orclev

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by orclev 3y ago
Can do both. Destroy the company, but also go after those responsible. Anyone who knew about the situation but didn't make their supervisor(s) aware is personally liable for damages. Anyone on the board or C-Suite that was aware and ei
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by orclev 3y ago
Corporate capital punishment, the company gets seized it's patents and copyrights made public domain, and any other assets it has sold to the highest bidder and those profits used to compensate the victims.
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by orclev 3y ago
Why not? Nothing in the GPL says you need to certify your code for commercial usage in the EU. Edit: In fact, reading the GPL it looks like it might implicitly already preclude usage in the EU under this law. There's this section right
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by orclev 3y ago
Does OW2 even run on the SteamDeck? Checking ProtonDB says it's unknown compatibility, but generally competitive PvP games struggle due to their highly intrusive DRM/anti-cheat that wants root kit level access.
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by orclev 3y ago
Don't need to actually block EU downloads, just state that no open source software is certified for commercial usage in the EU. Any company that ignores that is now in violation of this law and that's their problem. The EU will ne
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by orclev 4y ago
The best one I've seen is jOOQ, although there are some caveats. There are a number of advantages and a few disadvantages to using a query builder. On the positive side you have: 1) Implementation agnostic queries. For better or worse
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by orclev 6y ago
That's interesting, it didn't used to be linear, particularly on the very large instances. Oddly when looking at the prices for RHEL those are much closer to what all the prices used to look like (I hadn't actually looked at
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by orclev 6y ago
It's because Erlang abstracts the difference between distributed and centralized services. In Erlang everything is message passing, and Erlang doesn't much care if the components passing messages are running on the same server or
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by orclev 6y ago
Perhaps I should have said he was a manager on the Excel team.
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by orclev 6y ago
Pretty sure Amazons entire backend is C++. Hard to get much bigger than that.
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by orclev 6y ago
Eh, not sure that follows. Here's the thing, costs aren't linear. If you do what AWS does and create some artificial "compute units" as a sort of fungible measure of processing power, what you'll find is that the sw
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by orclev 6y ago
It's important to remember Joel Spolsky, one of the founders of stackoverflow is an old school Microsoft guy that managed the Excel team before starting his own company. He has always been a bit of a Microsoft fanboy, and used to advoc
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by orclev 6y ago
Considering the shift to AMD from Intel that has happened over the last couple years it will be interesting to see if we'll see AMD as more of a priority target in the future. AMD has certainly been leading in sales in most demographic
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by orclev 6y ago
There's an important difference between using something because it's popular, and using something because it's a standard designed for your problem. For something simple like just sending some numbers across the wire XML is m
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by orclev 6y ago
L4 uses a similar model, and the last ~20 years of research around L4 has mostly focused on improving IPC performance and security. The core abstraction is a mechanism to control message passing between apps via routing through light weight
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by orclev 6y ago
A large complicated well maintained and widely used library is infinitely preferable to a large complicated library you need to maintain yourself and used only by you. In a similar vein, a well known standard format (or encoding) will alway
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by orclev 6y ago
The problem is that security questions are fundamentally flawed. Most of them are easily guessable with a little bit of research, and because they can often be used to bypass your password they're effectively a backdoor into your accou
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by orclev 6y ago
The term dark matter itself is kind of misleading in the first place. The math in general relativity just doesn't add up when applied to certain observations. They've essentially gotten 2 + 2 = 5. In order to fix that they just as
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by orclev 6y ago
So, first thing, I'm not a astrophysicist nor even a physicist of any type, so I might be misunderstanding things here, but this is how I interpret all this. Hopefully if I've gotten something significantly wrong someone will corr
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by orclev 6y ago
Not sure honestly. That might have something to do with the vHDM theory mentioned in the paper. I didn't really follow a lot of it, but I think (major grain of salt here) it's saying that that theory predicts some very light neu
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by orclev 6y ago
Another ELI5 by someone not at all qualified to understand this stuff (I.E. a layman). We know from measurements of the leftover energy (CMB) approximately how long ago the big bang happened, and how fast it appears to be expanding. Our mos
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by orclev 6y ago
That's because there isn't one. Fish of any kind is generally considered to be seafood.
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by orclev 6y ago
More generally labeled as Krab.
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by orclev 6y ago
Because game developers mostly don't pick the backend, game engine developers do. The vast majority of game developers pick a game engine and that drives most of their other technical decisions. There are really only a dozen game engin
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by orclev 6y ago
I certainly hope it doesn't come to that. Servo was really starting to show serious improvements in both memory usage and speed relative to Gecko and Webkit. It would be a shame to see Firefox devolve into just another rebranded Webkit
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by orclev 6y ago
You're solution is the ideal one and safest, although in the interest of maximum flexibility since the goal here seems more documentative than prescriptive, it could also be as simple as creating a type alias. In C for example a simple
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by orclev 6y ago
It's a question of what is meant by the term censorship. In the strictest sense, moderation and censorship are very often the same thing. If for instance, I post something terrible in a comment on here, and the administration of HN del
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by orclev 6y ago
That chart is s great example of exactly what I'm talking about. Look at that 95th percentile line. It's LEFT of the center. 95% of the population is making less than HALF of the top earners.
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by orclev 6y ago
Median is just the arbitrary mid point between the two extremes, that doesn't actually mean anything useful to the average person. If you picked someone at random from the subset of the US population that reports an income (presumably
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by orclev 6y ago
My point was that the mode income, that is the income reported by the largest number of people was incredibly low. You claim that's because there are a bunch of people that don't really need/want to work, so they don't m

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