bruce511

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by bruce511 6mo ago
I'm not sure I'd use the word "guilty" - that suggests some wrong doing. However I agree with your premise - trying to remove abstaining voters from the math is incorrect. Abstainers are explicitly making their view know
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by bruce511 7mo ago
You're not wrong, it has always been true, but actually internalizing it as you grow older is hard, and rare. It is very difficult to let go of some hard-earned experience and acknowledge that it's no longer much of a factor. Ther
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by bruce511 7mo ago
I've worked in "co-op adjacent" styles all my life. We'd typically have 3 or 4 folk as owners, but with additional employees. The key restriction I see is the difficulties in large-group decision making. 4, or 3 seems to
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by bruce511 7mo ago
Ok, I'll bite. SQLite is not Open Source, it is Public Domain. Which, I'd argue alas, is "better" than Open Source. It is fair to say that the distinction to most people is inconsequential. Nevertheless they are differen
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by bruce511 7mo ago
If that's true, it would be very sad indeed. Techical excellence is a very low bar to clear. It's so easy even AI can do that part. When I was young, and learning my technical skills, then naturally I was focused on improving thos
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by bruce511 7mo ago
By "nobody" I presume you mean you and your friends? From the article; >> "More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power some of their workloads, according to the company." This is an Enterprise version o
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by bruce511 7mo ago
That's not how medical improvements work. Imagine I had a pill today that absolutely cured cancer. It would take years of clinical trials, testing on animals and humans, exploration of side effects, which cancers it fixes and so on. an
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by bruce511 7mo ago
While the post seems simple, it's arguably complex, as the comments here point out. Simple solutions are good enough some of the time, perhaps even most of the time, but often fall down with edge cases. But edge cases add up, and deali
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by bruce511 7mo ago
On the one hand the legislation seems unimplementable for many OS makers, not just FOSS ones. (The issue of "primary owner of the device" being the most problematic.) Equally the concept of "app store" is different for d
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by bruce511 8mo ago
I feel like there's no market for this. Or at the very least, it's an incredibly niche market. Hear me out :) Firstly, this is a pretty expensive approach to cooking, so you're already in a narrow space (people with money). T
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by bruce511 8mo ago
I concur. >> Why don't our overworked, underpaid open-source developers license their software Of course they absolutely can license their software any way they like. That is their prerogative. Personally I write software for a l
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Yes, it makes sense when viewed like that, and was probably a necessary change. DOS chose Enter though because in those days mist data capture was numbers. Lots and lots of numbers. Data capturers could track the left hand down the column (
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by bruce511 8mo ago
>> The prompt starts at the first field and <RETURN> (not <TAB> !) moves to the next. This is hilarious to me, because times have certainly changed. When we first started shipping Windows software the big complaint from
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by bruce511 8mo ago
I presume you mean web-on-desktop? Since a dumb phone doesn't have a browser? I came late to phones, resisting them till 2013. Up to that point I could function with desktop alone. Today, it's not possible (for me.) Authentication
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by bruce511 8mo ago
>> Advertising = compensating someone to promote a product / company. That's a definition, sure. I feel like it leaves loopholes (under this definition spam isn't advertising, and I guess affiliation programs are?) If I
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Define "advertising". I feel this might be hard to do. For example is my blog talking about Windows considered as Advertising? What about my blog discussing products we make? What about the web site for my local restaurant? If I a
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by bruce511 8mo ago
You've hit the nail on the head. Immediate gratification. AI is like sugar. It tastes nice, gives you energy quickly - what's not to like? The gratification is immediate, and if "today is all that matters" it's bril
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Yes I think some of what he's doing isn't new, and yes some of it isn't new, just more brazen, but I think there's also a lot of new. For example, pardons are for sale. Thats pretty obvious. maybe it's been done b
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by bruce511 8mo ago
>> But it's challenging to the point of impracticality to run a website with so few cookies that a popup is not required. Nonsense. It's easy to create a site that doesn't need a cookie pop-up. Indeed the mere existanc
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by bruce511 8mo ago
See Article 5(3). There is a specific carve-out for cookies that are used solely for essential site operation and security.
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Political instability is a bad thing regardless of what is being invested in. It's just as bad for everything, not just windmills or sea windmills or whatever. nothing is safe if the project can fail because the political winds chang
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by bruce511 8mo ago
>> I would imagine firms with wind farm contracts would be made whole Wait..what? Made whole by whom? Has this happened before? (I'm genuinely curious, I've not seen this brought up before...)
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Alas you'll need to define "sane" first. That might be harder than expected. Equally unfortunate is the need for 60 senate votes to actually have a meaningful say over what the president does. And in truth no part has had &qu
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by bruce511 8mo ago
It doesn't matter I'd they hold back or not. The perception of political instability is enough. If, as an investor, I'm asked to throw billions at a multi-year project, political risk is going to be on the PowerPoint. You may
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Sorry, I should be more clear. Yes there is a procurement process. But that happens out of band to the support request. The problem with support contracts, or support requests solved by an upgrade, is that the User needs it now, not after
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by bruce511 8mo ago
Yeah, but its a metaphor of the creation process. It's perhaps a bit on the light side when it comes to obstacles, but it's not a bad metaphor of the business creation journey. I would perhaps point out this is not a VC business
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by bruce511 8mo ago
This sounds good, but in the real world it leads to massively upset customers. The problem exists from both sides of the coin. Firstly the bulk of customers don't purchase a support contract. So there is very little income to pay staff
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by bruce511 8mo ago
No, I'm saying that whether a project takes contributions or not has nothing to do with open source. Yes, lots of projects big and small accept contributions. And lots do not. You might think that's good or bad, but it's unre
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by bruce511 8mo ago
But nothing stops you forking it right? So, if you think a project is too corporate, then fork it.
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by bruce511 8mo ago
I confess, I'm an old guy, who was around when Open Source was still young. Being able to read the code, learn to be z better programmer, tweak it to my needs, control what was running on my machine. Reading other comments on this thre

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