They mean consumer robocars as opposed to robotaxis. The latter exist, the former don't. And the latter are remotely controlled by operators when hard situations arise, but a blind consumer would presumably be on their own or would have to pay an additional subscription for that service.
I was going to elaborate and say that even though typical columnar databases are already compressed with some variant of dictionary lookup compression, I'd like to see a database engine where large objects (bulk text or binary data) is stored efficiently by default. If I were to wave my hands about, I'd say something like a Merkle or Prolly tree of large ~256KB chunks stored in deduplicated external blob storage, where the individual chunks are compressed with a modern throughput-optimised algorithm.
Isn't the Vegas Loop just a car tunnel? As far as I know, there aren't any actual hyperloops[1] involved, just a narrow highway, even if they deceivingly brand it "Loop".
Hell no, open source is just about the licence, and source available generally refers to proprietary licenses that at least let customers access the source.
This is just the cathedral model to open source, as opposed to the bazaar you clearly prefer, but it's still open source.
That was my reaction at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly. Some of the other bizarre syntax bothered me for much longer, like using semicolons for list separators, eg [1;2;3] instead of [1,2,3].
I briefly tried to use Reason since it “fixed” a lot of my biggest issues with the syntax, but it wasn’t worth it overall so I went back to plain ocaml pretty quickly.
I didn’t look very closely at F# at the time, but I remember thinking it looked like “ocaml with more normal syntax”.
> that behaved as if copyright didn't apply in the first place.
If copyright didn't exist then the share-alike and anti-tivoization clauses wouldn't work, FOSS in general wouldn't even protect attribution. Copyleft ecosystems depend on some amount of copyright law to uphold themselves.
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