Re: Do free Open Source Foundation's Software Stacks fall under US Export Law?

2020-05-05 Thread Guido Stepken
In international law, signing such a contract, as Anaconda Eula is called "self binding". Those ideas in law go back to John Locke, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes. British and American law differ between binding contracts and common law. But in those countries, signing such a contract binds you to

Re: Do free Open Source Foundation's Software Stacks fall under US Export Law?

2020-05-05 Thread Guido Stepken
>From the philosphical point of view, 64 bit integer is the same as 64 bit float, except for, that you give certain bits a different meaning. Picolisp gives you total freedom, to decide, what to do with those 64 (or even more!!!) bits. Either you can store 4x 16 bit as so called "minifloat", even

Re: Do free Open Source Foundation's Software Stacks fall under US Export Law?

2020-05-05 Thread andreas
Hi Guido > Anaconda is a well known, free Software Installer for Python and R > packages, mostly used under Windows, right? > > And you think, that "free software" packages cannot be restricted by > US ministry of trade or U.S. president, such as happened in Huawei > Google case, right? Plain

Re: Do free Open Source Foundation's Software Stacks fall under US Export Law?

2020-05-05 Thread Edgaras Šeputis
You being an interesting personality, I have just mildly related question. What is your opinion on picolisp's floating point situation? (this is one reason why I did not even attempt to delve too much into it apart from some small experiments in REPL, though obviously I still find it and community

Do free Open Source Foundation's Software Stacks fall under US Export Law?

2020-05-05 Thread Guido Stepken
Interesting question, isn't it? Let's have a look into my findings! Anaconda is a well known, free Software Installer for Python and R packages, mostly used under Windows, right? And you think, that "free software" packages cannot be restricted by US ministry of trade or U.S. president, such as

Re: PilCon 2020

2020-05-05 Thread Guido Stepken
Lisp, interpreted languages in general, are single core only. Thus, a Hetzner CX11 offer for 2.98€/month https://www.hetzner.de/cloud always is sufficient, even for 60 clients. The is a huge discussion out there about Python GIL, many people claiming, that Python applications (Django, Flask)

Re: PilCon 2020

2020-05-05 Thread O.Hamann
On 28.04.20 07:38, Alexander Burger wrote: > We used Jitsi a lot during the last weeks. I have tried up to only 5 members > so > far, but performance was good. Beneroth has set up his own server. I don't > know > how well it scales for more members, and what can be done to optimize it. Thinking