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by kd5bjo 6y ago
That sounds like an aggressive copyleft license plus a paid commercial license to avoid the copyleft terms. If someone wants to charge for a software library, is there a good royalty-free, one-time payment license template out there somewh
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Wikipedia usually has academic references at the bottom of their CS articles, which are generally the foundational papers that introduced the idea in the first place.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Your university or department library should have archive copies of all the theses they’ve accepted. In Iceland, they’re all collected at https://skemman.is/?locale=en as well; similar websites likely exist for other place
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Also, once your buffer exceeds the virtual memory page size, those copies turn into page table updates that never touch the string data.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Rust’s core team are pretty fanatic about backwards compatibilty, though. Best practices are still rapidly evolving but if you have code that compiles and works, it should continue to compile and work indefinitely.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It is a weasel phrase: It gets you out of citing your source for the information, which deprives the reader of judging its accuracy for themselves. I'd probably write it this way: "Jones (2018) showed that regular patterns of dro
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> The MIN, MAX, and AVERAGE of an empty list is N/A. SUM could have been 0, but then SUM(X) / COUNT(X) would be different from AVERAGE(X). 0/0 is mathematically undefined— it is a reasonable calculation to produce NULL on
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
IIRC, one of the reasons Texas has a separate grid is to avoid Federal regulation: The source of the US’s power to regulate electricity is the interstate commerce clause in the Constitution, which doesn’t apply if nothing crosses state bor
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
One of the really hidden ones in iOS is press-and-hold the on-screen spacebar to move the text cursor around. I found that one entirely by accident, and it’s made text entry a lot less painful.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It would have been a much stronger article if the completely-hypothetical graphs had been replaced with ones that actually show the effect in real data, even if on a relatively small example.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> In practice, these particular examples are at least 99.9999% sure to do the right thing in all versions of Rust ever I’m pretty sure that declaring both `Item` and `SecureVec` as `#[repr(transparent)]` would cover that last 0.0001% cha
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
For future reference, statements like this: > I used to love [A], but I now think [B] is a bad idea. will lead many people to think that you consider A and B to be essentially the same thing. In the specific case of PGP and encrypted em
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> If I owned 1% of the company, after printing and handing out $40bn worth of stock, then I keep the same amount of stock, but now it's (e.g.) 0.5%, which means I just lost 50% of that investment. Which means I will receive 50% of t
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
That’s how the old cartridge-based game consoles worked: the cartridge contacts are the processor’s memory bus, and it executed directly off of the ROM chip inside the cartridge.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Just to pick up on one of your examples: > When I order something I like getting the emails saying 'your package has been shipped...", and they typically come from a donotreply address. I almost never want to reply to these. O
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I suspect that anything in living memory of the people who approve the textbooks doesn’t look like “history” to them, and also runs the risk of being considered overly political— it can be hard to be objective about events you lived through
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Despite the branding, this isn’t actually a copy: it attempts to summarize each hours-long course into a handful of bullet points. That probably changes the expression enough that it’s original in the eyes of copyright law, and the underly
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The PNG format supports arbitrary data being included in private (nonstandardized) chunks, which will be ignored by decoders that don’t recognize them. It’s easier to extract and more reliably hidden, so why bother inserting the extra data
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It actually serves as a nice contrast in some ways. Compare the article’s description of the experience of going through the classes with the takeaways from a sample of the wiki entries. The real benefit of having true experts teach someth
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
An important corollary: if you turn off your computer when you’re not actively using it, you’re going to have a bad time. The updates that are supposed to happen in the background instead force you to wait while they run. So you have to sa
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. No, it’s just a reflection that the pace of updates exceeded my pace of attempting to use Windows. These all applied successfully, and an immediate reboot was fine. > But conside
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
About a year ago, I had some problems with WSL and decided to do a proper dual-boot setup. The net result was that Windows insisted on doing a long update cycle every time I attempted to use it. This resulted in an effective boot time o
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
My understanding was that an inch is exactly 2.54cm, and a foot is exactly 12 inches ever since the metrification of US customary units. Is that not correct?
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It doesn’t mention what sort of frequency those variations happen at. If the variation is caused primarily by plate tectonics, it might take a year or more to swing between the two extremes.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
There doesn’t appear to be any environmental damage yet, though it’s possible this incident will produce some in the future. Also, they are being penalized: they’re being fined for violating their original permit and being required to rect
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Earlier this year, its subcontractors began horizontally drilling, or fracking, a subsea borehole that would house the cable’s final stretch from sea to land. Fracking is a process of pumping a fluid into a borehole to fracture subsurf
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Everything else that you will read – the logic, the reasoning, and the conclusions – was generated entirely by GPT-3. The open question is how much did the human tweak the prompts in response to the generated text. Unless this was a m
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I was thinking on a more basic level than UG; just the presence of linguistic universals [1]. I agree that functional languages are in a certain way more expressive than imperative ones, but that seems mostly orthogonal to the syntax of th
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> If you have errors in your paper ledger, you're not much of an accountant. That’s because accounting practice has solidified certain inevitable innaccuracies as “the way things are done.” Any method that doesn’t produce the same
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> So, to summarize: I never actually heard a compelling general theory of good syntax. I started to think along these lines when I got serious about learning a foreign language. Humans appear to have some innate language ability that’s

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