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by zvr 4y ago
Sorry, but the second part, "-pedia" comes from "παιδεία", (all-around) education, not "children".
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by zvr 4y ago
Oh, I know how to do most of these, by now. But they are still pain points.
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by zvr 4y ago
Having used many *roff variants (e.g., troff, nroff, ditroff, groff) over decades and also having rather extensive experience with LaTeX, I'd now definitely choose the latter for any serious typesetting task. Pain points include many c
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by zvr 4y ago
... or code in a programming language.
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by zvr 4y ago
Nice! Of course it's not only "similar to many web frameworks", but also similar to how Tcl/Tk GUIs have been built in the last 30 years.
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by zvr 4y ago
I think the article starts from the position "everyone should respect the software license" and obviously promoting the SFC views. You are correct that the problem is hard, because adding licensing info to training data and subseq
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by zvr 4y ago
If you really don't care, please make it known by choosing a license like MIT-0 (MIT No Attribution) or 0BSD (BSD Zero Clause License). You will at least save some people some effort they go to in order to collect and provide attributi
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by zvr 4y ago
> Is copilot really a violation of GPLv3 (our license)? How is co-pilot different from someone lifting sections of code? If it's reproducing vebratim your code, yes it's a violation. And this is no different from others copying
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by zvr 4y ago
You are correct. Copilot is a tool, much like the "copy" command. If you choose to use what it's suggesting, then the fault is completely yours.
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by zvr 4y ago
The tens of thousands of developers in a company I am familiar with have taken a basic training on intellectual property concepts and software licenses. A typical case mentioned in the training is that code from StackOverflow is (probably)
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by zvr 4y ago
Good job modifying the title for HN, by adding the missing "Python" reference. The article is still incomplete, of course, as it doesn't even mention that "packages" can be binaries, which introduces yet another dim
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by zvr 4y ago
TFA is "The Fine Article"; essentially this HN submission. DAG is "Directed Acyclic Graph"; a graph with directed edges and no cycles.
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by zvr 4y ago
Thanks for this trip down memory lane. I definitely remember discovering Z-mail on an SGI machine and being fascinated with the programming/extensibility of it. Around the same time I also discovered mh and exmh (the Tcl/Tk interf
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Upwork co-founder launches Ergeon, a startup that builds fences(techcrunch.com)
8 points by zvr 4y ago|2 comments
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by zvr 4y ago
> And Greece is certainly called Ελλάδα inside, not the "Greek Democracy". I assume you translated the "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία" of the parent comment somehow, but it is not correct. The actual translation is "Hellen
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by zvr 4y ago
1983, but not in a git repo ;-) Also stuff to distinguish between different Unix flavors and hardware ("if it's this host which is a sun3 with FPU, add -m68881 to CFLAGS") -- not removed but commented out.
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by zvr 4y ago
Take a look at https://www.librarything.com/
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by zvr 4y ago
Given that ImageMagick can describe a sequence of operations (much like commands piped together), the order is obviously significant. The exact same holds for ffmpeg command-line.
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by zvr 4y ago
What an amazingly mistaken and insensitive comment!
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by zvr 4y ago
Many interesting comments in this thread -- thanks, everyone! But a related question: how to handle long-term usage? I mean, I had some scripts which were essentially using "openssl enc -bf -salt" and this has worked fine for more
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by zvr 4y ago
I'm not sure he will agree with the "retired" part ;-)
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by zvr 4y ago
> Handbook of Metaheuristics There is a third edition, 9 years later: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91086-4
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by zvr 4y ago
Referencing the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30739976 (27 points, 6 commments, 31 days ago)
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by zvr 4y ago
The upvar (and uplevel) mechanism is essential for the extensibility of the language and tremendously useful for creating new control constructs. Think of it as similar to "passing value by reference", for example when you pass th
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by zvr 5y ago
This is not exactly what the page says. It says nothing about them be free to give the same ISBN to someone else. Typical case: a publisher gets hundreds of ISBNs in bulk. At some point they close their business. The agency can give the u
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by zvr 5y ago
Well, it is on SPDX License List ( https://spdx.org/licenses ) with short identifier "NASA-1.3" so it's definitely not new. The same table marks it as OSI Approved.
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by zvr 5y ago
The `w` command is more of a `what` instead of `who`.
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by zvr 5y ago
If you're using GNU tar, there are four short options to specify compression/decompression: -Z for compress, -z for gzip, -j for bzip2 and -J for xz. Using long options, you can specify --compress, --gzip, --bzip2, --xz for the sa
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by zvr 5y ago
Similar to the games presented in the article, Zugzwang is also commonly used when playing dots and boxes[1] (also known as "Dots", or "Boxes"). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes
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by zvr 5y ago
I have fond memories of Bernoulli drives; there was a time where they were the primary method of exchanging data. They were named after Bernoulli's principle, IIRC: because it made the air run faster and the soft magnetic material levi

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