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by scj 3y ago
The OSI becoming a conduit for money would probably produce more criticism than code.
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by scj 3y ago
Most WFH experiences at the moment are during the height of the pandemic. When people were told to limit contact with others outside their household. That's not really representative of what it could be.
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by scj 3y ago
I kind of want to call these "wedge licenses". If anyone were to actually use them, they'd wedge the open source community into a group that can basically treat it as open source, and those who can't. I dread to think a
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by scj 3y ago
In terms of C functions _typically_ being globally defined, mostly unique identifiers are a good thing in terms of code readability. Of course, C functions can be passed as variables. Or in a wider scope they might be inline, macros, or if
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by scj 3y ago
This would be in line with my thoughts. Of course, my off-hand comment is just an exercise rather than an objective measurement. It'd only suffice for trivial examples (say, where X is a strict subset of Y).
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by scj 3y ago
Have language X implement language Y and vice-versa?
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by scj 3y ago
IANAL... A CLA should specify that the copyright assigned will always be under a license approved by the FSF and OSI. The "and" is important, as it's probably possible for one of those organizations to go off the rails, but n
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by scj 3y ago
I had the same prof for several courses. His exams were pretty straight forward, but always contained a "tough question". In order to get that tough question, you could carefully read the book, read his assignment solutions, and
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by scj 3y ago
https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3
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by scj 3y ago
At the same time, to my knowledge he's set the agenda while working on passion projects for much of his career. That makes long hours easier. To extend your metaphor, there's a big difference between doing 10k in a swamp vs. 20k
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by scj 3y ago
From the episode synopsis, it's a Mike from Canmore sketch... Next up from the walrus: An expose of strange comments from the Honourable Member of Parliament for Kicking Horse Pass.
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by scj 3y ago
I keep thinking about the Newton as a distant ancestor of the iPhone. The germ of the idea was there, but the use cases and tech (specifically networking) weren't even close. How close to prime time is AR? It's hard to judge that
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by scj 3y ago
https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/ "PolyForm is not… Open source or free software."
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by scj 3y ago
Weird Al hosted a Muchmusic special in the 90s and had to resolve a "CanCon Alarm" by inserting himself into an Alanis Morsette music video. EDIT: https://archive.org/details/al-music/AL+Music+3.mp4 at 4
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by scj 3y ago
Planes have the nice feature that 99% of the time there's nothing but air around you. With the exception of features used in a critical moment (takeoff, landing, etc), the UI of planes can afford to be far worse than a car!
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by scj 3y ago
To add further skepticism, "Brian Peckford, former Premier of Newfoundland, disagrees. He is the last surviving member of the group that drew up Canada's Charter of Rights." is a massive red flag. 1. Chretien was much more in
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by scj 3y ago
Steve Jobs made products for himself. He just subsidized costs by selling to the rest of us.
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by scj 4y ago
If a two year old had an ELO of 1400 but sometimes took a nap halfway through a game, it'd be a prodigy. It's not like an AI making silly mistakes when driving a car.
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by scj 4y ago
I was thinking about various Kings during the War of the Roses when I wrote that. But a better comparison would be the "election" of a Pope. It's only among Cardinals, who tend to vote for a Cardinal to become Pope. Even th
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by scj 4y ago
I agree, it's more akin to saying a King is elected by nobles... Power sharing agreements between the powerful who are not accountable to the people isn't something I'd classify as "democratic". I'd consider te
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by scj 4y ago
What I want is an AI that can do static analysis of code and report defects that traditional static analysis couldn't hope to detect. I suspect that detecting errors that way will be a part of training non-terrible code generators. Bu
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by scj 4y ago
In the future, you'll get 15 minutes of human interaction... And it'll feel like an eternity!
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by scj 4y ago
I believe the current generation of AI would be better suited to augmenting human understanding of code (through static analysis tools and the like), rather than generating it. On an infinite timeline humans will no longer be needed in the
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by scj 4y ago
Perhaps the problem is with the term "memory safe". No language can prevent a person from allocating a writable buffer, then reusing it without cleaning it. Do that on a server, and you have step 1 to a security vulnerability. If
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by scj 4y ago
The term "memory safe language" (also used in the "Securing Open Source Software Act") is a misnomer. The report kind of acknowledges this "Even with a memory safe language, memory management is not entirely memory
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by scj 4y ago
For data privacy / security, I think a simple rule would be effective provided it had teeth: Any organization that holds personal data can be sued if such data is misused or exposed (even if hacked). Further, ensure that people cannot
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by scj 4y ago
What are the odds that because of this bill, some government contractor will be denied use of a non-trivial open source library and roll their own... To hilarious and horrifying consequences? Whatever framework they establish should make i
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by scj 4y ago
The intent is that standard tools would output alternative formats.
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by scj 4y ago
I've always wondered about expanding stdin, stdout, stderr. Say, stdjson that doesn't get visually displayed, but can be piped (and would only be generated if it is needed on the pipe stream). ls | cat </dev/stdjson
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by scj 4y ago
More like putting an elevator in a building then cutting power when someone is in it.

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