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> That’s why the right to make a derivative work is paramount (a freedom no non-developer can take advantage of)

Non-developers take advantage of it by hiring a developer; it's essentially the right to take your software to be serviced by someone other than the seller.

> Traditionally the FSF advocate will say something here about end users hiring developers to modify software for them, but in reality that’s economically ridiculous.

It's perhaps ridiculous for non-wealthy individual end-users for software that isn't integral to a profit-making business, but it's quite common for major open source projects to see most of their contributions being from institutional end-users who have hired developers to address their own needs with the software.
Fascinating article, and one that matches my recent thinking.

I am a part of a large GPL open source project, but am not sure that the GPL made a big difference there, since "distribution" is a loophole large enough to drive a truck through. If you extend & modify software just for your site / your client's site, you have no obligations.

Conceptually, a great followup article is Kyle E. Mitchell's "Unhappy Coincidences", published last year:
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/08/28/Unhappy-Coincidenc...

Nowadays, I gravitate towards permissive licenses because I feel that people and companies contribute largely out of self interest, not because a license compels them to.
Sure, we can burn plastics. But that can be problematic, because they often contain metals (either as filler, or in multiple layers) and are typically contaminated.

In a closed system, where you're just cracking plastics, it's arguably easier to deal with contaminants. And I also suspect that you'd use less energy overall.
Non-tech users generally don't have the necessary knowledge and mental models to place technology the market is offering in context of what is possible. They think what's available, even if it's annoying, is the best that's possible. It always looks new and shiny, so it must be the limit of what could be. They don't realize that modern tech could be much more capable, and much more empowering, if not for constant shitty, greedy and people-hostile decisions made by those who make and sell it.
Investment Program for Embracing Innovation (IPEI) is best-spent capex.
It's only a political thing in the minds of the politically-inclined. Since when was autism a cornerstone in anybody's ideology? I think the only reason this is riling people up is that it involves gender in the title.
What're you running on?

I ask because, in the context of this thread, everything works on the Lenovo laptops that have been mentioned. I've got two (a work and a home one, one with a discrete GPU and one without) and I dropped Fedora on them and it just worked. I keep my Macs for stuff I can't do (as mentioned elsewhere, Logic Pro and the occasional iOS build), but I've been running FC28 and then FC29 as a baseline OS for a year now with no trouble. Probably my only complaint is that the IR camera is higher in the load list than the visible-light camera so I have to remember to select the correct one for teleconferences, but if that's the biggest issue I've got with it...man, that's a pretty good place, for me.

There is definitely janky hardware out there. Would never say otherwise. But most of the time, business hardware from the big manufacturers, especially ones that will sell you a Linux laptop, will set-and-forget.
It checks a bloom filter.
Despite the seperate bins you cannot trust the sorting by the public absolutely, further sorting is always required at the recycling center anyway.
On my 2016 MBP, I also map CapsLock -> Control and Left_Control to ESC. It's goofy having ESC down there but I need a physical key as I do not look at the keyboard while typing in vim - there is no haptic feedback from the glass surface.

I am 50/50 VIM / EMacs so the it's important for my control key to be on the home row.

I'm not sure why keyboards even have caps lock. It's rude in chat right :-) I started with Sun keyboards where control was on the home row. I guess if one spends hours typing long capitalized acronyms daily, then it makes sense.

It's personal preference in the end. I certainly wont buy another MBP - my 2016 has had 4 trips to the Apple store since I bought it for key replacements.
"#exposure!" is the common refrain of the thieves, not the artists.
Yeah, good luck next time a tech-savvy has to recommend a Google product or something else.
Is someone forcing you to buy the ticket?

I'd be more concerned about flying particular airlines than the aircraft model.
It worries me that we worry more about the monetary cost of producing energy more than the energy cost of producing energy.
> identified a problem with the script

Shitty academia code strikes again. It's sort of unfortunate that most of academic fields have turned to domain-specific software engineering, which graduates are woefully unprepared to do properly.
A physical enhancer enhances some physical aspect predominantly, and a mental enhancer enhances some mental aspect predominantly or allows you to do better at enhancing the particular aspect yourself.

physical enhancers I can think of: Steroids, Viagra

mental enhancers I can think of: Modafinal (and similar, mainly, can also argue it is a physical enhancer), psychological drugs focused on better focus etc.

half and half - amphetamines. you can stay up to study but you don't pay attention so you could also stay up to party.

physical enhancers I can think of offhand: drug makes you beautiful, drug makes you physically tough, sharpshooter drug etc. etc.

mental enhancers I can think of: increase short term memory, photographic memory, increase reading speed, language processing improvements.

