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Strong opinions, weakly held--sometimes, held weekly.
Contact me at: username at angersock dot com.
"The modern social web is a miracle of progress but also a status-driven guilt-spewing shit volcano." --Paul Ford
We're not up to our ears in homebrew nukes because making them is expensive, and that doesn't change. People have been able to make zipguns for over a century with nothing more than a few bits of pipe and fittings.
It's queer that merely the idea of knowing how to do something should be so distressing to policymakers.
> By eliding what's really at stake here—more a matter of free expression than any meaningful expansion of the already existing legal ability to make a gun at home—the states suing, and alas too much of the media, are ginning up unwarranted fear to expand the government's power to restrict speech, and alas those states have had at least a temporary success for now.
This is pretty clearly a freedom of speech issue. Knock-on effects of this would be, for example, removing all of the Wikipedia articles that talk about how compounds that the government Doesn't Like.
One error the article makes is that this isn't software, this is just normal CAD documents describing the objects in question.
If we as techies don't stand up for this, we're doing ourselves and future generations a huge disservice.
He was hopefully the last of the great con men.
The thing is, if Wilson is not allowed to publish this information, it is a huge blow against freedom of speech and common-sense.
Everybody who thinks that copyright is required should see the success of 2hu.
If we allow piracy like that to exist, how will the owners of the copyright be able to ensure that the works are kept accessible?!
Everybody wants this tooling for deploying appliances when frankly we are almost all just doing boring webshit.
A modern language should have first-class support for these things. :|
The language itself is good, the tooling is pretty excellent, but there are issues for things like deployment, ops, and frankly a general excitement about neat things instead of focusing on bread-and-butter stuff like, say, timezones and timestamp formatting (something coming in a couple of releases, allegedly, but which was always an obvious absence).
One that seems to have actually worked was the ban on plastic bags.
And man, he worked, making many screenplays as well as stories.
Rest well you magnificent bastard.
But, the bread-and-butter business stuff has continually left me disappointed and sometimes working way harder than needed.
MongoDB is a marketing meme that slowly has had a database built around it.
Well, this would be in keeping with MongoDB's track record, sooooo
Maaaaaaybe removing tolerance of duplicate keys.
Possibly, a binary literal (hex64 bytestring, maybe like << base64 encoded>>) syntax.
That's literally what you're advocating for.