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by qb45 9y ago
> It is difficult to imagine. A large part of it would have to be evidence of a elaborate conspiracy, and if I began to ever uncover such a thing I'd probably start by questioning my sanity. Heh, you aren't the only one. I used
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by qb45 9y ago
> This begs the question: if old features are this broken, what about the new ones You can find so called "specification updates", which - as the name implies - update the specs to match actually released hardware ;) Available
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by qb45 9y ago
DOSBox can't run various firmware update and low-level hardware diagnostics tools that are still used in real life under DOS running on bare metal. And Windows XP might be out of support but it still is used in some places too. And eve
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by qb45 9y ago
Note that that the pendrive itself is potentially "infected" too, sometimes there are OS and file manager bugs resulting in code execution without the user clicking anything.
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by qb45 9y ago
That's rather extreme, I think but Haiku or Windows 98 with IE4 could possibly be quite safe from viruses nowadays, even if not exactly "secure".
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by qb45 9y ago
OK, I stand corrected. I'm removing the rant.
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by qb45 9y ago
I'll be cynical: some call it "having an axe to grind". Why do research if you can just post something that seems to align with your cause and makes you happy? In all that we do at Quartz, we embrace openness: open source co
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by qb45 9y ago
"If what the paintiff says is not true, then it is not the case that certainly a contract probably exists". Apparently parent is an intuitionist ;)
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by qb45 9y ago
Your customers are only entitled to the source if you accepted the terms of the GPL and technically you can claim that you didn't accept them and that you simply distributed the derived work illegally. If your customers wanted the sour
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by qb45 9y ago
Well, that's what happens when people use wrong terminology and instead of explaining or suggesting fixes you just go "nope, you are wrong, every X is Y because Z says so". And I didn't downvote this post, btw. On a tang
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by qb45 9y ago
Maybe ask Hancom :p
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by qb45 9y ago
I think the "only" part is dubious, i.e. a contract could possibly exist in various other circumstances as well :)
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by qb45 9y ago
> There is no need to sign anything, what matters is if the EULA was included in the sale contract (so, the buyer was aware that the willingness of the seller to sell you the product depended on the buyer accepting those additional terms
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by qb45 9y ago
> If you want to use it in a closed source work, it very much limits your freedoms. It's the copyright law which prevents you from using GPL software in closed source works, not the GPL. GPL doesn't care about proprietary softw
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by qb45 9y ago
> Without a licence, you have no right at all. On what grounds do you have no right to use a copy of software you bought without obtaining an additional license from the vendor? As for copying it's copyright, obviously, but I never
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by qb45 9y ago
Yes, we are. Parent's link is btw much better and straight from the horse's mouth, more details and doesn't confuse WSL with virtualization.
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by qb45 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14319420 Not sure where MikusR gets this info from, but it could be right given that Snapdragon 820 is Qualcomm's custom core.
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by qb45 9y ago
No idea, I wasn't really being serious, but what inspired me was a real case of a woman who somehow got identified as pregnant by her supermarket long before she was willing to tell anybody (I don't remember reasons) and they sent
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by qb45 9y ago
Not that "finally", Windows NT was designed specifically to support POSIX and OS/2 alongside Win32 apps and the first few versions actually shipped it.
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by qb45 9y ago
Is it possible to install from a clean medium and have all this activation and licensing stuff handled on an OEM machine without paying for another license? Last time I used Windows (Vista era) the only choice was OEM installer pre-filled w
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by qb45 9y ago
> A typical OEM windows system will have a half-dozen pieces of crap in its system tray written by third-party hardware vendors, implementing features that a decent operating system would already have built in. Actually, my OEM Windows l
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by qb45 9y ago
Well, they are trying to get into CPU market since late 2000s to sell their own integrated chips.
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by qb45 9y ago
It's AI, it knows you are secretly trans.
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by qb45 9y ago
See LEDE website, they have some generic introductory propaganda and per-device specifics. TD;DR: customizable Linux distribution with package manager, tons of features and ongoing support. In my experience less bugs than vendor firmwares,
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by qb45 9y ago
For the same reason as around any other CPU or GPU and lots and lots of other chips: buck converter, i.e. 12V 20A DC in, 1.2V 200A DC out.
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by qb45 9y ago
Interesting, appears to have been merged upstream: http://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html But it still targets NVIDIA GPUs and uses NVIDIA libraries so not that universal yet.
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by qb45 9y ago
Actually nowadays OpenWRT is LEDE, but there are talks about merging the projects back as we speak. https://lede-project.org/about And yes, I'm surprised there still are routers in the wild not running OpenWRT :p
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by qb45 9y ago
If it will make you feel better, 10 years ago one of VIA Technologies C3-series x86 cores was codenamed Nehemiah :)
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by qb45 9y ago
Yes, but they aren't portable. You can work around this using per-compiler macros, which I guess is another reason why CPP is to stay.
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by qb45 9y ago
> don’t use it for inline functions That's a myth afaik. Is there any standard way besides macros to really ensure the code will be inlined? In particular, the suggestively named inline keyword just doesn't work like that.

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