meanduck

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by meanduck 10y ago
> I'm not asking for Facebook or Gmail to mandatorily keep my stuff. I'm asking that I be given an opportunity to keep my stuff if they're no longer willing to keep it on my behalf, whether they're doing that because
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by meanduck 10y ago
Dont read too much into it. This is EU seeing its economy and consumers exposed and looking for better deal.
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by meanduck 10y ago
This[1] was mentioned in its other thread. Not related to programming but the amount of thought process went into it is just amazing. [1] "SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated)" : https://www.you
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by meanduck 10y ago
According to the thesis recent intel microarchs caches the top several words of the stack[1]. Thesis references intel optmization manual but does not say where in the manual. [1] pg 12, para 5.
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by meanduck 10y ago
> - A (automatic): the operand refers to the current stack frame. The offset is relative to the current base pointer. Did you mean stack pointer ? base pointer gets set once where as stack pointer changes between every function call. &gt
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by meanduck 10y ago
Memory can addressed by taking offset from RSP (or [ 0x10 ] eg).
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by meanduck 10y ago
That is completely opposite of what article implied. Do not (over)feed the "lets have fun/lets not suffer" monkey (like the point 2 says). Do not ignore the red "consequences" deamon (like point 1 says).
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by meanduck 11y ago
> Cryptocurrencies are only censorship-resistant for people who can afford a secure and well-maintained computing device https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet > and whose internet connection cannot be arbitr
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by meanduck 11y ago
This is wrong. Cryptocurrencies can be freely exchanged with anyone, anywhere unlike Cash which is only censorship-resistant for the transactions done in person. Cryptocurrencies are more distributed in the sense that exchange rates are set
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by meanduck 11y ago
Its only the article stating (and misleading) that softwares be Free Software but in actual the draft never once mention Free Software. So unlikely it would be GPL/LGPL/etc. Its also suprising to see that this question popped up a
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by meanduck 11y ago
One more from same series. Things I Won’t Touch: Hydrofluoric Acid (2004) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678571 (81 points by networked 100 days ago | past | web | 63 comments) Google HN for intitle:"Things I
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by meanduck 11y ago
I like Openly Developed.
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by meanduck 11y ago
Also see previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725859
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by meanduck 11y ago
So whats the issue ? Whether one should pick GPL for his own software. ANSWER: NO. Most worthwhile open source contributions are paid by commercial companies. And if given a choice they will spend their money in contributing to BSD/MIT
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by meanduck 11y ago
I dont know where I made you think that I misunderstand the intentions of GPL. > The GPL is intended to promote the freedoms of the end users of software. It is not really that concerned with developers as a special category of users. Pe
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by meanduck 11y ago
The qualifier to note is "same" not "big restrictions". No sane developer agreement[1] would require the modification/usage and all other associated confidential IPs to be disclosed. Or it would suffer heavy market
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by meanduck 11y ago
Definiton I am using is common sense. OSI one is overly complex for example it has point "5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups". > It seems you've created your own definitions for both "open source" and
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by meanduck 11y ago
> Ok, I simplified the wording and the meaning was lost. Let me fix it. I meant, I got a binary but that binary was produced from a BSD/MIT/Apache/whatever-licensed source code. If that source isn't available to me (l
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by meanduck 11y ago
> When I (an end user, somewhat skilled in software development) obtain a GPL-licensed piece of software, I'm granted the freedoms to modify it and distribute my modifications. Or hire someone to do so. Or whatever. The only thing
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by meanduck 11y ago
> I don't see any scare tactics, and no-one's pretending to be non-profit who isn't. Tell that to devs listed here https://web.archive.org/web/20100622191216/http://ffmpeg.org... or the
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by meanduck 11y ago
> You're talking about using stuff in closed source or commercial software? Do you imagine a commercial company who you licensed a library from and then proceeded to violate that license would be friendlier than that? Never mind hal
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by meanduck 11y ago
MediaCoder Drama : https://web.archive.org/web/20120305052859/https://roundup.l... Notice how ffmpeg devs keep bringing money on discussion. Avoid GPL like a cancer I say.
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by meanduck 11y ago
But there is already a monopoly. By TRAI over 1.25 billions. If this discision was taken at state or city level, would be much better. Otherwise citizens/customers lose either way.
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by meanduck 11y ago
Is this real hardware architecture or is it software api on top of general simd architecture like GCNs ?
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by meanduck 11y ago
(Not OP) > In your hypothetical, companies have a strong incentive to start in countries that have strong infrastructure and services (safety nets to reduce risk for founders and early employees, higher-education to ensure a supply of ed
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by meanduck 11y ago
Correct TL;DR * High performence overhead and complexity of VM. * Hypervisor vulnerabilities. * Unikernel are small because the responsibilities are shifted to the process. * "Unikernels are entirely undebuggable." --- IMO process
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by meanduck 11y ago
> Are you aware of any existing, serious effort to build such a thing? NaCl (>90% of native performence) comes to mind. Too bad NaCl apps can only be downloaded via chrome web store not by visiting url like PNaCl (~10% of native perfo
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by meanduck 11y ago
I think Open Source has been overloaded to mean something else so that profit can be made while being morally superior. IMO Open Development is what open source originally meant. Open development is only sustainable if devs == users, ot
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by meanduck 11y ago
What if I dont want the regulation as a citizen ? What then ? There are so many issues, so many opinions in the world today. I bet diversity of opinions has never been highest. How should we move as a democracy when everyone has different d
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by meanduck 11y ago
> I'd also like to note that TRAI has usually been on the side of user's What about when it goes against users ? Even now, it has gone against some users. Why do you think its a good thing for <1000 people (TRAI) to affect 1

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