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by rst 4y ago
Headlines from the date of the canary; including them demonstrates that the canary was produced and signed on or after the date indicated, not before. See "notes" at the bottom.
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by rst 4y ago
Looks like the git project has a different plan for gradual transition -- but one that's more elaborate and somewhat more fragile. Comment from one of the developers (from prior discussion of the same LWN article): https://n
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by rst 4y ago
In particular, it excludes very senior people who left almost immediately after the takeover, due to differences with Oracle management -- most notably James Gosling. https://www.eweek.com/development/java-creator-james
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by rst 4y ago
I recall more like a month. There was only one Ferrari, mostly parked in the company lot.
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by rst 4y ago
The VCs wound up paying him, reportedly, over $7 million for his shares. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2002/...
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by rst 4y ago
Also, their docs leave me wondering about the level of Oracle compatibility they're claiming. Their page on the subject, https://www.ivorysql.org/docs/compatibillity_features/hierar... , lists a bunch of imm
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by rst 4y ago
There's no new tunneling for this one -- just new above-ground stations, and rehab on pre-existing bridges and track. The work really isn't comparable.
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by rst 4y ago
Does it heat up while sleeping? (I may be in the market for a new machine, but reports of laptops cooking themselves on "modern standby" are... off-putting
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by rst 4y ago
That's... not a universal reaction. People still play Chess and Go even though the best AIs for both games are superhuman (and have been for Chess for quite some time now). And for AoC in particular, most people aren't particula
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by rst 4y ago
The original LISP's "Lisp Assembly Program" was rather like this -- see Appendix C in the Lisp 1.5 manual, from 1962: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP...
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by rst 4y ago
According to every history I've ever read (most notably, Backus's talk at the first History of Programming Languages) conference, Fortran was not released outside of IBM before this 1957 release, and there wasn't a compiler d
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by rst 4y ago
That's their explicit definition: "Software dark matter refers to files that are not tracked by operating system (OS) package managers (like `apt` or `apk`), which renders these files and the packages they represent invisible—or a
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by rst 4y ago
Parag Agrawal, as CEO, was also a member of the board. (This is pretty common practice, among both private and public companies.)
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by rst 4y ago
Fortran I/O statements specifying a FORMAT are the first example I'm aware of (released 1957), so the basic idea is at least that old.
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by rst 4y ago
A concrete example -- by more than one account, he had a standard practice of publicly naming and shaming the student with the lowest score on each exam. That's got no legitimate pedagogical purpose. Ideally, there'd be a way sh
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by rst 4y ago
Current Acela trains run at the advertised top speed for a stretch of about 50 miles in Rhode Island, and another even shorter bit in New Jersey. Elsewhere, they're limited to far slower speeds by track (about comparable to European c
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by rst 4y ago
It looked to me like providing a cleaner interface which still effectively supports everything vfork does, with all the performance gains (and fewer context switches) was in fact the point of the exercise.
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by rst 4y ago
Date given on the cover sheet is 1982. (Very early versions of Unix were already running in Bell Labs in 1970, but the kernel was still entirely written in assembler, it may not have had a hierarchical file system yet, and certainly didn&#
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by rst 4y ago
Among other things, UBS probably didn't let the seller (Wealthfront) totally dictate the terms of the deal. (The convertible note that they bought might have been the fee for a much more liberal termination clause than the one in the
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by rst 4y ago
Might give OSM another try because I'm getting really frustrated with Google Maps, particularly on mobile, when I just want to see a $@#%!% map. It's gotten astonishingly reluctant to show you the names of cross streets, which ma
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by rst 4y ago
It's one of a few ongoing efforts along these lines -- at least the Ferrocene spec is also worthy of attention: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/the-ferrocene-language-spec...
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by rst 4y ago
See also, from the article: "Commuter rail passengers spend an average of 69 minutes traveling to work, far longer than those taking bus or light rail." Gee, could that be because they're traveling longer? (It's certai
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by rst 4y ago
LJ was bought by some company in Russia years ago -- at which point, there was a very large exodus among Anglophone users (particularly of the LGBTQA community, and their friends). A lot of them went to Dreamwidth, which started with a for
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by rst 4y ago
Title on the piece is "Why GNOME happened". The reason why GNOME happened is QPL, not legal threats from elsewhere years later.
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by rst 4y ago
This omits another IP-related issue of at least equal significance. KDE is based on the Qt UI toolkit library, which had an encumbered license at the time the GNOME project got started (1997) -- and the first free software license it was r
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by rst 4y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by rst 4y ago
What makes HIV hard to eliminate is that it persists in bone marrow. What's happening in these transplants, in cancer patients who also have HIV, is that the patient's original bone marrow (having become cancerous) is killed off
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by rst 4y ago
Nope. Quoting the article itself: "In the traditional use case of direct db access, RLS works by defining policies on tables that filter rows based on the current db user. For a SaaS application, however, defining a new db user for ea
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by rst 4y ago
Even if, well... some intelligence service has developed microcode-level "implants"/malware, they wouldn't necessarily want it to be part of the standard build that gets shipped to all customers, precisely because of the
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by rst 4y ago
Ah. So there are three ways to write it, and explicit ways to call for either behavior. That's sane -- just wasn't what I got from the original writeup.

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