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That's nonsense. Emacs Lisp has served well as programming language for 30 years. There is some really fantastic code written in Emacs Lisp. Dynamic Binding is a minor issue. People have been writing whole operating systems in dynamically bound Lisp and I'm not talking about GNU Emacs itself.

There is no GNU Emacs based on Guile in the sense that the Elisp code has been translated to Scheme. All there is is an Emacs based on the GNU Guile runtime. The code is still written in Emacs Lisp - it just runs on a different runtime.

From https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

> Guile-based Emacs is a branch of GNU Emacs that replaces Emacs’s own EmacsLisp engine with the Elisp compiler of Guile.

It's a different compiler. You can write stuff in Scheme, too. But who would do it, since then it would not be compatible with the main GNU Emacs editor...
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That measure, if implemented, will boost USA business and tourism, isn't?
Yet another reason not to visit the US... I wonder how many billion dollars the current administration will cost the states.
> And this is a problem, because deafness is a difference, not an impairment.

It was at this point I realized that the author is in heavy denial, even after decades of suffering. Deafness is probably the biggest impairment a human being can have, after blindness.
FWIW, I've been discovered with MS exactly at 25.
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The risk with laptops in the cargo hold isn't the blast force of explosions causing a hull breach, but fires. Now any terrorist who wants to bring down a plane simply needs to rig their laptop batteries to catch on fire, which is much, much easier to do than rigging it to explode.
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It's hard to tell, with all the plastic surgeries.
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> Packages are a mixed blessing because they add so much, but if the person who wrote it stops working on it, you now need to take over or find something else.

I know Spacemacs brings in a huge bunch, do they have any way to mitigate that?
Yeah i guess they are. Ever since the existing dumb as fuck laptop ban people have been commenting on how stupid it is. Maybe you should filter your chatter a little better? Or even can the mass surveillance programs that lead to such stupid decisions..
I'm not knowledgable about this subject but do you have any sources for that?

After some quick Googling the best numbers I could find state that air travel is responsible for somewhere between 2%-4% of all human induced CO2 emissions and somewhere around 12%-15% of the emissions from transport sources.
It is made clear a few times in the article that this is a "slower" setup.

> With such slower-but-more-secure deployments, our uplink Internet port goes to our firewall; nothing else is connected directly to the Internet – so the firewall can control all the traffic.
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As much as I can't stand the guy, I think David Brin is right here. The government does this to you anyway; the solution might not be regulation (which they won't care about anyway - see the NSA) but reciprocation. Let's watch everyone (in public), and make that data accessible to everyone.
When I started undergrad in 2011, CS was just another science major and you took whatever you felt like.

By the end of college, every 200 level class had a waitlist and the whole process was micromanaged in order to make sure everyone in the major could at least take one class each term.

Glad I avoided most of that!
because the royalties are proportional to the profit. since the patent claim is the profits wouldnt exist without the original work. it's just like tax works. a judge cannot declare that illegal without criticizing all of tax law.
That strikes me as a poor measure of true randomness.
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Who enforces that ban? It's a bit sad that the European countries will go along with the ban. If they were a bit more confident, they could say "nope". Or give out a directive that every passenger must be sternly reminded that Laptops are banned, and they the (EU) security personel shall turn a blind eye. Europe doesn't have to go along with every crazy idea, it is (at least still) stronger than it thinks.
If you stay in a hot area, you're also going to save money from lower AC bills, because the solar panels would absorb some of the heat that would otherwise enter your house.
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That's creepy.
Doesn't planes have automated extinguishers in the cargo hull? I actually don't know, but it is something I would assume.
The airlines enforce it, who must if they want to keep being allowed to operate flights to the US.
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The bottom i.e. the majority of workers makes way way less money than in the UK, Canada etc.
Terrorists are not dumb, if laptops are banned from flights from Europe whey will use other flights, like domestic flights or flights coming from Canada.
I'm going to have to pretty much instantly admit defeat with SciPy: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/5461#issuecomment-2871...

That issue is much more complicated than what most FOSS projects deal with.

I agree with you, building a lot of non-Windows stuff on Windows sucks. It's getting better, though.

With libgmp, it looks like you should use http://www.mpir.org/ but I don't know how this works with programs that expect gmp.
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... the amount of money depends on number of users and pain level of their problems. Which means it is not in your interest to develop robust and bug-free software.

Agreed. I've heard people refer to producing highly painful software in order to encourage support contracts as the "RedHat model" of open source software.

