abetusk

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1. 931.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   Is it? I would really like a reference for that claim. Maybe you're confusing the free time that developers have because of their corporate jobs to create FOSS, but this is not the same as directly writing and paying for FOSS by corpor
2. 932.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   Mapbox releases Mapbox GL JS v2 under a proprietary license whereas v1 (presumably) was under an "open core" business model. (Mapbox v1 and v2 are graphics card enhanced mapping libraries?). The author of the article's thesis
3. 933.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   Here are my notes on it [0] [1]. Feel free to extend, "steal", add or whatever. I'd also love to see a book, blog post or article from someone who's more competent then myself. [0] https://github.com/abet
4. 934.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   I feel for you on this. I was in the same boat. Even talking to musicians, they couldn't explain it to me with the rigor I wanted. For me, the real insight came when I understood why the 12 note chromatic scale was chosen, why chords &
5. 935.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   OK, this looks like a pretty substantial improvement. There are more wave forms, better control over the wave forms, effects, etc. I think these features were lacking in beepbox and, though I haven't played around with Jummbus, it look
6. 936.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   uhh, this looks like a straight rip of beepbox [1]. Oh, I see it's referenced in the text blurb underneath. It would be nice to list what changes were enhanced from beepbox that are now in Jummbus. EDIT: ok, they do discuss changes, it
7. 937.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   Yes, while gotos are frowned upon, they're still allowed in C/C++. Where to goto? A label, of course.
8. 938.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   I'm no expert at this whatsoever but from what I've gleaned looking around, a good heuristic is that removing hot air is way better than pushing cold air in. As a kind of hand-waivy argument, I think of the difference between aver
9. 939.▲
   by abetusk 6y ago

   So if light were traveling through "slow glass" where it's speed through the medium was significantly slowed down, we would see it go in a parabola like the ball?
10. 940.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    I read it as how the effects monopolies produce organizations that attract abusers and predators. Here is an excerpt that goes into more detail (with some details omitted for brevity): > ... Varsity might have preferred to do little abou
11. 941.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Very interesting! The Bridgeman v. Corel looks to be a straight up case of taking pictures of public domain work and then trying to resell. It looks like the courts judged in favor of keeping it public domain, so that's great news. In
12. 942.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    This gets into murky territory and I'm not sure claiming their pictures are in the public domain would hold up in court. This is common practice for museums so I suspect there's precedent in their copyright claims. I would imagine
13. 943.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    To be clear, you're saying that a public institution [1] who's charter is to provide access to artifacts that would otherwise normally be in the public domain and who's funding comes from donations and tax dollars should be e
14. 944.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Wow, really unfortunate these are locked under copyright of "The Trustees of the British Museum" ([1] for example). [1] https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1613716997
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    by abetusk 6y ago

    This is unfortunately old news, though I can't remember where I heard GoDaddy engaging in this behavior. Anecdotally, I've had the same thing happen to me. Now I only use the Internic DNS lookup when I want to search. [1] https:&
16. 946.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Does anyone know of anything similar that's public domain? I'm a little surprised that they're included in gnu/linix utilities as they're copyright Eno and Schmidt. The default is, of course, Tarot card readings whi
17. 947.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    I'm not sure if these are too meta, but here are ones that I think are relevant: - The free/libre/open source community care deeply about fundamental problems of our society and are trying to provide legal and technical tools
18. 948.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    I had some problems getting it to run but after some handholding I managed to get all the demos to run. Amazing stuff! I'll try to open an issue with all the problems I encountered. I would also appreciate a demo with data output as we
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    by abetusk 6y ago

    I'm kind of at a loss for what they expect the "sprint goals" to be. Would people who've been through this program be willing to share what their sprint goal was along with how mature their project was, what kind of expe
20. 950.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Section 5: " New focus on economics. Recognizing that the old model where everything was free has consequences, means we must explore a range of different business opportunities and alternate value exchanges. " A kind reading woul
21. 951.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Call 's' the number of bits of the maximum of the two numbers, 'n' and 'm', that you're trying to multiply (that is s = max(lg(n), lg(m))). Standard "long multiplication" works in O(s^2) time [1]
22. 952.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Not directly related but there's an awesome "Open Book" project which is an open source hardware e-book reader [1]. [1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
23. 953.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Not sure if it's appropriate but here's my own take at a very terse restatement of Shannon's original paper [1]: https://mechaelephant.com/dev/Shannon-Entropy/ I recommend everyone that'
24. 954.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Again, I think you're giving the author the benefit of the doubt when it's not warranted. Your paraphrasing "science itself is insufficient to understand the world" is code for dualism. I forgot to add the reference in t
25. 955.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    You might be right but I'm not inclined to give the author the benefit of the doubt. From the abstract, the author clearly says: "The article further argues that ... computers are not in the world." The specific quote you men
26. 956.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    The Church-Turing thesis is: "Every effectively calculable function is a computable function" [1] The definition is a little terse so we have to expand on what "effectively calculable function" and "computable funct
27. 957.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Thanks for the comment and confirmation that Dreyfus is essentially a dualist/believes in souls/etc. I've idly had similar thoughts about the web of interconnections of concepts. Our idea of "cat" is not a single un
28. 958.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Here is, to me, the relevant line: "Hubert Dreyfus, who argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all. One of Dreyfus’ main arguments was that human knowledge is p
29. 959.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    This is some contorted logic. "We will not privilege religion, so we will give a privileged tax exempt status to religion". Ha, nice, the Satanic Temple is also tax exempt [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
30. 960.▲
    by abetusk 6y ago

    Moore's law might be dead but the deeper law is still alive. Moore's law is technically "the number of transistors per unit area doubles every 24 months" [1]. The more important law is that the cost of transistors halves