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by shakow 5y ago
Because people accept a EULA when they give their data to FB or Google. Github is exploiting a grey area to leverage a big fat chunk of GPL (or other) licensed code in ways that are perceived to be a technically probably legal, but morally
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by shakow 5y ago
> Copyright has concluded that reading by robots doesn’t count. Until someone trains a DNN to generate Mickey Mouse-like cartoons I assume.
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by shakow 5y ago
And I'm saying that virtually every country on Earth has some military knowledge. You really think that France/the German principalities/England/the Ottoman Empire/the PL Commonwealth/the Kievan Rus'/
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by shakow 5y ago
It does not make any sense. To this measure, every last soldier in a European army until post-WWII era should be a highly trained veteran.
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by shakow 5y ago
> and were trained veterans of the reconquest of Spain from the Moors Cortes was 7 y.o. when the Reconquista ended...
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by shakow 5y ago
> came almost exclusively from (1) raising a family and (2) religion And the military, and politics, and arts, and friends, and philosophy, and sciences, ... It's a big fat modern-times bias to imagine that our 19th century ancestor
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by shakow 5y ago
> while also being the last thing on earth languages like Node and Java would ever permit developers to do. You sure about that? https://www.npmjs.com/package/mmap-io https://docs.oracle.com/en/
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by shakow 5y ago
> That Paris thing is certainly bad, but it looks rather like a backside I live in Paris; believe me, the best and the worst are two streets away. There are quarters in the 18th or the 13th that make OPs photo look like a dream. https:&
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by shakow 5y ago
> “I haven’t heard this before, so it must be wrong” It's rather that all of the definitions of orientalism I have been taught both at home, at school, and in the literature revolve about culture, all the uses of it I have witnessed
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by shakow 5y ago
> Paris do not have such buildings in their city centers. Because you were lucky enough to avoid the worst parts: - Paris: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8235336,2.3674101,3a,75y,342... - Marseille: https:/&
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by shakow 5y ago
> It is overwhelming [1] in scale very ugly I agree it's indeed pretty ugly, but if you want to destroy every building looking that ugly, you will have to tear down half the cities in Europe -- and probably also many other places. H
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by shakow 5y ago
> Said’s work really changed the way that movement is generally understood. With all due respect to Said, I'm not yet willing to accept the complete redefinition of a term well-anchored in European art history for over two centuries
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by shakow 5y ago
Because you're conflating a geopolitical current (colonialism & imperialism) with an artistic one (orientalism) -- in fact, the artistic current actually predates colonialism in the concerned geographical regions, with e.g. Ottom
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by shakow 5y ago
> The idea that there was this cohesive concept of "The Orient" as a Mysterious Other, waiting to be settled or tamed by the righteous West That's an interpretation I never heard. Here in France (and in Europe as far as I
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by shakow 5y ago
> Saying sorry both acknowledges culpability and results in losing face. That sounds awfully weird for me coming from an environment where accepting your errors and apologizing is seen as the only honorable option; "noblesse oblige&
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by shakow 5y ago
> What a CoC does is give clear expectations for everyone in the community. That's my whole point; that CoCs might be a necessary step for social changes that quite many people don't understand and/or master yet (e.g. cust
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by shakow 5y ago
You're totally right, I always mistake one for the other :)
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by shakow 5y ago
At this point, it's sad that people would need a CoC just to follow the most elementary of courtesies. Everyone can have a bad day and jump at the throat of someone for no reason at all; but basic politeness would require them to flatl
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by shakow 5y ago
> For example, putting line numbers in the first column is non-trivial. What about linum-mode?
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by shakow 5y ago
> fast translates to vite in French Only as an adverb, it should be "rapide" otherwise.
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by shakow 5y ago
"Bonjours" doesn't exist, and "salutations" is a tad quirky, but OK in informal settings, especially when addressing many people at once.
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by shakow 5y ago
> Google Translate is state of the art For French/English/German, DeepL is much better IME.
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by shakow 5y ago
Genomes are much more than just their sequence. Their spatial organisation, their methylation, their fiolding, their packing etc, have no equivalents in a filesystem.
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by shakow 5y ago
“We will stop replacing leaving conductors” is nothing they can oppose to.
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by shakow 5y ago
For H.264, it's a question of patents IIRC. Cisco granted a free of charge decoder, but not necessarily an encoder.
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by shakow 5y ago
> because the train conductors would never get on board with such a system. The train conductors wouldn't have any say in the operation.
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by shakow 5y ago
Thanks!
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by shakow 5y ago
DNs?
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by shakow 5y ago
So Germany was being spied on while developing a system to spy on others, preferring to introduce a US Trojan horse in the EU through it rather than develop it in the European structure because it is French-dominated... Looks like everyone
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by shakow 5y ago
> France is one of the most aggressive state-sponsors of industrial espionage, after China and the US. That's the kind of thing you can't just write out of nowhere without any reference.

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