This is simply incorrect, we were distributing the exact binaries signal produces.
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You need a copyright license to use the binary. You need a trademark license to use the trademark. See the firefox -> iceweasel kerfuffle
I've had so many bad experiences with broken third party packages or worse, "installers".
Due to how the Snapcrafters publisher works, Canonical was communicating with the "wrong" person about this takedown. They've since amended their process to make sure this doesn't happen anymore. (Snapcrafters is a team of community volunteers maintaining unofficial packages)
Due to how lawyers and legal threats work, Canonical is very hesitant to publicly talk about what is going on. You can expect a thorough post-mortem after the legal issues are cleared up.
There is a broad spectrum of symptoms which fall under the autism spectrum. Everyone who has ASD, has a number of these symptoms but two people who both have ASD can easily have none of these symptoms in common.
Or take "poepen" which means "to have sex" or "to take a shit" depending on which country you are in.
I frequently have to ask my friends from the Netherlands to clarify something because, even though I hear which word they're using, I have no idea what they mean because the words mean something different or are just never used that way in Flemish.
If I choose the flag from the Netherlands to get Dutch, I'll probably be confused by a whole bunch of terminology since the dutch of different countries differs vastly more than the English from different countries.
"People who complain about flags are nitpickers" is a perfect way to say "I grew up in a gigantic monoculture where you can drive 5 hours in any direction without encountering a different language, if you ignore the natives"
Supplying bad code is a lot more valuable than supplying no code.
Also in my experience, reviewers won't actually review your code, even though they like it a lot when you supply it.
It's a bit more complex than that, in my opinion. This is also about whether people respect/love society.
When you feel connected to society and feel thankful for what it gives to you, you will be much less likely to exhibit antisocial behavior.
In my opinion, this lack of connection to society is caused by
1. The US being a lot harder on its participants than in the Norden countries. This causes people to feel less thankful to it. 2. The division in US politics and media causes people to be disillusioned by society and feel no connection/relation to it.
It would definitely be cheaper for my research group to outsource this work onto non-research staff.
Every single time I dig deep to search for someone's passion, I find at least one, and often multiple. In general, I find way more than I initially expected when I was a teenager.
I have also found many people don't think it's socially acceptable to talk about their passion in many situations. This makes it hard to discover these passions when you have only casual interaction with people.
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
WASM + WASI means a single binary has near-native performance, but can run on any CPU architecture and any OS.
Some advanced linters might want network access but you can show this to the user, so they can make an informed decision about whether to trust that linter and their author with this power.
This isn't airtight security to protect against obviously-malicious authors. This is about creating a system that can deal with the reality that "trust" in an app store entails "a million shades of gray". I might trust a plugin enough to check for errors in my code, but not enough to actually modify my code.
In the Netherlands, the custom of "Sinterklaas", which was brought to the US and became Santa Klaus, predates Christianity coming to the Netherlands and Saint Nicholas was indeed created in order to be able to continue this "heathen" feast.
It's origins are in the Celtic/Germanic midwinter fest of "Yule". During this fest, the god Wodan, rode on a horse, carried a staff, brought gifts to nice children and had devilish helpers who kidnapped the naughty children. This tradition is still strong in northern Europe, which was much less influenced by Christianity.
Santa Klaus lore still has a lot of hints to the pagan origins. For example, the reindeer which pull Santa’s sleigh are called Donner and Blitzen-‘thunder and lightning’ from the Old Dutch ‘Dunder and Blixem’. (Wodan is the Germanic/celtic version of Odin.)
However, a bunch of snaps are full of unused libraries because a bunch of packagers use a shotgun approach to including libraries. I've seen a bunch of snaps which contain the entire build environment for the app itself, for example. After cleanup, such snaps are often only 1/3 of the original size.
Because many snaps are created by app devs themselves, they don't all have the same quality as packages from the debian repository.
Flatpaks are more an "all-or-nothing" approach. Either the app is in a tight sandbox and uses portals to access things like the camera or it has almost complete access to your os. Since portals are a new API which requires app rewrite, most Flatpaks are not sandboxed.
The confusion comes mostly from people running the apt command in the CLI without looking at what the package is. There isn't a good way to transition existing users from the deb to the snap during an upgrade without having a transitional package with the same name as the original deb.
This doesn't change my opinion of them in any way. Although I think ads are cancer, I think it's much worse for Firefox to stay dependent on Google for their entire revenue. I want them to experiment with finding ways to make money off their browser. I want them to keep existing long-term and that's only possible if you have money.
Would I like Firefox to have no ads at all? Yes. But I believe it's better for Firefox to have ads than to be dependent on Google's money.
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/electrical-engineering/r...
"jokes" like that are counter-productive to a good discussion. HN is not a place for such comments.
Most animals either do a really good job of running away from you (rabbits, deer), or attack you (lions, walruses). Foxes just look at you and slowly walk into a certain direction when you get close to them, as if they're trying to show you something.
In general also, from watching YouTube videos of rescue foxes, they seem like super playful and might be the kind of animals leading you to treasure just for the fun of it.
This amounts to a bit more than one peer-reviewed publication for every four days since the first ISS segment launched in 1998. (2157 publications total through March 2019)
More than 170 of those papers have been published in the top 100 journals in the clarivate analytics ranking. (Independent ranking used by a large number of universities)
Their top paper has been cited 582 times. (Context: For many top journals, average number of times a paper has been cited is ~5).