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dapids··on Constraint-based geometry (CAD) sketcher for Blender
Is blender not open-source?
dapids··on Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
Interesting, thanks for the insight.
dapids··on SolveSpace – Parametric 2D/3D CAD
I was hoping this was a modelling software with solvers for electro/thermo/aero dynamics, etc. What is this solving?
dapids··on Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
It's also a preferred hardware inspection as its dead easy to rip the header than to seek mid-message to do message entropy/fingerprinting.
dapids··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
I'm not sure it was ever a particularly reliable approach to master instruction timings as these timings are a best effort schedule guarantee outside of a hard real-time system. Unless you profiled each instruction cycle timing over every microcode update to your processor, maybe, but I'm doubtful this was ever a sound approach.

It doesn't sound like grey beard knew what he was actually doing, but more relying on his years of experience and good fortune that has kept him with a job up until then.

dapids··on Why does pepperoni curl? (2019)
Man, you seem to have a lot of hot takes on pizza here with zero evidence. As a Canadian I will take my thin pizza, not everything needs to be "American". Disgusting.
dapids··on Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
In some countries like Canada you have to pay out unused vacation regardless, its the law.
dapids··on Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers
And that's the way it should be. But many stick it out like their life depends on it, because somehow it usually does, and getting any other job is apparently out of the question. Good on your for deciding enough is enough.
dapids··on Adding HLSL and DirectX Support to Clang and LLVM
This will be great. As it will allow me to offload code to compute shaders without switching compilers.
dapids··on SARS-CoV-2 contains part of a patented genetic sequence
What do you think? Kinda a pedantic response for a spelling mistake.
dapids··on Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
Facebook still owns Facebook.
dapids··on Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
It literally says 2022
dapids··on Google Search Is Dying
It takes approx. 5 seconds to add a new search engine to Safari on macOS.

What?

dapids··on How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013)
Whole page is an ad cesspool
dapids··on A Review of Shader Languages
Especially compute shaders. A very nice and concise way of writing prototype GPU bound code without muddling in lower level details.
dapids··on A new programming language for high-performance computers
I too was surprised.
dapids··on My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools
No, but thanks for the link.
dapids··on A toy DNS resolver
Okay, now do it recursively for all supported record types. Oh, wait.
dapids··on Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers
Okay, how about globally? This argument on it's face is useless. Detergent comes in a variety of forms, both liquid and solid.
dapids··on A toy DNS resolver
I guess we are calling paths to executables "bash code" now.
dapids··on Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers
What? Do you have a source for them all taking the same amount of space? Bit of an assumption. For example, many stores in Tokyo are quite compact due to the real-estate cost, so I don't see how this applies generally.
dapids··on How does the FBI art crime team operate?
username checks out
dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
What on earth are you talking about? ld64 is a completely different beast than dyld in today's world.

Also, I'm not sure looking for individual points of contact in a large org is the best idea. I emailed security@apple.com. Even if it's not a security bug they will help direct you to the right team.

Again, have you even tried?

dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
Thanks for the response. Mistakes happen, human or computer, not the end of the world, and I get it. I was just more curious to know if there is a manual process for this type of forking that was not being vetted via the bot, and to bring another example to your attention.
dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
I just got a security bug fixed last month in dyld in one release cycle. Didn't strike me as difficult. I emailed them, and they fixed it. Not much more to add then that. Have you actually tried?

Also dyld isn't just some thrown-over the wall code. It's completely designed and built by Apple and is the cornerstone to making the user-space runtime functional.

dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
Literally half the operating system is open source macOS, they have an entire site dedicated to it. opensource.apple.com.

Oh and don't forget googles ridiculous amount of effort poured into Android open-source source tree, just to name one of many.

I honestly can't tell if you are trolling here or not.

dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
It's not just bots, it's real people: https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...
dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
Do you mind addressing the reason why an employee did exactly what you are claiming the bot did in error?

https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...

Again, this is a person, not a robot. How does this play into a "software bug"?

dapids··on Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many staircases?
As someone who has been trapped in a building during a fire by a pipe wielding maniac. It isn't always that simple.
dapids··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
Because it was done intentionally by an employed individual in this case rather than a bot. You cannot in good conscious as an individual make this "mistake" without knowing or acting maliciously unless you are incompetent to begin with. Seems like a growing trend at MS. And I'll remind you that Apple actually uses CUPS for their print backend and funds it directly, they retain the original license and support the project, meanwhile MS takes it, doesn't contribute and acts like it's their own, sick.

https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...

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