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If you mean the Open Source Definition, I once shared your view. I can't any longer. Most times I bring it up, my conversation partner has never heard of it. When I explain, most times they don't care.

As for "bullying", that very adequately describes behavior on GitHub, Twitter, mailing lists, and news sites toward those behind React, Commons Clause projects, and Lerna. "Failure to support" is a straw man.
I totally disagree that "assertive but kind" is a rare trait amongst the "technically proficient". Anecdotally, I know plenty who exhibit all of the above in spades.

The key is culture. Technically proficient people working within a community where "assertive but kind" is the norm tend to follow that norm.

I'll mention Doug Cutting as the ideal who melds technical proficiency, assertiveness, and kindness. I've often thought of Doug as a better role model for Open Source leadership than Linus Torvalds -- but it looks like after today I'll have an opportunity to reassess!
I set mine to Ctrl-Space, but the most frequently used commands are bound to alt+something so I can keep some consistency between tmux on windows at work and i3 at home. The gneral theme of bindings is Ctrl for apps, Alt for the WM, Windows key for the OS, this works well even when the WM and the OS are the same.
Vertical integration is a function of size and other variables.

For example, I used to work for a solar power company that would install panels on the roofs of big box stores and then sell the power to the stores below grid prices. This company did not manufacture panels -- they bought them at market rate from various suppliers.

The company got acquired by a major silicon wafer manufacturer. One of the things this wafer company made were solar panels -- boom, vertical integration. What a win, right? Well, as it turned out, after about a year, their competitors were able to bring their panel prices down whereas the acquiring company moved a bit more slowly. Thus the wafer company became an albatross around the solar power company's neck. They had to use the parent company's panels, instead of their more cost-effective competitors, and ended up no longer being competitive in the market.

So vertical integration can and often does make sense, but it comes with a loss of agility, and sometimes being nimble is more important.
Too bad that message won't reach politicians.
Yep, enjoy watching him. He has an interesting combination of knowledge about materials, electronics, machining and general tools know-how.

I got a kick out of an episode when his young daughter came into the workshop while he was filming. Clearly he has had an effect on her because she wanted to "make some metal". He told her she had to leave because otherwise he can't swear. She replied "That's OK."

While I sometimes chuckle at his vulgarities, I'm a little disappointed that I can't let my young kid watch him because of the language. It would be a great way to help instill a love of tools and making stuff.
Well, there is always some degree to "fake news" in every article you read, but yes I agree that Edward Snowden is a patriot. William Binney probably had the perfect solution to counter domestic and international terrorism, however his program was shutdown because the majority of the people working for Uncle Sam at the time wanted something far more than stopping terrorists. Sure, they may have had good intentions, but with power like this, there is no stopping others from coming along and corrupting it for their own purposes.
In this thought experiment, which one of us is correct (technically)?

If he's correct: I'd be upset at being wrong about something, but hopefully i'd have willpower to sober up to the fact that I may in fact be wrong once in awhile.

If I'm correct: I'd be upset because a person I respect is technically wrong about something, and then decided to rant about it.

Choice C: What if the question is non-technical? Answer : Don't ask Torvalds. He's not an expert in that domain.

(truthful answer: I've been a member of a project criticized by him. It felt terrible, but not because of some personal sleight; he just happened to be correct about the inappropriate-ness of what was being used, and being wrong is a tough pill to swallow when you're young and cocky.)
I found no evidence they are paid less than minimum wage, but I did find some claims casino-goers in the US are expected to tip cashiers, so perhaps the assumption is they are paid a tipped minimum wage instead of a regular one? That is not how jobs seem to be advertised though.
It doesn't work like that. A Facebook employee could be restricted by Facebook's own policies from using the software with that license. But that doesn't mean the license is not open-source.
-Watch from window as your luggage is loaded onto wrong plane \n
that must be worse than heartbreak
You would think and yet.. Did none of John Lasseter's friends call him out and tell him to take the T down a notch over the past 20+ years?

I've pondered over this a bit and have come to the conclusion that a lot of people simply don't have close enough friends exposed to their work behavior, or they simply accept it.. Feedback from randos isn't the most likely to instigate big personal change and reflection.
There have been so many failed attempts to get people to pay slightly more for more leg room. American Airlines had "more legroom in coach" back in the early 2000s and it was a disaster for them. The fastest growing carriers are the ones that treat their flyers the worst.

I pay what it costs for a seat with more legroom. No, my flights aren't $225 round trip, they're more like $300, but flying has been upgraded from the worst thing in the world to sort of enjoyable.
> As far as I understand, the AGPL kicks in on "propagation"
> -- which in the important case means "making available to
> the public".

