying. It's not crazy hard to write quality software. Most corporations don't bother because they know they don't have to, since they ca
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NPM not resolving some packages(github.com)
1 points by jwalton 8y ago|1 comments
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by jwalton 8y ago
The official NPM registry isn't fairing well, either: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20766
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PIPEDA – Canada's version of the GDPR from 2000(priv.gc.ca)
1 points by jwalton 8y ago|0 comments
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by jwalton 8y ago
Are you aware that it was illegal for you to collection email addresses from Canadians without their consent, due to [PIPEDA]( https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-can... ), long before the GDPR
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by jwalton 8y ago
I will have one of these in my house when it doesn't send recordings of me to the Internet in the first place. It can do the voice recognition locally. I'm actually really interested in having one of these in my home, I'm a
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by jwalton 8y ago
... because it has node.js in it. ;)
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Exegesis: OpenAPI 3.0.0 support in Node.js(github.com)
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Passport.js: The Hidden Manual(github.com)
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by jwalton 9y ago
I imagine the difference between DCF77 and a 50Hz clock is similar to the difference between a $40 clock and a $10 clock. :P
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by jwalton 9y ago
You're correct, but you've missed the point. Google is the only search provider (or at least, the only one anyone uses), and so they have the power to decide what you are allowed and not allowed to discover. You're right th
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by jwalton 9y ago
> Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that those changes have already reduced time spent on Facebook by roughly 50 million hours a day. Or, to put this another way, people have saved 50 million hours that they formerly spent scrolling past stup
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by jwalton 9y ago
It's funny this came up today. This is my five year old: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SkK1T0FZwpx5DeWO2 She was helping me solder together this robot kit. I asked her to wait a minute while I ran downstairs to get my ca
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by jwalton 9y ago
Right now I'm prefixing variables I don't want external actors to change with underscores, which doesn't actually do anything, so is arguably more of a hack. :P
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by jwalton 9y ago
Apparently one gilt with gold or something. Shingles are about $2.50 to $7.50 a square foot, installed.
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by jwalton 9y ago
> no-one will know who decrypted it > Every node receives every message. Neither one of these strike me as desirable characteristics of a secure messaging system. I can see the advantage in a third party not being able to tell who re
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by jwalton 10y ago
Unfortunately CALEA requires communications vendors to include that button: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_fo...
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by jwalton 10y ago
Ontario build code is hilarious. For example, table 9.23.10.1 specified the size and spacing of studs in walls. For interior walls, the maximum stud spacing is 406mm on center, and minimum stud size is 38x38mm. If you didn't know thi
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by jwalton 10y ago
And, it makes it yet another web site where page-down fails to go one page down.
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by jwalton 10y ago
A $600 USD gimmick, it seems.
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by jwalton 10y ago
Yeah, I like that this self driving car is advanced enough to know whether or not the person it's about to run over is fit, or a criminal, but it can't work out that it should slow down before running into a concrete barrier in th
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by jwalton 11y ago
If you're looking for a more lightweight solution than Bluebird (because, say, you're writing client side code - Bluebird is a bit heavy weight): * [promise-tools]( https://github.com/benbria/node-promise-tools
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by jwalton 11y ago
I used to cycle quite a bit in the summer - a habit I need to get back into. In the winter, there's many feet of snow on the ground, the bike paths are buried, and the roads involved aren't in very good shape when the weather is

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