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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Do they usually take upstream changes from the main kernel? If so, then they aren't the kind of forks we're discussing. Think of a different scenario: Linus does something that pisses a lot of people off. (Even more than usual) Th
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I suggest reading this statement more carefully: > These simply can't be forked without broad consensus around which fork to follow. Thus: > if those trying to assume control can't get together and sell the idea of a new for
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Throwing an exception does not necessarily mean that your program is suddenly in an unsupported state, and therefore does not require terminating the entire program. That's not what a panic means. Take a read through Go's pan
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> There is almost zero friction Building consensus around which fork to use is going to be a high-friction process; it's going to require much more work than pushing the "fork" button and changing the name in all the asset
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
The thing to keep in mind is that widely successful open source projects are bigger than the single person who started the project. These simply can't be forked without broad consensus around which fork to follow. The author (who als
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
For those who are interested: I recently read the book "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan, a professional who also helps people leave cults. His approach isn't as much of a "long game" as Ryan and Kelly
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
It's a lot lighter: a stack trace takes a lot of overhead to generate; a result has no overhead for a failure. The overhead (panic) only comes once the failure can't be handled. (Most books on Java/C# don't explain that
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> or did you also just not have expenses as high as your original estimate? The market went up much faster than I originally estimated. Basically, I got lucky. I quit my job in 2009, right when the massive bull market started. I had a
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I once quit a job because it was toxic. At the time, I was saving so I could start a business, but the environment became so toxic that I needed to walk out much earlier than planned. My "6 month" runway ended up lasting a lot lon
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I did that once: I was planning to quit to start a business, but when I realized the environment at my day job was toxic, I quit about 6 months sooner than planned.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Medical insurance is a basic necessity. Advising someone to skip that is irresponsible and degrading.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I seem to think marijuana is more about sedated pleasure than MDMA. Granted, it's been about 30 years since I read Brave New World.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
For the past 10-15 years, every time I look at web standards, it always feels like someone is trying to make browsers support their specific niche use case. Seems like getting XSLT (and offering a polyfill replacement) is just a move in the
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Makes me wonder what the difference, in definition, is between a sequencer and a synthesizer? Is this really a synthesizer, or is it really a sequencer? Yes, I'm splitting hairs about semantics.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Don't assume: Could be an only child, or the spouse is stay-at-home, or the author has family wealth and doesn't need a full time job.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
You must not be familiar with how copyright works. Most copyrights are works for hire and owned by a corporation. Your proposal would only work for unpublished works, and self-published works. Personally, once I think a work is made availab
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Some are Word documents that I view on my phone. (Via OneDrive). My turkey recipe is a PDF that I print out two copies of when I prepare the turkey. My hands get messy (and unsanitary) when I follow it, so I don't want to handle my pho
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Reminds me of the Alzheimer's "draw a clock" test. Makes me think that LLMs are like people with dementia! Perhaps it's the best way to relate to an LLM?
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I agree in principal. That being said: I think reforming copyright should allow fair use and incentives for curation. There's nothing wrong with the Beatles' heirs curating the Beatles recordings for streaming, and remastering the
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Makes me wonder if a good way to "reign in" on copyright abuse and abandonware is to require copyright holders to pay a tax based on some kind of formula. More importantly: If no tax is paid, after a reasonable amount of time, (1-
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I think the climate impact of data centers is way overstated relative to the ginormous amounts of emissions from other sources. Yes it's not pretty but it's a fairly minor problem compared to people buying SUVs and burning th
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The LLMs we have today aren't a fantasy: They're a concrete thing that works. Just because the people who make them live in a fantasy world, doesn't mean we can't reap the fruits of their labor! That being said, I suspec
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Thanks for saying this. I have a similar situation: " I grew up in the church, rejected it in my teens." I've come to conclude that the problem isn't "religion" in the abstract, it's that the current insti
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Uhm, you can take 2 or 3. I usually eat 2 gummies (10mg) when I want to feel the effects, or a half gummy (2.5mg) when I want to microdose. --- When my mom was in serious pain from cancer, I told her I use CBD for migraines. What I didn&#x2
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Think of it more like the store being forced to sell individual beers: At some point someone will figure out that they can sell them in a box of 6 in a way that complies with the law.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
What are you talking about? I store recipes in my computer, and routinely look them up on Google.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
All of this stuff is already built around loopholes. > But the provision that was inserted into the government funding bill makes illegal any hemp product that contains more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container. Now the online "
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
But but but... Someone got rich! Thus it has to work. (And if privatization doesn't work, we'll just repeat that it works over and over until people believe that it works.)
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I wish I could understand the people who have internet without toilets: Is it something where it's just not a big deal to pee / poop outside where they live? I could see, if I lived in an area where the weather was nice, and it wa

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