That's the GPL, and more broadly, all copyright-based licenses. The AGPL was invented to handle software that didn't need to be downloaded to be interacted with. Think of an HTTP server -- the end user interacts with it, but doesn't download the server binary itself. The AGPL is designed to let the end user have access to the server's source code in that situation.
Do you use them as replacements or do you build something with the stuff they sell?
A distance character with the stature of Linus rebuking in public would make it so much worse for me.

I'd be terrible at being a celebrity.
License Zero has two public licenses, but the article covers React PATENTS, Commons Clause, Lerna MIT, Fair Source, JSON, HESSLA, and maybe a few others. There are nice diagrams showing "source available" separate from "open source".

I don't claim that any noncommercial license meets the OSD. I have and do argue my strong-copyleft license meets that definition, and acknowledge that's controversial.

Nobody, and crucially no legal right, makes it anybody's job to argue to the OSD. That is purely elective.
It's hard to get too lost in the Fells when you can hear the highways. :-P
Are we seriously putting Linus in the same category as Newton
It's funny, I also prefer much more the lightning connector to the Type-C one, but Type-C is not under Apple's tight grip...
The article claims a lot ... yet I cannot find any source interviews where Snowden defended Putin.
Who will maintain the maintainers, though?

I think that's what he's good at. They know they'll get called out if they try any BS so they mostly don't. And sometimes Linus overdoes it, but Linux keeps getting better.

Anyone who can do better can make their own fork. So far, everyone still follows Linus.
Why do so many people on this forum seem to believe that being polite inherently implies lying to each other? I just want to understand this line of thinking.

My workplace is extremely polite to each other AND we don't lie to each other. I recently submitted a code review that was full of violations of the style guide, and nobody was rude nor dishonest.
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Shame. "Professional" offendees got into Linus' mind at last, to no one's benefit.

Enjoy the break at least.
Ave is extremely entertaining, but I think he is highly educational. He imparts a lot of pratical knowledge, that you won't find elsewhere. Knowledge about molds and manufacturing.
I am a FreeBSD developer. None of those links are or represent FreeBSD developers.
How can you differentiate quavers in 6/8 and 3/4? The former is played as triads, the latter as pairs.
> I don't think any service provider has ever specified "indefinite storage" forever, especially across regions, but I would trust such a promise not at all.

Isn't it the business model of every online game store? I don't trust it completely, but I trust it enough to not really bother with backing up my Steam games.

> I'm really not trying to defend Apple here, because the whole thing sucks. But as hacker-types, surely we can try to understand how intellectual property and regional licensing and the edge cases of people moving internationally are more likely to result in screw-ups than not, right?

"Screw-up" implies that they would fix it and get him the movie back.

Apple should be licensing it so that once you buy the movie in a specific region, you can access it anywhere forever. That they don't is their failing, and I think it's inappropriate to use the word "buy" for what you apparently get.
Seems US government officials are also colluding with Russia, as they stranded him there (revoking his passport while he was in transit in Moskau).
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“Do What I Mean”: Name Resolution in Programming Languages
I love flying, but I hate everything surrounding it.
"don't pay very well." is a key point in Canada.

Solution is to either work for US-based consultancy OR for US-based company remotely or move to USA.

Alternatively - build your own business.

As a Canadian salaried employee you'll be facing high taxes, shitty pay and shitty weather (albeit Vancouver weather maybe a bit better).
Very interesting. As someone with a background in philosophy, I am wondering if causality has been excluded because of mistaken metaphysical and epistemological assumptions when the sciences were originally developed.
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I think that when a company reaches a certain size and stability level, as long as the CEO is competent and understands how to balance external and internal issues, the particular CEO doesn't matter that much. The real power over product direction comes from the PMs, VPs, etc. That's my argument -- Linus isn't uniquely qualified to run the Linux kernel project, since he's barely even involved in the direction of the project.
>> Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem is an unsolved minimization problem in geometry originated in 1955 by the American applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman[1].

As an aside, I've always found it funny how a person who studies (and, er, applies?) applied maths is an "applied" mathematician. That makes it sound like what is being applied is the mathematician, not her maths. I guess it's funny - haha to think of it that way, but it's also funny - strange that this is the most natural way to say the thing being said (that someone is a mathematician working in applied maths). In fact, I can't think of a different way to say the same thing at all, not in so few words.
Wish we could make both-sided modules of every kind, but high demand is questionable, and the tooling prices are high. Possibly later.
You're dancing around the issue. An open-source license is not allowed to distinguish between use by a hobbyist, a small business, and a multinational megacorp. If your license restricts commercial use then it's not an open-source license.

