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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> that was just mostly regular farmers before the first Nakba but slowly became radicalised Regular farmers who were asked by their Arab "brothers" to step aside while they eradicate the Jews. Surprised Pikachu face when that p
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Right. I'm not defending their naming choice, just pointing out that "open = you need to be rich" is an ancient trope in computing: Open Group was formed through the merger of Open Software Foundation (est. 1988) and X/O
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
As in The Open Group: discrimination-free, as long as you're able to pay.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
See also https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/78271 :-)
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
coreboot has a rather fragile JPEG parser for splash screens but the saving grace is that barely anybody uses it because that's normally the payload's job (the jpeg + display thing was mostly added for a proof of concept "loo
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
But it's a cost they don't bear, it typically ends up in a different section of the balance sheet. And as soon as somebody else pays for it, personal benefit (perceived or real) takes the front seat. See business class pricing in
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
That's not what the RTO proponents bring forward. A sincere "I prefer you to be here so that I can admire my kingdom and feel good" would be more productive than the currently preferred grasping for straws on why it's be
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> Although I was hoping for a real SQL type experience. I don't understand why no one just copies SQL so I can write a query like "SELECT * FROM $json WHERE x>1". With somewhat tabular data, you can use sqlite to read t
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
bzr is a reimagining of baz, also known as GNU bazaar which derives from GNU Arch, which derives from Tom Lord Arch, which started in 2001.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
If you squint a little, https://web.archive.org/web/20030629114010/http://www.venge.... is a fair approximation of some of the core ideas behind git (and Linus played with it and wrote a critique of its
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> Is it just some kind of accounting benefit to maintain the weird structure / partnership, versus doing everything themselves? For starters it allows them to pretend that it's "underdog v. Google" and not "two t
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> it's logically inane to say that someone's criticism of something is invalid because they didn't speak out or criticize some other thing that they most likely don't even know about. I'm not saying the criticism
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
To take another brutal war affecting civilians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Saud... sure sounds like it had the endorsement of two US Presidents both from ends of the political spectrum, and
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It is the dose that makes the poison...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Northern_E...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I'd want a separate house, too, if my neighbors are Americans.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> so the nuclear industry has to bear the true insurance cost How expensive is a resounding "No" by insurers?
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
To a layman, they're all useless, and in a dangerous way: they transport a sense of understanding a person/character/psyche that they don't support. A professional can gain _some_ information from all of them. Just that
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> Or in other words, people should be glad that the demand for cashiers still exists, until the job gets fully automated. ... because what happens otherwise?
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
§23 PatG covers the case where the patent owner wants to use a general public licensing scheme offered by the patent office to avoid having to deal with every single licensee. That one is opt-in by the patent owner. §24 PatG offers a compul
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The patent business is one with no downsides for the patent office: They get a fee for granting a patent, they get a fee for renewing a patent every couple years, they get to fell important when they report to their government how "inn
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> There's an H.265 patent pool that is supposed to cover all the patents essential to H. 265. Pool operators like to pretend that this is how it works (unless you ask pointed questions), but it already failed with the first popular
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> why is it not part of the pool from MPEG-LA? Maybe Broadcom didn't feel like joining the extortionist pool but preferred to extort the format into uselessness all on its own? There are precious few ways to mandate licensing of a p
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Supply and demand is fair, if and only if both sides are entirely free to walk away from the deal. Depending on the labor market situation this isn't necessarily a given when the alternative is starvation.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The problem is that Intel tries to "solve" security by adding new layers on top of the gargantuan mess of layers that already exists instead of reevaluating decisions made 30 years ago and dealing with compatibility issues through
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I guess that's something humanity can consider once the question of energy sources is settled. For now, whatever energy that could be used to gather energy to split CO2 into C and O2 could as well be used to replace fossil-burning gene
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
If it turns out that passing a data set through PyTorch creates enough distance between the source material and the resulting data set to invalidate copyright protections, it will be interesting to see what happens when somebody does that t
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It can be done to drosophila, as alluded to in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197105/
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The easiest route towards that might be contract work or employment.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The difference is that so far, everybody was allowed to do that. With that change, only they can do that (with new code going forward). And ask developers to jump through hoops for the privilege. That _might_ be the best option for Synapse

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