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by msla 1y ago
A website is non-commercial when it isn't doing commerce. A browser doesn't have that simple test. It can be used to do anything. Therefore, the commercial website made by someone who chose to make it commercial needs to be regula
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by msla 1y ago
No, it's what they actually want. Destroying vaccines, for example, is something they've wanted for a long time. They're not masterminds. They really are this crazy.
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by msla 1y ago
Because a browser is not always a commercial product, whereas a website often is. I should not need to follow a ridiculous law to give away some software.
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by msla 1y ago
This comment is a perfect example of why HN should stay away from nutrition science.
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by msla 1y ago
> In the code above, make([]proc(msg: string), len(arr)+1) generates a slice of procedure pointers with a length of len(arr)+1. Essentially, it allocates memory on the heap and returns a slice header, which includes a pointer to the allo
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by msla 1y ago
Maybe you should listen to the expert instead of thinking you know better?
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> I've come around to arguing for "name" to just be a text field. No rules. This is the morally correct solution, but governments run on forms and forms run on fields and fields were created by people who knew, as a matter
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by msla 1y ago
> In fact, authorities in New York never actually wrote down anyone’s name, they just checked each immigrant against the ship’s passenger list, which would have been compiled by employees of the steamship companies. That means that your
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by msla 1y ago
> The peak here was arguably achieved during the 1990s and early 2000s Interesting coincidence how the peak was achieved right when most of the audience would have been children or young adults, and therefore a time they're likely t
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by msla 1y ago
Was HyperCard ever used over the Internet? I thought it was just local decks of cards.
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Maybe you can also do that in JAVA.
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You, apparently.
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Similarly, and less explicably, are people who program in "C" and don't understand when people mention the oddity. Do people not see quotes? Do they just add them and not realize?
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It's not really a meaningful page, because "lowest level" is ill-defined. Usually, it means "most similar to what the hardware does" so C is lower than Python (because C makes you worry about manual memory managemen
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> Boy I suppose this racism will go unpunished.
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by msla 1y ago
This account has engaged in a pattern of harassment against me, but its harassing comments get deleted before moderators can notice, apparently.
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by msla 1y ago
What's the difference between a Programming Furu and a Programming Guru? Is there a joke I'm missing?
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> Imagine two very similar companies. Both companies generate similar revenue and produce a similar software product. The only difference between these companies is that Company A uses 1 million lines of code and Company B uses 100 thous
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by msla 1y ago
Multics never ran on PDP-10s, but on other 36-bit mainframes.
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> tons of drivers for everything imaginable Better than going the Multics way, which was being theoretically portable but not actually capable of being ported off a very short list (two... a list of two) mainframe computers that implemen
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That only gets you efficiency on one system, as dictated by microarchitecture. You are observing the rules to write efficient code, correct?
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by msla 1y ago
If the king weren't in the government, the government wouldn't arrest people for disrespecting him.
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by msla 1y ago
"The king of a country is not connected to that country's government" is a kind of hair-splitting I really, truly cannot abide.
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by msla 1y ago
Jobs knew a lot about hardware design, sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III > Jobs insisted on the idea of having no fan or air vents, in order to make the computer run quietly. > Many Apple IIIs were th
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by msla 1y ago
> "It's 1900 UTC, X is awake from....err....2200 to 1400, so I can call now" Assuming it's that simple of course. Like, you can do mental math about what UTC "officially means" for someone many miles away, b
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/queen-dies-protesters-arrest... > A man who was arrested by police in England for asking who elected King Charles III says he’s worried that his arrest could have a “chilling eff
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Self-hosting would not have been congruent with how the USSR edited history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
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At a certain point, the genericized trademark is the correct term, like how aspirin is the correct term (only term, really) for a specific preparation of acetylsalicylic acid, even though it was a trademark of the Bayer corporation.
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by msla 1y ago
From my post the mods buried: > On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center compa
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by msla 1y ago
https://archive.ph/J35lH Yeah, there's reasons for that: > On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the docume

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