dominicjj

People who want to make a pizza as good as Jeff's. I found this page over ten years ago and my pizzas are rightly famous among friends. I'm always happy to point them at the source for the information.

The Space Orb was the most effective way to play D2 once you got used to it.

I first came across this problem in Gödel, Escher, Bach in the 80s sometime when I first read it. Hofstadter does warn the reader to bring lots of paper when trying 27. Did I listen? Of course not.

As a chess variant fan, this is a cool idea that has a lot of potential. I would like to see it extended to include say, the first ten moves. Black may announce a double move any time during the first ten moves after which white gets his double move and then play continues with single alternating moves as usual, with the sole restriction that mate may not be delivered by a double move.

Oh absolutely. Stick with Markdown and export to HTML as needed (I use emacs and org-mode's built in converter for that) but pandoc can export from Markdown to LaTeX and then Lyx can import it no problem.

I love Bob's writing and his solid grasp of programming subjects that interest me like games and programming languages. For his next book, I suggest trying LyX and the book class with the Tufte layout for far less pain in the publishing process.

I'll forgive the author for not mentioning it because it's gone completely unmentioned in the Western media: the case against Julian Assange has collapsed completely. The prosecution's star witness, a convicted child molester, has walked back all of his original accusations.

https://archive.is/qNq8u

Amen brother. Not to be messed with.

I touched a 1500 year old olive tree in Antalya, Turkey. Almost a sacred experience.

I should have said 'legally'.

Very close to the real deal only when emulating a 370 from the 80s. zOS is a different beast though even though it shares a lot of the asm underneath. But there is no way to run zOS for yourself without a license from IBM or access to a real z-series somehow.

You can! You need to install the Hercules mainframe emulator and the freely available MVS 3.8 on top of it. There are compilers for COBOL, Fortran, PL/1 and assembly available. The go to guy on YouTube for getting all this working is moshix:

https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix

Here's a report confirming their identification:

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article89...

I said NC but it was Myrtle Beach, SC, sorry. Names: Rafael Aguilar, 31, and Carmelo Marmolejo-Calixto.

http://gunmemorial.org/2016/07/11/rafael-aguilar

Archived screenshot with his occupation listed as '2016 Clinton campaign aid (sic)': https://archive.is/pB7BX

Conclusive? No. But should have been seriously dug into instead of the giant deafening silence we had.

And one other thing I forgot to mention: Seymour Hersh, one of the finest old-school investigative journos in the world, dug in to this and confirmed all sorts of weird things: the FBI got access to Rich's PC, Rich contacted Wikileaks, Rich had DNC emails on his computer and so on.

>4. Stockfish can't unilaterally terminate someone's license to the code.

Sure it can. It's the copyright holder.

>they almost seem to be hinging their entire case on this one point.

It has nothing to do with the network weights. Fat Fritz and Houdini are derivative works of Stockfish. Fat Fritz may be compliant with the GPL 3.0 (after being reported for violation) but Houdini certainly isn't.

You're somewhat confused. They can absolutely force ChessBase to 'play along' since it has no right whatsoever to distribute someone else's copyrighted code without a license.

Indeed.

"Your honor, the defendant is distributing my copyrighted work without a license. Make him stop please."

Your opponent has disconnected [no bong clouds please!]

The US isn't a democracy of course. By design. Who's writing this? Ah, yes. Every single time.

Ghidra is a very cool utility. I used it to disassemble StarGlider for DOS - a very old fav - to figure out how the game worked. Together with the DosBox debugger I managed to create my own hack so I could play the game without being killed the whole time.

Fair enough. She is correct about licenses in her jurisdiction.

They have nothing to do with contracts and there's a simple test for it. When contracts are violated, then if there's litigation the parties consult the relevant contract law for how to proceed. When a license is violated, the parties consult whatever law the license was permitting an exception to. If you copy software without a license, you can be sued for copyright infringement. If you fish without a license, you can be sued for trespassing.

"This is often the case for simply using the OSS software. The user has no obligations whatsoever."

This is a category error when it comes to copyleft licenses like the GPL. It has nothing to say about usage.

"If, on the other hand, the licensor and licensee both have some obligations (in OSS, this is usually when you modify or redistribute the source or compiled product), then it's basically a contract, no matter what RMS claims."

No it's not. There are no pre-agreed terms, penalties for violation, expected compensation for services provided or anything like that. GPLed software is copyrighted. Copyright law says you have no rights to copy it or make derivative works of it whatsoever. The license permits you to do so.

"Why would you trust what he says about contract law, a field where he has no professional training whatsoever?"

Because, surprise surprise, he has advice from people who ARE trained in the law.

Enjoy. I'm sure I'm not alone in completely ignoring the opinion of French judges and the European Court of Justice.

"(of course, free software licenses would still fulfil the important function of contractually requiring the publication of modified source code)"

No no no. Licenses are NOT contracts. Someone who copies or makes derivative works of copylefted software which they then distribute is obliged to remain within the bounds of the license not because they voluntarily promised, but because they don't have any right to act at all except as the license permits.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.en.html

>A reference would increase confidence in these assertions.

The one and only Tony Heller: https://realclimatescience.com/2021/06/yes-climate-change-ma...

>Solar activity hasn’t been increasing massively over the last century, whilst average temperatures did.

Not really. The earth has been gently cooling down since the 1930s. The US has the best temperature records which is why it's the most useful to study.

>we’re on our way to +2°C in ~1 century.

Strange then that the number of hot days and average maximum temperature in the US has dropped sharply in the last century. But I'm sure you're right and the sun has fuck all to do with earth's temperature.

Ah young grasshopper, I went to school in the 70s when the big boogeyman was global _cooling_: a new ice age, vast sheets of ice sweeping across the American continent, mammoths roaming the frigid wastes, Time Magazine covers and so on. Turns out, they were correct: the earth has been gently cooling down since the 1930s, a period so hot in this country that my grandparents were forced to move west because of the heat. So I know climate scientists are full of shit today. Carbon dioxide does not cause global warming. It's the other way around: warmer weather causes more carbon dioxide outgassing by the oceans. Colder water holds CO2 better as anyone who's had a warm beer knows all too well. Which is awesome since carbon is the building block of all life.

If you think the elites and mainstream media are telling the truth about man-made climate change, then be my guest. Based on solar activity, we're heading for a mini Ice Age with peak cold around 2035, much like the mini Ice Age that peaked in the early 1800s says the graph from NASA.

The mini Ice Age in the early 1800s would disagree.

Also record breaking cold in South America right now:

https://electroverse.net/record-breaking-cold-and-snow-sweep...

This sort of thing happens with lower solar activity.