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Comment Re: Headers? Better than nothing I guess (Score 1) 4

"The header means you can interact without the source yet retain ABI correctness and not be buggy."

Yup. And if there is a bug then you get to report it and hope the powers that be will deign to fix it.

And if you want to study the source and implement it on another operating system, tough luck.

So, to repeat, it is indeed better than nothing but not exactly super duper.

Comment Re:Song writers too (Score 1) 214

"I've long stopped considering electronic music to be music because a computer is not an instrument."

I play a digital piano. It's always perfectly in tune and it's got a nicer tone and sound than most upright pianos since it's based on a Steinway Grand sampleset.

It looks like an ordinary piano but "under the hood" it's chips and circuit boards.

So is what I play on it (Frank Sinatra tunes, movie themes, "popular music" from the 1940's, etc.) not actually music?

Comment Construction tv shows (Score 1) 33

A friend of mine who's a renovation contractor told me that the worst thing that ever happened to residential renovations was the "fix-it" tv programs.

When he quotes someone on doing a job and says it'll take two weeks the prospective customer thinks he's trying to rip him off because he just saw a similar job in (supposedly) three days on tv.

Comment "an unnamed telephone company" (Score 5, Insightful) 10

"an unnamed telephone company"

Well, that's helpful.

Since this hack is the result of negligence on the part of this unnamed company (as the patch was provided by the vendor months before), it would be useful to know who it is for the purpose of knowing who not to trust with your business.

Not that there's likely to be much accountability in any case since folks living in any particular area won't have many competing service providers to choose from, but not providing the name removes even the chance of a customer being able to takes steps to mitigate his own risk.

Comment That's not what the law says (Score 4, Interesting) 69

It's interesting that there is a law that say Tick Tock must be divested by a certain date.

And without changing that law in any way, Trump just says we won't enforce it until a date further in the future than what the law actually says.

So the current situation is that Tick Tock is in violation of the law (and has been for the past several months). If I were in their position I would be considering going for some kind of an estoppel order to permanently void the law since it's being (not) enforced on a simply arbitrary basis by an individual's whims of the moment. Does that sound like a law worthy of respect by anyone at all?

Comment Re:Complete confusion (Score 2) 72

Among other things, I write 1940's style hardboiled detective stories, usually where the detective is involved in a fairy tale - hunting the big bad wolf, rescuing sleeping beauty, etc.

I'd hate to see what sort of person I'd be matched with based on some of the stuff I search for. :)

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