Joel_Mckay

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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
If one proposed an absurd analogy, than we should expect an absurd response. Have a wonderful day =3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
>Philosophically I see it as forced don't-murder is no longer true don't-murder. I would suggest reading "A Clockwork Orange", as it highlights why compulsory ethics is no longer just without free will. Spoiler, even
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
We do have medically assisted suicide in my country, but folks don't goad veterans into the program like a cartoonish ghoul. Have a great day =3
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
Philosophically, I see it as forced charity is no longer a true charity paradox. Or, a copyright troll is functionally indifferent from a copyleft troll. It is important to keep the path clear for kids to build their own success stories. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
You mean you have never written or used FOSS applications at work? I find that very surprising, but I have seen some shops practice clean room coding policies. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
I am mostly just an anti-contaminating license proponent. Porting to multiple platforms gets complicated if you include a 3rd party commercial library with a project that on linking demands it also become publicly accessible. For example, i
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
If people have a rational self-interest in helping build great works, than the projects simply manifest out of necessity. There is zero benefit in assuming everything is a zero-sum game. With billions of people online someone is always hav
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
As much as I dislike isomorphic plagiarism, your point is very valid... It is a viable argument, and people shouldn't bury such insights given the estimated $9Tn worth of opensource work that was appropriated. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
For FOSS I personally prefer Apache 2.0 license, as 10 years from now I have no idea what people will need for their projects. Personally, it makes me happy if people can make a business using a bit of my work. Just don't redirect com
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by Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
Just like ADHD medications were repurposed as pseudo Nootropics in healthy people, Sildenafil is no longer primarily used for heart medication, and GLP-1 drugs are not primarily sold to diabetics anymore. Hormone therapies are often popular
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
"only 17% of dairy cows in the U.S. are now being treated with the synthetic [bGH/rbST] hormone" It is perfectly safe for US children according to the FDA, and illegal in most other developed countries. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Shorter lives due to cardiovascular damage, and shrinking testicles as their body fails to regulate the self-inflicted hormone imbalance... Also irrational mood swings... A million piece puzzle was just solved. Real athletes never touch the
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
It is not treason if it is a foreign group operating on foreign soil. This was an old Quid pro quo arrangement that predates the Patriot act. Have a nice day =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
You do realize many VPN providers are run by intelligence contractors. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Analog Devices Pluto SDR has a fairly integrated tutorial program for zynq fpga. https://www.analog.com/en/resources/evaluation-hardware-and-... > I’ve never touched ladder logic Depends what kind of work you d
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
If you read the tutorial, the broadcast iterators and GPU kernel are often implicit. As the CUDA array type hints means you don't need to explicitly define standard operations unless doing something custom. I hope one day Julia does a
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
I am not suggesting your experience isn't true, but personal exposure to Qt over the years has not been as easy going. ymmv Best of luck, =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Matlab was better than Octave in many ways, till folks get the sticker-price shock for $3k/host in a commercial cluster. ymmv I still like Julia more, as it is fun. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
The abstraction does not require a lot of understanding/bodges to get performant code by amateurs: https://cuda.juliagpu.org/stable/tutorials/introduction/ But I agree the shared memory Distributed Compu
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Julia is fun, but is still mostly an academic language. Very few shops will use it in the private sector. Python is also more common as a prototype integration language, and rarely seen in industrial areas. If you are an EE that wants to re
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Julia abstracts entire programming paradigms in single characters. https://juliahep.github.io/Hands-on-Julia-for-particle-physi... BASIC "made simple things easy, and hard things impossible..." Julia is the first
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
> tried Julia a few years ago; perhaps this has been improved since? The pre-compiled binary outputs are much smaller, and load a lot faster. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
You are correct, but did VLC become more stable and easier to maintain? Maybe... =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Structurally, Qt is sometimes worse given the compatibility issues. There are desktops where Qt5/Qt6 software runs fine if you can get it to compile, but the GL interface has been broken on many platforms for over a decade. If folks do
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Most just 3D print (or buy) a manifold for a standard PC 12v fan. I assume duct-tape and cardboard would also work if things are dire. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
True, but no additional rights to distribute replicas of the copyrighted music and composer works. Note, if a band does a cover of a popular song, the original music composer rights also don't magically transfer because someone sang a
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Don't worry about it =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
I actually alluded to the design choice compromise in my post. But thank you =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
Could also look at https://quasar.dev/ if you do rapid release cycles. =3
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by Joel_Mckay 2mo ago
>Qt 6 build system is vastly easier to work with. The Audacity team imported their existing Qt interface code from a previous project. Depending on the design, the code smell could have a lot of vestigial parts unrelated to the new proj

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