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by geofft 6y ago
I was at MIT from 2006-11, including as a student researcher at CSAIL from 2007 onwards, and I was on the CSAIL mailing list until I unsubscribed (coincidentally) a week or so before that post. In at least the time that I was at MIT/CS
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by geofft 6y ago
RMS disaffiliated from MIT in the '80s (see "Commencing the project" in https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html ), so I'm not sure that any headline saying "Famed MIT Computer Scientist...
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by geofft 6y ago
Musk mentions RAND's previous work in his paper, but he thinks the vacuum requirement is impractical: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl... > Is there truly a new mode
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by geofft 6y ago
Does this work better than the standard process? How do you evaluate whether it does?
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by geofft 6y ago
There were multiple attempts at getting a D-Bus-style IPC into the Linux kernel, none of which have particularly succeeded. It seems like the userspace solution works totally fine, and it allowed D-Bus to actually ship to people and take of
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by geofft 6y ago
Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) : > Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. It blocks ads and website trackers, and
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by geofft 6y ago
Does this tend to improve the company's financial performance, or is this simply worth doing if you have certain political goals for your company that outweigh financial results? i.e., is this "smart companies" as in those wi
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by geofft 6y ago
It depends on whether the other parts of the product are derivative works of the GPL'd work or not. In general, a reasonable boundary is that if it runs the GPL'd work as a command, then it's not a derivative work, but if it
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by geofft 6y ago
Choosing to be a landlord in a city you can't afford is quite the choice, too.
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by geofft 6y ago
Businesses have risk. The whole point of employment in someone else's business is they take on the risk and you don't, with the tradeoff that you take less of the reward if it works out. If you are in a position where you cannot d
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by geofft 6y ago
I searched for Shawna Eccles' story: > Shawna Eccles brought the two-story, semi-detached home for about $477,000 in February 2019 and exhausted her savings to renovate it. [...] "all of my money covers the mortgage, water b
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by geofft 6y ago
What is your reason for believing that the proposal to write gcc in C++ is idiotic?
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by geofft 6y ago
Right, the question was whether there are people who have meaningfully contributed to GNU who disagree with RMS, or the only complainers are internet randos. Obviously the answer to that question is a list of people who have previously been
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by geofft 6y ago
Yes, many of them were. Here's the lead developer of the HURD: https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa... Here's someone who spent about two decades of his life at the FSF, including as e
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by geofft 6y ago
Stallman is just as free to contribute as you are I are. And he's been contributing over the last few years to the GNU Project. The question at hand is whether he's an appropriate person to place in a leadership position of an a
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by geofft 6y ago
I've met RMS in real life and talked to him on multiple occasions. He can absolutely take care of himself and it's a little insulting to RMS to say that he can't. (Who took care of him between when he left his job at MIT an
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by geofft 6y ago
> In doing this, I believe that the FSF board felt that punishment should have an end, especially in the case of the first punishment, and should include an opportunity for the punished to demonstrate that he has reformed his behavior.
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by geofft 6y ago
Yes, I expect that my opinion won't always line up with what the courts decide. I think that's part of the deal in living under a form of government where we have courts and we make it the courts' job to decide such things. O
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by geofft 6y ago
Previous discussion (400+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24090492 Also, > Put a tablespoon of sugar next to your coffee next time you have a chance and seriously consider if that’s a decision that’s “ma
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by geofft 6y ago
It sounds like the thing that was posted on the forums was the binary patch itself, and this article's explanation of how to reverse engineer the game was written after the poster was banned.
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by geofft 6y ago
A lot more easily than you can know if something's immoral until you get to the world to come and ask God directly, that's for sure. :) But what do you think lawyers arguing cases before the courts do? They don't simply say &
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by geofft 6y ago
If it's an unconstitutional law, then no, I don't particularly support the government enforcing that, and I think the executive should be smart enough to decline to defend unconstitutional laws so the courts can overturn them more
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by geofft 6y ago
I don't believe that it's either a consistent position or a practically effective tactic to say that I support the government when it does things I like, but not when it does things I dislike. I think I'm obligated to support
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by geofft 6y ago
As a US taxpayer, I love paying the government's legal bills. Prosecuting violations of the laws that my elected representatives have voted on, and defending the constitutionality of those laws, is one of the highest-impact things the
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by geofft 6y ago
Can hiring only white people be one of my chosen "ends," which the government has no business interfering with? Can serving food to only white people be one of my chosen "ends"?
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by geofft 6y ago
More precisely, modern keyed instruments are slightly off tune. :) I'm pretty sure unaccompanied voices (either solo or in groups) tend naturally towards just intonation in the current key, because you don't think of it so much as
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by geofft 6y ago
It's a pretty defensible claim on its own for one simple reason - overtones. A string, pipe, or other resonating component of a musical instrument, if it resonates at some frequency X, will also resonate at frequencies 2X, 3X, 4X, etc.
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by geofft 6y ago
Is the rendering engine doing the spying for you? This article seems like it's focusing on websites spying on you, and I don't think anyone (either this article or elsewhere) has made a serious allegation that WebKit does actually
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by geofft 6y ago
I'm not sure that's relevant for privacy - for privacy, the specific thing you need is content blocking, right? I agree it's important for functionality and the general health of the web as a platform, but those don't se
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by geofft 6y ago
You can't derive income from tax evasion. You already have the income from some other source, you're just evading being taxed on it. (It's like how, if you buy a video game on sale at $10 off, you didn't make $10, you ju

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