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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I've been almost exclusively an Emacs user since the turn of the millennium or so, even before I was a full-time professional programmer. I briefly tried out TextMate years ago, and I've tried out VS Code, but I stick to Emacs for
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Their statement: https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/ Which drives home the point a lot of people are forgetting: it was never secure to begin with, unless you were going to the e
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
if Mozilla had sided with users for once Yes, you should definitely switch to Chrome instead, which has a sterling track record of respecting you as a human and not as a revenue source. Or maybe knock off the hyperbole and start asking wh
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
What thing, that was objectively and indisputably your property, has the Wall Street Journal robbed you of at gunpoint?
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Its a very hostile way to run a supposedly "Open Source" project. It's under a GPL-compatible license. Fork it and do what you like. This is a pretty FUD-y way to FUD your FUD.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
And they still work precisely because the user can do that. And you can install an anti-paywall extension in Firefox. The moment you concede the Linux "well you can work around it" argument is the moment you have to stop arguing
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
So he worked there, and commuted to work there, because of how he worked there. And you brought this up in a thread about something not even close to the same situation, yet presented it as relevant. And doubled down despite being con
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Hence I said "UTF-8 as currently defined". You could produce something that uses the same basic scheme as UTF-8 (using the leading byte to indicate the total number of bytes used for the code point), but it would not be UTF-8 as w
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
You're arguing that it was meet and right for Cetus to claim ownership No, I'm claiming that it should not have been surprising that the agreement for someone who worked there included such claims. How I personally feel about it
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Citation for the first assertion? You're making it sound like he just popped in one day and had a sandwich and a chat with the people working there. Your own citation, though, is to "the time he began working at Cetus". The
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
The authors/editors for different languages were the ones who chose the styling of the tags. Don't know why they put it that way, but they did. Our job was just to make it work.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
It's worth remembering that North Carolina has been in the news many times recently for electoral and governmental controversies, including its district map. One of many sources quoting David Lewis, one of the Republican politicians wh
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
If taken to its final conclusion And yet you don't take the "freedom" argument to its final conclusion, which is that you must grant Freedom -1. That's the freedom for anyone, anywhere, to run any software on your hard
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I think you may be confused about the meaning of "plane" in Unicode. A plane is a contiguous set of 65,536 (2 16) code points. The lowest-numbered plane was originally the only one; now it's simply Plane 0 (officially, the &
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
When I worked at Mozilla, on MDN, we had this mysterious bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776048 The tl;dr is that MDN is a multilingual site, and supports categorization in a few ways, including by tagging
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Your comment is incredibly misleading. This wasn't the "you came by our office for lunch" NDA. This was the "you worked here for a while, and we trained you and taught you our techniques, which you later used in an inven
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Chess prodigies tend to be... the nice word is "encouraged" by their parents/teachers. Which naturally raises the question of whether they can be manufactured. And, regardless of how you may feel about the ethics of testing t
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
In the US, the major team sports are not at all "very thin edge". In fact, lack of parity is a real issue facing several leagues. Between "tanking" (teams that are deliberately bad in order to get better draft picks), ma
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Quick reminder that it's "Elo", not "ELO". It's not an acronym or initialism. It's named after its inventor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad_Elo
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Caruana's been under time pressure over and over and over in this match, and blundered his way into zero losses as a result. Time pressure is practically where he lives, because of how much time he spends calculating. The idea that he&
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
We now have a little more data courtesy of chess.com's computer tournament. Starting from the final position of Game 12, the engines have played 18 games to completion against each other, with more to come. 10 draws, 6 wins for Black a
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
handling payments FWIW this is the main thing I like about the App Store rules. There are some sites and services I'll trust with payment information, but there are many, many more I won't. Being able to buy/subscribe to th
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Computer chess isn't instantaneous. While you can go get Stockfish and run it on your phone, the full power of the top engines only comes out when you throw hardware and time at them. They're running the engines with a 30 minute s
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. Yes, he was in a position that both engines and human grandmasters said was superior, with time pressure. But there's no clear line to force difficult moves for Caruana before the time con
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
chess.com is running a "tournament" of the top computer chess engines to play out the final position of Game 12 and see how it goes: https://www.chess.com/news/view/computer-chess-championship-...
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I believe Carlsen is on record as disliking the current format. The way it works right now, the reigning champion does nothing until a challenger has earned the right to face him by winning a candidates tournament. Then the winner of the ca
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
One thing that's "wrong" is all the systems which have claimed to be meritocracies but weren't.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Your argument is based on what you personally think the law should be, and that's not the same as what the law is. Microsoft did things that actually broke the law. Nobody's yet convinced a court that Apple has done things that br
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
I know you can offer subscriptions and purchases in the app. I just don't understand how anyone thinks Netflix, Amazon, etc are forced to, because they aren't.
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by ubernostrum 8y ago
Microsoft got hit for using their monopoly in one market (the market for operating systems) illegally to try to obtain better/monopoly status in another market (the market for web browsers. If you have an evidence-based argument to mak

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