I guess I see that passing the GED drug mentioned in the other comment but intelligence is as a general rule not something people aspire to in this society (IMHO) therefore I would expect intelligence altering drugs would not receive as much funding as drugs that effect the things that society values, and those things tend to be physical.

Or to paraphrase Idiocracy the best minds would be devoted to enlarging penis size not making people smarter.
Just as the only browser with DRM would have a huge advantage in that scenario, the one streaming service without DRM would have, too. I honestly think Netflix would take that chance for their own content.
No, we make ammonia from nitrogen and methane.
Why is it 11x faster?
CRDTs are objects that can be updated without expensive synchronization/consensus and they are guaranteed to converge eventually if all concurrent updates are commutative (see below) and if all updates are executed by each replica eventually.

https://medium.com/@istanbul_techie/a-look-at-conflict-free-...
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You can use something like SeatGuru before you book a flight to confirm the model. For instance, the LH490 flight on 4/9/2019 will be a 747-400: https://www.seatguru.com/findseatmap/findseatmap.php?airline...
Sounds like a social marketing job and he's underpaid.
Such a math course is being taught wrong if passing a test relies on churning through a million arithmetic steps instead of demonstrating understanding. I did fine in my course. Had to use the technique of mentally placing objects around a familiar path to memorize a silly list of matrix properties though.
Not really, though they are all grounded until this is fixed anyway. I'd expect them to be safe after this if for no other reason than any pilot of this aircraft is going to end up with special training before they fly.
All Netflix movies are on PirateBay already, in spite of their DRM. I’ve seen movies pop up on PirateBay the day they are released. They wouldn’t leave any money on the table.

People paying for Netflix are paying for convenience. That wouldn’t change in absence of DRM.
Yes. Not related to this specific study:

> Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain

> Are there any significant differences based on sex alone? The answer, she says, is no. To suggest otherwise is “neurofoolishness”.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neu...
When I first tried it in like 2012 it was absolutely a mess that crashed all the time and bogged down with hardly any notes and was deserving of all the hate it got. If it was in the hands of a startup it would have been long gone by now.
Is that a reference to the travesty of a wheel of time pilot episode? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4450372/
I blame the OSS community that rolled out the red carpet for DRM. They are the only ones who really had a choice to make. I frankly don't blame the corporations pushing this, because they have been trying the whole time.

And they did it for the worst reasons. Vanity and pride. The corporations pushing DRM are merely motivated by greed.

But the players in the OSS community that opened the door for DRM were TERRIFIED of being labeled as "obsolete" or losing pretend "market share". They refused to take a stand against DRM, if it meant losing any users. Just look at the discussion thread where Mozilla decided to support DRM.

The arguments in favor of DRM by the OSS community are always the same:
- We need to support terrible DRM because it is popular (and being numerically popular is super important).
- We need to compromise against our users because if we don't then we won't have any leverage (which we are conceding we don't have anyway)
- "marketshare"
- "integrated branding"(?)

None of this makes sense, because Google, Apple, and Microsoft have completely different goals with building for-profit forms.

People who speak in slimey business sales marketing speak are making decisions about the direction of OSS software. And these people are obsessed with cargo-culting the big commercial platforms.
> I mean, yes, but why would they do that?

So that they're not beholden to adversarial corporations.

> You're assuming that content is fungible. If I want to watch Game of Thrones, I want to watch Game of Thrones, not "Winter Dragon," and "Winter Dragon" being DRM-free won't incentivize me to watch it.

Except that it is fungible, it's just not universally fungible.

The reason Winter Dragon isn't fungible with Game of Thrones is that you don't like it as much. You'd rather watch Game of Thrones. But there are thousands of shows, and out of those there are hundreds you might want to watch, yet there is only time to watch dozens or fewer.

Nobody can actually watch all of the shows they might want to watch. Letting "lack of DRM" be the thing that chooses between the ones of equal desirability to you is as good a way of pruning the list as any.

> Furthermore, development of media content is expensive and requires a bunch of up-front capital / investment. So while there is a market opportunity, it isn't obvious that taking advantage of it without connections to the existing industry is a profitable strategy.

