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It was reverted earlier after RMS saw the commit, and added himself to the email chain. RMS said that as the leader of the GNU Project, he gets the final say, and said to the maintainers that they are under him.

One of the maintainers then reverted the commit.

To explain the 'joke':
In the box at the bottom of that page, it's basically RMS saying that if the government outlaws abortion, they'll have to not give any information on the `abort()` function, and instead say it's not an "acceptable way of terminating a program" (or rather, "acceptable way of terminating a pregnancy")
"So I can understand why the UK police remain unperturbed by 92% false positives."

Automating bad judgement. Just think of the savings.

I saw something similar with my local election administrators. They enthusiastically embraced automated signature verification (postal ballots), even though it didn't work very well, ultimately creating more work.

I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I think it was mostly about funneling money to cronies.
This is something I saw over and over again long before I had a serious interest in technology or science at all. It’s an attitude that’s rampant in liberal arts courses.

There are “kiddie” versions of everything from History to to Music Theory to Grammar. It used to really frustrate me in undergrad how many things taught as almost moral absolutes were upended the following semester.

I sort of get it that even in junior high and high school, the teachers don’t really know anything beyond the kiddie version, so that’s what gets taught.

But at the college level, there’s no excuse for that. There’s a certain amount of science envy that some liberal arts professors have. They want to be able to say that there is one and only one way to understand a historical event or way to compose music.

Milton Babbit was famous for this in the music composition world and argued that music needed to be “elevated to a higher form like that of math or physics” and that no one expects advanced math to be accessible to lay persons. Therefore music shouldn’t be comprehensible by anyone who doesn’t have a PhD in music theory or composition. This was actually a pretty popular attitude in the “classical” music world from the 1950s to the early 80s, and the music written during that time reflects it.

Sorry to get so far off on a tangent, but while that specific fad has come and gone in music composition, there remains an inferiority complex among liberal arts academia that is extremely problematic and a general attitude among professors of all stripes that some people just can’t handle the truth: that outside of religion, there are no absolute truths.

Getting back to the Hendrix quote, I absolutely agree. Teach children as much of the truth as you know. They can take it. In my own experience teaching violin, I’ve found that I get the best response when I treat the students the most like adults. About 20 years ago I started bringing in little vignettes about music theory and history with my youngest students (4-6 years old) as a break between lesson segments where we were focusing very intensely on specific violin techniques. When I realized that they enjoyed both the context switch and the color commentary about why exactly we do these kinds of things, I brought more and more of that to the table, and it’s been very successful.

Obviously, this isn’t a robust study, it’s not meaningful in a larger scale, and it doesn’t prove anything at all.

But if the theory is that young students can handle a lot of uncertainty and a lot of advanced material at a young age, then my experience is, at least, not evidence that it’s false.

Deep down inside, I think that we need to be a lot less careful, protective, and hand-holdy about what we expose our children to. They can handle it.
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The documentation for the glibc abort() function had this entry, that was removed:

@c Put in by rms. Don't remove.
@cartouche
@strong{Future Change Warning:} Proposed Federal censorship regulations
may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of
calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an
acceptable way of terminating a program.
@end cartouche
> We think developers will like the idea that they can take advantage of OS-specific functionality

And what about actually reading and taking in account what people are writing in your blog post comments, here or User Voice, sometime for _years_? It's seems rather clear that there is demand for a cross platform UI API and that the lack of it is hindering .net core proposition value and adoption.

I understand that it is not a decision your team can made only, but please stop dropping the "we're hearing you" meme when some important demands like that are automatically dismissed.
Based on the direct reports despising him and wanting to leave, wouldn't you say it's time for him to go? If he's been like this for two years a weekend retreat won't fix things.

Explain to the board your position and go fix your company. He'll thank you for it later when his shares are worth something.
It's described in the thread a few posts in I believe, but I also don't think the text of the joke is the point. The LWN article linked elsewhere in this thread probably better highlights the real issue: That RMS has made an authoritarian demand that his joke remain in the manual despite most everyone who maintains glibc opposing that.
So I'll speak a bit from my own experience in a similar startup situation. Similar in that I had a co-founder problem but we were pre revenue and only a little over a year in. Ultimately having money coming in changes the equation.

