swhipple

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by swhipple 9y ago
This has been available for contributors in the United States for some years now, and I've used it to sign the assignment documents in the past. It might not be available in all countries though. > If you use GPG, you can sign your
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by swhipple 9y ago
The mkstemp you are seeing is probably the one from gnulib. A lot of GNU software uses their own versions if they detect the platform one is broken; it may be incorrectly replacing it in this case. https://www.gnu.org/softw
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by swhipple 9y ago
The EPL is roughly in the middle of MPL and LGPL in terms of copyleft scope. MPL requires per-'file' source sharing. EPL requires per-'module' source sharing. LGPL requires per-'module' source sharing and sep
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by swhipple 9y ago
The difference is that attempting to add code to a live system that mishandled an input (either from a non-upgraded node or an upgraded one) would result in a type-error and reject the upgrade. You could still use Erlang's crashing and
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by swhipple 9y ago
The main problem with pushing a typechecked live-upgrade in one shot is that you'll need to put a big lock around the distributed system (A non-upgraded node messaging an upgraded one would be fine, because the upgraded one knows the c
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by swhipple 10y ago
> As I said, name me a format that I can't parse correctly as a Python one-liner. mboxo? [1] It is a popular text format that cannot be unambiguously parsed. More generally, most Unix tools' output is also not able to be unambi
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by swhipple 10y ago
See here [1], under "Why make this change?". [1] https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2016/10/the-ecmascript-2016-c...
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by swhipple 10y ago
I don't quite understand the real world use-case Veriexec is designed to solve. 1) Prevent tampering by making part of the system immutable? The fingerprint isn't necessary; unconditionally prevent modification to the relevant fil
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by swhipple 10y ago
> In HTML, <tag/> and <tag></tag> are equivalent In HTML, <script></script> is valid. <script /> is invalid. <br /> is valid. <br></br> is invalid. So
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by swhipple 10y ago
It was <br> and <br /> for my example (</br> isn't a valid tag). The point that I was getting at was that <br> and <br /> self-closing tag are represented differently (<tag>, <tag
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by swhipple 10y ago
> HTML is a string of characters (syntax). The DOM is a data structure (semantics). [...] S-expressions are a data structure, different from the DOM, but S-expression syntax is a syntax. I believe this is where the confusion is coming f
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by swhipple 10y ago
There's currently a feature freeze and plan to switch to WebExtension after the necessary APIs are added to Firefox: https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/issues/860
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by swhipple 10y ago
That's interesting -- I was wondering in which cases typedef changes the parse tree, and came across a few [1]: a (b); /* function call or declaration */ a * b; /* multiplication or declaration *&#x2F
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by swhipple 10y ago
I think there are two separate issues here: unbounded queues vs finite resources and also the overhead of asynchronous message passing (or "don't make every particle its own actor"). Regarding applying backpressure, you'
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by swhipple 10y ago
I think this may be the report [1]? It seems that their P1 did not meet the standards, due to miscommunication -- not language incapability, but they were able to correct it in P2: > It happened that some modifications and extensions to
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by swhipple 10y ago
One Emacs Lisp aspect that I enjoy for interactive configuration is the lack of packages. When interactive programming with some other languages, there's some cognitive overhead "which package am I in?" depending on how you
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by swhipple 10y ago
I agree that freedom and practicality are related, but disagree that it undermines the argument. If they were completely unrelated, source code availability would not be an issue; however the legal and practical freedom to do something is
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by swhipple 10y ago
To add on to your point, this is called the 'paradox of freedom' -- that you cannot have both unlimited freedom and ensure freedom for the future. At the end of WWII, Karl Popper defended state interventionism with an argument ci
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by swhipple 10y ago
That is true, but somewhat alleviated by Emacs' choice to indent the THEN form at a different level than [ELSE]*. A novice would notice that the code looks incorrect as they were typing it.
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by swhipple 10y ago
They're both appeal to nature arguments. "Tobacco should never be regulated because it grows in nature" and "Cryptography should never be regulated because it uses math". There are plenty of reasons to be anti-DRM
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by swhipple 10y ago
That the Earth's average temperature has been rising is also not untrue and can also be observed and measured. Yet it is often denied in political context, e.g. Sen. Jim Inhofe brought a snowball into the Senate as evidence to the con
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by swhipple 10y ago
They're propertized text. For example, on the splash screen, you can move the point on the logo and M-x describe-char to see that it has: display (image :type svg :file "splash.svg") https://www.gnu.o
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by swhipple 10y ago
The reason for a bus-style IPC implemented in the kernel is the same that sendfile(2) exists. I doubt anyone thinks it's the pinnacle of great design, but reduced copies and context switching for real application workload: sometimes t
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by swhipple 10y ago
Authentication, authorization, and resource quotas for agents are not really addressed in the Erlang model, but would be expected for IPC on a Unix-like system.
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by swhipple 10y ago
If you're using private browsing mode or "Never remember history" in Firefox settings, IndexedDB is also disabled. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781982
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by swhipple 10y ago
> If ints act that way, shouldn't strings? `str' can be interned in some situations, though the rules vary across implementations and versions. Most of these things just boil down to unintuitive caching optimizations. Like yo
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by swhipple 10y ago
While open source software and free software refer to roughly the same set of software, the ideology is different. Open source is about collaboratively building tools for developers and businesses, or simply because collaboration produces b
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by swhipple 10y ago
Scanning the defaults for open proxies with a note in the ToS is not super uncommon with some types of services. I don't recommend sweeping random visitors to your website.
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by swhipple 10y ago
Possibly, however I don't think you can get much clearer without sacrificing generality. A terminal emulator and a child process will have different virtual address spaces, so you may choose that as the discriminating factor. A web br
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by swhipple 10y ago
> force Apple to share the entire source code of OS X. The GPLv3 applies to the Program as the GPL defines it. It has a provision, in Section 5, for aggregate works of many programs and is mentioned in the FAQ [1]. > But some argue e

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