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Sprinklers and all kinds of stuff are more efficient with sensors and electronic regulators

The API has the wrong abstraction and the type definitions fail to capture necessary information (such as in which year you were of the given age) and thus conversions can not be guaranteed to be correct

How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?

Autocorrupt

To be pedantic, it’s trademarks you have to actively defend. With copyright and patents there’s different exceptions, but you can usually sue for at minimum expected license fees (although sometimes you give up the possibility to sue for willful infringement & additional damages if you wait)

It’s kinda comparable in terms, but because both licenses have comparable copyleft “no rights may be removed and no terms added” restrictions they conflict and can’t be merged.

CDDL came after GPL, and I’m not convinced by the arguments for why it was used (to make some kind of development with commercial modules easier, but this could’ve been done with GPL + exceptions)

That license plus patents (which only are freely licensed to the CDDL implementation specifically) means you can’t just rewrite it for Linux either. You’d have to wait for the patents to expire and then do clean room reverse engineering.

It does this by encrypting the OS separately from apps and user data. The OS is auto unlocked (usually using a hardware TPM chip).

The boot order of the component which handle encryption has an effect on which other system components which reliably can be scripted to automate stuff with that data.

Tldr if it’s just for your documents, sure. If you’ve got sensitive program data / config there, it makes it harder to autostart them because now you have to wait.

Also they only make referral fees because they’re not a registrar themselves

Thunder compresses it

Technically, in some jurisdictions a person who is widely known to be unreliable is harder to sue for libel precisely because the likelihood of reputational injury is lower if nobody actually believes the claim.

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The steam controller didn’t really fail, but the patent fight was a mess that took way too long (much too late disqualified patent over paddle buttons). That sucked a lot of energy out of the project. Don’t forget the steam deck kept those touch pads (although with a different design)!

Steam Link IMHO also wasn’t bad, but there didn’t seem to be much interest in it then. (interestingly enough I think it could be recreated today in a Chromecast-like form factor)

Stream machines was definitely a big mess however, there just wasn’t enough interest, too limited compatibility, the machines just wasn’t versatile enough for average Joe to pay for one.

“yes”? He’s definitely not building any significant fraction himself, but if he didn’t care for these things he wouldn’t let the company put so much resources into them.

Credit for the things built goes to the people building them. Credit for it being possible to build goes to the people who founded and funded the teams

Did it stop coolant leak though?

So basically engineers managed to even take solar power where we have steam-free power generation and insert steam into it anyway

Engineers loves taking every imaginable form of energy source and turn it into a way to drive a steam engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

Told you that you should’ve asked someone to explain

So you’re admitting you didn’t read any of my comments, and that you don’t understand that only very narrow types of lies are criminalized while the vast majority are not

Hint: read my first comment again

And then again

And then again, and notice the parentheses this time. Then ask somebody to explain it to you.

Nanoraptor’s photoshop

Edit: who the @@@ follows me around downvoting me, especially when it’s simply correct answers

Tell me where scientists are prosecuted for having got a theory wrong

Tell me where meteorologists routinely are prosecuted

I already mentioned the obvious exceptions (lying to cause certain types of harm) but few western countries allow penalties for anything outside those exceptions