ferdek

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by ferdek 3y ago
For instance, in Poland (which is in Europe) you have all rights to create copies of software, music, movies, for your personal use after paying for the original copy. You cannot do this under copyright which strictly forbids you from cre
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by ferdek 3y ago
Not only that, the article being from American media, even with the footnote, the commenters, miss the whole point about copyright being exclusively American concept and we don’t have this in EU. We have IP and authorship rights that work d
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by ferdek 3y ago
Which, if I read that right, indicates that for Netherlands, winter months in 2022-2023 had more sunlight than in 2021-2022? EDIT: Another data point would be total solar energy production in winter divided by installed power, per month, in
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by ferdek 3y ago
They also failed to grasp that outside temperature might not be the only factor affecting power consumed for heating, assuming we want to keep constant inside temperature. The most obvious is sunlight - when it's 0C outside, my home re
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by ferdek 4y ago
Weatharrr!
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by ferdek 4y ago
Official SEC document regarding regulation SHO describes both illegal and legal cases when you can "just" fail to deliver [0]. Market makers which also happen to have hedge-fund branches are having the most flexibility in this. [0
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by ferdek 4y ago
You can Fail-to-deliver and never locate the stock that you are supposed to borrow. Or you can short ETF with this specific company in basket while going long on anything else in this ETF. Everything you own, even your own debt, can be used
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by ferdek 4y ago
Maybe I misremembered something and cannot find a source now, but I think there was some way to avoid paying tax on short sales when company goes bankrupt and gets delisted. EDIT: See sibling comment. EDIT 2: Am I reading this right? almost
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by ferdek 4y ago
Officially , Rackspace is ~30% sold short. Someone is already making tax-free billions shorting it to death.
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by ferdek 4y ago
I have 2 gift cards and one additional "LunchPass" card issued this year in Poland, all three are magstrip only. The magstrip readers are not removed from the terminals, even the newest smartphone-like have them, you just don&#x27
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by ferdek 4y ago
> can move from genre to genre constantly reinventing themselves Sounds a little bit like Nokia, more than Apple. Paper mill, cable products, rubber boots, tires, TV, mobile phones... ;)
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by ferdek 4y ago
Too bad Phabricator is no longer with us. Are there any actively maintained forks?
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by ferdek 5y ago
In other words: please always be wary of differences in C and C++, for instance type punning [0]. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/25672839
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by ferdek 5y ago
She found a hardware solution to a software problem.
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by ferdek 6y ago
Something like ONE_FIX_UQ8? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28number_format%29
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by ferdek 6y ago
<insert astronauts meme>
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by ferdek 6y ago
Hey Mozilla, interrogative: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? You want to tell us you're in bed with Google now?
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by ferdek 6y ago
In addition this article is also strongly opinionated, charged with emotions, feels like stitched together without second reading IMHO. Like: > It would allow operators to procure [...] with different players to piece together a 5G netwo
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by ferdek 6y ago
Recently Nokia strongly communicates its commitment to Open-RAN. They want to be like Tesla or Toyota (in case of hybrid-drives): so good that competition is unable to keep up even after opening their patents. Once telcos grasp the benfits
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by ferdek 6y ago
I have the same bad experience with Broadcom's technical support. I worked on a project based around StrataXGS Tomahawk and some other chip I can't remember right now. One of those chipsets would randomly lock itself and stop swit
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by ferdek 6y ago
Nokia was selected to build the first ever extraterrestrial cellular network. https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2020/10/19/noki...
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2020 NASA Tipping Point Selections(nasa.gov)
1 points by ferdek 6y ago|1 comments
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by ferdek 6y ago
Sorry for not being clear enough. It's not that torrents as protocol are illegal. So yes, it is totally legal to distribute any content you have rights to distribute, such as Linux distros, creative commons material, you name it. It wo
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by ferdek 6y ago
Then I wonder if level of security a given anti-circumvention technology implements matters in the EU. See, I strongly believe (and heard of such cases in the past) that where I live, if I "hacked" into a computer system which had
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by ferdek 6y ago
I believe the way you put it describes this part in the DMCA takedown notice the best way possible. Bringing up European laws on intellectual property and mixing it with US "copyright" is comical to me, especially after reading th
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by ferdek 6y ago
Well, following their logic behind DMCA compliant, I guess fiddling long enough with developer's console on Chrome or Firefox would allow you to download potentially copyrighted material from youtube the same way youtube-dl does. sed s
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by ferdek 6y ago
USA, they have all that weird stuff there...
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by ferdek 7y ago
Is this a hard rule? I didn't see all submissions on 1st of January to have (2019) tags, and this paper is not that old (Nov 2019).
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by ferdek 7y ago
I was willing to bet before opening the link that it's about SuperMicro. I would lost the bet ;)
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by ferdek 7y ago
I see no mention of various implementations of C/C++ standard libraries. It's like the second most important decision to make just after compiler vendor (or THE most important, whatever your priorities are)

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