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amszmidt

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About amszmidt

sauerpunk gnu hacker / software freedom or bust / wizard of zymurgy / lisp machine revolutionary

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    Comment #49212779

    How cold is cold? :-) Water below ”sea” level tends to stay around -1C (salt water) to 4C. Below that, water becomes ice… Ambient temperature can drop to -40C … internally these ic…

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    Comment #48951759

    Only because the X Window System is very heavily documented, e.g., in the excellent "The Definitive Guides to the X Window System Series".

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    Comment #48945528

    The key here is “based on Portland cement”, which is generally has water repellent added to it making it water proof. Normal cement, concrete .. Is a different story.

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    Comment #48710602

    Would love to see some statistics on that.

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    Comment #48538218

    It is also capable of doing it over the wire.

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    Comment #48537393

    Fun fact. DIRED pre-dates EMACS. DIRED on ITS is also similar enough to today’s DIRED.

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    Comment #48167826

    But it is. There is a link to the original text at the bottom of the translation.

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    Comment #48058633

    The details of lexical scope where defined in Algol 60 (1960), nearly 2 decades before Rabbit (1978). People did know how to implement things back then, and TeX is a great example …

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    Comment #47729385

    This a common thing shared with the Nordics. The English term would be “meteorological spring”. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5r_i_Sverige The definition would certainly work…

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    Comment #47555619

    Would be nice if someone did it with Swedens laws too!

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    Comment #47229263

    In Sweden, you're allowed to film/photograph in public without the need for any consent. There is (in general) no expectation of privacy in public in Europe. How you can use the ma…

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    Comment #46923259

    Not if it is an alias.

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    Comment #46923249

    It was suggested by Tom Lord (RIP), who used it heavily long before he wrote GNU Arch. File names or directories starting with a comma where considered “junk”, and ones with a plus…

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    Comment #46396791

    Thanks for the link; sadly none of the links to the repo can be viewed to see what exactly occurred. To those downvoting, curious why? Many of the links are not viewable, since Git…

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    Comment #46396588

    Incorporating compatible code, under different license is perfectly OK and each work can have different license, while the whole combined work is under the terms of another. I'm ho…

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    Comment #46070292

    I think maybe you're mixing up distribution and running a program, at least taking your initial comment into account, "if you train/run/use a model, it must be open source".

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    Comment #46069998

    In the context of Free Software, yes. Freedom one is about the right to study a program.

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    Comment #46069992

    That is not really correct, the GNU GPL doesn't have any terms whatsoever on how you can use, or modify the program to do things. You're free to make a GNU GPL program do anything …

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    Comment #46069650

    Because it would violate freedom zero. Adding such terms to the GNU GPL would also mean that you can remove them, they would be considered "further restrictions" and can be removed…

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    Comment #46069626

    It isn't the difficult, a license that forbids how the program is used is a non-free software license. "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."

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    Comment #46033940

    An employee doesn’t act as an official representative of their employer nor do they speak for the employee in any official capacity. That is what the message says. The informal als…

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    Comment #46033712

    ”No association” and “I am not a representative” are quite different things to say.

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    Comment #45963714

    > Wait a sec. IANAL, but if I license something to you under the GPLv3, you may not license it to someone else under AGPLv3 or a commercial license. Not exactly the above case, but…

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    Comment #45822332

    https://github.com/arialdomartini/morris-worm/tree/master Has the decompiled version.

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    Comment #45526179

    Correct, neither did the Lambda. The article though references the Explorer II, a later version of the Explorer I ("Lambda").