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Aquileo | cake
Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • Thinking about it, I came across the terminology when I was deciding what licence to use for a side project I was coding, and it was on the webpages telling me about various licences folks use for open source projects.

    So I’ve only learned this term from looking at licensing from the other side of the table, so to speak, so I suspect that most people who aren’t programmers wouldn’t come across it because it’s not even included in the text of most licences. It’s a unifying concept, rather than a contract term.

    It’s always nice when I’m about to install some software and it says the name of a copyleft licence in aware of. When it says GPLv3 as the title, for example, I stop reading and say we’re good to go.




  • Everyone else is wrong. (Ragebait.)

    Speed of approach = speed of separation.

    If the box left the blue portal at a slower speed than it entered the yellow one, the top of the box would be moving slower than the bottom of the box, which would compact the box dramatically during the transition, but we can see that its size is unchanged and it is still square.

    The top of the box is pushed rapidly out of the blue portal by the bottom of the box being thrust into the yellow portal. (The bottom of the box is pulled rapidly up into the air by the top of the box which is already moving quickly.)
















  • You’ve been saying the same bad advice up and down this thread.

    If you reliably pay your credit card bills in full by the due date, your score climbs and climbs. Not instantly, over time. Reliability isn’t a one-off.

    If you cancel your credit card, you have less evidence that other institutions are happy to lend to you, and your score could go down.

    If you apply for a new credit card, your score can go down because that’s also what people who are running out of money do, not because your borrowing to limit percentage is low.

    The highest credit scores are for people who have been loaned plenty of money, and who always make their payments.

    Deliberately causing them to charge you interest just makes you poorer and does not show that you’re a good risk to loan to. It’s the front door for ballooning debt, and that’s what they want none of - people who get declared bankrupt or have other debt interventions are a massive loss to them, and what they want to avoid like the plague.