Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:30:03 EST
Alexandre Olivafraid I don't know, I only came up with that possibility when asked to briefly look into what it would take to implement it in GCC, where I didn't think it would fit. I figured GDB had the full-program context it would take, unlike GCC, that sees one translation unit at a time, and that was the extent of my involvement. if anything came out of it, I probably wasn't told, but if I was, I forgot. FWIW, I haven't ever interacted with a language server, this was all an exercise of imagination many years ago.
thanks, but for some reason the site won't show me the post you linked to. I can't even see who posted it. if you can reach the person, ¿could I possibly ask you a favor?: let the person know that I'm reachable by email to oliva@gnu.org, or as lxo on Jami. thanks in advance,
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 09:28:09 EST
Alexandre Olivait s not just a comfort, it's not a "you" problem. being able to save and make sure it's saved before suspending, hibernating or hitting the reset button, before battery runs out, before unplugging removable storage, or before going offline are quite valuable. that doesn't preclude autosave, but having autosave doesn't preclude explicit save either
that copyright protects artists or works is a myth sustained by the abusive business models that it enables, that exploit both artists and the public at large.
now, you appear to take copyright, a form of power of others, for granted, rather than demanding it to prove itself useful to justify its existence.
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 08:55:21 EST
Alexandre Olivathe reduce/increase figures are lacking a baseline for the comparison, ISTM I find the reduced emissions most questionable. I am told engines are designed for peak efficiency at higher speeds than 20mph also, if 20mph made little difference to travel times, why would people bother to make and fly airplanes, choppers and the like? I mean, I believe the figures make sense under a number of other unstated assumptions, from comparison baseline to urban traffic patterns, but without them, the claims come across as blatantly false propaganda, which is IMHO a disservice to the likely good goals behind them
one of the issues has to do with bodily autonomy, and some people are inclined to override one's freedom to control one's own body so as to protect one from... what, placing oneself at risk of harm or violence perpetrated by others?
the other issue has to do with computing autonomy, constantly threatened by those who wish to impose their wishes onto you, which curtails your freedom, while some tolerate, accept and even welcome others to have power over them.
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 08:31:00 EST
Alexandre Olivao contador de tempo desde um instante de referência quase universal vai estourar, como que passando de 99 a 00. especificamente, o número de segundos desde 1970-01-01 vai ocupar todos os 31 bits comumente alocados para armazenar dados desse tipo. numa representação comum de 32 bits, somar um ao maior número representável resulta o menor número representável. então, programas e sistemas que não tenham sido modificados ou preparados para adotar uma representação com mais bits verão o relógio virar de 2147483647 (0x7fffffff = 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC) a -2147483648 (0x8000000 = 1901-12-13 08:45:52 UTC). o instante 0, nessa representação bastante comum, foi 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 06:25:06 EST
Alexandre Olivafunny. we have published an article entitled "The Fifth Freedom" https://www.fsfla.org/circular/2007-02#1 but it's not about changing the FSD there's a quality I enjoy about the freedoms as they're traditionally numbered: each bit has a meaning. given freedom n, where 0<=n<=3: * (n&1)!=0: the freedom involves the possibility of modification, and thus requires source code; the others don't * (n&2)!=0: the freedom involve community, collective freedom, help others, rather than just individual autonomy
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:04:13 EST
Alexandre OlivaI identify in your response the singling-out of the Nazi holocaust as an out-of-history episode that some scholars have been calling out, because this framing is dangerous and exploitable, and it is being exploited. if we were to believe that the holocaust was a unique episode in history, rather than something that happened before and will happen again (Battlestar Galactica vibes) if we don't learn to identify it before it happens again and stop it, we'd be assuming and taking the "never again" for granted. we wouldn't have learned from history, and it could then repeat itself, or at least rhyme, which would be bad enough.
I also identify a scent of a threat of censorship, that even Jewish who happen to be antizionist have been facing all around the world, for speaking up against the genocide of Palestinians in retribution for an attack on Israel carried out by Gaza's oppressive government. that censorship is well underway, even here in Brazil, where a Jewish scholar is being censored for antisemitism for calling out Israel's warcrimes. that's paving the way for jailing more Julian Assanges, and that serves war criminals rather than press freedom and informed public opinions.
pointing out similarities between ongoing events and past historical ones, understanding power, interests, alliances and oppression are reasons why we study history. I'm not at all downplaying the past Shoah, but ISTM you are downplaying the present Nakba. are you at legal risk?
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 01:31:33 EST
Alexandre OlivaI'm baffled by the statement that the Israeli government that's bombed and murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians after telling them to go to places where they'd be safe, and kept millions of them under siege without food, water, power, and health supplies, doesn't have the power to keep on doing so until those who haven't been exploded to pieces starve to death, get sick from improper water, or die of untreated health conditions. I'm shocked that you appear to be more worried about the harm one terrorizing government can bring onto the other's people, than about the much larger-scale destruction going in the opposite direction. even setting aside the history of oppression, in a fight between someone armed with a slingshot and someone armed with a machine gun (I'm trying to scale the forces proportionally), whose bystanders' lives do you most worry about, those who could be hit by a stray rock or by a stray bullet?
it's not that I don't. it's that israel is murdering palestinian human beings even faster than the nazi did jewish human beings. I find that intolerable and inexcusable. it makes me sick down to the soul, and though there's nothing I can do to change the course of the WWII holocaust at this point, there is a little (too little, alas) I can do to change the course of the present ongoing holocaust, and finding excuses for it to pass as tolerable is not one of them.
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 03:44:24 EST
Alexandre OlivaI'm lost as to what point you're trying to make here, I'm afraid. it sounds like you're trying to justify the bombing and murdering of palestinians because ancestors of jewish people were oppressed before. this might make some twisted sense if they had been oppressed by ancestors of the palestinians they're now bombing, but there are two major problems there: - that's not the case; the palestinians' ancestors were *also* oppressed back then alongside the jewish semites - if having been previously oppressed (ancestral or not) justified inflicting violence against civilians perceived as belonging to the oppressor group, it would follow that hamas' terrorism against israelis is just as justified as that conducted by the state of israel against palestinians
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 03:37:17 EST
Alexandre Olivathe existence of a few people with genocidal wishes on either side of this conflict shouldn't be much of a problem as long as such people aren't placed in positions of power, or get removed from them before they can do further damage. that would be an important part of any solution towards preserving innocent civilian lives that are being targeted by both groups in positions of power.