But it cuts both ways -- if you as a developer have a bunch of people signed up to pay you monthly, you'd like to get their money while doing the minimum possible amount of work; so there's an incentive for you to make your software bug-free and easy to use so that your supporters aren't bugging (no pun intended) you all the time.
I had same issue when visiting the US. I tried some fake numbers but it wouldn't accept it (my actual postal code has letters, so that wasn't possible), so I just ended up paying by cash.
Actually, I wish Microsoft would stop referring to replication when asked about backup. It's the modern way of saying "You probably don't need backup, because you have RAID". There's a reason Azure SQL Database has self-service point-in-time-recovery despite also having replication.

Do you see many use cases where there is no need for backup to protect against accidental deletion, overwriting, deletion by application vulnerabilities and so on?

As far as I understood the backup docs, I should contact Microsoft Support within 8 hours if any of those things happens. Is that still correct? What if we don't notice the issue until 7 days later?
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Glad to hear that you're enjoying the game! I've added the 8x8 board. In the average case, it can be solved in around 32 moves using the most optimal algorithm.
You're giving the organizations too much credit. A roommate of mine worked at a fast food restaurant in the early 2000s, where they were measuring the speed that workers took orders by timing the transactions on the cash register. The store manager had the brilliant idea to game it by running all cash transactions on pen&paper - not using the register at all! not even the cash drawers! - and then keying in the orders as fast as possible after the fact. The store won an award, the manager got a big bonus.
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Most maintainers wouldn't want to be or couldn't be an employee of such a company (e.g. due to existing employment contracts). I'd also question whether it's healthy to centralize the development of all OSS projects used by all your customers into one platform like this.
Great thought exercise but I feel it's more focused on how developers would like to get paid, versus how people with money would like to pay them. It's telling that the proposed system confers no meaningful rights to the sponsor -- his support grants him only the right to open issues which the developer may choose to consider.

I don't think that would pass muster with most purchasing/procurement people. They would rather just license a piece of software with a clear-cut usage agreement and get a support entitlement. The business value is all in knowing what the software/vendor will deliver and having some guarantees if things go wrong. I meet IT people with purchasing authority _all the time_ who think open source is cool, they love the concept and the values, they know there's great software out there, they're just baffled that they can't buy it and get the type of support they need to replace that decrepit proprietary system that charges 6-7 figure annual license fees. The big open source vendors -- RedHat etc. make tons of money on these situations already, but there's much more to be made and you could argue they aren't returning enough to the devs.

Anyway, the proven money is in selling support contracts, and perhaps if you could pay to have some real influence over feature/bugfixing priorities there would be a market for that as well.

Developers often don't realize that all widely adopted software benefits from having a support team. The support team deals with as many customer inquiries as they can for you, and they inform you about how the software is really being used in the wild. I think there would be a place for some sort of "technical support done for you" service where an open source developer can just hand off the responsibility for support contracts to someone else, and that someone else splits the revenue with the dev.

There's tons of money in the world right now for anyone who familiarizes themselves with a popular open source project and then learns how to do the sales & support for it. It's just that the devs don't want to deal with this stuff.
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I envy your ability to be open about your (partial?) deafness. I have normal hearing in one ear but am almost entirely deaf in the other, and have looked into getting a hearing aid for it. (I'm also blind on that side, and there is no fix for that.)

Society can be pretty vicious when you ask people to stand on a specific side of you, or turn your head 180 degrees so that you can point your good ear toward them, but I think if you have a visible hearing aid, people will be less surprised if you spring a request like that on them. Paradoxical, because the device means that you can hear them no matter which side they're on!

I feel like in today's era of ubiquitous headphones you could have even a hearing aid that looked like something else, and it wouldn't look that out of place. If I get a hearing aid, I'll go for a gray (or white, or black) one like yours.
You mean C++ with Windows Runtime Library, which makes it a UWP application.
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Eh, what's so great about other people anyway.
The article goes into more details on that. Basically the fire extinguishers are not powerful enough against lithium-ion battery fires.
>Do you use Dependency Injection? Of course you do, you’re a responsible programmer, and you care about clean, maintainable, SOLID code with low coupling.

If you can overcome this cringeworthy intro about DI, the rest of the article is not as bad as this.
Not really talking exactly to the topic, but I recently went to use an open source project which said something like "this is open source software under a permissive license, but if you use it commercially you have a social obligation to financially support it".

