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541.
by thayne 10mo ago
It was successful for a while. Java applets were once fairly common. But then Flash largely replaced them, and then Html5 killed them flat.
542.
by thayne 10mo ago
We should move away from it in C usage as well. Ideally, the standard would include a type that packages a string with its length, and had functions that used that type and/or took the length as an argument. But even without that it is
543.
by thayne 10mo ago
Not all companies that have massive budgets only sell to affluent consumers. For example, walmart, amazon, most streaming services, coca-cola, pepsi, mcdonalds, etc.
544.
by thayne 10mo ago
> I don’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with OpenAI wanting to keep their chains-of-thought secret. I do. Besides the fact that it is kind of the opposite of "open" and is another sign that OpenAI is an inapt name fo
545.
by thayne 10mo ago
Another factor is that building new rail lines requires eminent domain and acquiring land across multiple jurisdictions etc.
546.
by thayne 10mo ago
16 is an incredibly small sample size. Autism has an incredible amount of variability. It seems naive to extrapolate from this that all cases of autism have the same chemical cause.
547.
by thayne 10mo ago
It seems like an oversight that there isn't a native way for a popover to be activated by hovering over the target element.
548.
by thayne 10mo ago
Or if there are practical, affordable, alternatives. If there is low cost public transit available, then a toll could be an incentive to use public transit instead of driving. But if there is no other viable transportation option, then it i
549.
by thayne 10mo ago
How do you know that those people aren't paying? OTOH, I don't know how you could effectively enforce that single occupant vehicles are paying.
550.
by thayne 10mo ago
Sure, but the US has a history of not acting. If it was a normal acquisition, it would automatically trigger anti-trust investigations. Under the current administration, I think it is unlikely the acquisition would be blocked (although it p
551.
by thayne 10mo ago
What is that difference? The definitions from the FSF and OSI are very similar, and the lists of approved licenses are mostly the same.
552.
by thayne 10mo ago
One of the criteria for being open source is no discrimination against fields of endeavor. This license clearly discriminates against any field of endeavor other than (non-commercial) research. https://opensource.org/osd
553.
by thayne 10mo ago
That might, maybe, make it more effective as a deterrent, and possibly as retribution, but it would be less effective for restitution (since it would take much longer for those defrauded to get paid back).
554.
by thayne 10mo ago
And indeed MS/GitHub does impose some "damping" in the form of things like API request throttling, CPU limits on CI, asking Homebrew not to use shallow cloning, etc. And those limits are one of the reasons given why using git
555.
by thayne 10mo ago
Wow. That is disappointing, but not terribly surprising given the current government.
556.
by thayne 10mo ago
I would guess they are referring to https://simplex.chat/vouchers/ Not exactly making their own "coin", but definitely involved with cryptocurrency, and if I understand correctly, the vouchers themselves invo
557.
by thayne 10mo ago
Mike Pall made a commit to LuaJIT just a couple of weeks ago.
558.
by thayne 10mo ago
True. But 1. The luajit documentation basically just had a list of features. AFAIK there isn't any documentation that combines the 5.1 reference with luajit extensions (including things that were backported) 2. In some cases, for examp
559.
by thayne 10mo ago
Even without a specific definition for "open source", I wouldn't consider source code with a restrictive license that doesn't allow you to do much with it to be "open".
560.
by thayne 10mo ago
No amount of good names will tell you why something was done a certain way, or just as importantly why it wasn't done a certain way. A name and signature is often not sufficient to describe what a function does, including any assum
561.
by thayne 10mo ago
Hardware support isn't all that bad anymore. Certainly better than it was when I started using Linux. It isn't perfect. You'll probably have a better experience with AMD than Nvidia GPUs, most fingerprint readers probably won
562.
by thayne 10mo ago
The "resulting damages" is pretty small though, they just had to move off of cloudflare. I'm not sure it would be worth it, especially if the other side doesn't end up paying their legal costs.
563.
by thayne 10mo ago
But he LLM was probably trained on all the sponsered posts and scams. It isn't clear to me that an LLM response is any more reliable than sifting through google results.
564.
by thayne 10mo ago
> Thousands of poeple have switched over to chatgpt, brave/firefox .. If you want people to visit your website, limiting yourself to the "thousands" of people who don't use google isn't really an option. > You
565.
by thayne 10mo ago
If google provided a useable reasonably priced API, then SerpApi wouldn't exist.
566.
by thayne 10mo ago
> if your local life is being inconsiderate and having parties till 3 because you're on holidays I would expect that to be the minority of visitors. I certainly don't do that when I stay in Airbnbs. > The biggest problem her
567.
by thayne 10mo ago
> outside of markets where there's a lot of compliance requirements That includes anyone who wants to sell to the US government (and probably other governments as well). FedRAMP easentially[1] requires using "hardened" im
568.
by thayne 10mo ago
That's like saying that if c is so inflexible it requires the use of inline assembly to solve problems, it's C's fault if inline assembly causes undefined behavior.
569.
by thayne 10mo ago
What happens if Mozilla goes down and Zen has to start maintaining the core of the browser themselves?
570.
by thayne 10mo ago
Mozilla dropped it. It's still getting developed, but it is now focused more on embedded webview use cases. That's not to say someone couldn't build a full browser from it, but that isn't a goal of the current servo devs

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