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I've noticed that many blog posts about papers (which are in PDF) use raster screenshots (JPG, PNG, etc.) of key diagrams, which makes it hard to zoom in on the details (e.g., on m…

https://misha.brukman.net Most posts are about tech topics (solving a problem I ran into that I figured might also be of interest to others). Also some about typography, languages,…

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on the Google Drive team specifically. Sorry about the issue, folks! The Google Drive team is aware of it and is working on remediating it. An…

That's a fair point, thanks for the clarification.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Copybara. I've seen Copybara used at Google in both directions: for some projects, the internal repo is the authoritative one, and for othe…

Looking at the Canonical CLA [1], you're right that it allows Canonical the right to relicense contributions under any other license: > 2.3 Outbound License > Based on the grant of…

I've responded to the CLA / licensing issues in a separate sibling comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365535); this comment is to respond to the rest of your post as …

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. I've added a clarification separately, please take a look there first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365469 > Th…

I've added a response to your earlier comment to clarify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365469

Sorry for not making it more clear; I was responding to the statement: > Not really open. If you submit code, you grant a license to Google to use it in non-proprietary code.[1] So…

Disclosure: I work at Google (but not on Fuchsia), and I contribute quite a bit to open-source projects. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc. I'm not sure w…

Note that I'm not the owner/developer of that site, so I can only guess how it's implemented there. However, I can give you a general overview for why logins are typically required…

Just wanted to let you know that I fixed this (and a few other issues I found upon re-reading my post for the Nth time). Thanks again for your help!

Blog post author here. It's easy to get a blog going with either GitHub or GitLab plus their "Pages" hosting environment, or Netlify. Here's how you can do this with just GitHub Pa…

Blog post author here. I haven't tried it myself (yet), but I don't see why Wine wouldn't work from a container, if you propagate access to the display into the container, as I hav…

> Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case. You're right, I don't post my email address on my blog, and yet it's w…

Thank you for the kind words! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

Blog post author here. Looks like Crysis ( https://www.gog.com/game/crysis ) is a Windows-only game, so you'll need a different approach than what I've described in my blog post, w…

Hi HN, blog post author here. Rather than just posting the end result that worked, this is my trial-and-error "walthrough" of building a container from start to finish, in order to…

Blog post author here. A virtual machine solution (such as VirtualBox) requires more CPU/RAM resources than a container, because you're running an extra copy of the entire operatin…

Blog post author here. Yes, I'm planning to do this for much older games in the future, and you're also right that DOSBox does a lot of that for you! One thing I've noticed is webs…