fractalb

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by fractalb 2y ago
People then concentrate more on avoiding errors than getting things done.
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by fractalb 2y ago
> US can just print. How does that work? All the world’s economy is just equal to the US paper? Really?
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by fractalb 2y ago
I suspect you don't touch Go code.
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by fractalb 2y ago
> I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider. This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 percent reliable without any numbers to back it up. Grass
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by fractalb 2y ago
I misunderstood your comment. Yes, CLA's make it possible to change the license. I guess CLA's won't work for GPL'd software.
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by fractalb 2y ago
GPL mandates that all derived software must carry the same license. No need for CLA, as I understand it.
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by fractalb 2y ago
AWS, GCP have assurance that they won't need to pay for their Linux infrastructure. What is it if it wasn't for copyleft licenses(GPL)?
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by fractalb 2y ago
I feel copyleft licenses look more favourable at this point of time. What’s the value of more free/business friendly licenses if you can’t guarantee that the same license will apply for all the future releases? Looks more like a bait a
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by fractalb 3y ago
Apple should not be at fault! As simple as that.
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by fractalb 3y ago
Wow. That looks neat. Thanks for the link :)
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by fractalb 3y ago
I want to learn more about linkers and loaders. Can someone tell me if this is still relevant today? Any other books that are more recent?
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by fractalb 3y ago
> ChatGPT makes mistakes and is usually dumbish, but is also flexible and cheap. People wouldn't mind it if the keyword `dumbish` has been all along there.
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by fractalb 3y ago
Physical materials(Filters here) can change the wavelength but not the frequency. So it's still the same UV/light band. You can't change that.
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by fractalb 3y ago
Thanks for the link. As I understood it, it's just the support for the syntax that is mandatory. > Variable length arrays with automatic storage duration are a conditional feature that implementations need not support
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by fractalb 3y ago
VLA support is mandatory in C23? I'd like to know the rationale behind this decision. Can you provide any references? Thanks.
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by fractalb 3y ago
> I see same thing in India where *analysts and experts on twitter opine how Netflix has totally failed in India due to lack of local content and poor execution. That’s really true whether you believe it or not. However, it appears that
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by fractalb 3y ago
Why in this particular time frame? Just before the performance reviews?
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by fractalb 3y ago
I still scratch my head why it’s not installed by default on Windows.
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by fractalb 3y ago
IIRC, Google tried to use Go for their Fuchsia TCP stack and then backtracked. Not a systems programming language for sure.
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by fractalb 3y ago
Thanks. This helps even more. I need not go through all the packages. I'll get a fedora account now :)
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by fractalb 3y ago
Thanks. The link seems to list relevant links and repos. I'll see how I can help now.
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by fractalb 3y ago
Is there some place where I can see all the packages that need to be fixed and raise a pull request for any package? Maybe, I can help with some fixes during the holiday season.
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by fractalb 3y ago
> it would really be more complicated in C if a and b were actually strings or lists You don't event need strings or lists for that. Just imagine bigger numbers for a and b. Arbitrarily long integer addition is not a native language
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by fractalb 3y ago
There is no hope to redeem the Web of these banners :(
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by fractalb 3y ago
I think he's tracking his ideas about this project in github tickets. IMO, that's a good first step. Whether he'll do something about those tickets or not is a question that comes later. Let's see what he'll do.
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by fractalb 3y ago
Thanks. I didn't know it. Microsoft is still a monopoly on desktop OS, even after this anti-trust investigation. To me, that's weird. Anti-trust didn't work?
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by fractalb 3y ago
I don't know how the US anti-trust works, but I'm wondering why hasn't Microsoft ever been investigated about being a monopoly in desktop operating systems?
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by fractalb 3y ago
Great, you get goat meat when you order mutton in the Bay Area? Here where I live, people sell mutton (sheep/lamb) even when asked for goat meat. I don't know why but people here always prefer goat meat to mutton.
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by fractalb 3y ago
You're only counting the negatives. Even with all those negatives, Google has a net positive effect on the web/Internet, IMO.
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by fractalb 3y ago
> Absolutely. There's a lot of great open source software. >...but that's not 'open source winning', that's just 'people like free stuff they don't have to pay for or make any effort to get'. Th

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