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by ndiddy 2y ago
Here's some backstory to what happened from a former Llama Group (Winamp owners) employee who suggested the open source release. He was envisioning something similar to Doom's GPL release, but management couldn't be convinced
902.
by ndiddy 2y ago
It is a difference of security. As one example, Debian used to be more lenient on allowing packages to vendor and statically link libraries. Around 20 years ago, an important zlib vulnerability was found that could be exploited through mali
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The article says that the author wanted to hire someone who knows both Rust and C to maintain his company's embedded projects, but was unwilling to hire a C developer and wait for them to learn Rust. I'm not sure how this supports
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The downside of WASM programs not being able to see the call stack is that it makes it impossible to port software that uses stackful coroutines/fibers/whatever you want to call them to WASM, since that functionality works by swit
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by ndiddy 2y ago
PC clones probably didn’t bother with it due to a combination of ROM BASIC being copyrighted, DOS software not needing it, and GW-BASIC being available so people could run BASIC programs from DOS. Note that IBM included ROM BASIC on their P
906.
by ndiddy 2y ago
Fun fact: Waffle House is standardized to the point that there's a single standard restaurant layout. If a location gets too busy they won't expand it because that would mess with the layout, they build a second Waffle House next
907.
by ndiddy 2y ago
The C64 ROM source code hasn't been lost (it's here: https://github.com/mist64/cbmsrc ) but I would count it as "source available" because it's not freely licensed (I believe Cloanto owns the co
908.
by ndiddy 2y ago
Texas definitely can localize their emergency alerts. This alert got sent over the same channel as emergency weather alerts, which get localized per county. It's more that they choose not to localize the alerts.
909.
by ndiddy 2y ago
In case anyone's curious about Nintendo's general MO (not sure how similar this case is) around 10 years ago they successfully prevented someone from publishing a method to run arbitrary code on the 3DS using an NDA and the threat
910.
by ndiddy 2y ago
That’s the company that the blog post points to as an example.
911.
by ndiddy 2y ago
H.265 is a great example of software patents going wrong. As it was the first MPEG video standard created after the rise of widespread commercial video streaming, all the patent owners involved wanted to be able to get as much money as poss
912.
by ndiddy 2y ago
For the CNN Underscored Money example, none of the writers or editors on the site work for CNN. They're all contractors who work for Marketplace, an affiliate marketing company. The site is hosted on completely separate infrastructure
913.
by ndiddy 2y ago
The problem is that Google defines what these sites are doing as spam: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po... > Site reputation abuse is when third-party pages are published with l
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by ndiddy 2y ago
This is likely a different problem than the article describes. Most newer hard drives will move the actuator arm back and forth every few seconds when the drive is inactive. It has to do with evenly distributing the lubrication on the arm t
915.
by ndiddy 2y ago
Books are far cheaper to print than most people realize. If you see a publisher charging 5-10% less for an ebook than a physical book, it's because they're pricing the ebook at whatever the physical book's price is, minus the
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Microsoft already effectively owns OpenAI. Their investments in OpenAI have granted them a 49% stake in the company, the right to sell any pre-AGI OpenAI products to Microsoft's customers, and access to all pre-AGI product research. Mi
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The author goes into more detail here: (you have to scroll down because Mastodon doesn't implement permalinks properly) https://idtech.space/notice/AmKoRh9UNybVIC7eaW . > the [wayland-protocols] governance model
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I'm curious how they expect people to contribute to the project. Section 4 of the license says "Contribution to Project: You are encouraged to contribute improvements, enhancements, and bug fixes back to the project. Contributions
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Elite 40th Anniversary – Source code release(elitehomepage.org)
74 points by ndiddy 2y ago|9 comments
920.
by ndiddy 2y ago
MIPS is a load-store architecture and has branch delay slots, both of which make it complicated to learn for beginners. If you want to learn an obsolete ISA with no commercial relevance because it's simpler, I would recommend 68000 or
921.
by ndiddy 2y ago
Please don't make claims like "this is false" if you aren't familiar with the licenses you're commenting on. Section 4e of the LGPLv3 says that one of the conditions for conveying a "combined work" (such a
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by ndiddy 2y ago
>Why do people even buy QT Commercial? LGPL is a very easy license to comply with. Qt is used a lot on embedded devices (i.e. car infotainment systems, smart TVs, smart appliances, etc). Complying with LGPLv3 means that the user must be
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by ndiddy 2y ago
At least Apple lets you turn it off. Go to Settings -> Battery -> Options and change "Wake for network access" from "Always" to "Only on power adapter" or "Never".
924.
by ndiddy 2y ago
HP's Voyager calculators originally ran on custom silicon-on-sapphire chips (which gave them extremely long battery life). After these stopped production, HP changed the calculator design to use an off-the-shelf microcontroller that ru
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Looks like an HP calculator forum got to the bottom of this around a month ago. The company HP licensed their calculator production to accidentally shipped a run of units with buggy firmware. Most have been captured and flashed with correct
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I’ve seen people try this strategy before. Generally what happens (assuming the project gains adoption) is that eventually someone will independently implement one of the enterprise exclusive features and try to get it added to the free ver
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by ndiddy 2y ago
SVN is fine as long as you don't have multiple people editing the same file in the same time. In that case, generally one person gets his work overwritten. Committing on SVN is basically the equivalent of "git push --force".
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by ndiddy 2y ago
SourceForge was originally open source, but they later closed it. GNU Savannah ( https://savannah.gnu.org/ ) runs on a fork of the last open version of SourceForge.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033
930.
by ndiddy 2y ago
> It might not be obvious how much effort it takes to manage bugfixes in dependencies where every few weeks there's a new breaking API change in egui/winit/wgpu, and while these probably seem extremely minor to those who s

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