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by waltpad 6y ago
I think I misunderstood the original idea: I thought that the person still having the source would have released it with some possible modifications, but I didn't realize these mods would only be to hide the code origins, and keep it o
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by waltpad 6y ago
you probably know about GeoWorks Ensemble? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoWorks also: http://toastytech.com/guis/bbe.html Wouldn't MS also have to prove that the code is not a derivative of
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by waltpad 6y ago
Perhaps a few precisions: I don't claim to be capable of producing the software that is discussed, I'm merely stating my opinion on the topic. Most likely my view on this is skewed and not deep enough to be qualified as insightful
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by waltpad 6y ago
My understanding is that people want integration: being able to use their favorite platforms so that it's easy to share and connect data between them, and what the user already has on their device(s). As I understand it, nowadays OS sh
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by waltpad 6y ago
> Crowds, for example, behave similarly even if you shuffle around who is in the crowd. Indeed, but the issue is that the Wikipedia editors are not a crowd, it's a crowd of crowds. What's the behaviour of that? And can we compa
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by waltpad 6y ago
> Something doesn't need to be a 'well defined entity' to speak about it meaningfully. True, what I meant is that the writer accuses Wikipedia of some sort of agenda, but it's not just one group of people, but many fa
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by waltpad 6y ago
Actually, I did that, numerous times, although it was mostly to do spelling correction or in one case linking to external pages trying to leverage Wikipedia's SEO(?) value (ie. the external pages were discussing the topic in the wiki p
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by waltpad 6y ago
Why should I have to disprove your claim?
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by waltpad 6y ago
I find it strange that the writer presents Wikipedia as a well defined entity: it is possible for anyone (including the writer) to amend a Wikipedia article. This may even be done anonymously . The writer goes on to describe various issues
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by waltpad 6y ago
What do you mean by "empirical"? Are you saying that eastern medicine is not based on empirical evidence, ie. observation and experimentation, but on some other approach?
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by waltpad 6y ago
How was it energy-wise?
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by waltpad 6y ago
You didn't motivate your claim. Could you elaborate?
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by waltpad 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "highlight", but I remember reading somewhere that Japanese people are usually very nostalgic of their school years, though I don't remember if there was an explanation given for it. My per
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by waltpad 6y ago
Oh, I see. Wouldn't that make sense that each surface would be associated with its closest light source? It's still a rough approximation, but I guess it's better than one global light source?
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by waltpad 6y ago
It seems to me that this game doesn't actually take in account all the seemingly existing light sources when computing the shadows: see for instance at around 7:45, there is an obvious light source in the bottom right region (actuall
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by waltpad 6y ago
...and old web navigators. Protocols evolve, security requires old encryption schemes to go away, thus the OS you use has to keep up as well, and if you try to use a reasonably old live bootable DVD, you might have some surprise.
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by waltpad 6y ago
They should train an AI to do that.
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by waltpad 6y ago
This message said: > prefer being fired/layed off through a text message [...] where I suggest that a text message could be forged. From that point, either you don't pay attention to that possibility, and take the risk of bein
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by waltpad 6y ago
Until you discover that this message was forged, and when you show up one week later, then they really fire you for not showing up at work for a week.
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by waltpad 6y ago
I don't understand your first argument. My feeling is that you got side-tracked by the use of the word "engineer" because it shouldn't be used in its literal meaning, but was it the intent of GP? There are scientific pap
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by waltpad 6y ago
I suppose that you mean that it should be "checking types dynamically", rather than "checking dynamic types"?
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by waltpad 6y ago
> I think it also is due to the fact that PHP is a fairly easy language for a non-coder to pick up little-by-little. One can easily start using it for doing simple things, like injecting dynamic data into a web page. From there one can l
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by waltpad 6y ago
My guess is that: 1) the quicksort algorithm which was used was a recursive version, and relied on local variables to do its job. 2) in the discussed BASIC implementation, local variables are translated to global variables (probably with so
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by waltpad 6y ago
My guess would be that they don't want to have that email accidentally used, but they would have a check in the codepath anyway, because no-one wants to see its logs spammed with myriads DNS errors when this can be avoided. And in fact
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by waltpad 6y ago
Which means that removing them (when removing snapd) doesn't matter much.
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by waltpad 6y ago
Well, tbh, that sounds a bit far fetched. I meant that we should cut them some slack (English is not my first language). That being said, it's not as bright as I thought it was - see my other comment.
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by waltpad 6y ago
Now, this is embarassing, here the list of reverse dependencies on snapd: python3-ubuntu-image xubuntu-desktop xubuntu-core vanilla-gnome-desktop ubuntustudio-desktop-core ubuntustudio-desktop ubuntukylin-desktop ubuntu-un
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by waltpad 6y ago
You had to install snap on a production server? I don't know how must be installed on your version, but on 19.10, snap can be completely removed: the only draw back is that pulseaudio depends on it, but I guess that for a server it&#x2
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by waltpad 6y ago
> I strongly recommend anyone similarly frustrated to check out debian, which is a fantastic distro. It is true that the Debian people are doing a great job. > [...] if you're using Ubuntu and disabling snap, you're fighting
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by waltpad 6y ago
> Especially when you consider code generation. That's a very good point you are making here. However, as I said elsewhere, I don't see the use of being able to either write typedef int ... or int typedef ... and I don't t

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