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by jraph 7mo ago
I'm not splitting hairs, it's a crucial aspect and a common misconception that it would be quite helpful to get rid of (hence my reaction). And no, it's not necessarily dual licensing (why not though) or different tiers, or f
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by jraph 7mo ago
> presumably, people who open source their code do not care about profit That's not true. There are business models around open source, and many companies making money from open source work. (I'm only reacting to this specific
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by jraph 7mo ago
Simon, this HN post didn't need to be about Gen AI. This thing is really inescapable those days.
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by jraph 7mo ago
Act now. - create a new email address somewhere else, preferably with your own domain - redirect all your emails to your new account - send an auto reply: "I don't use this email address anymore, and I may not see this email. My n
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by jraph 7mo ago
Now that you say it, when speaking about software code, it might not be very common to use the plural form in French too, it's indeed more like water, some uncountable mass. I don't think I would be shocked though.
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by jraph 7mo ago
> Well, most English speakers may not know the term, but they can feel the concept just fine. Oh yeah, I should have specified, I was speaking about non native speakers, and thinking about people speaking French or a similar language.
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by jraph 7mo ago
The uncountable aspect of many English words is highly unintuitive to many of us. Information. Code. Software. Hardware. I suspect many people don't even know they are uncountable. I suppose for software we should just use programs or
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by jraph 7mo ago
I suppose it depends on the area then. Or maybe I'm in my own bubble. Most people I know aren't particularly technical, and many of them are at least concerned or aware of these topics, even if they haven't taken any concrete
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by jraph 7mo ago
There's even a paragraph saying it's good for the environment. This means Apple really cares about the environment. That's good! So I suppose I can install my community OS of choice painlessly after Apple decides to stop supp
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by jraph 7mo ago
Try "aware, even vaguely, of the privacy issues standard smartphones pose". (I would bet more than 5% have at least a vague notion of open source though, and a positive a priori - also possibly mixing it with source-available, whi
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by jraph 7mo ago
That's not what I observe. Many non technical people have ethical concerns. This fantasy among the technical crowd here that the general public only cares about cheap and convenient, which is at best condescending, needs to die. Convin
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by jraph 7mo ago
> Tweaking user-hostile OSes into user-friendly ones is impressive, but not sustainable. Even worse, it slowing us down from leaving Android entirely. I would say we need both a sustainable free mobile OS in the long term, and a "le
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by jraph 7mo ago
Because a struct might not serialize the same way from a CPU architecture to another. The sizes of ints, the byte order and the padding can be different for instance.
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by jraph 7mo ago
A lot of the complains expressed in this article are distinctly from the proprietary parts. Stock Android, and especially stock Samsung, is far from being a free software solution. A turnkey solution based (almost exclusively, and except th
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by jraph 7mo ago
And could have decided not to work for Amazon in the first place.
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by jraph 7mo ago
And they interviewed some people involved in this event, which is quite nice.
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by jraph 7mo ago
I'm sorry you were able to read that far so as to notice this gem. Ah ah. It's a copy paste of the medium article. That's not what HN comments are supposed to be.
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by jraph 7mo ago
Faultless in terms of grammar and orthography, but very verbose, horribly hard to focus on, full of emptiness and terribly boring, each being way more faulty than a few typos and language mistakes. Maybe I'll just start flagging these
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by jraph 7mo ago
A better answer to GitHub being bad is probably fleeing GitHub, not working around some of the badness and creating even more dependence on it.
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by jraph 7mo ago
I'm not judging, I'm telling you (a bit snarkily, true) that your brain activity won't stop with something else doing (a part of) your work. And this is the subtility that makes the statement true. Said overwise: sure, you co
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by jraph 7mo ago
Would you be completely at rest if you were not asked to produce stuff? Do you think AI replaces our hard thinking and our physical work? AI or not, I personally intend to keep thinking and my physical activity.
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by jraph 7mo ago
> a human to draw something will require more water. That human would require the same amount of water whether you ask them to draw or not, and would exist anyway because they are not born for productivity reasons. "Creation" o
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by jraph 7mo ago
> I’m old enough to remember th “6-8 weeks” it was supposed to take to build the first version of Stackoverflow (hint it was more like several months). And they had to do this without help from Stack Overflow! :-)
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by jraph 7mo ago
Indeed, as any browser API, it might be for in a few years (months if happy with the most recent versions), and we may have polyfills in the meantime.
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by jraph 8mo ago
This argument is obviously incredibly stupid and in bad faith. What is sad is that some tech bros will probably believe in this shit. We use that energy no matter what we do. Humans are not born for productivity reasons (we are not "cr
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by jraph 8mo ago
Why? The decision seems reasonable at first sight.
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by jraph 8mo ago
> It's entirely involuntary, I am just unable to care Me too. I don't know about the eye movements, but there are probably dozens of us being unable to focus on a LLM-text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by jraph 8mo ago
I drag the window to the top for this. On KDE there's also a (configurable) keyboard shortcut (Meta + prev page, TIL, might start doing this now).
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by jraph 8mo ago
> I’ve started to develop a form of “upgrade dread” when it comes to OS upgrades. I've been going the other way on Linux. I used to think it might be wise to postpone updates if you were traveling, especially using a rolling distro.
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by jraph 8mo ago
Inconsistent experience maybe, but does this inconsistency really get in the way of actual work?

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