So any decision that's made is a big cost/benefit analysis. My life was made miserable and sleep were suffering. I simply couldn't continue and felt my time could be better spent on higher productivity projects.

So I left... Now with a few months of hindsight since the departure, my quality of life is better. I've moved on to projects that are more fun. I miss the old startup and what we built, but it wasn't worth continuing in that situation.

If I were to reflect quickly on how that situation arose: slow loss of mutual respect and breakdown of communication. So always keep communication open and always keep it civil.
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I'm not the parent commenter, but I decided to read the one about science compelling me to purchase an assault rifle.

It's mostly fear mongering under the pretext of "science" by using a medium article that attempts to estimate the likelihood of a group attempting to overthrow the US government based on the fact that two "overthrows" have been attempted (Revolutionary and Civil wars).

It also has a good amount of liberal bashing and partly through it we get to the real reason it was written which was to plug the authors book.

The summary on Amazon is as follows:

"America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent past undertakes one last mission to infiltrate and take out his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of North America"

Basically the author is trying to scare me, justify those fears with "science", give me an enemy to focus my fear on, and then sell me a book which will both make the author money and give me the satisfaction of living out a fantasy scenario in which all of my fears were correct and I can feel like a good guy.

In summary, I would say that this article is far outside the bounds of reasonable discourse and should not be read by anybody.
The dillema I see with this argument in regards to the Internet is that it's exceedingly cost-prohibitive to publish content on the internet without the discretion of an entity like GoDaddy. What's more, even if you have the monetary means to buy an ASN and IPv4 space (which has a market value of about $4,000 for the smallest block you can announce), nobody is legally obligated to provide transit to you (which itself typically costs somewhere in the ballpark of $300/month).

I don't believe resilience to censorship on the internet should be a right reserved for the wealthy (or even reserved for networking experts who could build their own AS), but I have yet to reconcile that with the right that private service providers have to turn down customers (and it goes without saying that this particular website will not be missed). I wonder if a non-profit hosting provider that was bound by its constitution to host any legal content for anyone that could pay could be successful.
Huh, I read it a different way

>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

Given the context of militia and state, I read it more as a right of local governments to keep the means of self defense, not necessarily a "human right."

Compare to the language in the UN Declaration on human rights:

>Everyone is entitled to ...

>All human beings...

>Everyone has the right to...

The difference being the second amendment is only viable within the context as an enumerated US law, whereas the UN Declaration of human rights enumerates rights that are inherent to existing as a human.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
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> For example, I should be able to define a persistent disk using a Kubernetes manifest, instead of having to go through some web UI or CLI ("gcloud compute disk create" or whatever).

What do you mean? You can do exactly that today, with persistent volume claims. K8s will create the storage volume for you and make it available for containers. This is "dynamic provisioning".

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volum...

What is missing is being able to create other resources. For instance, define a EC2 instance as a k8s object and have K8s provision it, for legacy or anything you haven't moved to K8s yet(databases, etc). I see no technical reason why it cannot be implemented today.
Would "A. Baker" refuse to bake a non-homosexual wedding cake for a homosexual wedding (whatever that is)?
Their website says "Approximately $2,500 each way" for the London–New York route.
And then re-added: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffa81...
Thanks! :) No big goals with this. Thought it'd be a useful tool, especially considering how big and bloated web sites are getting these days. So we're going to try to keep it around as it is. It's a simple wrapper around our Full-Text RSS product, which, as of the latest release, can output plain text like this. Demo of that available here: http://95.216.144.183
Ignoring everything else, I have to say that the joke is super confusing and frankly not really funny. I would have been confused if I tried to read that page without any context. For that reason alone I think it should be removed.
For me personally, I guess netcat, socat, tcpdump and SSH (for tunneling) qualify the most. I'm working in a Windows environment where I'm usually not allowed to install new software, and I miss those by far the most.

Often, I need to do a test run of something which involves slightly rerouting network traffic and I'll spend half a day hacking together some horrible "solution" that I could literally have done in 3 lines of bash code on a UNIX-like system. Maybe throw hexdump for looking at binary stuff in there too.

Edit: Oh, and of course GDB! If only I could have the accumulated days of log forensics back that were done just because it's still faster to do that instead of getting the visual studio debugger to work remotely. Whatever happened to KISS? -_-
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This makes sense, but I don't see how it explains the difficulty the kid was having.
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> Because he thinks that the notion that private banks create money as an account operation, and they search reserves after giving a credit, and not before, is too complicate for his readers.

