amadvance

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by amadvance 1y ago
Still, it's strange to me that the GPL is considered OpenSource while the SSPL is not. When the GPL was first released, its requirement that all linked modules be GPL-licensed wasn't so different from what the SSPL enforces today
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by amadvance 2y ago
The linked article says something different: 'We first estimate the supply-side value by calculating the cost to recreate the most widely used OSS once. We then calculate the demand-side value based on a replacement value for each firm
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by amadvance 2y ago
True, but I suppose this is at least partially compensated by the cost of such a 0-day. For sure, a 0-day on Chrome is a lot more expensive than one on Firefox
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by amadvance 3y ago
Well, unions tend to average the outcome. But IT positions, being on the top side of the employee distribution, can typically obtain more. I can give you a real-world example. Our company (Italy) office was relocated, and unions entered neg
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by amadvance 3y ago
> Why someone work with full time writing articles should give the work for free OpenSource developers did that ;)
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by amadvance 3y ago
If you need something text based, cgdb is nice: http://cgdb.github.io/
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by amadvance 3y ago
You're mixing up two different things. It's true that YouTube now places ads to small channels that have not reached the monetization requirements. But after the channel satisfy such requirements, like 1000 subscribers, the creato
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by amadvance 3y ago
From what is written, they plan to reduce the control of where ads are placed, but still allow enabling or disabling them. Anyway, at present it's possible to disable them if you have reached the monetization requirements on the channe
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by amadvance 3y ago
I'm also a heavy user of ad blockers, but there is something to be said in defense of YouTube. Creators have the final decision on the ads shown. I have a YouTube channel, and I always disable monetization on all my videos, so no ads a
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by amadvance 3y ago
> I will tell my computer to blank the screen and mute the audio when an ad is playing. Indeed, but you'll still have to wait for the ad to play. YouTube can definitively win this race if they decide so.
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by amadvance 3y ago
The Clang static analyzer is integrated into the build pipeline. Any warnings will cause the build to fail. Additionally, build with the flags -Wall and -Werror. When testing, run with runtime checkers such as Valgrind and sanitizers. Perio
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by amadvance 3y ago
You made me remember the scene from A Clockwork Orange where the main character is forced to watch television screens.
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by amadvance 3y ago
Is fixed-point the right term ? As far as I know fixed point numbers have a fixed fractional part in bits, but this is different from using integers with a multiplicative factor, like 100, to represent correctly a fractional part as 1/
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by amadvance 3y ago
The Internet Archive has all the ROMs you may ever need.
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by amadvance 3y ago
That would make AES-XGCM an immediate replacement of AES-GCM that already supports an arbitrary long nonce.
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by amadvance 3y ago
When you die, that notebook will be thrown away. archive.org will still be there.
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by amadvance 3y ago
Cool. If I can propose a little improvement, it would be nice to allow an arbitrary long nonce. Like, feeding the first 96 bits of the nonce into GCM, and the rest in CBC-MAC.
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by amadvance 3y ago
Looking at the implementation, the longer nonce is hashed to 128 bits, with the last 32 used as a starting counter. So, if you don't use the whole 32 bits space of the counter, you are effectively using more than 96 bits nonce. Sure, n
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by amadvance 3y ago
> Why would anybody pick the commercial one? The OpenSource license is typically GPLv3 that imposes that your whole application has to be GPLv3. This is enough for corporations to avoid it.
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by amadvance 3y ago
2 hours and half of sweating in MTB. No ads. No talking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSsn1x_mmY
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by amadvance 3y ago
Take care that select() is not good for a webserver. From manpage: WARNING: select() can monitor only file descriptors numbers that are less than FD_SETSIZE (1024)—an unreasonably low limit for many modern application
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by amadvance 3y ago
I say the same thing to software architects who no longer write code. After some time, you start to lose your skills.
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by amadvance 3y ago
Kirk cheated in the Kobayashi Maru ;)
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by amadvance 3y ago
Same here. Started with Slackware 3.0 in 1995, the first one distributed in CDROM. Still on Slackware.
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by amadvance 3y ago
Terence Tao doing a data entry job ? The Peter Principle strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by amadvance 3y ago
A good compromise to me looks like twenty years from the first publication.
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by amadvance 3y ago
It's obviously subjective, but it looks like as any other indented block. Named "lock" and "unlock" operations are more explicit to me. Another potential disadvantage, is that you lose the possibility to control the
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by amadvance 3y ago
In truth, I prefer using explicit lock and unlock operations like in C programming. The visibility of these operations aids in understanding the interdependencies within the code.
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by amadvance 3y ago
It's not extraterritorial. If an international company wants to sell goods or services in a country, it must abide by the country's laws.
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by amadvance 4y ago
In Italy, the retirement age was raised to 67 in 2011. However, in some cases, it is still possible to retire earlier, but the amount you receive will be proportionally adjusted based on your remaining life expectancy. This change in retire

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