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by tagrun 10y ago
Maybe that's a hint that links from such sites aren't mostly welcome here?
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by tagrun 10y ago
This argument applies for any law. You want a "regulating authority" and you want it to be effective. I don't see how this can happen without trampling the freedoms of people, which I personally value a lot more than "cr
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by tagrun 10y ago
Extension of copyright law been "sponsored" by MPAA and corporations. So better yet, they should make lobbying illegal again, and treat it as a form of bribe.
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by tagrun 10y ago
Runtime doesn't necessarily mean "can't call from other languages". Languages with runtimes can still conform to C ABI on that arch. You can call Go from C, or even from Java on Android out-of-the-box (and Objective C on
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by tagrun 11y ago
That, and Mathematica's NDSolve is also quite hard to beat.
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by tagrun 11y ago
I don't think his point was "Mathematica contains zero bugs".
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by tagrun 11y ago
Except that's not what we're being paid for and frankly, most physicists don't have time or knowledge to do that (our reality is "publish or perish", unfortunately).
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by tagrun 11y ago
They're emulating Linux system calls in order to run GNU userland on it. Yes, they can theoretically run non-GNU userland (such as Android userland programs), but that's not what they're trying to do.
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by tagrun 11y ago
Extending this logic, we should also avoid anything from China or any country with an oppressive regime, which have repeatedly been violating human rights (which I think is more important that violation of a software license). In fact, if w
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by tagrun 11y ago
Great support? My wife's experience with them has been terrible, I don't even want to talk about it. They basically blocked us from using warranty, and told us to pay fully for a new device. And I promised that's the last app
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by tagrun 11y ago
A 50$ Android smartphone can do all of those, and more.
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by tagrun 11y ago
> we're inviting you to support Caddy by honestly paying back the value it provides you So those who are not paying are dishonest. That's a bit aggressive, don't you think? > There's no such thing as free software.
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by tagrun 11y ago
Actually, it had video calls for ages.
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by tagrun 11y ago
You can't expect all GNU Social instances to be open for public registration, that's not what fedaration means. loadaverage.org seems to be open to everyone though. Also, do you have an OpenID?
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by tagrun 11y ago
> so long as you are just setting a new value The hash map first needs to determine whether it already has a value with such a key or not, which requires some checking that typically involves many instructions and is not atomic. And to d
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by tagrun 11y ago
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenCL-VP...
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by tagrun 11y ago
I thought we're talking about users here, not developers. Steam, Mathematica, Mendeley Desktop etc. have long proven that stable API for GUI toolkit doesn't have to be an issue for users. > For application developers there is a
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by tagrun 11y ago
> I would firmly state that academia by definition is not supposed to 'deliver to industry', and not even to society. That, and also, academia is several thousand years older than industry.
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by tagrun 11y ago
This made me wonder, is there a country where lobbying (or somehow influencing law-making with money/land/position/etc) is illegal and seen akin to bribe?
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by tagrun 11y ago
> However, the voice recognition module wasn't actually used unless you opted into the "Ok Google" hotword feature. So says someone, but you don't know what else the binary blob (which can be "updated" at th
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by tagrun 11y ago
Why do you think having different APIs (qt, gtk mainly) had much to with the fact that a lot of people don't use Linux for desktop? If you're talking about binary compatibility, that's an issue for closed-source shops. With s
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by tagrun 11y ago
> I would argue for the opposite: One problem with linux is that you can't run untrusted software without it getting the same access as the user. That's exactly what the appification is. > I see package managers as a source
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by tagrun 11y ago
> As do the BSD and especially(?) the Apache Software License. Suppose someone forked BSD kernel, modified it heavily over years and made a closed source product of out of it (you don't actually need to suppose it anyway). Users get
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by tagrun 11y ago
> make the software used and to encourage sharing of the source between developers That's a very narrow interpretation of what RMS had in mind. Free software movement and its basic license GPL has always been about users' freed
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by tagrun 11y ago
GPL works well to protect the freedom of its users. Now I understand this can me it unpopular with closed-source shops but it wasn't designed to make corporations happy. I would've expected someone who volunteered at FSF understoo
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by tagrun 11y ago
It doesn't matter in this context. Their conclusion is that in big O notation, quantum annealing and best classical algorithms are the same. Parallelization would get you a factor 1/k (k being the number of cores) in favor of the
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by tagrun 11y ago
> because it has platform specific C and assembly code from cgo's runtime I'm not sure what you mean by "cgo's runtime", but go runtime is in go since 1.5. Some bits are still written in assembly but that's
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by tagrun 11y ago
As linked by the article, the original news is at PC World, the language is milder but the point about the invasion of privacy is essentially the same http://www.pcworld.com/article/2997213/privacy/microsoft-
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by tagrun 11y ago
> you can also see that the level of invasion is low with most telemetry disabled. Regardless of their history, something along the lines of "We will invade your privacy and you can't disable it, but the level of invasion is lo
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by tagrun 11y ago
You're extrapolating from a few select examples. ASCC and many other computer precede ENIAC, and their programming was absolutely not a "women's work".

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