The Prosperity Public License restricts commercial use, therefore it is not an open-source license. You can't wordsmith your way out of this.
Its an analogy, not a classification. If you want to go by that logic then no one can be in the same category as Newton as he was the ultimate genius who revoutioned maths and physics singlehandedly.
That's pretty cool, I'm assuming it runs from 240 or is it something beefier?

Their factory is pretty neat, it's much smaller than I would have expected given their volume. Happy to support a company that does all it's work in the US even if the prices are higher.

One of the thing that was interesting from the factory tour was that they were really just a high precision (at the time in the 80s) machine shop. Most of their work is pairing with an existing designer(Osbourne, Pardue, Williams, etc). It's an interesting business model compared to some of the other manufacturers out there.
> One thing that is true in all successful organizations over time is that for any given person, no amount of genius will make up for being an asshole. It may take time, etc, but eventually, it ends up a significant net negative for the organization.

I dunno, Steve Jobs sure managed for a long time. I think they quite often end up being a net negative for the people who work there, but I don't think it necessarily hurts the organization (though maybe it should sometimes).
I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with it. It's not part of the explicit language of the Code of Conduct, but the first few paragraphs of https://www.contributor-covenant.org talk about the same concepts.

I think these attempts at redefining meritocracy are concerning, and I don't blame anyone for questioning the Contributor Covenant as a result, even if the Code of Conduct itself is reasonable and pretty much common sense.
ViHart for math things, VSauce for intriguing tidbits, Smarter Every Day for science and engineering. Lots of other great examples in this thread, too!
Tech Ingredients is hands down the most informative science channel I have ever seen on YouTube. He only has 65k subs but the unnamed host appears to be a professor of some sort and has absolutely fantastic explanations and demonstrations of everything from magnetics and jet propulsion to chemistry.

Can not recommend enough. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVSHXNNBitaPd5lYz48--yg
> Maching/shop: This old tony and mrpete222. Ave is entertaining but not too educational

Please also check out Abom79, Keith Fenner / Turn Wright Machine Works, Keith Rucker / vintagemachinery.org, Tom Lipton / oxtoolco, Stefan Gotteswinter, and ROBRENZ (this guy _really_ knows what he is talking about)!
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Yes, but you can optimize it even further by following a curve.
Linus's revelation kind of looks like he has been infected with "feels over reals" postmodernism. Not a good omen for engineering where reality needs to come first.
If this was your typical org,Linus would be a lead developer and architect who is also the CTO.

It is easy for me to criticize his behavior(and I don't agree with his rants) but it is also a difficult thing to be a leader. It would have been better if he got rid of the cult that alienates anyone who criticizes him. He is a perfect fit for the role but he should also be more tolerant of people who criticize his communication style.
That's not Rupert Murdoch?
Scott Manley has some amazing videos on rocket science and space in general.
Applies equally to archer and target, yes?
USB-C standard has a stload of DRM built-in with quite a bit of crypto protecting it. You can even ask the country code where the power is from! I've yet to hear about Lighting possibly being region-locked D:
> The idea that it is only elites who can tell the difference is an unsupported statement about art appreciation among the general population.

Of course, I made no such statement -- you did. I wonder which of us has a lower opinion of the lay public's capacity to appreciate art.

Back to the matter at hand, I'm fairly confident that a technology which faithfully reproduced artwork at the molecular level would be met with just as much contempt and hostility in the "art world". It has less to do with any sort of concern about the quality of the reproduction than it does with an aversion to seeing fine art placed in the hands of the masses.
If you need even more precision either tiled hexagon automata or subdivide into K instead of four compass orientations.

There is also probably some Pressburger arithmetic formulation treating it as vectors in 2D you could whack with an SMT solver? I'd have to sleep on that. Might be easier to code than all the finite state automata merging.
There are plenty of people who can deal with a rational explanation about why they are wrong, but who are not able to deal with being bullied.

As I wrote in a different comment in this thread: I would never consider contributing to the kernel because of the chance (minute as it may be) of getting the Linus-of-old treatment.
This claim struck me as especially dumb. We can easily determine whether or not he was a Russian asset by asking the question "Why is he in Russia?" He is in Russia because the U.S. cancelled his passport after he left China and before he got to Ecuador. He hasn't been able to leave because the U.S. won't restore his passport. And he's still on a temporary Russian visa. And even if he found a way to fly, the last time the United States thought (incorrectly) he was on a plane, they forced the plane (which was registered as a diplomatic flight) to land.

