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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

If it's in the public domain, it's almost certainly legal. I don't have the general answer to your question.

Really this question shows how outdated copyright law is; in many countries it prohibits "copying", but in the age of computers nearly all accessing of information involves "copying" it in some way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 145 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all your devices and accesses your data, the other is a hardware standard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course you can use XML that way, but it is unnecessarily verbose and complex because you have to make decisions, like, whether to store things as attributes or as nested elements.

I stand by my statement that if you're saving things to a file you should probably use XML, if you're transferring data over a network you should probably use JSON.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yes and it is a good thing we don't anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (12 children)

IMHO: XML is a file format, JSON is a data transfer format. Reinventing things like RSS or SVG to use JSON wouldn't be helpful, but using XML to communicate between your app's frontend and backend wouldn't be either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do they do that in xml? never seen that

[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"how to kill orphaned children in Java"

what do you mean Java is also the name of an island

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There are cars where you might need to add gas, and ones where you don't. The above definitely worked in the car I learned to drive in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You are right that if your car isn't level (especially if you want to move uphill), the process is somewhat more challenging and you need to be careful not to roll down the hill, but I have never been taught to use the handbrake even in those situations and have not ever done it that way (for context, I live in Austria, i.e. I have driven a manual transmission car on mountainous roads many times by now).

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