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by temac 5y ago
Would an oligopoly (at worst) need to be strictly as bad as a monopoly though? I don't really care that the fight is mainly the one of greedy billionaires, as long as it reduces the prices for consumers. Plus Epic does not really propo
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by temac 5y ago
Plus any potential concurrency synchro point existing would force a copy, plus using any unknown function, etc. Using rust and propagating the single writer xor multiple readers requirement in an ABI, this might be interesting. But with C
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by temac 5y ago
Other parts of the program can modify the object after the callee has started, if the callee contains some synchro there would be no race. At this point maybe you can think of additional tricks like CO"W" before any potential sync
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by temac 5y ago
For a copy on write const ref ABI trick to work, the referenced area has to be stable while the callee is running. Good luck with guarantying that in C or C++ (and no, it would not necessarily be a race for the refed object to be concurrent
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by temac 5y ago
That would be considering they can say virtually anything and pretend when criticized that it was just a miscommunication problem because they don't speak English well enough. Which depending on the consequences, can not necessarily ab
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by temac 5y ago
I don't feel sorry at all. If you want to contribute from there, show that the rogue professor and their students have been prevented from doing further malicious contributions (that is probably at least: from doing any contribution at
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by temac 6y ago
If a CS degree just let you invert a binary tree and do convoluted SQL queries, then arguably it is a quite poor CS degree. Maybe some interview questions/exercises are, as often, let's say not perfect. Or maybe they are good enou
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by temac 6y ago
Products are shipped which claim to use "AI". This is self-contradictory with this definition, and no product can ever exist claiming AI with it. I'm fine with that, but then it seems that the term would be completely useless
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by temac 6y ago
I'm not sure why it would be significantly better to have reliably "typed nil" over "untyped nil". The concept has no real definition to begin with: what matters about sound typing are the static guarantees a type b
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by temac 6y ago
Not even digging about if this is really not the case, I question the premise that you should be a senior software engineer after merely 10 years in the field. In tons of other area, this would certainly be considered a criteria for &qu
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by temac 6y ago
This is not "childish", this is the essence of the actions done by the people the drama originated from : when a target has been found, the idea is to ostracize them, and any of their "support", interpreted as including
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by temac 6y ago
I would not say this is "the current state of the art in understanding GPLv2", merely disputed (implying by a minority). A better representation would IMO to say that there is no concensus.
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by temac 6y ago
Actually, 'nothing' would be better than 20x less :)
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by temac 6y ago
There is not even a "what if" to apply; it would be fundamentally contrary to Open Source and Free Software (violates freedom 0) And I've nothing against people who want to invent new models. Just: this can't apply to
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by temac 6y ago
> Non-profit/individuals non-profit don't pay anything. > Everyone else/companies pay $0.01 per dependency, per month. I don't get that dichotomy? People can do what they want, no? So are you simply saying that ind
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by temac 6y ago
I'm not even sure this was strictly true at one point. As soon as PS/2 keyboard vs mouse plugs, you had problems. Plus you had (and still have) various audio jacks on the computer anyway. Back to the mouse even prior to PS/2
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by temac 6y ago
Would it only allow for the lamp to be "secure" in the sense that the owner would not be able to take back control anymore? If that's the case, that's a "solution" worse than the problem, that's even uneth
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by temac 6y ago
To be fair, I highly prefer the situation it lead to, with now some competition between GCC and LLVM/Clang. But sure it was not rejected with that outcome in mind. However, some may not like the reasoning behind the unwillingness to mo
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by temac 6y ago
Maybe the practical effect of him giving up leadership on the GNU Project would be actually "better" than giving up leadership on the FSF - I even doubt there was anything better (beyond a form of realpolitik "damage" co
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by temac 6y ago
What "resignation" can mean in the context of such a situation for top high-level people might not be your typical resignation concept for e.g. employees, or even middle management. For example ministers of most gov "resign&q
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by temac 6y ago
Linux has even used Github once as a backup solution for hosting the main repo, during a very short period of time. The workflows git has been developed for in the first place has little to do with the non-git and mostly walled garden featu
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by temac 6y ago
> Lots of reasons: familiarity, it works for your use cases [...] Yes indeed... until not anymore. And will this be an enormous change? Oh no but an annoying one for some people, and completely switching browsers might be perceived as on
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by temac 6y ago
64 bits ram? That's tiny ;)
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by temac 6y ago
It even kind of shipped in the form of Xeon Phi, without graphics though, including in the first version a precursor of AVX-512 (and in next versions subsets of AVX-512 that are not exactly the same as the ones most in use today... it'
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by temac 6y ago
If I remember correctly, there is now a Quark part of Intel chipsets to run the ME code.
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by temac 6y ago
So you think countries are necessarily made of teams of extremely cohesive people organized by e.g. skin color? And that all their members shall be jointly punished in case of wrongdoing of other members or even of their ancestors? Some of
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by temac 6y ago
If he really is the chief engineer and that has any meaning, for ex if he signed off the design, should he not maybe be jailed for his failure to know what he signed?
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by temac 6y ago
Around x64 cpus you have plenty of peripherals that are subtly different too. Arguably the situation is "worse" for ARM, but it is getting worse every year on the x64 front too, esp since MS decided to release extremely short live
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by temac 6y ago
I'm not sure ARM images are available, except for big OEMs. Also IIRC the boot is not restricted to Apple software (or at least can be unlocked), so I'm not sure that Apple is actually disallowing anything. Getting native drivers
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by temac 6y ago
Your whole understanding of the GPL is a mis-categorization of its behavior. The GPL does not "aggressively applies itself to full code bases that adopt it", that sentence is even completely meaningless. I can't even find the

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