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by pipo234 3y ago
> good move. The part where he pulled the plug, or the part where he consulted with Russian officials?
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by pipo234 3y ago
Is there a difference between the products, or is it just the Apache versus commercial license? Ie. will you be able, but not allowed, to view and make changes to the commercial product? I can think of a couple of reasons why the company mi
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Can't build stable societies on fear. Yes, you're right. I meant to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” And indeed demo
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by pipo234 3y ago
Thanks for pointing out my exaggeration. You are right, I'll tone it down a little. What I meant to say is that as it stands most governments aren't a shining example when it comes to overseeing their own software efforts.
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Unfortunately, I concur that this is the most likely outcome. I would love to believe we could inch a little toward: > 3. Greater focus is put into fewer projects to develop a stronger ecosystem and engineering culture [...] A hopeful si
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by pipo234 3y ago
All for curation of components, as part of developing reliable, secure, resilient software. I just don't think you gain a lot of reliability, security or resilience by mandating a concrete&steel OS foundation. For sure, a shoddy, i
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by pipo234 3y ago
Interesting. Is the blessing done by you, someone in your team, someone in another team, someone in another company, someone in government? Is the blessed supply chain comparable (not in volume, but in features, ease of use) to NPM or pip e
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by pipo234 3y ago
Yikes! Historically, revolutions are bloody and generally do not end well. Cultural revolutions less so. Having said that, I would not mind seeing King Charles abdicate; England, Wales, Scotland, N-Ireland become proper republics; help the
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by pipo234 3y ago
> devs have shown, they do not care about security, at all. Could add a grain of salt there, but I get your sentiment and would not want to argue their are big problems in the software industry, supply chain being one. We could be angry
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by pipo234 3y ago
Nice! Made me think of jigsaw puzzles, that apparently originate in teaching geography. Rather than having children stare at maps, the idea was to print the map on wood, cut out the border edges and have the students figure out how to put t
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by pipo234 3y ago
I don't understand enough about UK to see why anachronistic monarchy would be at the heart. (To lesser extent) we see a lust for surveillance in many other democratic countries too. Isn't an easier explanation that society is gett
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Like the White House, the EU confuses its stated goal of helping the software market work more efficiently with an attempt to control what can be in the market. Control would make sense if governments had a clear, flawless track record
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The bigger picture of why UK is hell bent on surveilling their citizens, communities is that the number one problem is that governments are losing control over society. Off course the whole point of democracy is that governments should
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by pipo234 3y ago
I was disappointed that my Sinclair ZX81 lacked capabilities to customize fonts. (Only 1k of RAM and hardwired character generator, including 16 2x2 block "graphics".) So, just in case you're like me still mentally stuck in t
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Google has been accused of shutting out competition in mobile searches, and using its market dominance to raise the prices paid by advertisers for their spot on the Google search page, according to the claim. These are then passed on
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Years later it dawned on me that it would also be a good source of random data if it at a suitable frequency was fed through an ADC. To be pedantic, I think you mean good source of entropy , rather than random data . The raw ADC data
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by pipo234 3y ago
> More surprisingly, we found that CodeM-HTML 7B trained on the HTML corpus can improve Java by an absolute 15.24% pass@1. (Tongue in cheek reaction:) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic — Arthur C. Clark
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by pipo234 3y ago
I guess it comes down to the misconception mentioned in the follow-up article: > For short critical sections, spinlocks perform better While (system) mutexes have some overhead, the userland to OS overhead typically becomes evident onl
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> it's a front business for some kind of organized crime or offshore criminal enterprise. Just click on Become a tester (top right) and you might find out!
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by pipo234 3y ago
For sure: we've had AVs for I guess more than a century that only operate inside buildings. We call them "lifts" or "elevators"! :-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
Law isn't absolute, that's why we have courts, judges, juries. Unlike source code, laws are dynamic and subject to interpretation. It's a restriction because it's attempting to protect the copyright, while violating the
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by pipo234 3y ago
For sure there is some cherry picking going on. And for sure it depends. And for sure we're missing the big numbers to do a meaningful statistic analysis at this point. What I think is most interesting about your way of looking at this
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by pipo234 3y ago
Though so too, when I read it. But I think it's meant to be read in the larger context where the early adopters have already moved, the remaining desktop users are mostly in apathy on this subject (it works, whatever), and it would hel
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by pipo234 3y ago
I've probably been living under a rock here in EU. January 6th, riots, proud boys rings a bell, but what is 1776? Is that the capitol address? A year reference? Some alt-right numerology? Can anyone explain, please?
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by pipo234 3y ago
If you're interested in learning, buy a book, find a free mooc you're interested in, read blogs and most importantly: try stuff, build stuff, experiment. There are some good course that result in some certificate. More often, cert
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by pipo234 3y ago
The world isn't fair. But the DRM folks are fighting an impossible battle, trying to make abundance scarce: Given an "asset" in digital form, make it so that it can be (mass-) distributed but cannot be copied. The solution th
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by pipo234 3y ago
What I meant to say is that there's always the analog hole, that DRM can't close. With a modest contemporary phone it works surprisingly well, especially since streaming media are rarely of high fidelity. And if you insist on a di
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by pipo234 3y ago
Building DRM is actually quite simple, but building secure DRM is surprisingly difficult. https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-goo... So far, Apple (Fairplay) is probably in the vanguard. But the
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Widevine (google property) is just a technology and does not include the concept of Fair Use. This is where DRM really means Digital Restriction Management, not Digital Rights Management. The aim of Widevine (or Microsoft PlayReady, A
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+1 I totally agree. Labels like certification, graduation, etc. play a role only at the very first stage of recruitment. When someone lacking skills, time and/or attention is sifting through resumes. This is not the interesting part fo

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