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Why would it be impossible? The only time I ever happened to stumble upon a GPL violation (more than 10 years ago) I explained it and they said "oops, sorry, we'll fix that". Worth…

Why solve matters with lawyers if you don't need to? If there's a failure of understanding, possibly due to language issues as the previous commenter suggested, then trying to esta…

According to the Reddit thread linked in this thread, no one has ever been blacklisted: > We have in fact never had to terminate a relationship with any customer of ours. We build …

The comment they're replying to is also not exactly smelling of roses. It makes some pretty unsubstantiated claims. I read Peren's claims, and IMHO they're very thin. It seems to b…

I assume he's in his current position by choice. He pretty much says so: "It is an interesting job". He still deals with plenty of code; he just doesn't write original code. Callin…

Yeah, maybe. Probably. I'm just not a fan of this kind of stuff shrug . I also don't like "God save the Queen" by the way, or "God be with us" (short for "If God is with us, who sh…

Perhaps this is a cultural difference, but the entire thing just seems strange from my own (European) perspective. Only in the US do people seem to take pride in their measurement …

This problem is easily solved by just not loading images by default but on-demand.

I guess ... but "God Bless America!" seems like a statement to me.

I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm

Would it matter? I can release all the source I want, but what guarantees this is also what's running on the actual endpoint?

What advantage does this give you? DDG just gave you a list of URLs, so how can it be "tracking" the results it just presented to you? The issue, as I understand it, is that the An…

> Fair question, you shouldn't be getting downvoted for it imo. Well, the question is pretty much answered in the actual article. From the looks of it, this seems to be responding …

Yeah, maybe. I don't really know much of the Windows internals, so I try not to assume too much (hence my question in the top comment[1], which was very much a "curiosity"-question…

The device was released in Oct 2018 though, so at the time it was the newest Android version (9 was just released, probably too late in the Palm dev cycle). The $280 price tag is a…

I think that might actually be harder than it sounds though, since Windows is such an integrated system.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but if you're going to do forced updates then you might as well spend some time making the entire user experience nicer. I don't kno…

> The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead All Linux/BSD systems I've used can update in minutes at the most (excluding the download time); I've long since wonde…

So what is the latency on seL4 then for a similar program? And how well is the performance under real-world desktop conditions compared to Linux, macOS, Windows, etc? I read throug…

But there are also a lot of drawbacks of RTOS systems, no? Just searching "Real-time operating system downsides" shows a lot of drawbacks that makes it seem like a poor fit for a g…

I'm sorry, but this is such a non-answer. What am I supposed to do with this? Clearly things aren't that simple to achieve negligible latency, otherwise we would have it. I bet the…

What would a "non-pathetic" latency look like? What improvements in "the stack" would be needed? The 130ms is "the time from light hitting the camera to when it appears on-screen o…

BitCoin has fluctuated much more than 10% in the last year though: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=1Y Certainly much more than USD/EUR: https://www.xe.com/c…

Discounting an entire tool just because you don't like their recommended installation method (which you're hardly forced to use) sounds rather strange to me.

Sponsored search results are marked as such in the Google results, it's nothing like the automagic redirect Safari is showing here.