U.S. Inflation Reached 30-Year High in October
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Lawyer Who Won $9.5B Settlement Against Chevron Reports to Prison
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14-Inch MacBook Pro
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YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007
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That was my first real computer as a kid, where I learned basic programming (GFA BASIC!), played my first games. It was such a great machine.
I also love his self-made program with a little map of the camping grounds. Such attention to little details. No wonder he didn't want to give that system up for a newer computer: what for?
The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen
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Appears to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28536048
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Wow, I remember this happening! That is truly funny to me that it was because of a security researcher accidentally triggering this massive bug.
Great write up, and kudos to apple for not suing him but paying out the bug bounties.
FWIW one data point - we had begun beforehand but especially when COVID started, the small company I work at moved nearly all our company communication into Discord.
We tried out Slack and other alternatives at the time and the huge advantage of Discord was how simple and playful it was while other solutions were so very enterprise-y.
Plus, Discord offers a great bot API, so it was super easy to write our own integrations. We are very happy Discord was not bought by Microsoft.
It's frustrating (though not at all surprising) to see Apple continue to be so tone-deaf. They clearly think "If only we could make people understand how it works, they wouldn't be so upset, in fact they'd thank us."
This is not the case - we do understand how it works, and we think it's a bad idea.
A few years ago, my iPad suddenly developed a crack in the glass all on its own. It was just sitting there on the table, I heard a quiet "crack" sound, and there it was: a small crack all across one corner of the display.
I can only assume it was some kind of temperature, pressure issue of some kind? I brought it to the Apple Store, told my story, got the weird looks, but they determined it wasn't fall damage nor me dropping something onto the iPad, so they shrugged their shoulders and replaced it.
After that, I would not be so fast to accuse these people of closing their cases on Doritos.
Pretty bold to lead the article with “I‘ve never quite understood.“ I think the article would have been way better if the author would have taken the time to at least understand a bit why cryptocurrencies are worth a lot to a lot of people.
Not at all. I don't feel entitled to anything.
Here's where I think the misunderstanding is, and maybe I should have made this point in my original comment: I do think there can absolutely be cases where a dual license of GPL / commercial can make a ton of sense. I think those cases tend to be for projects like Linux, Blender, etc.
But what I'm saying I personally think is a bummer is that for years, most open source projects - down to even small but useful libraries - were put under GPL simply because it was "the thing to do".
Like Carmack says, in my mind that is a net negative, since these libraries then were not able to be used by projects which were under other licenses, due to their copy-left viral nature.
"Not even"? This is a huge requirement for most cases.
A small GPL library for, say, some statistics calculation, would mean an entire product's source code would need to be released if it used the library.
GPL makes "them" (especially small one-off libraries) useless because even the smallest part can not be used without therefore needing to "contribute back" the ENTIRE app.
(edited to clarify I don't mean ALL projects become useless through GPL)
I'm still bummed out that for years, GPL was the "standard" go-to open source license. So many projects became useless for any commercial projects whatsoever.
GPL advocates say it's so that your code isn't exploited by corporations.
But I'd say that choosing GPL means it's more important to you that your code "is not exploited by corporations" than that it can be used for good by people with commercial interests.
Those two things do not have to be synonyms. I'd much rather allow the second if it means tolerating the first.
(Edit: Seeing the downvotes, I'd be genuinely interested in counter-arguments or thoughts on this)
(Edit 2: Just because it keeps coming up, let me make absolutely clear that I do NOT in any way think GPL might never be a valid choice, nor that anyone, myself included, should feel "entitled" to "free as in *.*" code.)
Voicechanger.io
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This is incredibly impressive, especially the ability to immediately download the snippet as an mp4.
How has this not been immediately shut down due to copyright?
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