csirac2

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by csirac2 2y ago
> It's not courtesy if it's non consensual, same way that wealth redistribution isn't charity I truly don't understand what you are talking about. When I was in primary school, and perhaps in no small part due to some
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by csirac2 2y ago
Can I just say what a genuinely fascinating perspective you have there That pronouns are somehow an exercise of power that must be submitted to, and not just a common courtesy because we're not all sensitive snowflakes And that this is
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by csirac2 2y ago
If you want to bring up CS101 so badly, surely turing machines and lambda calculus would be more relevant. The actually interesting claim is that somebody has found a practical use for Interaction Combinators as a computing model for puttin
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by csirac2 3y ago
I don't disagree that Python's place in the ecosystem ("generalist" - i.e. load-bearing distro fossilization in everything from old binary linux distros, container layers, SIEM/SOAR products, serverless runtimes...)
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by csirac2 7y ago
Technologists certainly tend to seek solutions, and find blame in technology or the application of it. Getting technology right is necessary, but not sufficient. In the end, the world is much bigger than the tech we build & consume.
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by csirac2 7y ago
... Does this statement come from having actually used things like Hadoop on Sun Grid Engine or any of Sun's other products? Or... what? What knowledge are you drawing on? Edit: I mean, this is the company that gave us the 8 Fallacies
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by csirac2 8y ago
I wish folks would use the taint mode they might already have. At some point taint checking bugs stopped being release blockers in core ruby & perl, but having worked through moving a couple of large codebases to surviving strict taint
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by csirac2 10y ago
Worryingly, the 2015 paper didn't seem to have anything about measuring the mass of the device before and after the experiment. An old radar technician asked me to take a look... apparently "boiling" waveguides are a thing wh
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by csirac2 10y ago
FWIW Firefox manages to use W^X in their JIT (the experimental patch back in 2011 had a very interesting idea: one process w writing out to memory mapped RW, another process with the same mapped executable): http://jandemooij.nl&
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by csirac2 10y ago
I think we "outsider" engineers forget (or miss the point on) why amateur radio enjoys the spectrum privileges it does: education, technical investigations, research... things that further the art and community. There's a lar
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by csirac2 11y ago
For me, I find it interesting to see which site sells my email address to unrelated marketers/spammers.
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by csirac2 11y ago
Agreed; also in .au, the last time I presented a cheque (in 2011) the poor newbie teenage bank teller strained to recall his training. He processed it ok, but panicked so badly he accidentally handed it back. The branch manager drove out to
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by csirac2 11y ago
I've just read https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl... - and whilst I still think the Conservancy is being reasonable, I can also see now how Canonical might have navigated itself towa
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by csirac2 11y ago
The conservancy's current level of input to the debate is appropriate. They're clearly not expending resources they don't have for this discussion. Also, they spent years with VMWare before it finally began legal action. Wh
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by csirac2 11y ago
I see your point more clearly now, I guess we still differ on priorities. Having such a key player within the open source community normalize GPL violation seems somewhat urgent to me - if the current level of interest from the conservancy
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by csirac2 11y ago
> It's "you can't provide binaries without also providing source code", not "you can't do binaries". Edit: It's "without also providing source code under the terms of the GPL " - this i
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by csirac2 11y ago
> "distribute the binary, not okay; distribute the source + tell user to 'make', okay" That's literally what the GPL says. Look, I'm not a GPL zealot. The only thing even vaguely worth releasing, I've r
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by csirac2 11y ago
> It's not their fault that people have a completely fucked up interpretation of "derivative work" that includes any combination of two completely separately developed works. Indeed, "derivative work" is a well-u
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by csirac2 11y ago
I read it as pointing out that it's not up to Canonical to defacto re-license other people's work. Only the copyright holder can do that.
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by csirac2 11y ago
NVidia doesn't ship GPL'd code, and GPL distros don't ship NVidia code. It's the user who downloads it and doesn't redistribute it. This is entirely unlike VMWare, who really did make and ship their own butchered li
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by csirac2 11y ago
I've read that - no mention of LGPL or why people are still bothering with it, if the GPL already does what the LGPL was designed to do.
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by csirac2 11y ago
My head is exploding. If this doesn't violate the GPL... what was the whole point of the LGPL again?
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by csirac2 11y ago
Having worked with a few asian/eastern engineers, I do believe that a number of things conspire against western maths education: our culture doesn't value mathematics competency (in some circles people are even afraid to admit to
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by csirac2 11y ago
The spirit of amateur radio rights in most jurisdictions is that of an open/public communications medium that any licensed person can join in on (it has twitter-like aspects in that sense). Education and technical investigations are al
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by csirac2 11y ago
EDIT: Ordinary differential equations, yes - we do here in .au, at least in Maths C (advanced maths) in Queensland. Partial differential equations, the kind that are very useful in the kinds of physics simulations discussed - not so much. A
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by csirac2 11y ago
I feel like I'm stating the obvious so perhaps I'm missing something, but FDE only protects anything when a computer is off or a volume is otherwise not mounted. Eg. your average shoulder surfing/xscreensaver unlock bypassing
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by csirac2 11y ago
But he talks about GPG directories. And then says he uses drive encryption... To protect his passwords? No, these sentences don't make sense.
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by csirac2 11y ago
Ouch; I also run ad blockerd, or I might've tried to find a more reasonable page to post (turns out there's a decent blog post with basically the same information).
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by csirac2 11y ago
Here's a recording of what it transmits (just a carrier, probably modulated by voltage fluctuations from the solar panels as it tumbles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxqwZ42NyLw
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American satellite started transmitting again after being abandoned in 1967(thevintagenews.com)
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