thevoidzero

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Now think, patents are similar things but for with more money. And imagine if someone else had similar idea and made slightly similar website you go sue them coz you had the idea first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know how people say "Devil you know is better than God you don't"?

Excel is that Devil people know. It's not the best tool for a lot of stuffs but it let's people do things.

I saw a co-worker generate sequence for formula in excel for another cell in excel. They wanted to do average of all January data, instead of averageif/sumif/countif etc, they generated a sequence a1+a13+a25...... And used excels' drag down thing to make the formula. I'm like who could even verify it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (16 children)

If there was an easy way to use rust or something on webassemly and use that instead of JS. I'd be so happy, but I can't find how to do it without npm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think that's why Github suggests MIT as default. Unaware people will just put that. Most open source people just code things they want without thinking much on other aspects. We really need some sort of enforcement to stop companies banking on voluntary work done for the community.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can use your library for commercial projects that you have. Just have dual license that requires payment for commercial use or something similar. You don't have to pay yourself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Miniserve is a program for computers. Though you can run it in termux. It just opens a tiny server instance for file sharing, you can download/upload files to a directory directory. Will also show QR for the link.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It is kinda like that. We have a tracker that we added because they increased the insurance rate and said if you install this device we'll keep the rate low based on driving patterns.

Basically records how often you drive, hard break/sharp turns, after midnight drives, etc. We don't drive the car often so the prob of accident is low but we recently learned that they can consider not driving enough also bad saying it can make you drive recklessly or sth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ever heard of open source?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like too much work, and what if there are clouds. We should make devices that can be calibrated when you're in a certain location based on their standards and then the device will continue to show that locations' shadow location without the sun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah sure, I'll compile it in my OS. For any other OS, either I'm not knowledgeable about the tools available, and many of them that I am not going to spend money to acquire. If providing the binary a developer compiles for themselves would solve it, we'd not have that problem at all.

I specifically hate when program or libraries are only in compiled form, and then I get an error messages talking about an absolute path it has with some usernames I've never seen before, and no way to correct it as there's no code. Turns out when people pass compiled versions to the OS they don't use themselves they don't encounter the errors and think it works fine.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Lol, that's a fun angle. They don't need all those fields coz they just get your information the other way

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