the_hoser

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by the_hoser 8d ago
The license never protected your code. Lawyers did, if you could afford them. It's no different today, it's just harder to prosecute. If your worry about people copying your code is preventing you from sharing, then open source a
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by the_hoser 25d ago
Never.
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by the_hoser 2mo ago
It's like Elon Musk and dates. If he puts a date on it, it's not happening.
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by the_hoser 3mo ago
The policy isn't necessary to close the PR. The policy just helps to shut down the ensuing discussion after closing the PR. It helps in quickly dealing with well-meaning onlookers asking for clarification when you block PRs from the
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by the_hoser 3mo ago
I have a long-standing theory that the most significant factor is the weather.
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by the_hoser 6mo ago
Blame Perl. As far as I can tell, they started it.
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by the_hoser 8mo ago
You're already the product. They're just looking for the buyers.
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by the_hoser 9mo ago
An LLM cannot lie to you. Lying would imply that it somehow knows the truth, and chooses to tell you something other than the truth. The LLM doesn't know anything. It's just providing you with answer-shaped responses.
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by the_hoser 9mo ago
For those of us that have been using Linux for a long time (since 1999, here), the improvements have been incremental, and hard to spot over time. But sometimes I encounter something and it just blows my mind how good desktop Linux has bec
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by the_hoser 9mo ago
NVIDIA is more than happy to forget about gaming.
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by the_hoser 9mo ago
That would require that they actually make the effort to develop Linux support. The current "it just works" reality is that the games developers don't need to support running on Linux.
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by the_hoser 11mo ago
One of the biggest optimizations it offers is shrinking the size of the classes by obfuscating the names. If you're obfuscating the names anyway, there's no reason that the names have to be the same length. "hn$z" is a
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by the_hoser 1y ago
And it puts a red "M" hat on if you search for Mario.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
An art lost to the ages. Granted, their purposes were so different than they are today. Most of them would be replaced by a social media presence today.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
It's probably that nobody with the ability to pull it off really cares enough to try. Lots of obscure devices never get jailbroken.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
The problem is that in order to attract developers to create those apps, you need users ready to buy those apps. The price of the Vision Pro is still the ultimate limiting factor for its success.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
That's a whole lot of airtime for an autobiography. Hubris, much?
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by the_hoser 1y ago
No
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by the_hoser 1y ago
You presume that the people in charge have the best interests of the government in mind when they make their decisions.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
This is it 100%. Zuckerberg and Musk aren't doing anything more awful than Page or Brin, but they're smart enough to understand that it's WAY easier to get away with sketchy stuff when you're not someone that the averag
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by the_hoser 1y ago
Now?
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by the_hoser 1y ago
(void)this.ptr; // Explicit deallocation, very readable Except it's not very readable? That appears to be the same syntax used for casting.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
Not likely. In the PCMAG article, they stated that he said that he'd rather someone else do it.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
No, nothing really comes close to the M4 Max right now. Intel and AMD have really dropped the ball in the last few years. I'm considering replacing my Dell with an M5 when they (probably) release in October.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
I wonder if there are no text files to provide.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
My ThinkPad Z61T had a Core 2 Duo. That was a great laptop.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
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by the_hoser 1y ago
A fool and his money.
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by the_hoser 2y ago
The degree of hold-my-beer here is off the charts.
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by the_hoser 3y ago
Nope. Developer skill momentum is a hell of a drug.

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