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by pizza234 2y ago
What's the rationale for the downvotes? The line of thinking I've highlighted is very widespread, and it's flawed.
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by pizza234 2y ago
More info here in links provided in sibling posts. From this one https://archive.ph/mTPuL ,: > Wen was ultimately arrested and convicted of one count of money laundering after two trials and acquittals on 10 other counts.
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by pizza234 2y ago
Common fallacy in sysadmin: - A user has a system with X RAM and Y swap. They buy Y RAM. If one compares (X RAM + Y swap) versus (X+Y RAM), it's obvious that they don't need swap anymore. Thing is, the correct comparison is (X RAM
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by pizza234 2y ago
Based on the article linked below, it seems that the money come from criminal activity: > Wen tried to buy a string of expensive houses in London, but struggled to pass money-laundering checks and her claims she had earned millions legit
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by pizza234 2y ago
> VMWare has not been selling many Workstation licenses to personal users (costing ~$300 each) and making the products free gives free advertising Not really. The VMWare Workstation Player had the same engine (but less management functio
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by pizza234 2y ago
> Was your trip in USA? I get a weird kind of feeling that Airbnb is awful in the states... I have the same impression. I've been traveling extensively across Europe and never had (significant) problems. I wonder what makes Airbnb&#
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by pizza234 2y ago
I've used both and it depends on the usage patterns. My city trips are from 5 minutes to around 45. For short trips, where one doesn't use public transport (for me, the threshold is around 15 minutes), bikes are definitely more pr
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by pizza234 2y ago
I've been using a mix of folding bikes, (shared) e-scooters, and public transport, for a long time by now, and an additional problem of folding bikes is that at best, they're clunky to carry inside metro carriages (except high-end
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by pizza234 2y ago
Crystal doesn't support parallelism[1], which is a dealbreaker in this context (and for performance sensitive programs in general). [1]=production grade; additionally, it seems that no work has been done on it for years.
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by pizza234 2y ago
Isn't the "regions" approach similar/same in principle, as Rust's memory model? A region's model is described as: > Pony's iso keyword: an iso'd object (and its contents) are only reachable from yo
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by pizza234 2y ago
Based on analyses in at two countries, fake MDMA (ecstasy pills without MDMA) is not common. MDMA content in the pills is often overstated, but still high (even too high, referring to the health organization guidelines); this is IMO the mos
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by pizza234 2y ago
> The research is focused on _how_ it works, rather than _if_ it works True, but it also has this very perplexing statement: > The assertion that it does function as a robust “empathogen” is largely based on anecdotal clinical reports
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by pizza234 3y ago
1. clickbat (reminds patent descriptions ;)); the article itself is about routine query optimization 2. there is no "materialized view" - the view created is a standard one; subquery materialization != materialized views. see wiki
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by pizza234 3y ago
The compatibility (and functionality in general) is severely limited, not usable in production: > No transaction support. Statements like START TRANSACTION, ROLLBACK, and COMMIT are no-ops. > Non-performant index implementation. Index
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by pizza234 3y ago
> on home computers like C64s [...], everything was simple Simple? I take you've never had to implement a division on the 6502. Or write complex code due to the limitations of 8 bits (which couldn't even directly address the pi
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by pizza234 3y ago
> forces a licensing change where all users [...] are faced with an invoice-or-lawyer threat. You're spreading misinformation. See other comments about RSAL/SSPL.
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by pizza234 3y ago
Have you actually taken the time to understand the RSAL and SSPL? > If you want to use a restrictive license, start your project with it, period There is essentially only one restriction (the other is about formal notices) imposed by the
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by pizza234 3y ago
> What I do think is unfair is when there is an element of bait and switch. What's the bait? The expectation to get free development and support forever? The pre-switch Redis code is still BSD licensed, that can't be changed. A
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by pizza234 3y ago
The discussion needs to be split in two: the why of AGPL/SSPL, and the hate against them (and from who). Re:why - SSPL is intended to be an improvement of AGPL, because according to some, it's possible by a cloud provider to work
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by pizza234 3y ago
From the article > As noted by Matt Asay, who formerly ran open source strategy and marketing at AWS, most developers are "largely immune to Redis' license change." This is intended by the SSPL; there's no fiasco. The
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by pizza234 3y ago
re: performance, the submitted article has a very interesting analysis of it (at least, in the context of the game that has been cracked).
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by pizza234 3y ago
>> better than sugar > Maybe let's not get ahead of ourselves... sugar when consumed in moderation and with enough fiber/etc. is not really an issue Yes, but addictiveness is the issue. In my personal experience, light dr
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by pizza234 3y ago
> I watched other people smoke cannabis, and after producing some foul fumes, they were just passively lying on the floor with a stare of apathy. This reaction is not representative of the general effects of cannabis smoking.
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by pizza234 3y ago
In best case, the terms "export, borrow from, or touch it" don't make any sense. In worst case (which I believe it is) they're rethorical terms that translate to development/licensing concepts; in this case, they&#x
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by pizza234 3y ago
Inflammatory and factually false article, should be flagged: > For those of you who aren't open-source licensing experts, this means developers can no longer use Redis' code. Sure, they can look at it, but they can't expor
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by pizza234 3y ago
> Define "fix". By definition you cannot have an open source licence which says "cannot be used for bezos yacht" FOSS acceptance is a grey area. Something has been tried with the AGPL, which is FOSS, however, it has b
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by pizza234 3y ago
If this is considered a problem, it's about tracking devices in general, not Apple itself. But it's really a problem of policing approach, which includes accountability. I've experienced a similar problem, but the police didn
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by pizza234 3y ago
Right, thanks for the correction. For reference, the v2 withdrawal thread is here: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o... . With the current expectations, no license will solve the problem of ma
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by pizza234 3y ago
> (who actually know their stuff and how licences work, rather than random engineers) The whole licensing diatribe is more ideological than concrete, so it's actually about "random" engineers more than lawyers. > so I&#
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by pizza234 3y ago
Interestingly, there is some nuance. One of the two licenses seems to be copyleft, but it's just not currently approved. EDIT: Ironically, the SSPL seems to be more open than the copyleft counterpart (AGPL) - the difference is that it

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