mjw1007

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by mjw1007 7y ago
Yes, I think whoever ends up taking over Python 2 maintenance would be well advised to stub out the https support immediately, and maybe a bit later do the same for all support for network requests. In particular, you don't want to hav
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Amazon's leadership famously pushed hard in the early 2000s for all its systems to share data only via service interfaces ( https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 ). I wonder how much of the reason for that wa
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by mjw1007 7y ago
The normal thing in Debian is for a maintainer who wants to step down to orphan the package so that other maintainers get the chance to pick it up. It seems perfectly reasonable for the Debian Python team to decide they no longer want Pytho
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Historically, Debian hasn't particularly objected to packaging obsolete versions of programming languages without upstream support. I doubt anyone is checking for potential security problems in the Algol 68 and Fortran 77 implementatio
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by mjw1007 7y ago
There was a period of 10 or 15 years or so (up to around 2000) where the de-facto standard microcomputer operating system, supplied by MS, was much worse at using the hardware than it should have been. (In the earlier part it wasn't ab
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Absolutely you can. My worry is that once this idea has been thoroughly instilled in children's heads when they're small, it's still there when they're older and in charge of dangerous machinery, so somewhere deep down t
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by mjw1007 7y ago
For good reasons, parents thoroughly indoctrinate small children with the idea that it's their job to keep out of the way of cars; if they step into the road they're being Very Naughty Indeed, and cars are an uncaring force of nat
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by mjw1007 7y ago
[non-rhetorical question:] Was there anything in that sort of price range that did have memory protection? A PC with OS/2? An Acorn machine with RISC OS?
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by mjw1007 7y ago
So I suppose if Apple cared about not being hostile to developers they'd have the option of buying that company and giving the product away for free.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
I remember in the days of the "sig11 FAQ" [1] some of the gcc maintainers felt the (apparently hardware-related) problems occurred when using gcc more frequently than could be explained just by "compiling is the most stressfu
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by mjw1007 7y ago
I think you're assuming that the low point on that graph is the 2012 low outlier. It isn't, it's 2007. The graph would look much worse if stopped in 2012.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/ has September minimum figures up to 2018, and you've already found 2019.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
I'm not sure it's a matter of emotional stance. It could just be that many people view the opportunity to answer a poll as a means to an end, and don't feel any obligation to be truthful. In that case for some proportion of t
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by mjw1007 7y ago
This behaviour is particularly bad on a Q&A site that aims, as SO claims to do, to optimise for future readers (rather than the individual asking the question). It leads to a page with a clear question at the top and a great deal of tex
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by mjw1007 7y ago
« And don’t use the same word repeatedly — it’s boring. » This is dangerous advice, and not just because (as others have noted) it can add ambiguity. Finding alternatives to the simplest word for a concept will often narrow the audience. Fo
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by mjw1007 7y ago
The 8051 was always designed for "embedded". It's a microcontroller. The ISA is nothing like the 8080's.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Nominet is officially a non-profit company. The problem is that (like many non-profits) it's being run by people who see the world the way for-profit companies do, and think that it's their job to maximise their surplus rather tha
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by mjw1007 7y ago
This affair is also bad for any people who would actually like to use .uk domain names: in many cases where the current owner of foo.co.uk doesn't want foo.uk it's effectively increased the period for which the name is reserved fr
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Although the editor of the jargon file was confident he was able to speak for all "Hackers", I'm not sure they were ever quite as narrow-minded as he likes to make out. (Many of the early criticisms of Ada seem a bit silly in
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by mjw1007 7y ago
AdaCore's compiler is GNAT. They sell a pro version with bells and whistles but AFAIK the actual compiler is the same.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional... for an example of a Governor-General acting without the advice of their ministers. In that case the Governor-General sought, and took, the advice of t
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by mjw1007 7y ago
But it can't be as simple as that. If a prime minister asked the Queen to suspend parliament for a year, she wouldn't approve it. I think how it works is the Queen will always deny having had any discretion. If she ever has to rej
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by mjw1007 7y ago
They're expelled from their political party, not from parliament. In fact he probably can't even do that in all cases, as the local party branches might not let him.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventi... says they were planning in June to have a "feature-rich, polished" fennec release "this fall". https://githu
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by mjw1007 7y ago
In that discussion (and indeed in the message you quote), the mozilla developers had every incentive to say, if it were true, « we have decided not to replace fennec with fenix on Android until fenix supports ad-blockers ». They very visibl
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by mjw1007 7y ago
The idea of "four great beard movements" seems like an odd framing. Another way to look at it is that periodically the somewhat-unnatural act of shaving becomes fashionable.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Has there been any news from the Mozilla-Yahoo/Oath lawsuit? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_and_Yahoo_Holdings_Oath_Cou... hasn't been updated since January 2018.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
He'd made the same jokes in speeches several times before, and it had gone down well with the audience. Presumably he just didn't consider the possibility that the press would think it worth making a story out of.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
To fit on a fan, I think.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
« At the heart of the case will be a determination on the transformative nature of an AI-created audio transcription, and whether that constitutes a violation of the copyrights held on a written work. » It seems to me that this shouldn&#x27

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