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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Rust originated from Mozilla...
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
They can't, but they can attempt copyfraud as they seem to already be doing, see the aforementioned wiki article and public domain NASA/LoC images.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree. But why would that exception be "of course" anyway?
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Let's take an example: a lot of states in Australia have recently embarked on a war against speeding. Speed is a really important factor in safety: it's imperative that drivers drive on roads at an appropriate speed. If the purpos
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
> ... Australia ... has very strict road safety laws and practices, which are generally supported by the community I think this is it. Australians are okay with just about any kind of big-brother surveillance or nanny-stateism as long as
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Is there some best practice on creating a format for secret keys? If I create an API with secret keys, should I make them something like z77dj3kl-secret-pk-[secret-stuff]? Is there an argument (security by obscurity?) that that makes it eas
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
One of the best things about macOS is how well integrated the touchpad is with the desktop environment. As in, I can do the four-finger swipe to move between workspaces, and if I drag it slowly and halfway, then yank back, the animation wil
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
The more time I spend with Python, the more it seems to me that a language defined abstractly and having multiple implementations (none "official") seems to be the healthiest compared to one with a reference compiler/interpre
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
This would probably come across better if you didn't phrase it in terms of genders (assuming you believe it's not a gendered phenomenon). I'm sure a majority of people choose a partner largely based on their status and achiev
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
So you decided to do the nomad thing, arrived in Mexico, got sick, and gave up in 4 days? I don't think that says absolutely anything about traveling the world, except maybe that sometimes you get sick when traveling?
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
I find it very curious that at high school level, it seems females outperform males in grades, and there is higher female participation/caring about the content (participation is rarely voluntary in high school); but as soon as you go
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
To me, it just seems like the author wants to hoard their data, not make it useful. Making it useful (the first part of which is making it queriable) involves making some kind of interface to access it, and some code to parse it. In my own
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
> "NoScript Security Suite", which more accurately conveys its purpose. No, that just makes the name more confusing!
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
> Signal is not an open protocol It is an open protocol, it is not a federated protocol.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
> Can you explain it one more time? There is no one, universal sign language. For example, there is Australian Sign Language (Auslan), American Sign Language (ASL), etc. They're all different languages. I mean all spoken languages a
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Although there is a lot of data here, it seems all of it is roughly repetitive, relational data. Why not store it in a central database? I have a (much smaller project) that stores all data in a postgres datastore.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Surprised there's no mention of pg_trgm for trigram-based fuzzy match. I guess for English names, Soundex is fairly good. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtrgm.html
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Because that's unfortunately how the world works: you have to sell to people the importance of what you do.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Full regex of disallowed terms https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/tools/run_tests/san...
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Disrespectful “dummy” not allowed in gRPC codebase(github.com)
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Google has in the order of 2^16 software engineers, and it's hungry for more. It makes complete sense to invest and promote projects and programming languages that are heavily used within Google, just to make hiring easier and not havi
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
This is one of those frustrating things where (assuming the queue is stable), you'd assume to wait much longer for the last 10% than the first 10% as people reneg. I wonder what the queueing time distribution is like, parametrised by p
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
The price of energy used to mine Bitcoin is very low. It does nothing to provide a real base price for excess energy in countries and areas that have robust environmental protections. There are some niche cases that the Bitcoin crowd love t
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
You can't regulate Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin is not controllable in the same way as say, rare earth metal mining, where you can exert pressure on whoever is mining them (or whichever nation is exporting them). There's very little an
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Do you honestly think that the value of Bitcoin would not tank if the value of the US Dollar tanked?
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Right, but the transaction volume is just awfully bad with Bitcoin, so much so that it's a big limitation of the whole system. It's been clear for a long time that Bitcoin is not suited for small transactions.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
I'm not sure what exactly that would entail, but Google has quite big offices in Sydney and elsewhere. Google Maps came out of Sydney, and I believe a lot of its development still happens there.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
It guarantees a future for open-source Elasticsearch. If there are contributors that want to use ES under an open-source license, now there is a steward for that code that will guarantee the code's long term support and open-sourceness
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Yes, but open-source software adoption and growth is about more than just those who build it, it's about those who use it. Elastic wouldn't exist without the users either.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
There is an important thing that gets ignored a lot in these conversations where an organization that stewards an open-source project close-sources it. That software grew largely because it was open-source, and it really makes a difference.

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