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Wasn't copying from disk to memory found to be infringing in the Glider lawsuit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar....

> Citing the prior Ninth Circuit case of MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511, 518-19 (9th Cir. 1993), the district court held that RAM copying constituted "copying" under 17 U.S.C. § 106.


No, it was not. It was found to be a copy, but not an infringing one in and of itself.

Step N in the analysis is "is it a copy?" Step N+1 is "does the copy infringe upon the rights of the owner"?



Your LESS_TERMCAP_us is the issue here; it's literally putting "In" wherever an underline is supposed to start.


I find the Horstmann indentation style [1], in which code is placed on the same line as the opening bracket, simultaneously disturbing and compelling. If it ever ends up added to clang-format as has been requested [2], it might become more popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#Horstmann_st... [2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27263


It is fascinating that we've developed a sense of aesthetics around this, though I suppose it is to be expected with how much we are oriented around language.

I personally use 1TBS wherever possible. It just looks the cleanest to me.


Oh my God, I think I like it.


This is actually very sensible. I don't like the top bracket being its own line, but there's good reason for it to align with the bottom bracket.


Java style formatting removes the "bracket on its own line" problem, so I'm not sure how this new indentation style adds anything of value really.


I like it too. It makes C code actually look readable. It would be interesting to see it applied to Lisp code.



Equivalently, one can run `less +F <FILE>`


Both Ecobee and Nest can do this:

- Ecobee "AC Overcool / Dehumidify Using AC": https://support.ecobee.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000268887-Ho...

- Nest "Cool to Dry": https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9294957?hl=en


Perhaps "For The/Those Interested"?


For Their Information. Like FYI, but presumably dan-robertson already knows! It's for the benefit of everyone else.


It's not clear to me what you mean by "longstrings" from that page. Are you referring to the double-bracket quoted style?


Yes. A Lua-style longstring is delimited by [===[ and ]===] where the number of = signs can be arbitrary (including zero); the end must have the same number of = signs as the beginning. Any string can be encoded inside of a longstring without escaping, simply by using long enough delimiters. There are a number of advantages to this notation: it's more readable (usually), it generally results in shorter code files, and longquoted substrings can be directly addressed without translation (though there may be other reasons not to pass that pointer around).


It's an optional feature and isn't built by default. See http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/config.html#cfg_clang_assisted_...


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