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by themerone 2y ago
All of those inventions were invented at least a couple years before the Apollo program.
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by themerone 2y ago
You might want to look into the "commons clause". It is a non opensource addition to a license, but is relative simple. You will not find an OSI license with the protections you want because it is a violation of open source princ
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by themerone 2y ago
Artists having been imitating the works of others for thousands of years. Why is it so controversial to have an AI do the same?
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by themerone 2y ago
From a readers perspective, Medium has gone downhill and is now flooded with articles from authors who's culture values quantity over quality.
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by themerone 2y ago
GTK has become the Gnome toolkit , and the Gnome developers don't care about developers outside their umbrella.
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by themerone 2y ago
This works by text substitution, I imagine that you could get similar or better gains using zstd custom dictionaries.
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by themerone 2y ago
What do you expect from an alternative?
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by themerone 2y ago
It was hard enough to get lawyers to migrate from Word Perfect to Word.
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by themerone 2y ago
The behavior of cp is standardized across multiple operating systems. It should do the same thing regardless of where it is run.
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by themerone 2y ago
That and implementation detail of the cp command, not an APFS feature. If I had to guess why, it would be because there are many cases where cp could not create a clone, such as copying to a network file system.
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by themerone 2y ago
What we should do is make International Atomic Time (TAI) the standard for computers and convert to UTC as needed.
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by themerone 2y ago
X11 is the opposite of simple and hackable. What you are thinking of as "hackable" is actually the result of it having a ton of legacy features that enable users to do neat tricks. Wayland breaks a lot of these tools because it
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by themerone 2y ago
This is a really dumb question that will get you a lot of subjective answers. Nothing protects you from logic bugs, but design by contract can help reduce undefined behavior.
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by themerone 2y ago
It's way harder to cooling things in space than on earth. You can't use convection to dump heat into a vacuum. Radiative cooling is much slower and harder to scale.
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by themerone 2y ago
I work on bespoke ERP software, it's not an undertaking to be taken lightly, but you are missing a key point. Every process that doesn't your software doesn't accommodate becomes a manual process. There is an employee in a s
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by themerone 2y ago
In my experience, features that depend on 3rd party integrations, require a lot more support. For some of those services it might not be profitable with there cheapest plans. There certainly is price gauging from some vendors, but it's
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by themerone 2y ago
My big wish for SQL is for single row inserts to have a {key: value} syntax.
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by themerone 2y ago
Downstream rates are usually an order of magnitude faster than upstream. I've heard of some municipal fiber networks the offer symmetric service, but that is not the norm, at least in the US. You would have to check the terms of servic
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by themerone 2y ago
At 19 I lacked the life skills to succeed at topped ranked EECS program. I eventually transferred to tiny school where I developed the skills I needed in a low pressure environment. I'm currently 16 years into a good career. I wasn&#
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by themerone 2y ago
WinAmp 3 was bloated, slow, and unstable. It was bad enough that they threw out the code and released WinAmp 5 which was based on the code from WinAmp 2.
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by themerone 2y ago
It's open source, why wouldn't it be legal to emulate?
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by themerone 2y ago
I've seen this change in cats who lose their fear of strangers and become more sociable in old age.
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by themerone 2y ago
The SS7 protocol that transmits caller id info was developed when there was only one phone company in the United States. There was zero consideration to security. Nobody needed to consider what happens if a bad actor is added to the SS7 ne
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by themerone 2y ago
Thanks for filling me in a out that.
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by themerone 2y ago
EDIT - I was wrong
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by themerone 2y ago
This would turn every financially struggling or greedy school into a degree mill.
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by themerone 2y ago
I hear more complaints from teachers about funding, pay, and parents.
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by themerone 2y ago
So 28% of high schools ban phones or is this a 10th dentist thing?
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by themerone 2y ago
Just one, are we peasants?
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by themerone 2y ago
What's killing MySQL is no longer being the only choice for low cost and small scale applications. For a long time MySQL was the only well supported database on most cheap shared hosting plans. Now that shared hosting has been losing r

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