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by Xylakant 5y ago
The parent doesn't mention the T480, but the X1 Carbon which comes with a full range of USB and HDMI ports. The Macbook Pro is 1.55cm thick, the X1 Carbon is 1.49 cm thick. Lenovo also sells the T480s, those are not substantially thick
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by Xylakant 5y ago
A single person doesn’t need a GbR but can act as a single person. You just need to register for taxes and possibly with the Gewerbeamt.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> At least if you are in Germany you need to have a business incorporated when you want to sell to customers or businesses. No. You can act as a GbR. It’s a good idea to incorporate a limited liability company to shield your personal pro
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> The issue is not one of linguistic subtleties, but whether the government should fund boondoggles at all. Most early tech and prototypes are considered “boondoggles” at first. Some of them are. Some of them not. Some of them may seem s
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by Xylakant 5y ago
This works out to just shy of 8000 EUR per month, enough to fund two people on an acceptable salary for that time. Folks with a sufficiently high profile could earn more on the open market, but you can live of that in most regions of german
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> And dump 50% of the money into technical work. The rest goes to the organizational overhead needed to get the funding in the first place. But the 50% technical work have to be the focus and acknowledged as the focus. You acknowledge t
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by Xylakant 5y ago
That’s the entire point of the prototype fund - there’s another technology fund that funds basic open source and infrastructure.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
This is not a tender, so the rules don’t apply. Generally, tenders would only apply to contracts where the government procures a service or good and only from certain thresholds on (~ 130 000 EUR for services), see further down on the page
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Why would that not be allowed? There’s no limitation on nationality, the requirement is for residency.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Widely used does not at all imply that they’re financially or otherwise sustainable. See the OpenSSL debacle which was at least partially caused by lack of paid maintainer time. It’s not like the lack of funding for large open source projec
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> The language used and the fact that the same persons are involved in two government funded funds strongly suggests that this is a diversity initiative in disguise. This initiative is form the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, a founda
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The people behind this study are the open knowledge foundation germany - a foundation that exists since a decade, not just some random people that met and thought “oh cool, let’s rip off some government money.” The OKFN runs Jugend Hackt, t
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> You don’t need one of those as the maintainer. They can also just hire somebody to do it for them. And who are they going to hire? Someone with people skills and accounting skills. That doesn’t need to be a tech person.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> There is ample organization and leadership skill among the geeks. Look at the site you are on and its background. Many millionaire geeks... Are any of those building and maintaining a successful open source project that is not commerci
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> Instead a lot of pol-sci majors that want to “manage” / claim developments they themselves would not have the skills to build Very few geeks have the skills (or even the desire) to build a financially sustainable open source proje
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by Xylakant 5y ago
What constitutes an "excellent open source history"? People that code often don't want to be bothered by organization and financial matters, and vice-versa, community work is still often disregarded as not truly open source w
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by Xylakant 5y ago
But the problem is the inverse one: given a library, which project in your org depends on it? Possibly a project tucked away into a repository that a developer maintained that just left last week and that just happens to be deployed on an e
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Straight on the list of top contributors on the open collective page the GP linked. The source is in the post claiming that there’s no contribution.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Care to explain why? Pretty much every distro I know is perfectly happy to include MIT licensed code.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> Sure, save the user from themselves while driving. The problem is that those people are driving a ton of steel around and are likely to kill someone other than themselves. And people have proven to be irresponsible when using cars - al
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> Note that GC makes explicit the costs associated with memory allocation and freeing; languages that use manual memory management (or semi automated memory management as in Swift/Rust) simply un-amortise the cost and distribute it
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The counterpoint is that using a GC makes the workload unpredictable. The GC may kick in at any time. Rust has a predictable performance profile and that’s important in some applications.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I’m not sure how that works in the Netherlands, but in germany the risk of “Scheinselbständigkeit” which is probably the closest common analog resides nearly completely with the employer. The legislature wants to strongly discourage this be
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Corona has other hosts, some of which seem to be unaffected by it.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> Thus natural selection optimises for forms that spread but don't kill. It may also find an unlucky local optimum where it shows no symptoms for a period while already being highly transmissible and then slowly kill or leave the su
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> Truly deadly virus's don't kill a lot of people. Evolutionally speaking, it's not to their advantage to do so The Black Death (1) and the Spanish Flu would like to have a word. Humans eventually evolved sufficient immuni
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by Xylakant 5y ago
No, that’s not what it means. It means that comparing the absolute numbers of people infected in both groups - vaccinated people and unvaccinated people - or even the percentage of the total number of infections is not valid. You need to ta
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I’m not saying it could not be. I’m saying that a cursory search of the internet provides no substantial allegation that this is the case - and the article just asserts so, without any further citations or discussion.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
But it's clearly not as simple. The GPL triggers on distribution of the combined work - the user is free to link GPL'ed and other code with incompatible licenses as long as they do not redistribute. For example, the kernel modules
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by Xylakant 5y ago
At first glance I cannot find any indication that streamelements violates the OBS license. They distribute a plug-in for OBS, separately, and that’s usually not considered a GPL violation, even if the plug-in is closed source. A quick googl

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