racingmars

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by racingmars 3y ago
> If you're maintaining one of the most widely used packages that is directly linked to by libsystemd and is included by pretty much every Linux distro as part of the base system? Then maybe some measure of paranoia is justified. Bu
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by racingmars 3y ago
This feels like a trademark question, not a copyright question. Seems like an abuse of DMCA; if only it were easier to ensure companies filing fraudulent DMCA claims end up facing real consequences.
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by racingmars 3y ago
Even without reading the article, you can imagine things like "Runner A beats runner B in a sprint. Runner B beats Runner A in a marathon. Which one is faster?" The title suggests that different VPNs are fastest in different measu
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by racingmars 3y ago
I think the closest portable solution we have would be basename instead of realpath, but I don't think that takes care of the symlink problem described in the article.
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by racingmars 3y ago
Elon Musk was not born a citizen of the United States, and thus is not eligible to be President of the United States.
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by racingmars 3y ago
No, I don't think so, they really did open up the standard. Where Tesla makes money is when people with those cars go to charge at the Tesla superchargers.
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by racingmars 3y ago
I have definitely touched the SR-71 at the Evergreen museum in Oregon.
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by racingmars 3y ago
Discussed in other comments... but the zero-with-slash is only used in the flight plan section of that display; all of the other zeros are without the slash. It seems they only use the zero-with-slash where there might be a risk of ambigu
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by racingmars 3y ago
It's not a failure if it meets its stated goals. It's not trying to be a programmer's font, a terminal font, etc. It's specifically only trying to be a font for cockpit displays. On that front, there isn't really a
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by racingmars 3y ago
Yeah, that always bugged me! The zero-with-a-slash only seems to be used in that flight plan section of the screen; all of the other zeroes are without the slash. And the "5" and "4" next to the zero-with-a-slash in the
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by racingmars 3y ago
The problem was that the laws referred to commercial documents from standards bodies. Rather than reproducing the entire text of the standard in the law itself (which would be public), the law says "Buildings must comply with XYZ stand
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by racingmars 3y ago
Just by instructions is probably how I'd describe it, yes. No visualization of the streets, other houses, etc. Since you asked specifically about my residence to the first stop, which is obviously the portion of driving I perform more
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by racingmars 3y ago
> What test is this? An online one? https://aphantasia.com/vviq/ Personally, I don't find the test particularly enlightening... it's a test to assess how vivid your mental visualizations are, but it does s
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by racingmars 3y ago
> and blown away that people actually see sheep when counting sheep hahahaha... yeah, I 100% relate to the feeling. When I learned about aphantasia as an adult, so much of what I've heard people say throughout my life suddenly mad
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by racingmars 3y ago
> I am very skeptical about the concept of aphantasia. > Also, it is near impossible to report objectively about your inner processes in a useful way. I agree that discussing our mental/inner processes is difficult due to a lack
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by racingmars 3y ago
More discussion on the announcement directly from AlmaLinux in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36716891
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by racingmars 3y ago
The GPL does not prohibit commercial use at all. Often when historical stuff like this is released for "non-commercial use", they're not just talking about not using the code itself in your own non-open-source product, but th
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by racingmars 3y ago
In what way? Overall as a language, identifier shadowing is a feature of the language in nested scopes. Are you saying built-in identifiers (that aren't language keywords) should be treated specially and work differently than user-decl
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by racingmars 3y ago
If you already have your own functions or variables named max, min, or clear in-scope, they will shadow the new built-in functions and your code will continue to use your own version of the functions. No breakage to existing identifiers tha
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by racingmars 3y ago
No, release candidate 2 was released today; Go 1.21 is not yet released.
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GMP servers are under DoS attack from Microsoft[-owned IP addresses](gmplib.org)
33 points by racingmars 3y ago|6 comments
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by racingmars 3y ago
>>"All inboxes are public." >What does that mean exactly? Hopefully not that everybody else can look at my "throwaway" inbox. It means exactly that. This is in the spirit of the old free version of Mailinator. U
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by racingmars 3y ago
The latest version of RPG in current versions of IBM i is fully freeform! It's pretty wild how much they've evolved the language while still calling it "RPG". If you're maintaining old code you'll mostly run in
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by racingmars 3y ago
Video author here -- The terminal emulator is tn5250j [0], configured to use the IBM Plex Mono [1] font. Full-screen it on a 1080p display and it really is quite pleasant! And there's something that just feels "right" about u
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by racingmars 3y ago
When I think of Pick and PickBASIC, I also think of the old MUMPS programming language+database. Where the values in the database are exposed to the programming language as "global variables," and the data structure the database s
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by racingmars 3y ago
I always feel bad not giving it two minutes just in case! `pwrdwnsys delay(120)` for good luck. ha
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by racingmars 4y ago
HTTP header names are case-insensitive, and traditionally (e.g. HTTP/1.1) I've always seen them encoded in title-case. However -- and perhaps to your point -- HTTP/2 still specifies them as case-insensitive, but requires that
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by racingmars 4y ago
Somewhat related to to-do apps, there was an application back in the classic Mac OS days that I remember (although I don't remember the name) which worked in a way I don't think I've seen since, but seems like a pretty reason
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by racingmars 4y ago
I'll throw my hat in the "mostly just ignore it" camp. I work for a small software company and we have basic license key protection stuff, but our philosophy is "someone who is pirating the software probably isn't s
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by racingmars 4y ago
> What I don't understand about this is how they're able to retroactively change the licence terms. I think the concern is around provision 9 of the OGL: "9. Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publi

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