EarlKing

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by EarlKing 6y ago
It's the kind of culture that maximizes efficiency over everything without a human being ever actually examining anything. It's the sort of madness that leads to impossible delivery schedules because someone started running during
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by EarlKing 6y ago
> "cutting-edge technologies in AI, ML and Edge Computing" Five bucks says their buzzword-compliant Sauron-o-scope is nothing more than a thin layer over some student's OpenCV project.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Wearing a seatbelt was already monitored via vehicle telemetry, so this is patent nonsense.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
The first computer I ever used was a Heathkit H89 microcomputer kit running CP/M. Somehow my old man got ahold of an 8" floppy drive from somewhere. I don't recall that it ever saw much use, though. 5 1/4" floppies
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by EarlKing 6y ago
There's links to plenty of it over here[1] which I posted up-chat. [1] https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html
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by EarlKing 6y ago
...or they're using that phrase exactly as it was intended before the OSI got their hands on it.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
"Open source" -- meaning the source is available and you can make modifications. You know, precisely what was in use before the OSI came along.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Language is not a popularity contest. Words and phrases can mean different things in different contexts. That the OSI came along and proffered its own definition does not mean we have to forget what came before and, moreover, is still curre
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by EarlKing 6y ago
> the claim is that "open source" didn't describe anything specific until OSI made it. Yes, and that claim is wrong. Each of Usenet posts cited in Martin Tournoij's blog make reference to open source (code) in one man
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by EarlKing 6y ago
> What do you hope to achieve with this? Ok, you win, the term "open source" predates the OSI. So what? The point is to demonstrate that the term predates the OSI's alleged coinage thereof. They don't get to dictate l
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by EarlKing 6y ago
You are misinformed. The term "open source" has a history that predates the OSI by at least eight years, possibly longer (but I can only provide cites going back eight years). Please see my full reply here: https://news
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by EarlKing 6y ago
> No, open source means the same thing it's always meant since the term was first coined. See the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd . Problem: The OSI did not coin the t