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Comment · 1 month ago
I liked checking that website, until it listed the Artemis II crew for weeks after they came back. Now I have no idea how accurate it is; I don't know what other source to compare it to.

But maybe there's a more reliable method it uses for tracking the ISS astronauts, and the Artemis II needed more human input or something. For what it's worth, both websites currently list the same ten astronauts.

Comment · 2 years ago
How does that work? It doesn't look like ! is a command or shell builtin, so I guess it's an argument to if.
Comment · 4 years ago
Of course; those are freedoms 0 and 1 guaranteed by the license. It seems like "use" sometimes means "include in a downstream software package and redistribute modified versions of".
Comment · 4 years ago
My favourite example of this is using an en dash for a relationship between two separate things, rather than the more closely-connected compound adjective of a hyphen.

Italian–American relations: foreign relations between the governments of Italy and the United States. Italian-American relations: relatives who have moved from Italy to the United States.

Comment · 4 years ago
I thought it was about a comma? But the book discusses all kinds of punctuation.
Comment · 4 years ago
Even that part is kind of misleading. Making the software open source doesn't mean that the subscription service has to shut down; those are two different decisions.

But maybe we don't have to be too critical. I tend to read "[project you've never heard of] is going open-source" as "here's a new project you might want to check out", but even if they really mean that the project is mostly shutting down, open sourcing it is a good thing to do.

Comment · 4 years ago
In that range, just returning x would be way better. Maybe even perfect actually - if x is less than 10^-16, then the error of x^3/6 is less than the machine precision for x.
Comment · 4 years ago
I use Document Viewer (org.sufficientlysecure.viewer). I haven't compared it to the others but it's pretty good.
Comment · 4 years ago
Linux is licensed under GPLv2 with an additional permission (or exception):

> NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does not fall under the heading of "derived work".

All the contributors license their work under this license with this additional permission. So in that sense it's not really Linus interpreting the GPL, and I don't think there's a risk of a contributor revoking this permission.

But maybe this doesn't apply to kernel modules and doesn't address the GPL_ONLY symbols thing.

Comment · 4 years ago
It might still be a biased sample. Probably most people on this website regardless of gender are interested in science and technology.
Comment · 4 years ago
The amount of available space isn't the only benefit of using only one staircase. It also means the units can face outward in multiple directions and there's a more central common area.
Comment · 5 years ago
One might imagine it'd be a draw after the fifth move, but the position after 1. e4 e5 is different from the position after 5. Ke1 Ke8, because of castling rights. So the threefold repetition doesn't occur until after 6. Ke2 Ke7.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not really. I made the comment overly simplistic, probably 15 or 16 is a fine age to be allowed to start working.
Comment · 5 years ago
Paying poverty wages is wrong, and child labour is wrong. They don't cancel each other out.
Comment · 5 years ago
Even the blog title seems to be about interruption.

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