Sure it would, because free speech/press is a human right.

OTOH, it doesn't mean that anyone else (including online services) must expend their resources relaying your speech, or that anyone else must listen to your speech, or that people must associate with you despite disliking your speech, because, again, freedom of speech, press, and association are all human rights.
Is there anything public beyond betfair and predictit? Specially for the EU
> You can tell the router to give the device a static DHCP allocation, sure, but that will break as soon as you switch to a new router.

All routers have some way of finding out the IP leases.

> Browser changes might break rendering of the config pages.

That's a fault in the browsers.

> The config interface is not standardized: it works for now but it will look outdated a couple of years from now. It can't be improved upon. Understanding and working with it is another annoyance that the user has to learn.

That it stays the same is a benefit, not a bad thing per se, and one could always allow for a simpler set of calls as an API to achieve functionality independent of the design.

The auth problem is definitely an issue, but more so when you expose your stuff to the whole world than to a LAN. It's next to impossible to get this right over the lifespan of a device.

Anyway, I think you really have a valid point but to me it all revolves around the security issues, the remainder depend strongly on your point of view and are not absolutes.
That's a really good upgrade.
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/OZxqMo?editors=1000 sublime text with vim and drag and drop files and tabs. why? why not? idk.
It's interesting you mention "beating". I've heard of, but not actually seen in action, a method where a piece of paper is placed on the strings with the guitar on a flat surface. If the guitar is strummed and the paper falls off it is out of tune, if it stays on it is in tune.
Now you also need to hold certain notes down whilst you do this. I don't know what they are. And this might be a myth.
No. The co-founder doesn't care about the business. He thinks he cares. He may even want to care. But he doesn't. He cares about himself.
The TV ecosystem solved this by splitting the screen apart from the set-top/streaming box (and then put them together again in the form of smart TVs, but most people I know just disable the internal smarts and use their own stick anyway.)

Why not just specify a "dashboard control tablet" form-factor, and have an empty spot there, expecting the user to supply their own (and replace it every year or two, as people tend to do with other mobile devices)? It'd be this decade's tape/CD player module.
Ad hominem attacks are sometimes good.

It's reasonable to evaluate a source before you trust what comes out of that source.

For example, I have ample experience being lied to by Donald Trump and therefore I feel comfortable ignoring most of what he says or assuming it's a lie.

There is too much information in the world today to not rely on filters like the reputation of and your experience with the source.
Pff. One of the better known guys in the little world of some accounting software we use, charges $300+ an hour.

He’s done some e-books, YouTube tutorials, and a blog with tips/tricks.

The $300+ comes from consulting, training classes, and speaking, just depends on which. A day of training is $3000 plus travel and expenses.
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No one needs a gun (well, discounting those in conflict zones maybe?)

Even parts of the US can descend into being without rule of law.

a computer or a car to live.

What if the government was a lot more active in deciding who got to use a computer and a car? What if that government was dominated by a party that you didn't like, whose members largely didn't like you? So for example, if you're a never-Trumper, would you like it if someone you considered a "Trump lackey" had the power to take away your computer and your car?

Back in the days of Hammurabi, there was no such thing as "Freedom of the Press" but it's now taken as something vital to society. If you don't have access to computers and computer networks in 2018, then a person is at such a disadvantage, that it's politically significant at a fundamental level. This was the same logic that was applied to firearms in the late 18th century. (And even today, there are those who depend on firearms proficiency to eat.)
Obvious to not respect the right of way? Or fall prey to insurance fraud if you misinterpret the "benevolent" driver who you thought was letting you jump the turn.
Yes, that's a good example. Basically in all our games there's some form of unseen protagonist/antagonist (e.g. a ghost, outside help via radio/TV/emails, an AI system, etc) and it helps the players over time.

