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by rleigh 4y ago
The documentation itself can be regulated, and changing it requires more than a PR code review by another software developer. As an example, the instructions for building and releasing the software could come under the controlled SDLC proc
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by rleigh 4y ago
A PR is most emphatically *not* a paper trail. It's recording a software change, who made it, and when. That isn't even close to the bare minimum for some of the regulatory requirements. You're coming to this with the perspec
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by rleigh 4y ago
Have you worked in a regulated environment? It can be a regulatory and legal requirement to do this, since it's part of the software development lifecycle processes which are required to be followed. At its core, this is about ensurin
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by rleigh 4y ago
Yes, integrating it into a scripted workflow, including dependency-based build systems, is vastly easier. The multiple runs of TeX don't fit well into this model, and the Unix heritage of troff vs the TeX is clearly apparent in the de
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by rleigh 4y ago
That's a big assumption to make. Over the previous two centuries, there have been ongoing rapid changes to our home, work and other environments, the way we live and the products we consume and are exposed to. As a result, the number
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by rleigh 4y ago
I wouldn't think that to be a reasonable general assumption. The heating effects could include: changes to reaction kinetics and equilibria; unfolding and denaturing of proteins; unwinding of DNA and RNA in localised regions ("bu
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by rleigh 5y ago
I'm afraid I don't agree. MicroPython is neat, but if there's one thing Python is not suited for, it's microcontrollers. Coupling one of the slowest scripting languages with low latency near-realtime requirements is no
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by rleigh 5y ago
I've certainly bought products and services from Russian companies in the past, and would like to do so in the future, but today I did cancel my Kaspersky antivirus subscription. If this escalates further, could Kaspersky's softw
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by rleigh 5y ago
I commute into the office 5 days a week even though it's a 60 minute commute each way. It's for my own mental health. The complete and legally enforced isolation during the lockdowns was too much. I can't work in permanent
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by rleigh 5y ago
I (grudgingly) paid for personal copies of both Fusion and Workstation Pro, since I did use both heavily for years. However... my personal opinion of Workstation has taken a nosedive. I've experienced quite a number of really ridiculo
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by rleigh 5y ago
Lying to elicit a certain desired response is not acceptable, no matter the justification for it. It ultimately erodes trust in our institutions, and that trust is the fundamental basis for the functioning of our society. Our institutions
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by rleigh 5y ago
While I agree this isn't technically "censorship" from one perspective, I do think it's important to consider this: by forcibly omitting search terms against your wishes, it is actively and deliberately preventing you fr
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by rleigh 5y ago
It's inevitable because even though one variant may become dominant, there will still be isolated pockets of the other variants. It's very unlikely that these variants will be entirely eliminated across the whole globe. Look at
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by rleigh 5y ago
Their use of the term "reverse engineering" is perhaps not ideal. If they were taking apart and studying the hardware inside competitors' machines, then that would not have been a problem. It's something which many comp
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by rleigh 5y ago
No, I'm not doing that. We might not yet have sampled the intermediate steps, if they exist, but it's inevitable that we will do so if it has a natural origin. Given the phylogenetic distance between the omicron cluster and its
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by rleigh 5y ago
While what you say is certainly possible, it's not (IMHO) very likely. It doesn't matter that countries closed borders and restricted travel, or that not all countries were sequencing with the same rigour. That doesn't affe
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by rleigh 5y ago
Evolution occurs gradually, one base-pair at a time through replication error (or various other effects). Occasionally you get big changes through duplication, transposition or deletion of whole parts of a sequence. But the latter hasn&#x
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by rleigh 5y ago
Please don't do this, our understanding of the world is not improved by censoring things we consider unplatable. It is not a "conspiracy" to consider various viewpoints. Everything speculated about in the article was backed
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by rleigh 5y ago
Gaps can appear if there are (1) missing data or (2) a big change such as a transposition or elision event. Neither are the case for our coronavirus data. For (1) we have a good random sampling of the population as a whole so it is exceed
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by rleigh 5y ago
One of the problems here is the effective monoculture. If there were multiple search engines in use with different ranking algorithms and different search strategies, then "SEO" would be difficult to impossible to achieve because
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by rleigh 5y ago
It was painful, but it did work. In the early 2000s I worked for a company selling a DOS-based 4GL product, which was part of an "embedded" system running Novell DOS. This became hard to continue with due to lack of support for
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by rleigh 5y ago
Yes. I once drove through a storm which lasted well over an hour, with continuous fork and sheet lightning around the entire horizon. An absolutely fantastic sight, never seen such a dramatic spectacle before or since, it was absolutely s
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by rleigh 5y ago
Not Linux-specific! The Windows version suffers from at least 1, 2 and 4 in my experience.
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by rleigh 5y ago
The Zyxel router my ISP issued me does exactly this.
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by rleigh 5y ago
I personally ended all my projects' support for RHEL and CentOS a few weeks after that went down. They were already a massive pain in the ass to support, and had a smaller userbase than other Linux distributions (<10% for RHEL and
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by rleigh 5y ago
The problem is that for those of us that used it since the beginning (1997 in my case), it's a change which broke the workflow which worked for 15 years for zero benefit for any user, old or new. I still get it wrong every time a deca
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by rleigh 5y ago
I'm well aware of the constraints of open source development and project management, having been involved in it for nearly 25 years at this point. In the case of this project, I was involved with it for several years as a maintainer o
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by rleigh 5y ago
Absolutely. For my workflow, the XCF requirement and the need to manually export were completely wrong. In the 23 years I've used it, I've never once needed the XCF file format. I acknowledge that others will need it, but I don
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by rleigh 5y ago
I don't think it's worth comparing it with Adobe, since the developers have never really competed with it. It's its own thing, and the decisions and development roadmap stand on their own. Cinepaint got stuck as the fork div
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by rleigh 5y ago
Hi Steinar (long time, no see)! You are right that there are very big differences in scope with large features vs small bugfixes. I was one of the GIMP "Print" plugin maintainers for several years. It ended up being split off as

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