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by swhipple 10y ago
Right, I don't mean to imply that there can never be any nuance or discretion within the system. But in the author's case the rules were bent for him (officers rewriting his confession, having 'the' lenient judge; "
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by swhipple 10y ago
I don't have the story around, but if I recall correctly, the minor procedural errors were forgetting to read Miranda rights. In the US, conviction can be based on possession without that form of evidence. Let's say for the sake
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by swhipple 10y ago
It may be too easy to look at this and be appreciative of the humanity and 'wiggle room' if one should be the person to benefit from it. Would a local be afforded the same wiggle room? Recently, I read an anecdote about someone i
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by swhipple 10y ago
"Gtk4 API will not be stable at Gtk4.0" or the original title would be better. 'Discouraging portable Gtk apps' isn't mentioned in the original article or LWN.
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by swhipple 11y ago
Even the text of some are pretty much as expected. It seems that they have a patent on single page applications (SPAs) to-a-T [1], elaborating that an application may use mechanisms like XHR and append an identifier to the fragment portion
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by swhipple 11y ago
The link in the original post was about strong vs weak retaliation clauses in an explicit license, but the parent is also talking about implicit patent licenses, which do have some case law and opinions surrounding them in the United States
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by swhipple 11y ago
Emacs core requires FSF copyright assignment. Most of the configurations in Spacemacs use third party extensions which don't have the assignment. But being non-core is not really a barrier to installation in my opinion. In many ways
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by swhipple 11y ago
If I recall correctly, there are some alive patents in the U.S. until 2017 when dealing with MP3 encoders, requiring purchasing a license per copy distributed. The workaround that the parent is talking about is usually "get LAME from a
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by swhipple 11y ago
It depends on how the license was intended to be applied. If you're the sole owner and declare the entire repository contents under XYZ, the previous commits would be available under the license, regardless of the actual commit that ad
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by swhipple 11y ago
Are you familiar with DFeed [1] used by the D-Lang forum [2]? It is, in my opinion, one of the most usable web frontends for mailing lists (as well as a few other sources). [1] https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed [2]
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by swhipple 11y ago
On FreeBSD it is the other way around: /dev/random will never block once seeded. /dev/urandom as a symlink will give the same behavior. I haven't tried OS X, but given that it also uses a PRNG (Yarrow) for /dev
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by swhipple 11y ago
Not the parent, but I also prefer shell to ansi-term for my daily usage. My 99% use-case is running programs that don't need terminal emulator support, but I do commonly use Emacs keybindings for navigating around the buffer -- which r
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by swhipple 11y ago
Hmm, I wasn't considering labels that might be on the items -- that's a good point. If a derivative of the label were, for example, being used on another wine bottle without licensing, it would unambiguously be copyright infringem
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by swhipple 11y ago
Those items (cheese, wine) are not covered by copyright, as they have no literary or artistic value themselves. The composition and painting would be the artist's creative work. For other cases, fair use also plays a role depending on
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by swhipple 11y ago
> I tried to make the point that this game is itself a derivative of other things, without which it couldn't exist. Being a derivative in the sense of borrowing game mechanics [1] or drawing influence [2] isn't nearly the same
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by swhipple 11y ago
Just to add to your post, the reason that there are multiple ways to "center something" is because tables and flexboxes have different behaviors, especially for multiple children, and the third case of arbitrary translation, but a
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by swhipple 11y ago
I'm not really convinced S-exprs are particularly good examples of representing trees and graphs to humans while expecting them to be as easily readable and writable as the graphical forms. You lose spatial intuition with this represen
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by swhipple 11y ago
You can do it yourself as well -- EasyList and some others have patterns that they check for on the page path and individual elements, not only known hosts.
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by swhipple 11y ago
Time shifting means copying for the purpose of listening to the recording at a better time, whereas space shifting is relevant here because the intended purpose is to allow the audio to be played in a different environment (i.e. not the You
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by swhipple 11y ago
One problem is that you're not only time shifting but space shifting to digital media as well. And the laws as written are very specific as to what is permitted. Example: In the US, the AHRA that makes personal space shifting digital
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by swhipple 11y ago
Just curious, was erlang.mk around and did you use the bootstrapped release / cowboy_http template [1] when creating your first application? Based on some things you mention, it makes it sound like you were writing from scratch while
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by swhipple 11y ago
Have you seen [1]? I found it very useful when getting starting with cowboy, though I had prior experience with Erlang. It walks through a simple "Hello world" application starting with creation from template (erlang.mk), and disc
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by swhipple 11y ago
Most of those types of things can be used for fingerprinting currently with JavaScript w/o need for screenshot rendering. Anything that injects into the page DOM can be detected and some timing attacks are possible. The main issues th
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by swhipple 11y ago
> if you had a language, which uses { and }, would you call it a C, if it is 100% incompatible to any line of C written out there? No, but nobody else would either. For Lisp and Forth dialects, people seem to accept that they are not al
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by swhipple 11y ago
> On stealing "ideas," do you have some advice here? Smule has never specified what ideas they think we stole. In their initial complaint filing [1] they mention "Synch Technology" (automated video/audio synchron
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by swhipple 11y ago
It isn't "de facto" legal if the owner decides to pursue it or not. The problem is the lack of knowledge of rights associated with intellectual property. Many people make their bulletin board flyers by searching a related ter
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by swhipple 11y ago
They're definitely still being used today, though in my experience, we weren't docked points for syntax errors where the intent was obvious, except in the introductory classes where the syntax was one of the criteria being tested.
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by swhipple 11y ago
> What amazed me the most during this journey is that most platforms have actually very similar low level building blocks but unfortunately slightly incompatible in many ways. I've been looking at porting a React application to Reac
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by swhipple 11y ago
I use the magit interface for most operations, but for blame I usually fall back to vc-annotate, as I find it easier to read (commits on the left rather than as headers, coloring, customizable). I haven't used tig, but from the blame v
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by swhipple 11y ago
> Do we abandon copyright because of scale? This is an interesting question. I wonder if, due the number of items in the training set and the minimal impact of each individual creative work, it would be considered fair use. If your train

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