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by simiones 3y ago
Note that I am not by any means a lawyer, so please don't take my understanding as authoritative. My understanding is that "a work" and "a product" are different things. If I sell you a bundle of three books, the bu
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by simiones 3y ago
You're suggesting they have obtained permission from the copyright holders of, say, libiconv, to distribute their code under a non-LGPL license?
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My point is that the way this made it to computing is not so much the specific "file of punch cards", but through a more abstract route: "a physical file is a way to store information in an organization" -> "anyt
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Outside of Unix land, a Process or a Socket or a Mutex or an Event or a [...] are not considered files. The Windows APIs for example have no concept of "a file" as a generic thing. In Windows, you could say that File, Mutex, Socke
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I think derived work or derivative work are the right terms. However, "copyleft" is not a legal term, and it is copyright law (and associated jurisprudence) that defines what constitutes a derived work of some original. Licenses t
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Neither the GPLv2 nor the GPLv3 define what constitutes a derivative work or make any claims about linking in the normative parts of the license. Let's assume that tomorrow some courts were to find that two separate works can link to e
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The GPL can't really overwrite the legal definition of derivative work, even if it wanted to. Of course, there is little case law actually going into the weeds, so it's hard to say for sure. However, the GPL's definition seem
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Given that Unity itself also uses LGPLv2.0 dependencies in its own iOS version, it seems clear that at least Unity believes that there is no issue deploying LGPLv2.0 code to iOS.
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Yes, it's obviously a form of dynamic linking, which triggers the GPL share-alike clauses, but not the LGPL ones.
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I don't think using the term "file" for any kernel-managed resource is common outside of Unix terminology. It is certainly not the terminology of Windows. It is not even really true on modern Linux either, nor was it ever ful
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by simiones 3y ago
I wonder if this item, "Assignments between incompatible pointer types" includes what I understood is (was?) actually recommended practice in C - `int *c = malloc(sizeof(int))`. Has the preferred style changed, or is this only a p
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There is a major difference: VR can't work the way sci-fi enthusiasts envision it for fundamental physical reasons. You can't have a pair of glasses that is simultaneously opaque enough to give you the illusion you are in another
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> The thing is a 'day 1' feature everyone hacks back in is clipboard sharing and screen share, each of which remove a decent chunk of these protections. Each essentially grants access to another apps data. Oh, yes, it's ve
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My understanding is that any app which has access to X (so any windowed app) had full access to all other apps which have access. So, any app with a window can read the input from any other app on the same system, e.g. your sudo password. O
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Sure, but superdeterminism implies determinism. That is, if the world is superdeterministic, it is certainly deterministic, so living agents definitely react to stimuli in a theoretically predictable manner. Interestingly, it's actuall
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> Can you also give an example where "true randomness" would differ from the randomness I describe on the actions a human would take? That is to say, if a my internal model of the world tells me a coin landing on heads is 50&#x
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I don't think you're right about the many worlds interpretation here. In the most popular "simple" many worlds interpretation, the whole universe is a QM system described by the universal wavefunction. The "worlds&q
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If QM is correct and there is no "deeper" hidden variable theory that explains the movement of all particles, then you're wrong. Heisenberg uncertainty as it exists in QM today is not a statement about your knowledge, it is a
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So how do you tell if your representatives are doing their job as promised, without reading (online, in print, on TV/Radio) about news from the local area? You could look at their reports, but how do you know if their reports are true?
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You still have to care whether your representatives are actually doing the job you voted them in for and are paying your taxes for. You can't just say "I voted for someone who promised to build shelters for homeless people, so hom
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For anyone intrigued, this is paraphrasing a beautiful line from Pink Floyd's "Breathe (In The Air)" from Dark Side of the Moon.
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Well, if you care about your city or country, you have to care about many things that are not immediately in front of you. And the Internet is one of the main places where such things can be learned about.
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This suggests the problem pretty well: https://xkcd.com/331/
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I don't think I understand. Isn't it enough that each tab is treated as a separate process, so the normal per-process OOM logic can decide to kill a tab process just like it might decide to kill, say, Thunderbird?
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What is the use case where you'd want to kill all of Chrome just because there are many tabs open? If there is a memory leak in Chrome, it will almost certainly affect a single tab process, and that can be killed. If you just need a bi
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Chimerism exists in humans as well, and likely gynandromorphism as well. I don't think this bilateral version has ever been seen, but more subtle forms may be more common than assumed - it can only really be discovered through genetic
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It sounds like it's a chimera, so there's actually a half male half female genotype (or rather, a full male genotype in half the body and a full female genotype in the other part).
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This is not about "beyond the singularity", the point is that there is no reason to believe technological progress could approach a singularity. It's silly extrapolation of the same nature as "I've lost 1kg dieting
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The booster exploded after separation, which is never a good sign. Normal boosters for modern rockets don't do that. The second stage exploded as well, possibly because of FTS, possibly not (was it ever confirmed?).
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You keep bringing up the broader Futurist movement, but I am discussing mostly one specific Futurist founder who was also an early member of the Italian Fascist party and lifelong supporter of Mussolini, and whom Andreesen quotes and consid

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