We try to do things like detect partial solutions that might indicate the players are close to a full solution, because the worst thing is to bypass a puzzle when the players are actively engaged with it and having fun. On the other hand, if we know there's more interesting gameplay to come, and the players are spending ages on a particular puzzle, we want them to progress. This is the part where some enthusiasts disagree with our approach - some of them would rather fail than be pushed through. Fortunately, the bulk of our players would rather be given increasingly easy hints until they "solve" things themselves.
Economies of scale is a perfectly viable strategy for legs that already have plenty of passengers. Busses are gas guzzlers compared to mopeds...
The article said the LIDAR was fine. It was the decision making software that failed.
Why wouldn't you tell a recruiter your expected salary requirements? The best part of going through a recruiter is that it's hard to find out salary up front when you're interviewing. Them knowing my minimum acceptable salary keeps both of us from wasting our time.
But that is not the case there. SaaS's typically don't target a natural person, they target businesses (in EU, self employment is considered business as well).
> For a society to work well, the letter of the law should be a minimum safety net.

But the right to show people the door is the letter of the law on free speech, free press, and free association; that is, it is part of what you recognize as the minimal guarantee that must be preserved.
it's a cringey joke but the PC police trying to convince RMS to remove it is equally cringey. with this trend soon we won't allow ourselves to say anything because words lead to feelings and we can't have that, for some reason.
I always liked to imagine a scenario where my daughter would invite me to her class to talk about what I did, and I would try to explain the concept of programming to young children. I would pretend to be a robot, and they would have to command me to do things, but I would only do them exactly as they described them.

I had a similar experience when I was in school and it really stuck with me. Kids love this shit, they just need it in a way that lights up their minds a bit.
I am not Jeremy but I have taken part in the current course and also took some lessons by Siraj (who also does lessons at udacity), Andrew NG, and Karpathy. I think all of them are awesome teachers. Like Siraj's lessons, the fastai course is full of practical examples, whereas Ng/Karpathy's courses are more theoretical. What makes the fast.ai course unique compared to Siraj (who covers a lot of topics very briefly) is that Jeremy delves into depth, taking a long time explaining things, so you have a lot of opportunities to understand what's going on. In the 2018 course there is actually not that much different content compared to the 2017 course, rather Jeremy took the time and tried to make everything easier for everyone to understand and built a better python library. Also another unique point about Jeremy is that he and Rachel want not only to teach people but rather inspire a community of people working together in teams. The fast.ai library will not be just a project for the course, it will be something that a lot of people will use and contribute to to make pytorch better.
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The whole article is just an I-fail-because-the-world-is-so-horribly-unjust whinge, and to make himself feel better, he wants you to believe that you will also fail if you try, because that's a much easier way for a person to digest failure.
Maybe, but we at least need to buy time until we otherwise solve the problems using technology.
To call it a joke is a bit of a stretch, more like a turn of phrase or wink to the reader.

As far as explicitly inserting one's politics into communal tools, this case is so mild it's hard to fathom any grounded person wasting time on it.

However, there is a case at the moment of the author of the BFG tool for git adding a paragraph of text about fighting trump at the end of his tool's output. He won't get rid of it until he's out of office.

Another case where Atlassian was putting in LGBT rainbow stuff into the output of a successful push.

Really obnoxious stuff. I don't mind devs having a personality but develop a sense of decorum.

As weak as the RMS line was, best keep any snifter of politics out of your tools. It's just lame at the end of the day.
There were a few test flights; it was _doable_, though probably not economic.
The more I think about this question, the more it is stumping me. I wouldn't call creators 'customers' but I think the point still stands. Curious to hear peoples thoughts
It was a normal cake. The "for whom" was the only differentiating factor.
I am with RMS on this one. It is not an abortion joke, it is a censorship joke.
He doesn't take a stance on abortion (a sensitive matter) but on whether they (FSF or a foreign NGO for example) are allowed to talk about abortion.
The article linked mentioned "B was the problem", meaning it ignored the sensor input. Another article(1) about it mentions that Uber had reduced the number of LIDAR sensors from five to just one rooftop sensor. The president of the company that builds the sensors even said you would need side sensors to see pedestrians, especially at night. But LIDAR is expensive. So it seems that, like Tesla, they were trying to rely on radar for that kind of thing. But that does leave the blind spot(2) I mentioned.

Given that I don't see how this case is so different.

Though I still don't understand how, specifically, that blind spot problem works. They say when the car in front of you changes lanes and a stopped truck is now in your lane you'll hit it. What if no car changed lanes in front of you? Would you still hit a stopped truck in your lane? The guy whose Tesla hit the bridge column seems to tell me yes, but I'm not sure.

1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/uber_selfdriving_de...

2. https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/