The conspiracy that he was flipped by Russia after he got there is at least not contradicted by the obvious facts, but a claim that he was a Russian agent all along is asinine.
Organizations are different than products though. The organization could easily function better, but the product could be worse.

As someone once said, "If the person who made your computer wasn't an asshole, it probably wouldn't even turn on."
You're right about it (objectively) being a no-brainer. Unfortunately, it's often hard to see things objectively from a first-person perspective. It sounds like Linus is acknowledging there's a problem and hopefully he can work on whatever the issue is without shaving off too much of the edge that makes him so effective.
I'm not sure that the comparison is completely invalid. Linus, via Linux has IMHO had a fairly profound impact on the world.
That's typically done by mime type and extension. For example,outlook/exchange won't let you send/receive windows executables as attachments at most companies.
https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1041441155874009093

She is really toxic...
> "Perfectly reproduced" is a reach.

Another challenge of reproducing art is that what makes the artwork so fantastic is the subtlest nuances. Those are not the 90% that many artists could do, but the .00001% that only Van Gogh could do. It's not just blue, or that shade of blue, or that precise shade ... but that unique color, in the context of all the other colors, on that spot on the canvas. Reproductions must have approximations and they must lose or weaken every nuance, unless the reproducer is another Van Gogh.

> The idea that it is only elites who can tell the difference is an unsupported statement about art appreciation among the general population.

Agreed and the argument often assumes that the impact of art is all conscious and explicit - 'people can't even tell you what the difference is' - when in fact artwork of any serious ambition aims far beyond what can be consciously noticed and enumerated (and again, those aims are achieved in the nuance). For my personal experience of it, museums are poorly set up, expecting me to engage with and grok dozens or more works in maybe an hour or two. Now I spend half an hour or more per work; that does mean skipping 95% them, but the experience is far more valuable, richer, and more gratifying. It's the difference between looking at vacation photos or visiting Italy.
> I'd be terrible at being a celebrity.

You and me both.
I’m really looking forward to the Red v1.0 release. It is a fork of Rebol that has a lot of potential. I’ve never seen a language (both Rebol and Red) that allows you to get so much done so succinctly while still being easy to read.
tl;dr: socialists suck
When authoritarianism is prevailing, the shrinking of the Overton window is, to my mind, exactly what one would expect.
You're defining proprietary to include source-available. That is part of what I mean by "the two-party system" of thinking, forcing options into one camp or the other.

Practically speaking, code developed in the open, by a diverse set of contributors, under a noncommercial license permitting redistribution, is far more comparable to open source than to Windows. That distinction is very clearly worth making. Doing otherwise risks forcing developers onto open source licenses when they're suboptimal, and nursing a misconception that the benefits of available source code accrue only to available source code that is also licensed under OSI- or FSF-approved terms.

Your conclusion on the enforceability of copyright use restrictions is incorrect. Look at Vernor v. Autodesk and the MAI Trio. Look the CC-NC litigation.

I have written far more proprietary than open source licenses, professionally. But practicing this area of law doesn't make my arguments correct. They have to stand on their own, without ad hominem support.
Just for the record, we haven't added any functionality after the campaign ended that caused extra delay. It was just incredibly time-consuming to start manufacturing.
Not every way possible. The pixel is a great device, but in some small areas it can't even compete with the iPhone. For example, haptics. the current iPhone has haptics so much better than anyone else it's not even funny. And on the software side, they have the ridiculously user-friendly airDrop.
I'm astonished that nobody has mentioned Technology Connections.

It's an awesome channel focused on how technology works - it goes in depth on subjects like analog TV, CD, digital audio and much much more.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q/vid...
>that's a much higher number than the incidence of gay and bisexual men in the overall population of the US (2-5%?)

1) A valid insight, but misdirected. The prevalence rate is still higher in heterosexuals. You'll find a common point in many medical texts that a lot of what happens in the homosexual community, disease wise, is due to how small it is. A smaller network makes it easier/faster for every node to get the message.

>Gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men have the highest prevalences of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and early syphilis.

2) Right, in San Francisco. Not world wide.

>Men who have anal sex with men (MSM) are more likely to get anal HPV than men who only have sex with women.

3) This isn't surprising, since homosexuals definitely have more anal sex than heterosexuals. You should compare this to general HPV rates.

I am still awaiting support for your original claim about homosexual sex.
> however, tell me that as a developer and I'm motivated.

I'm not sure why it would be any different. Just because I make a mistake (sometimes leading to a chain of mistakes) doesn't solely make me an idiot.