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by scj 2y ago
Stallman, who apparently speaks French, said the 'L' stands for "Libre". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html The word matches his intent of "Free Software" without Engli
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by scj 2y ago
"In 2010, after twenty years under development, Stallman said that he was "not very optimistic about the GNU Hurd. It makes some progress, but to be really superior it would require solving a lot of deep problems" - https:&#
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by scj 2y ago
Labour-saving devices also have a tendency to save time.
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by scj 2y ago
It'd be more interesting to see LLMs play Family Feud. I think it'd be their ideal game.
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by scj 2y ago
That begs the question: What brought you to this file?
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by scj 2y ago
Are features going to be de-prioritized in favour of hardening existing code? Or are employees expected to keep doing what they are doing just "with security in mind"? The article makes it sound like the later. Which will be abo
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by scj 2y ago
Steve Wozniak is a quasi household name, but calling someone "the Polish Wozniak" doesn't quite work.
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by scj 2y ago
"A male must be circumcised in order to enter into this covenant."
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by scj 2y ago
"Academia stopped teaching C++, moving to Java and then to Python." There are a lot more practical and lucrative skills for a young programmer to focus on than C or C++. Many will be able to have good careers without going that l
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by scj 3y ago
I'd say it's more akin to being dealt a bad hand and trying to work through a strategy to play it well. Sure, you'd like to have been dealt a better hand. But you haven't, and dwelling on that won't help anyone. Th
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by scj 3y ago
"I'm working with a second-party pre-compiled library and don't have a lot of wiggle room. After careful consideration (of both the library and my other job prospects), I want to do $DUMB_THING. Yes, I know it's dumb,
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by scj 3y ago
To rephrase your question, are there any Long Mode user space changes? Skimming Intel's spec ( https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/776648 ), the X86S looks really risk-adverse towards changing Long
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by scj 3y ago
Not an expert, but as a learning experience I wrote a board game recommender years ago based on data from boardgamegeek. There were a lot of little things that added up: 1. Everyone interprets the 1.0 - 10.0 rating scale differently.
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by scj 3y ago
I'd argue hubris is balanced by laziness and impatience. Where I don't believe the three are equal. I'd add a conditional lesser virtue when working on certain codebases that should have been accounted for when making perl6:
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by scj 3y ago
Best practices tend to be overkill for small codebases that have few users, which encompasses the majority of scientific code. Sheer tenacity is typically sufficient for scientific codebases.
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by scj 3y ago
The mechanism for candlepin bowling seems much simpler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Candlepin_pinsetter.webm
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by scj 3y ago
> "The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne, is not a government bill. In fact, government ministers voted against it. Instead, the bill is backed by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of vot
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by scj 3y ago
What I'm hearing is that universities coast-to-coast should start "researching" Facebook.
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by scj 3y ago
If I had to bet, I'd bet on it not being revocable. Betting a mere $20 on a case currently in court could be fun. But my time is worth a lot more than that. So if I'm thinking about starting a viable open source fork off this thi
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by scj 3y ago
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/09/23/Two-Kinds-Relicens... Makes it seem like it would be a legal grey zone in the US. And a reminder, not all of us are American and the ambiguity might be even less fav
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by scj 3y ago
In the scenario I've constructed, yes. The trick is that you don't need to threaten everybody, just any fork that gains traction and might be a viable open source project. Otherwise stated, you don't go after every user, just
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by scj 3y ago
You're right that Apache 2.0 is irrevocable. But MIT isn't. An open source project that starts to "scratch an itch" is far less likely to revoke a license than one that is motivated by money. Motivation aside, if it&#x2
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by scj 3y ago
Let's say a piece of software licensed like this becomes popular and is non-trivial to replicate. At some point, a significant enough portion will be two years old and changed to the escrowed license. A fully open source fork will bec
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by scj 3y ago
During the Apollo 1 investigation, he said something that suck with me when thinking of begrudging users who are willing to look past faults for utility: "There's no question that it was a coffin, and I'd have flown it gladly
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by scj 3y ago
I like the "No Duty" clause. Of course, it begs the question if such a clause remains open source (as it will effectively discriminate based on country). But defending open source developers in a hostile environment should take p
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by scj 3y ago
AI aside, does compiling using gcc with -S make someone an assembly programmer? Doing so helped me become a better assembly programmer.
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by scj 3y ago
Is liability insurance viable? Software can be installed on billions of devices. Even a low liability could be financially ruinous... Especially for open source.
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by scj 3y ago
If a codebase was infringing the GPL, the remedy is to publish the offending source code or terminate distribution. Neither are cases I suspect Microsoft cares about when talking about 3rd party code. I don't know what case history is
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by scj 3y ago
I'd argue that in an ideal world, a fridge wouldn't have networking capabilities! Even if I don't buy one, I dread to think of what might happen if enough fridges across the world stopped working all at once (demand for non-p
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by scj 3y ago
Neat. Although a flat memory space / full file approach would be nice, I wonder if a paging scheme would be possible? Where you would only need all possible finite strings of length N, where N would ideally be the max page size of RAM,

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