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fractalb
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Comment #40327441
People then concentrate more on avoiding errors than getting things done.
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Comment #40220719
> US can just print. How does that work? All the world’s economy is just equal to the US paper? Really?
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Comment #39890923
I suspect you don't touch Go code.
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Comment #39875103
> I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider. This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 perce…
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Comment #39861259
I misunderstood your comment. Yes, CLA's make it possible to change the license. I guess CLA's won't work for GPL'd software.
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Comment #39861245
GPL mandates that all derived software must carry the same license. No need for CLA, as I understand it.
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Comment #39861109
AWS, GCP have assurance that they won't need to pay for their Linux infrastructure. What is it if it wasn't for copyleft licenses(GPL)?
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Comment #39860918
I feel copyleft licenses look more favourable at this point of time. What’s the value of more free/business friendly licenses if you can’t guarantee that the same license will appl…
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Comment #39741446
Apple should not be at fault! As simple as that.
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Comment #39625362
Wow. That looks neat. Thanks for the link :)
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Comment #39618658
I want to learn more about linkers and loaders. Can someone tell me if this is still relevant today? Any other books that are more recent?
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Comment #39559330
> ChatGPT makes mistakes and is usually dumbish, but is also flexible and cheap. People wouldn't mind it if the keyword `dumbish` has been all along there.
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Comment #39477410
Physical materials(Filters here) can change the wavelength but not the frequency. So it's still the same UV/light band. You can't change that.
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Comment #39431120
Thanks for the link. As I understood it, it's just the support for the syntax that is mandatory. > Variable length arrays with automatic storage duration are a conditional feature …
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Comment #39431040
VLA support is mandatory in C23? I'd like to know the rationale behind this decision. Can you provide any references? Thanks.
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Comment #39406569
> I see same thing in India where *analysts and experts on twitter opine how Netflix has totally failed in India due to lack of local content and poor execution. That’s really true…
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Comment #38950680
Why in this particular time frame? Just before the performance reviews?
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Comment #38924954
I still scratch my head why it’s not installed by default on Windows.
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Comment #38876385
IIRC, Google tried to use Go for their Fuchsia TCP stack and then backtracked. Not a systems programming language for sure.
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Comment #38733832
Thanks. This helps even more. I need not go through all the packages. I'll get a fedora account now :)
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Comment #38733781
Thanks. The link seems to list relevant links and repos. I'll see how I can help now.
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Comment #38732163
Is there some place where I can see all the packages that need to be fixed and raise a pull request for any package? Maybe, I can help with some fixes during the holiday season.
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Comment #38599474
> it would really be more complicated in C if a and b were actually strings or lists You don't event need strings or lists for that. Just imagine bigger numbers for a and b. Arbitr…
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Comment #38553267
There is no hope to redeem the Web of these banners :(
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Comment #37749307
I think he's tracking his ideas about this project in github tickets. IMO, that's a good first step. Whether he'll do something about those tickets or not is a question that comes …