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by klez 7y ago
It seems to me all of that applies (in different ways, I would concede) to social media as well.
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by klez 7y ago
Ok, but if it wasn't for private interests pushing those laws, I really doubt a government would pass them. So saying that it's the government fault is true, but not the whole picture. You should feel disdain for both the governme
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by klez 7y ago
Those are not touted as a very-long-term archival solution. This one is.
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by klez 7y ago
I think it's safe to assume "no public static interface to the framework". The rest are hidden implementation details. It's like saying that a program in Java can be completely object oriented. Of course it can't be
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by klez 7y ago
Tell that to my dad. He just picks up the phone and asks me why the printer is not working. On an OS I don't even know how to use, for that matter. Also remember, I can find a vastly greater breath of information cause I can search in
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by klez 7y ago
> When I encounter an issue with grub-install not writing to my EFI system partition, good luck finding much about it in its very short man page This says more about the man pages for grub2 (and grub2 itself, to be honest) EDIT: than abo
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by klez 7y ago
Or, if you're using an obscure library, by reading the source code.
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by klez 7y ago
There's one particular case where a look at a reference is warranted: when something doesn't behave as expected. For example, the other day someone asked on stackoverflow why a particular Java class to calculate a difference betwe
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by klez 7y ago
Because somehow the search function on SE mostly sucks. I tried a couple of times (especially when flagging duplicates) and it's really hard. I usually just revert to Google or ddg.
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by klez 7y ago
Try C. You can find stuff from 20 years ago and it's still mostly relevant. Or at least applicable.
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by klez 7y ago
In my experience, people don't even think that's an option. It's like you either know how to do things or you ask an actual person. To be fair, in some cases it's just laziness.
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by klez 7y ago
Of course. Even MDs, despite all their years of study don't have all the procedures and possible diagnoses in their heads all the time and need to read literature and consult with other physicians to reach conclusions. I'm not sur
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by klez 7y ago
I highly doubt you had Windows 98 in 1991. Did you mean Windows 3.1?
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by klez 7y ago
Depends on what you mean by "latest". R6RS is arguably huge. That's why they decided to split R7RS in two, a small core which is done and a huge version which, ironically, is still in the making.
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by klez 7y ago
Escalators do fail in ways other than becoming stairs. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/10/catastrophic-escalator-fa...
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by klez 7y ago
Because China wanted to be part of the UN. If they don't want the UN to have any saying in their matters they should leave and face the consequences. I don't know if this says more about China or the UN, to be honest.
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by klez 7y ago
No, for free software to be "Free Software" it must respect the Four Freedoms ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html ). GPL-or-other-copyleft-license happens to respect them, but so do the Apache, BSD
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by klez 7y ago
That you don't eat the seeds, mainly. They get between your teeth and some people just don't like them.
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by klez 7y ago
Then please flag it and move on. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by klez 7y ago
By European standard I would say it's more towards the center, if you're taking about the Dems. Certainly not "left" but surely not "right".
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by klez 7y ago
Not that it disproves you, but the only reference I could find in the online version is "vers libre", meaning "free verse", of course. I don't have a paper version to check, and I'm not a native speaker, so I&#
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by klez 7y ago
The actual Open Source Definition is much like the Free Software Definition, in the letter. A source-available license wouldn't be OSI-approved, so it wouldn't technically be open source. On the legal side, free software and open
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by klez 7y ago
Libre doesn't have a meaning at all, in English, so you'll have to explain that as well. In other languages that I know there is no such problem because the two meanings of "free" are clearly disambiguated by two differe
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by klez 7y ago
I think this is for the recent surge of quasi-open-source license changes some products have gone through. That's why they underline the difference between free software and open source. Recently people started saying that the OSI&#x27
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by klez 7y ago
Do you mind elaborating on what made it poor? I was waiting for them to open in Italy, so I never had any real chance of interacting with them, so I'm curious about what the experience would have been like.
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by klez 7y ago
Not sure, but I guess you can revoke an OAuth token and nothing changes for other apps (and you) on the Gmail/Google account side. On the other hand, if you have to change password...
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by klez 7y ago
But that's the point, isn't it? Are you developing free software? By all means use this GPL library! You are developing proprietary software? Well, too bad, you don't get to use this code. Either develop it by yourself or loo
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by klez 7y ago
a.k.a. the web, to be fair. Major siloes were a later development.
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by klez 7y ago
> Didn't debian change to the AGPL version of ghostscript in a patch security update? Mostly, yes[0]. Parts of the package are under BSD, others FreeType license, others GPL etc. I don't know which ones are used in imagemagick,
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by klez 7y ago
> he things I do not like should not ever be made [...] Wait, when did they say that? They only expressed their opinion on the kind of scissors they prefer to use and that they would never use them. I mean, yeah, it was not a great comme

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