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RIP King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIgnNtZrN4

If you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak. Also, every card has a qrcode that links to educational material on the real-world topic. (Predictable, specious critiques: reductionist or biased modeling)

The UK seems terrible at this whole "free society" thing.

Here's the cosponsors of the bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1/co...

I think the purpose of the change was to "increase revenue":

Requiring that certain research or experimental expenditures be amortized over a five-year period or longer, starting in 2023, would increase revenues by $109 billion over the period from 2023 to 2027.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/115th-congress...

Oh dear God in heaven and Ada Lovelace forgive me for the horrors I have wrought.

Hey! Don't blame us programmers for new features! We don't usually write the user stories!

Pine64 updated the PinePhone with the PinePhone Pro.

Reminds me more of the Amazon Delivery Partner model where the way you want to do something implies harming innocent people, so you have a third-party do it to shift blame for the deaths.

A good reminder that the United States never outlawed slavery.

The Rust for Linux politics mess should be laid squarely at Linus' feet. He's the BDFL. He approved adding Rust to Linux, and he massively failed at communicating what that even meant. If he wants Rust in the kernel, he needs to kick some maintainers in the ass and get everyone aligned.

Thank you so much! That's incredibly enlightening!

Something I've been wondering: why do ebooks take so long to render? My kindle seems good at it, but opening an ebook in calibre/fbreader/etc can take minutes or even fail in some readers depending on the ebook.

Remember the name McKinsey. They are an evil organization that does bad things to good people. Anyone from McKinsey is to be regarded with suspicion at the very least.

“…You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.” – Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

Regardless of everything else, most people should not be using bcachefs yet. Kent has even stated that unless you're okay not being able to access your data for chunks of time while bugs are being fixed, you shouldn't be using it. The conventional wisdom would be to wait 10 years after a new filesystem is introduced for it to stabilize before switching, so we're looking at summer next year at the earliest.

ISO standards have always reeked of EU regulatory capture to me.

neither. permaweird.

I was thinking more of every web app needing one or more "if isIE() {} else {}" blocks somewhere in its codebase. Now we have the wondrous pleasure of doing the same for Apple.

Mobile Safari is the new IE. Random idiosyncrasies that are poorly documented dictated by the whims of a single corporation. Apple has broken stuff multiple times in the past few years.

IIRC, America's weird relationship with sex is rooted in our Puritan history.

Idk about our comfort with depictions of violence. We definitely have a history of "cowboy & indian" films, so it could come from the glorification of our genocidal past (or the genocidal past itself). The Vietnam War on the TV every night for a couple decades is another good option.

I doubt it will be _the_ standard, though. I think we'll need to flip the setup so that a cord is in the car with people stealing them for the copper.

Their first point seems valid. Remember the AOL search logs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

The rest of Google's points are worthless hogwash.

This is also known as "The Oracle Method"

Too bad Microsoft is just a bunch of Ferengi in a trench coat.

We're probably just talking past each other. The reason GNU comes off as religious is because they frame the whole issue in terms of human rights and moral imperatives (it is wrong to hide the source and we have the right to share). OSI prefers to frame it in terms of capabilities and transactional relationships (it's a win-win!).

The OSD is compatible with GNU licenses; I've read it before. That doesn't change the reality that by reframing the issue from rights to abilities, the OSI created the very environment where Winamp can be released as "open-source" while making forking illegal.

If you want a good look at OSI's commitment to the OSD, take a look at their Open Source AI initiative: https://opensource.org/deepdive https://opensource.org/deepdive/drafts/open-source-ai-defini...

They are directly complicit in propagating the lie of open-source AI. If you can't inspect how it was made, including the actual training the data, you don't have the ability to understand how the AI was made. The choice of the lumber is part of how a chair is made.

Without the "I have the right to know what my computer is doing", there is nothing backing point 2 of the OSD. Without "I have the right to share", there is nothing backing point 1.

sigh OSI was established specifically because they just wanted to share code and didn't care about GNU's 4 freedoms, so don't be surprised when the proponents of open source give you projects you can't even fork.

Actually this is open source. This is what the term refers to. What you mean is that it's not free (libre) software, which is most certainly is not. They do not respect you and your rights: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

Not a lot of communication with your colleagues when you die on Friday and nobody notices until Tuesday. People came in and worked an entire day while she was in her cubicle decomposing.

I also love Clean Code and think it unfairly gets a bad rap, but here's a great, sometimes hostile, conversation with the author that touches on the issues:

https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...

The linked video is also a good watch.

Domain-Driven Design is fantastic.

Test-Driven Design by Example is a good (and fun) read.