It's probably important to note that it was web-facing code so it's public information if you are using it, which is encouragement to pay, BUT I still felt that they were striking an explicit bargain with me - use it commercially and you must pay - I liked that.

I thought this was a really good way of putting it - use it, it is free, but you are in fact obligated to support it financially if you use it commercially.

Again on another slight tangent, I think open source developers tend not to be business savvy and do things like say "pay what you think it is worth", or they ask for "tips" - these are good ways to get nothing. If you want people to pay something then you must set the price expectation clearly in the mind of the buyer/user.
Maybe the devs are busy switching project format every couple of months?
tl;dr is that Github is fair to men and women submitting pull requests. (Women have a very slightly higher chance of getting their pull requests merged for who knows what reason.)
How to you convince the crew that the laptop you're holding is actually a bomb?
The bigger question would be why is university your first exposure to programming if you're a CS student?
Those percentages have outsized impact because you are emitting them very high.

So while they contribute to 4% of emissions, they may as well contribute to 8% of global warming. We don't reduce emissions just because. We want to stop the climate change.

We should just optimize the planes. I do hope that in 10 years batteries will be good enough for electric fan engines.
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> Applications today are all HTML websites.

Thankfully that isn't true.
OK, fine, so I just won't travel to the USA anymore. I'm sure I don't want my laptop to end like my suitcase (which has been seriously damaged somewhere between the Europe and the USA airports).

There are so many more interesting places in the world. If the USA doesn't want my money, I think that's not my problem.
They don't have to be "equal" in any sense. All that matters is whether they meet some (probably ill-defined) threshold of reliability. In at least some circumstances, neither does, even if cellular gets closer.
The link doesn't seem to be opening. Or is it?
At this point it's not about the current administration, it's about the trend line over 3 administrations. In choosing to do business in the US, I'm introducing a dependency that will last for several years at least.

For my own work I've had a preference for non-US clients for several years now.
I'm not sure where this is getting confusing. You complained that Microsoft's Mac offering doesn't make Windows apps. It was then observed that this is an ironic complaint because development for Apple platforms is way more locked down.
Check out this link. It explains the process involved pretty well.
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C++ is also a UWP supported language, no need to go .NET for UWP apps.

Also they did announce that the next Office version will move to the store.
> To what extent does gender bias exist when pull requests are judged on GitHub?

As long as we ask gender-related questions, we'll find gender-related answers. Especially noteworthy:

> Perhaps only a few highly successful and prolific women, responsible for a substantial part of overall success, are skewing the results. To test this, ...

In other words, the researcher started with the hypothesis that women were discriminated against (as they say in the first part), then was surprised by the result and tried some more. Maybe, from time to time, it would be great to stop spurring the hate against the other gender: 1. Make sure everyone has access, 2. Analyze by some other criteria – It's not because gender is a readily available variable that studies should use it as something significant. Maybe shyness and marital status is more important, who knows.

Apart from not liking the idea of trying to find all little differences based on gender, the rest of the paper is interesting and in series of "Maybe women are X and Y? Here's how we'll check, here is the conclusion."

Last point, an equalitarist researcher would have studied the hypothesis "Is it possible that maintainers are simply kinder to women?". A lot of societal behavior could be explained this way, yet it's never a variable of those studies.
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> that doesn't matter unless you color-scale the image (like multiply by 2 to make it brighter) before displaying it.

It does if you stack several image layers. Let's say I have a particular color tone. Then I use that as background color. And I also stack 10 layers of the same color with alpha 0.05 on top of that. If you use premultiplied colors then this will actually result in a different color.

Due to rounding those colors often tend to be more greyish too. So if draw some vector graphics and have multiple basic shapes with semi-transparent edges (aliasing!) stacked on top of each other you can get some ugly fringes.
This is a major pain if you're flying with small children. On long flights, tablets are an absolute godsend...
"Finally" seems a bit optimistic. This kind of wolf-crying and security theatre has been the norm for a while in the states.
Here, some real RMS porn: https://rms.sexy/ - thats probably why sexy domains are blocked...
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That's great, but why don't you have HTTPS/SSL on your website, jeff?
I own a FP1. Parts availability and upgrades have not been as good as one would like for FP1 or FP2. How could a purchaser be confident that FP3 can have a reasonable lifetime to minimise WEEE?
Furthermore, the poor sampling near the edges of the plots leads me to suspect that the trend away from a flat line is due to Runge's phenomenon. The peak may be nothing other than the oscillations from this phenomenon leaking into the interior of their data set.
How does that help? Fb will use facial recognition and track you in pictures, build up a friend-graph - and if they can - associate that profile with tracking data from "like"-buttons etc.

