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geocar
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About geocar
geocar at sdf.org
if you used to email me at lonestar, that address no longer works.
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Comment #49228645
The IBM 1501 PGC (640x480x256) was available in 1983.
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Comment #49206591
> The temperature when it makes contacts with the ground beans. You could certainly boil it and then let it cool first, but that'd take a lot of extra work. It's not so much work w…
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Comment #49018220
No no no. You don’t realise the compiled intermediate can be _trivially_ reused for every request, and identified by the hash of the JavaScript code. Browsers already do this, it’s…
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Comment #49017749
Oh? How do you think munmap does it? If you can convince the caller to keep track of that metadata themselves you obviously don’t need to. That can be important. Something I notice…
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Comment #48990713
The C standard isn’t stable across versions. extern int errno;
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Comment #48940816
> Browsers ought to run the fastest JS interpreters already Well they don't. Users want the website to work sooner, and care little about whether a for-loop of elements take 10ms o…
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Comment #48869763
> but PoW scales Not if the honest party is doing it in a browser: The same computer can so any POW so much faster in C than any amount jf JS and WASM that it will never ever ever …
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Comment #48775635
> Can I ask what you mean when you say "write"? To "write", I mean the precursor to "read". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html > Are you talking about literature …
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Comment #48772271
Do you have a specific suggestion? I have tried everything that is available at my local shops (which looks like it came from Temu)
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Comment #48772261
CarPlay is better than android auto in that it works with my iPhone; as to why it is currently in _my_ requirements, it’s simple: I rent cars when I travel, I’m too lazy to memoris…
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Comment #48772162
Having my phone mounted is fine but it’s been hard for me to find a good mount that works with random rental car I get. Any suggestions? I don’t hate carplay but some things annoy …
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Comment #48759288
Stop using Android.
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Comment #48759236
Google has been attempting to license the right to write. There are a lot of poor people, mostly brown people, who do not have the ability to get one of these licenses. Some of the…
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Comment #48744826
> That the provider's business needs necessitate the this behaviour... No, please don't move past this so quick, because I'm not convinced they have the need, and in some markets (…
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Comment #48715558
> > ...who does not clearly have the rights > This claim is baseless... it all boils to question how much of the salt makes a soup a salty one. No it doesn't. The very existence of…
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Comment #48715372
> Appendix 7 on this page http://www.faqs.org/faqs/m-technology-faq/part2/ : runs screaming into the night I don't know mumps very well, but this seems pretty straightforward if yo…
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Comment #48684016
Nonsense. The FSF cannot receive a copyright assignment from someone who does not clearly have the rights. If it is “open” then it is not clear. Of the two other parties who claim …
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Comment #48682720
> not knowing about these rules. He didn’t look at the t&c for whatever model he was using and didn’t understand he had no copyright claim over its output? He doesn’t have any righ…
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Comment #48682700
No. The “contributor” doesn’t have the ability to contribute; They do not have copyright over the code so they can’t assign it. The maintainer should not read it because then they …
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Comment #48682666
It makes sense: if you use an LLM, you don’t have the copyright so you can’t assign it to the FSF.
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Comment #48682614
Yours is an “edge device” but I am root, so mine is a portable tool for managing and testing the network that does not have working WiFi access points attached to it or obviously I…
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Comment #48368119
That is a good point. If I ping the router 2m away from me in the airbnb (on Ethernet) I am staying in I'm getting 0.8msec. If it is really 0.4msec over some kind of consumer wirel…
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Comment #48367949
Yes such-a-thing-is-possible: The DEC VT330 (for example) allowed font upload, had multiple font sizes, and even mouse support. There once was a program called https://en.wikipedia…
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Comment #48367453
> as such they are composable in the sense that they can be used in a way the author(s) didn't think of. It's been a while since I've done any of that personally, I do this all the…
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Comment #48367156
Yes. And you can see it in action by using a "public looking glass" service and typing in an IP address to see which ASN (autonomous system number) announce it and who they peer wi…