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by manholio 4y ago
Except the photo-manipulation suite, they are not done by software.
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by manholio 4y ago
You have to declare you own the intellectual rights of the underlying code, a thing GPL does not grant. You can of course dual license your own code but you cannot own code released by someone else under GPL, and you cannot publish it in th
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by manholio 4y ago
I was referring to the terms and conditions Apple imposes on developers that wish to publish software on the App store.
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by manholio 4y ago
Again, what Linus does and doesn't is not relevant for a discussion about morality - unless you are starting a religion centered around him as a moral model. Fyi, the App Store license is deliberately incompatible with the GPL.
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by manholio 4y ago
In regard to proprietary hardware, it is my assertion that Apple and Amazon are essentially making the same move: throw money they obtained by dominating their respective markets into closed hardware development that will allow them to lock
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by manholio 4y ago
> MacBooks could easily end up becoming the laptop of choice for Linux developers That is, if they want to subsidize with their own wallets the dominance of consumer-hostile computing that open source was created to avert. Except for dev
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by manholio 4y ago
I think the point is that 60 fps is not a representable value in the gif binary format, just like (int pi) can be either 3 or perhaps 4, but never a transcendental number. You can have a magical decoder that circumvents this, but that'
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by manholio 4y ago
Aside form neatness factor and hacker street cred, I don't exactly get the practical point for the vast majority of software. What am I to do with such a binary? Do I put it live on my website and allow my clients to download it? If I
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by manholio 4y ago
> an architecturally guaranteed 16MB of room to play in would have changed the face of the software industry in the 1980s I don't think it would have, because such amounts of RAM were prohibitively expensive into the late 80s. It w
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by manholio 4y ago
But then again, why would anyone connect their computer to the completely censored national LAN, only to be spied upon by the state?
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by manholio 4y ago
But are we hitting that power density ceiling yet? It doesn't seem so, we're not even in the "big enough to have ignited" range, only scraping at the door of "big enough for scientific break-even", but have alr
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by manholio 4y ago
It's a limited revival, enjoy it while stocks lasts. Or, perhaps, build inventory. But do they have the Max sugar free version in Crystal?
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by manholio 4y ago
You could say the same thing about Bitcoin. Fusion is in the VC hype cycle but there are no new developments that suggest it can become cheaper and more predictable than fission, which itself is dying, primarily because of financial uncerta
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by manholio 4y ago
So essentially, the best investment one can make is to be rich, so they can afford having hired help to solve basic day to day problems that regular people must deal with on their own. That's because if you are a statistically average
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by manholio 4y ago
It should be noted that this solution completely fails when the data is anything like real world location data which tends to be clustered in cities, stadiums etc. The strength of quad trees is precisely the fact that the "Alaska"
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by manholio 4y ago
The most compelling climate engineering mega-project has to be the Qattara Depression project, which would create a super-saline inland sea, generate a few GW of electricity and dramatically increase water fall over large parts of the Sahar
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by manholio 4y ago
The amount of market power Apple has left even after such extensive regulation still far surpasses what a small company can hope to get by building even the most restricted walled garden. So, if there were any medium companies just below th
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by manholio 4y ago
In a world where electric second hand cars exist, the second-hand price of most ICE cars will be negative, sellers will have to give you money to accept the high fueling and maintenance costs.
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by manholio 4y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, I think this text is pushing it a bit to far. There exist mathematic, cultural, psychological and anthropological truths that can help one navigate towards success in the world of humans, it's not all
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by manholio 4y ago
It seems absurd to try to find a "standardized" ISO country name, especially to enforce local names in English. Country names are both endonyms (for the inhabitants) and exonyms, the way certain cultures / linguistic areas re
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by manholio 4y ago
I'm very skeptical it will ever take off: the wear and tear of your high performance, high density, mobility optimized battery that has a unique vendor that tightly controls the spare parts market for maximum profit would be much more
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by manholio 4y ago
EVs are (much) cheaper to run, for commuters that need a steady, predictable mileage within range, they are already less expensive in TCO terms for comparable quality/comfort. In Europe, where gas is insanely taxed, the operational cos
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by manholio 4y ago
There is no "far left drift" of the mainstream. Outside the gender craze which is real, the "far left drift" is an entirely made up talking point in the conservative war against basic institutions and freedoms. For examp
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by manholio 4y ago
The solution to these problems is not to tax the person, but the company itself: every year a certain faction of stock is nationalized and distributed to the population of the county without which the company would not be possible. It'
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Tinder Wants Money. We Want Love. The Solution: Socialize Dating Apps(jacobin.com)
4 points by manholio 4y ago|2 comments
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by manholio 4y ago
I have a floppy disk and it's a perfectly fine piece of computing peripheral, I've even recovered some old university projects from 20 years ago. No need to bastardize it into a mockup SD card reader, the same goes for the CD-ROM.
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by manholio 4y ago
I'm shocked and aghast to hear you found a bug in my code - I assure you it compiled and ran flawlessly in my brain.
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by manholio 4y ago
Seems like you can have the cake and eat it too, by manually parallelizing the code to something like this: double A4 = A+A+A+A; double Z = 3A+B; double Y1 = C; double Y2 = A+B+C; int i; // ... setup unr
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by manholio 4y ago
> mankind could never deploy them at scale because we simply don't have the resources. I don't understand what your objection exactly is. That's just a way to rephrase my statement: magnetic confinement, as it stands, is t
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by manholio 4y ago
I never said it was. But a device that needs multiple square feet of high tensile steel to hold together will have immense costs because it also includes gigantic superconducting magnets, vats of cryo-coolant and myriad of custom, unique pa

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