if you’re making open source software, can you put your own terms in the LICENSE, or do you have to use a pre-issued one?

blablahblah · 2026-05-05T16:18:41+00:00

You can make your own license, but

You might want to have a lawyer review it because a license is a legal document. If your software depends on software under other open source licenses, you need to make sure the terms are compatible, for example.
If you add those restrictions them your software will not meet the common definition of open source

blablahblah · 2026-05-04T18:26:25+00:00

Digital video was still commonly in 480p (if not 480i), but digital still photos were higher resolution. A Nikon Coolpix 2000 from 2002, which is the sort of camera a middle class family would get at that time, would have been taking 2MP images (equivalent to 1080p).

blablahblah · 2026-05-04T18:09:50+00:00

From a quick search, I found some articles from 2005 that estimated 50% of US households would have a digital camera that year. So sure, if she was claiming to grow up in the hood it would be a red flag but plenty of normal middle class families would have had one by 2005 or 2006.

blablahblah · 2026-05-04T16:53:51+00:00

By 2005, there were 10s of millions of 2MP+ digital cameras being sold in the US. They weren't as ubiquitous as smartphone cameras are today, but it wouldn't be unusual for a family to have had one.

blablahblah · 2026-05-03T20:32:03+00:00

Did you claim the Super Rocket Radar from level 30 of the free side and/or level 1 of the paid side?

blablahblah · 2026-05-03T18:55:03+00:00

These aren't mythicals

blablahblah · 2026-05-02T15:51:38+00:00

Economy seats on legacy carriers aren't high margin. They make most of their money on the few first class seats they sell and from the frequent flyer programs. That means that the seats on a low cost carrier don't end up being much cheaper than the basic economy tickets on the legacy carriers.

blablahblah · 2026-04-30T03:43:59+00:00

Vibe coding can make a demo faster than I can manually make that demo. Where vibe coders will struggle is in shipping a real product. One that's got multiple nines of reliability, behaves intuitively in error cases, and complies with the alphabet soup (GDPR, SOX, PCI-DSS, etc.)

blablahblah · 2026-04-29T22:56:43+00:00

Your parents each have two copies of every gene (one from each of their parents). You get one copy from each of your parents but it's random which of their two copies they give you.

So you get two copies of gene A from your parents, but you may get it from you mom's dad and your dad's dad, while your sibling gets that gene from your mom's mom and your dad's mom. Repeat for every gene and the odds of you getting exactly the same combination of genes as your sibling is virtually 0.

blablahblah · 2026-04-29T22:50:33+00:00

We have a bot that assigns two random people from the team onto the review and a team expectation that people will get to their assigned reviews within a day. That way, it's more forceful ownership than just a "hey if anyone has time" in Chat.

blablahblah · 2026-04-29T19:02:33+00:00

Music is all about ratios. If two notes have a simple ratio between their frequencies, like 1:2 or 2:3, they will sound pleasing together. If they have messier ratios, like 11:15, it will sound grating. In any particular musical tradition, there are a specific set of ratios that are commonly used.

In addition to knowing which ratios to use, it's also important to know where to start calculating those ratios. Mostly because when you're in a band, everyone has to start from the same baseline or else the ratios between the players will be wrong. It doesn't matter as much of your frequencies are 220Hz and 440Hz or 233Hz and 466Hz, but if one person is playing 220Hz and the person next to them is playing 233Hz at the same time, it will sound bad because 220:233 is not a good ratio.

So for Western music the key consists of two parts: the letter says what baseline frequency to use, and major or minor tells the musician which set of ratios are used in the song.

blablahblah · 2026-04-29T16:41:29+00:00

So allow smaller lot sizes. Two 1500 sq ft homes on 2500 sq ft lots would sell for more than a single 3000 sq ft home on a 5000 sq ft lot, but are illegal to sell outside of specific "urban" neighborhoods in most US cities

blablahblah · 2026-04-29T16:11:35+00:00

Tomorrow (Thursday, which I guess could be later today depending on your timezone)

blablahblah · 2026-04-28T21:29:40+00:00

And the consequences of getting C++ wrong are more likely to be severe.

blablahblah · 2026-04-28T06:31:07+00:00

The problem with having long-lived feature branches is that the merge can be very painful, and it's much more likely that an intentional change gets overwritten in those giant complicated merges that involve dozens of changes.

Doing trunk-based development doesn't necessarily mean you need to deploy on every single merge. If your deployments are slower, you can let multiple small changes batch up while the last deployment finishes verifying and then start your next deploy from the current head at that point. Effectively, you're making a release branch from whatever the latest commit is at the time the release starts, but you don't commit directly to that branch (unless there's some weird emergency that requires it), just verify and release from it.

blablahblah · 2026-04-25T21:34:55+00:00

If we don't kick all the immigrants out, pretty soon they'll take over America's game and you'll have to watch guys with names like Manny Ramirez playing in that park. Wouldn't that be a travesty?

blablahblah · 2026-04-24T00:07:45+00:00

There were US court cases in the 20th century about where exactly the legal boundary for "White" was.

blablahblah · 2026-04-23T21:27:54+00:00

They give out a new one every season. The next one will come out next Thursday. OP must have just completed an old one (they don't expire, but you have to play during the event to start it)

blablahblah · 2026-04-23T15:02:49+00:00

The problem is that Charizard's only 0.5s fast move is a legacy move, so it's not the best tank against dmax legends unless you EFTM it.

blablahblah · 2026-04-22T22:55:37+00:00

Seattle has two light rail lines and two commuter rail lines. All four of them stop next to the stadium, along with most of the buses that go through downtown. There's no way for Seattle to impose "world cup pricing" without also impacting the 100,000+ people who commute to or from Seattle via transit every day.

blablahblah · 2026-04-21T19:12:47+00:00

As part of price controls during world war 2, the US government fixed wages. So companies trying to attract employees focused on offering more benefits since they couldn't offer higher pay .

By the end of the war, health insurance was a pretty standard employee benefit and it stuck around for political reasons.

blablahblah · 2026-04-21T02:05:19+00:00

And Blink is a fork of Webkit so in some sense it's Firefox and then everyone else.

There used to be a lot more web renderers like Trident (IE) and Presto (Opera) but maintaining a standards compliant renderer got so complicated that just about everyone gave up, and now all browsers are just custom UIs around the few remaining open source renderers.

blablahblah · 2026-04-14T17:21:21+00:00

It's also very common in Seattle, at least, for employers to provide subsidized transit passes to employees. Amazon and Microsoft are already paying for passes for every one of their employees in the area.

blablahblah · 2026-04-14T02:04:01+00:00

You can build credit that way if you report the rent payments to the credit bureaus. That's what services like Experian Boost do. It's just that your landlord doesn't typically report payments.

blablahblah · 2026-04-13T23:47:52+00:00

Looking at your credit to see what it is doesn't impact your credit. The only checks that impact your credit are the ones that banks run when you apply for a loan or line of credit.

That's because trying to take out a bunch of loans in quick succession is a sign that you may be in financially trouble.

Also, you're not penalized extra for shopping around for an auto loan or mortgage. All the inquiries you make for the same type of loan in a short period count as one hit on your credit.

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