arfar

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by arfar 10mo ago
Not to nit-pic, but it's a Trademark cancellation - not a patent. The confusion probably came from the fact it's before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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by arfar 6y ago
Very serious "whataboitism" here. People can care about more than one thing. Different people in societies can care and want to work on different things.
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by arfar 6y ago
I know it's not actually relevant. But what a horrible website to read. The grey text is soooo lacking contrast on the white.
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by arfar 6y ago
State your conclusion. Not doing so forces us to guess what you mean and is just poor communication. You're forcing me (and everyone that reads this comment) to guess what you mean. Based on what _I think_ you're trying to say, I
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by arfar 8y ago
I think even if it wasn't trademarked, they'd likely look into Passing Off (or whatever equivalent laws are present in the country they would decide to proceed with legal action is available), given the exact same name and style o
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by arfar 8y ago
Copyright only protects against actual copying. It's quite a limited right in comparison to patents. A patent can prevent others from implementing/selling/making/importing/exploiting the same invention independently
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by arfar 8y ago
I think is more about the political statement of leaving GitHub rather than the practicalities of code management.
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by arfar 8y ago
I work in the tech transfer office for a medium sized university (a non practicing entity! shock horror ) and patents are a very key tool for us. Many players we license technology to are only interested in licensing a technology if it&#
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by arfar 8y ago
Oddly enough that's what they're aiming to claim a monopoly over. Here's[1] a patent they have filed towards the system. Claims 1-18 and 20 are focused on the training of the neural network. Looks like Claims 1-18 are going t
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by arfar 8y ago
In English we do have the word "liberty" for freedom.
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by arfar 9y ago
Oh gosh those are the worst. And they never look good on your phone, so you have to get your laptop out (or tablet if you have one). If it's not a pointless blog/article header, then the ingredients and method are split up across
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by arfar 9y ago
QubesOS has a really nice solution for opening untrusted PDFs: https://micahflee.com/2016/07/how-qubes-makes-handling-pdfs-...
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by arfar 9y ago
Pelican is great for blogs. I don't know that I'd suggest it for a "Knowledgebase".
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by arfar 9y ago
Looks pretty handy! How do you interface with the KeePass database? Is there a library? with Perl bindings?
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by arfar 9y ago
Log/lin depends on your target market a lot I think. I don't know, but I imagine, audio engineers and the like would be expecting a logarithmic scale for their volume knobs. I make guitar pedals sometimes, I've never seen a v
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by arfar 9y ago
But #fefefe isn't black or white? I presume the commenter specifically didn't say greyscale. EDIT- checked the source: It looks like imagemagick's 'threshold' [0] command is being used, so everything is max/min
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by arfar 9y ago
>That's just like, your opinion, man There are other examples of shows that do fine without strong plots. One example from the top of my head is "The Chinese Restaurant" episode in Seinfeld. Little to no plot at all in tha
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by arfar 9y ago
Any method of deleting bins?
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by arfar 9y ago
It could be a typo. "no dice" is an idiom in English for an "unfavorable result". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_dice
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by arfar 9y ago
With respect to Catholicism, I was getting at the fig leafs that were applied to classic (Roman and Greek) sculptures and paintings that depicted nudity and the general sentiment behind that movement. Personally, I've never seen such e
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by arfar 9y ago
I'm amazed how raunchy and explicit it all is. I guess you can blame Christianity (maybe Catholicism in particular?) and Victorian propriety for pulling it back the other direction.
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by arfar 9y ago
I know, I was just replying to the parent's comment and highlighting that suing (AFAIK) is the only way to enforce patent rights. Apart from maybe threatening to sue, but same-difference there really.
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by arfar 9y ago
Which part are you commenting on? Is it the use of the word "legitimate"? Because suing someone for patent infringement is a "legitimate" course of action, i.e. it's a lawful thing to do. In fact (AFAIK IANAL etc et
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by arfar 10y ago
The article would be greatly improved with some images of the sine waves and the varying levels of harmonics.
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by arfar 10y ago
>You could not pay me to listen to Burzum. It's funny how tastes in music work. No 2 people are ever the same. Personally Burzum is my favourite from that scene. It's beyond stripped back. There's something that resonates
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by arfar 10y ago
Random bit of trivia about Brian Eno is that he wrote the start-up music to Windows 95. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno#The_Microsoft_Sound
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by arfar 10y ago
A combination of any of these 1500 https://patents.google.com/?assignee=E-Ink+Corporation&sort=new This is the first one that comes up mentioning "color": https://patents.google.com&#x2F
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by arfar 10y ago
You're completely right, it's odd. Also I didn't realise that the return type was also on the same line as the function name, in which case, even more odd. I think the idea dates back to early C. I've definitely seen C c
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by arfar 10y ago
It's handy if you're looking for the methods definition using a regex. Instead of doing something like (in pseudo-regex): $[public|private|whatever-else-can-behere](FUNCTION_YOURE_LOOKING_FOR) you can do a slightly simple
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by arfar 11y ago
My favourite when writing C is: #define ever (;;) ... for ever { ... }

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