You can choose not to use the Internet, or only use hardened devices over tor - but it's not exactly the same as "you can choose not to drink coca cola" (incidentally, it might be difficult in places to completely avoid products by the coca cola company, as opposed to just "coke, the coca cola soft drink").

Added to this, the network effect make fb hard to avoid - people use fb/messenger for a lot of communications, volunteer groups, political groups, education... You are free to argue it's I'll advised (and I agree). But wishful thinking alone does not mean "choosing not to use Facebook", might not include: missing social, educational and work opportunities.
It is more likely that big corp will have their own team fix the problem, unless the original code is too big or convoluted.
Apparently you haven't been "blessed" with Softlayer's interface.
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Hah, that's brilliant.
How? As far as I know a commercial company can't get your location or other personal information just by knowing your mobile phone number?
The logical conclusion of all this is that in the foreseeable future laptops will be banned from the cabins of all flights, regardless of origin or destination. :/

(Of course, the decision to ban laptops on flights from Europe has not yet been finalised, so this is all still speculation at this point.)
I wonder if someone wore a shirt with this pattern while walking in front of it

https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/01/04/anti-facial-recogniti...
And you just gave us their segment.io API key and google cloud manager authentication tokens.
Thanks, because of your comment I'll take a second look.
it appears to be a way to measure complex behaviors, and higher cognitive functions, however - so I don't think the commenters are that far off.
When you seek the services of an agent and pay them money to help you buy or sell real estate they represent to you that they are qualified to assess the value of the real estate being bought and sold and are somewhat morally obligated to you by virtue of the money you paid them to provide you with accurate information.

Professional licensing requirements are supposed to ensure they are sort of kind of qualified.

Someone you didn't hire which is providing a ballpark guess on the value of your property to help people do preliminary research before they buy has minimal enough obligation to buyers and none at all to you.

We can see that the obligations of the agents above attach both to the fact that they are brokering 6-7 figure transactions and to the fact that you contracted them. Its hard to imagine what you believe the obligation is supposed to attach to in zillows case.

Its not even clear that regulating zillow according to each individual states laws would accomplish save placing unconstitutional limits on free speech. Plantiff doesn't even want that they want a club to compel zillow's silence or desirable speech. Surely cloaking it in bs doesn't make this any less unconstitutional.
So they can backdoor them without you even noticing. Wonderful
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Batteries contain their own oxidiser and fuel, so the only way of extinguishing a better fire is to remove the heat (fire triangle: fuel, oxidiser, heat).

The best lay-person's method for extinguishing battery fires is flooding with cold water, which will be hard on an airplane at the best of times.
Good job, xkcd: https://xkcd.com/651/

As a bonus, here's what the TSA thought about laptops in 2009: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=46966
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This was answered and discussed at length in the article

>The battery bombs would need to be manually triggered, a source explained, which is why the electronics ban is only for the aircraft cabin not checked luggage.

Obviously stuff in the cabin are much easier to access and manually manipulate than stuff in the cargo hold. Im also very disappointed at the slew of other answers and their up-voters who clearly did not read the article.
The problem with electric aircraft is a bit like a mini Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. In a conventional aircraft fuel is burnt off as it flies causing it to lighten and become more fuel efficient as it travels. With battery aircraft this doesn’t happen so you need more batteries upfront to travel the distance.
Answering myself with another slightly off topic point - I wonder if a public register of financial support to open source projects would encourage more of it?

For example, if payments went through github for verification, and there was a public list to see the rankings of which companies give the most to which open source projects.

We could then see for example how Amazon which makes billions from open source, contributes (? $0) to open the open source projects that it packages and sells as services.
What is a bulk account? I don't see mention of it on the site guidelines or anywhere else.

I personally don't want to have an identity on the web. If that's against the rules could you kindly point it out to me?
That's definitely something I'd be interested in learning about.
It was always my intention that this could in some manner encompass "support contracts" in a way that companies could pay for. I think I mentioned the possibility of tiered pricing; one tier might be "$1000/month, guaranteed reply to issues within 24 hours". I don't know enough of how corporate software support contracts work to flesh out the details here.
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