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by cmsj 5y ago
You must be new to IRC - channels moving servers is not at all new. It's pretty unusual for server admins to actively resist it though.
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by cmsj 5y ago
Speaking of business, the UK company that technically owns freenode (Freenode Limited) is currently in a state where it's likely to be forcibly dissolved, because it hasn't filed any paperwork in some time: https://find
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by cmsj 5y ago
This happened to me. I maintain a pretty small macOS open source application and our IRC home was on freenode. I decided to move it to Libera, so I updated our website/docs accordingly and set the topic on the freenode channel to point
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by cmsj 5y ago
Hubris, they believe freenode is the home of FOSS projects. They literally say that in the latest (and frankly, quite ridiculous) post on their website: https://freenode.net/news/for-foss > freenode has been the h
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by cmsj 5y ago
I'm curious if there is some architectural limit that prevents Apple from doing something similar on Intel Macs, at least ones with 8+ cores. The scheduler could arbitrarily nominate 4 cores as "efficiency" cores and keep the
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by cmsj 5y ago
same! geek gadgets was awesome
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by cmsj 5y ago
fwiw I'm neither American, nor in the US either (or even on that entire continent). I apologise and retract my cynicism about your posts. They were consistent with a particular type of troll, but I didn't attempt to dig into that
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by cmsj 5y ago
I'm stringing you along because I don't believe you are acting in good faith. You seriously didn't pay any attention to any news during the US election ratification process? You didn't pay any attention to the second imp
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by cmsj 5y ago
s/can't/don't want to/ FTFY
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by cmsj 5y ago
If only sealions could use Google :(
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by cmsj 5y ago
Many of us remember a time when there was no RSS and there were no social media sites, and we all still somehow managed to read blogs :)
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by cmsj 5y ago
This is an extremely interesting point. One could argue that the degree to which one is "platformed" is relative to the rest of society, but it's also inescapably true that if you wind the clock back 50, 100, 200 years, the l
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by cmsj 5y ago
I found it weird that they describe themselves as "remote first", but all of their currently open roles are geographically restricted (to pretty much either USA or India).
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by cmsj 5y ago
I think you underestimate how skilled abusers can be at emotional manipulation.
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by cmsj 5y ago
I'm not sure you'll see a true second generation chip, I would be expecting it to be mostly the same thing, but with more cores and some solution to providing more RAM. Having said that, Apple does have something of a history of p
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by cmsj 6y ago
This feels like it's really a branch of Utilitarianism, perhaps it should be called Oblivionistic Utilitarianism? Speaking only for myself, I am tremendously grateful that I exist, however fleeting that existence may turn out to be, an
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by cmsj 6y ago
> 1) It's not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It's intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue. It doesn't do that though. If you don't have monitoring/alerting that can either a) give you suf
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by cmsj 6y ago
> It seems very dangerous to contribute to open source these days if you are not in the right Twitter cliques. Nope. Lots of people contribute to Open Source without being in any Twitter cliques, they're just getting on with the wor
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by cmsj 6y ago
RMS hasn't gotten anything done in years, if not decades.
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by cmsj 6y ago
I wondered if the parent comment was actually talking about the Vampire folks distributing an AmigaOS image with programs/games pre-loaded, without having the rights to do so?
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by cmsj 6y ago
If there is one universal truth in the world of UNIX development, particularly screensavers, it is that you should never find yourself on the other side of an argument from jwz. If you do find yourself there, you should just accept you are
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by cmsj 6y ago
Joe Biden can't personally deradicalise 70+ million people. He's got maybe 2 years to get some stuff done before there is the risk of a mid-term power shift like Obama faced. I would suggest that his agenda should have three prior
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by cmsj 6y ago
Why is there always this call to treat the less moderate right wing, who are clearly not connected with reality anymore, as though they are simultaneously extremely powerful, and weak little babies who need our help? When those people hold
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by cmsj 6y ago
"turned out"... it's been starkly obvious since day one that true self-driving is a problem that requires general intelligence to solve. All you have to do to know that is drive a car and think about what's actually requ
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by cmsj 6y ago
Realistically though it's about as much of an actual threat as teleporters are.
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by cmsj 6y ago
The smart move for Google here would be to debut their own chips in Pixels, but then sell the chips to other phone manufacturers to use in their phones. Assuming the chips provide enough raw performance and interesting hardware acceleration
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by cmsj 6y ago
Consider the knock-on effects though - that processor isn't necessarily optimising the things Samsung might want, nor is Android, which costs them more in other ways (I'm particularly thinking of the fact that Android phones seem
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by cmsj 6y ago
Yes, this is absolutely far worse than just letting the paper be published. AI ethics papers are not exactly the kind of material that gets a lot of conversation at the best of times, outside that world, but Google firing a black woman for
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by cmsj 6y ago
Self-critique is more precious than gold, particularly when you have the scale of influence that Google does.
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by cmsj 6y ago
Indeed. The very idea of using words like "yield" or "control" belies a fundamental weakness - managers who are so insecure that they can't ever change their minds in case someone figures out how mediocre they are (

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