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I’m not sure I’d rank him above either of those myself. Maybe not above Langston Hughes, Ray Bradbury, or Kurt Vonnegut personally. I was mostly asking about the anyone else being folly part. I think there are a few people who deserve to be in the same discussion is all.
A year in jail doesn’t necessarily mean a felony conviction.
I have never played an AoE game. In Civ, though, if you’re not at least considering conquering other players' cities and adding them to your country you may be playing the game wrong. Sure, in Civ 6 you can win on science, culture, religion, or economics. Conquest is still one method of winning, and those cities you conquer are not your subjects until they are. Cities along a border can even choose to switch loyalty based on your culture’s influence overriding theirs.
The Master of Orion series includes mechanics for your conquered planets being less productive at first if they are mostly peopled by an alien race. In the WG reboot at least, there’s even a government agency you can build on a planet to get it to assimilate faster. It also supports the idea of low-morale planets rebelling.
I haven’t heard Homer’s voice. There’s more to being a songwriter than vocal talent, though.
I was raised where Sam Clemens was raised. People not only read the books. They tour his home. They tour the cave from Tom Sawyer. They attend the annual National Tom Sawyer days. They come from all over the world.
Even Bob Dylan?
The article is about plugging in one or more pieces of writing and getting a name. That’s not leaking their phone number, their email address, their location, their associations, or other information and piecing together an investigative file on someone. It means that with AI, based on the idiosyncratic writing style of “tarpitt” on HackerNews, I could get your real name no matter the topics you commented about. It assumes only that you have other writings available somewhere that can be tied to your real name.
Free speech repeatedly has been held by the US Supreme Court to include anonymous speech. There are also free association rights involved. https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/anonymous-speech/
While the protection of anonymity is not absolute and must be balanced against other factors, the same is true of free speech in general. You don’t have a right to defraud people, defame them, directly incite a riot, or to manipulate markets with false statements for example. You likely don’t have a right to create a deepfake and represent it as the words and actions of another person without their permission.
Deanonymization can be used for harassment, stalking, prosecution, ad targeting, serving civil lawsuits, criminal investigation, and any number of other purposes both benign and nefarious. It’s honestly akin to stalking itself when it’s done to a private citizen by a private citizen.
One potential solution here I suppose is to make deanonymization or contributing to it a serious crime. I doubt that will happen in most places, though, since it’s often the government that wants to do this to its own citizens.
I’ve worked somewhere that used Snapback, and that’s also from Mike Rubel’s writings.
https://metacpan.org/dist/Snapback2/view/scripts/snapback2.P...
The 2 is I think because an earlier incarnation was by Art Mulder. There is also a Python implementation by apparently yet another person, which appears to be independently inspired by Mike Rubel’s writings.
https://github.com/diegocortassa/snapback
There are also rsyncbackup, rsyncmachine, https://rsnapshot.org/, https://github.com/jonaslu/rsyncrotatingbackup (inspired by http://www.dbourget.com/software/remote-backup.pl), and several more with seemingly the same original inspiration.
These numbers are a nice snapshot, but I see no comparison to historical numbers in the article. I know many families who have had intergenerational support happening from older to younger and vice versa.
Macs don’t compete with the low end laptops. Even the Neo competes more in the middle of the laptop market. When you compare the specs and real-world performance of a MacBook, Mac Mini, or Mac Studio to other equivalent models the price might be slightly higher but not out of line. Compatibility, lack of upgradeability and the OS choices come into play, but an honest comparison between systems otherwise puts Macs just on the slightly expensive portion of the market.
I’m not saying it will work for you, but it may be worth trying GABA or 5-HTP to help you stay asleep. As a chronic insomniac of many years, I take both and not melatonin. Sometimes if my sleep schedule gets bad enough I’ll take 25mg of diphenhydramine HCL to get to sleep, but it gives me strange dreams and makes me a little foggy the next morning.
Good to know. Thanks. Speaking of Samsung, the only phone I’ve ever had that actually failed before being replaced was a Note 4. That’s across Nokia, Samsung, pre-Lenovo Motorola, post-buyout Motorola, OnePlus, Apple, and even Audiovox. To be fair, though, my Galaxy Ring, Galaxy G3, and Galaxy G5 still all power up if charged. They’re just not so useful these days.
It looks like my next phone will be back to Motorola or maybe Samsung or Google. I’ve been pretty happy with my OnePlus, and it’s not even the flagship. It’s the Nord N30 5G 128GB. It’s been meeting my needs since it launched.
At that point you can say C has no semantics, because the compiler defines them.
Many languages are in fact designed and publicized as general-purpose programming languages.
Have you looked into YAMLScript?
I would say any JSON or YAML that carries semantics with the syntax is a language. It may be a configuration language rather than a programming language, but it’s a language rather than just generic data for some program to slurp.
Diameter, length, voltage...
I agree with using a single ubiquitous power standard for small electronics and electrics. That’s almost what USB-C is these days. We need better labelling of cable capacities when there are 20w and 120w cables that at a glance look the same.
I was afraid this article was going to say one connector for everything when it said maximalist. If it had said to kill eSATA, SPF+, RJ-45, DisplayPort, HDMI, 3.5mm audio, and a bunch of other ports it would have been far more controversial. I’ve seen people saying we don’t need card formats anymore because everything can just be an external USB-C flash drive. I’m glad this article wasn’t that maximalist.
What if 0.11 and some userland for it is just a PoC on the way to doing the same with 7? Is it worthwhile then?
I would presume Linux 0.11 itself wouldn’t be considered very useful for day to day computing this century. This seems a proof of concept on a very early, simpler version of the kernel. As a PoC I find it useful as exactly that.
Things get released as GPL or AGPL that were originally BSD or MIT license all the time. The terms of the copyleft license include all the terms of the attribution licenses. Whether this is a valid thing legally I’m not sure but it doesn’t seem anyone’s challenged it. BSD code is often found in closed-source proprietary products as long as the required attributions are met and the original contributors are understood not to be held to any responsibility or warranty.
The licenses tend to say unmodified or modified copies can be redistributed in source or binary form “provided that the following conditions are met”. Relicensing the code in a way that guarantees those conditions are met has been the accepted thing to do in the community for years - whether that’s GPL/LGPL/AGPL or a proprietary license.
It wasn’t written by a mechanical process, though. It was ported (translated) from an existing creative work into a new language.
Surely you wouldn’t say a Spanish translation of a Harry Potter work is in the public domain while the original work is under copyright?
True, but internal dependencies aren’t upstream. I care very little how a project is laid out on disk before it’s built unless I’m going to work on the source.
One of my favorite Russian proverbs translates to basically “the first pancake is always lumpy”.
I can relate.
I treat my technical memories in discussions like the Russian proverb Reagan popularized in the disarmament negotiations with the Soviets.
доверяй, но проверяй
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