sukhmel

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[–] sukhmel 3 points 1 month ago

It's not a cell phone, y'all.

That also doesn't really need annual updates. I'm guessing the only reason phone manufacturers do that is out of fear that otherwise users will go and buy something else from those who do annual updates.

[–] sukhmel 3 points 1 month ago

Except for the countries that have anti-hate laws that are deliberately vague and specifically used to jail anyone who is disliked by the government. China and Russia come to mind as examples, but I'm sure they aren't the only ones.

Besides hate-speech, I'm not sure how much should be censored really. China does a lot of censoring to 'protect' their citizens from everything, I'm not sure this would be a good thing even if that really was a goal.

And protecting children from traumatising content looks like another good thing to do, but under that banner I usually see governments doing whatever they want without caring about children past using their image.

[–] sukhmel 2 points 1 month ago

With that I agree

[–] sukhmel 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What's the joke about? Does Ireland block everything that comes from the Netherlands?

[–] sukhmel 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't need to use and learn everything, just pick what you need.

I used to think the same, but now I think you should at least skim through everything. Reason being otherwise you may reinvent the wheel a lot, and there are many use-cases where you really don't want to do that (but C++ makes it so easy, I was constantly tempted to just do what I want and not look for it being already available)

[–] sukhmel 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of computational heavy tasks for science were done in Fortran at least ten years ago (and I think still are). I was told that's mainly because Fortran has a good deal of libraries for just that, and it was widely taught in academia so this is a common ground between the older and newer generations.

I think it may be gradually superseded by Python, but I don't know if it is

[–] sukhmel 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm unfamiliar with bitwarden's licence and skimmed through the issue and my understanding is:

  1. To use bitwarden API you must use SDK
  2. To use SDK you are obligated to be the official application, otherwise you violate the licence
  3. The official application is GPL but since SDK is somehow 'separate program' it is considered OK to couple with a more restrictive license

However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.

This is something I completely fail to understand other that mental gymnastics to bend the truth enough to not look like they are not quite right

Edit: is my understanding correct? It looks like this is not the first project that becomes 'source available' after being FOSS in the past, as of lately

[–] sukhmel 3 points 1 month ago

However you define it, a central nervous system or other type of similar central unit would have to be a requirement, because that is what would actually be sentient

Without CNS there would be something else sophisticated enough to show sentience that would have been sentient. So to me it looks like this is not really a requirement, albeit it's simpler to say that it is.

As a side note, I think that given how human-centric humans are (which is to be expected, really) even if we were living with another sentient species on the same planet we would argue they are not sentient for whatever reason we could come up with, and change sentience definition accordingly

[–] sukhmel 1 points 1 month ago

lectured on semantics rather than responding to the meaning

this is ironic

[–] sukhmel 3 points 1 month ago

not even all vegans who don't use honey agree on whether or not a vegan can use honey

Exactly this, veganism is ethical choice, and ethics is not science. You can't 'prove' that something is acceptable, nor vice versa. There are guidelines and discussions but that's pretty much it.

So this is really not about whether bees are animals or not.

[–] sukhmel 1 points 1 month ago

But you can ignore the response if you decide to not deal with it

[–] sukhmel 2 points 1 month ago

How do you make sure you understood the idea if the word choice is incorrect? You may assume from context what the idea was, but you may as well assume wrong. And the more such assumptions exist in one dialogue, the further it is from information exchange, and the closer it is to not listening at all because you already knew the context before the dialogue

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