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Unlicensed is the same as fully copyrighted. There is a presumotion of ownership. Licenses in this case serve to clarify allowable uses. Without a license, nothing is allowable as you maintain the right to do anything within a copyright holder's legal right.

https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/unlicensed-...

Re:The Tao of Programming on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:27PM (#37683546)
The Ozymandius is amazing: http://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/234
Do we want to heat up the oceans that much though?
Isn't that a bit obvious? We all know about the tens of billions paid every year to maintain position. Obviously this wasn't in case Apple would segue to Bing.

The business case of building a search engine from scratch which robs you of 20b in yearly profit is very low.

Re:Applied Category Theory Course on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:41PM (#37681002)
How much time do you guys really need for such a course? I have then stacking up and have a list of a few dozen books and courses to go over.

I am beginning to think I'm doing this wrong, or simply don't know how to prioritize, a common modern problem of course.

Re:Ask HN: How do companies decide who is a senior developer? on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:32PM (#37680867)
Every organization differs, of course, making this difficult to usefully answer.

I have always prefered seeing senior devs as capable of architecting and implementing solutions (better yet delegating parts to juniors) such that they can launch a product themselves, where a mid level dev can launch individual features but would struggle with the complexity of choosing both an auth model and a persistence layer for it (mixing well with other persistence uses) and then what the front end should look like overall, and whether to use websockets or... and a junior can fix bugs, or work on tickets/scaffolded tasks in a productive manner.

Re:GPT-4 generates simple app from Whiteboard photo on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:29PM (#37680815)
We had seen interesting developpments around vector databases, but then people stopped hyping them as you could just save them in normal databases without real differences. I wonder what will happen when the models can freely access them though.
Re:The Aliens Will Not Be Silicon [video] on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:25PM (#37680760)
Does anyone have a recomended book to learn chemistry? Assuming nearly 0 knowledge retained from school.

P.s. cool that our names are so close.

Re:ChatGPT can now browse the internet on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:21PM (#37680714)
Does browse also mean post/save in some way? That would potentially enable an eventual escape scenario, with memory.
I thought it was the default android podcast app, lacking ads etc. This is sad, alas...
Re:Unpacking Elixir: Resilience on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:47PM (#37637034)
Elixir seems to be picking up insane steam right now. Every day or two there is a fascinating Elixir post here and its promise seems too good to resist. Has anyone else latched their cart onto this horse?
Re:Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month on Friday September 22, 2023 @04:08AM (#37609277)
You are thinking of BSD, which is far more stable than Linux for servers etc.
Re:Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:19PM (#37299120)
How do you set this up?
How could I make that clearer? I explicitly asked about what language ecosystems offer the snallest production containers and gave examples.

Ask HN: What languages/ecosystems offer the smallest container sizes?

(Inspired by this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653340 and Whartung's observation that Linux forums used to bring up packaging the run time.)What languages can fit in the smallest container with a functioning e.g. echo server?More interestingly: What's the smallest production container you've seen and how was it accomolished?You can build scratch containers with just a Go binary,...

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Re:How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary? on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:18PM (#36657903)
You can skip "echo" and let the error message output "hello world" along with extra text!
Re:What should I learn next? Mention anything on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:33PM (#36656639)
Learn Racket. It's an amazing introduction to computer science / programming. My partner has been picking it up lately having a lot of fun and learning a lot at the same time.
The best Racket textbook (Beautiful Racket) is even focused around building new languages!
I once bought socks on Amazon, which came with a note saying they would send me a free item for a good review. I then got a free electric kettle with another card. Then I got lenses which attach to a phone camera, a carjack, a foldable lawn chair, but the a raclette cheese melter didn't come with another card.

Honestly, all fine products, nothing's broken etc. and I was very happy with such an amazing value for under $10. Werw they even fake reviews?

Re:Systems Programming with Racket on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:27PM (#36556424)
I've been working on porting golang's net/http and gorilla/websocket libs to Racket for the past few months (I don't like the servelet model.) Does anyone have insight into how that model might not be optimal in a Scheme enviroment or how to better optimize it?
What use cases do you actually have for plugins? I mean, why do you need that hotloading factor?
> they're building everything on Illumos (Solaris)

This is an amazing plus in my eyes. Solaris systems are amazing.

Re:OpenBSD: Malloc leak detection available in -current on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:47AM (#35610745)
Could you share more about how nd why you use AIX? How is it in production? Im very interested in corp Unixes but have never met anyone still using one, alrhough new features keep getting added.
Re:Ask HN: What is a good book about how computers work? on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:41AM (#35610703)
From Nand to Tetris

It takes you from individual logic gates to assembler to Tetris, all as a hands on course.

Re:The Usability of Advanced Type Systems: Rust as a Case Study on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:53AM (#34895439)
> You can learn to use Rust in Go-like settings in under a week.

How? I would love to give it a spin.