Who says it has to be someone without connections to the existing industry? New independent studios form all the time as existing talent strikes out on their own. All it takes is for one of them to prove the market before everybody is doing it.
I used Evernote for a bit years ago, but only for scratch notes I didn't care to lose. Mainly because I saw there didn't appear to be any way to export/backup my data from Evernote in a format that was not some proprietary storage mechanism that only works in Evernote. I figured the end-game was always to lure people with freemium and then dramatically increase the prices later, holding your data hostage. And it appears that is exactly what happened.

It looks like you still cannot backup to an open format:

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005557-How-to...

"The Evernote XML (.enex) file generated by the above process can be used to import notes or notebooks back into Evernote. This process can help you move notes between Evernote accounts or restore lost notes from a backup."
For years browser vendors have displayed little yellow infobars at the top of the screen related to page functionality. These were visible enough but didn't demand immediate action in the way a dialog taking focus and overlaying the browser chrome and page does. Browser vendors had better UX options to choose.

And push notifications definitely fall into the "this is something you might wish to do to enhance page functionality" category rather than "this is something the browser needs you to action" category associated with dialog boxes.
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it truly is our genius
Funny that you mention von Neumann. His background is Hungarian Jewish, a trait he shares with a number of other super-geniuses. In fact, von Neumann went to the same Budapest high school as Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner. Quite a few other geniuses and Nobel laureates hail from Budapest. Scott Alexander has a fascinating write-up on this phenomenon [1].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
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jesus. I didn't need another reason to hate Google. But there it is...
> a staggering 30% are dealing with keyboard issues right now!

I'm guessing this is the effect of hardware monoculture ? If your single-source provider has an issue, there's not much you can do.
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I have been registered as a student in 5 French universities and I can tell you that even if I can get "any" paper if I can enter a library (which is a joke in itself), sci-hub is 10 times more convient than the bureaucracy involved. The only time I requested a book from the stock, the librarian didn't even give it to me pretexting it was lost... probably because did like me as I had an unopened sandwich in hand.
So, with all these sync tools, there is a potential problem. We do not know if any data is lost until we look for them.

Recently, my apple notes were not getting update in Yahoo Mail(Its the way apple notes works). For a long time, I thought it was Yahoo mail problem. I did upgrade to iOS 12 and lost my notes. It turned out that apple was not even sending my notes to yahoo mail for backup.

Some one needs to come up with the a service which monitors whether these syncs are happening or not.
It's reported to use a thinner chassis. I haven't seen any specs but they may have done away with the removable second battery and poissibly the second RAM sslot
Its not really taking advantage when you advertise the business though
good call! :) thank you.
Right? It strikes me that perhaps he doesn't know what he wants. This is not a F/OSS issue, this is a bureaucratic issue.
Sounds familiar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19536991
I've noticed lots of follow requests from these spammy / scammy sorts of accounts over the last 8-10 months on IG. I finally deleted my account last month and haven't looked back.
> I believe the point the parent is making that Apple hardware is now bad enough that having Linux on well supported hardware, would require less fiddling and would provide better user experience.

Exactly. Business-class machines will generally do you just fine.

My experience: most of the Lenovo T, X, and P laptops, modulo some of the tablet/Yoga features, work out of the box. I had a HP Spectre x360 13" before a Lenovo (took it back for other reasons, didn't like the keyboard) in early 2018 and it worked out of the box--and with a 4K display besides. I've used Dell's XPS 13 and XPS 15, and they worked out of the box, too.

I realized last week that I at this point can safely assume that stuff is gonna just work with my machines. I plugged in a Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 dock with two monitors, headphones, Ethernet, and a bunch of USB devices and I didn't even stop to think first whether or not that it'd break. It didn't. It is predictably acceptable, today, in 2019.

It's emphatically not perfect. I have complaints. But the showstoppers are gone, if you buy mainstream gear.
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Some time ago I received as a gift from a friend a similar species with fiery red leaves. It was fake of course. The poor thing was painted in red, (spray painted with aerosol cans), to mimick red leaves. The plant is suffocated by the treatment and dies normally shortly the after purchase, but I could save mine removing the plastic coat with a lot of patience.

Mexican street flower sellers practice a few notorious scams. The oromelia for example with a huge (and a little repulsive) fake flower made with carboard and sewed carnation petals. Is an interesting world.
I was an early EN user from way back in the day when the UI metaphor was basically an infinite roll of paper.

I abandoned EN around the time everyone else did for a Dropbox synced folder full of markdown files. I use Sublime Text as my client on the desktop.

For my particular use case (I never really used the advanced EN features) it's worked well. I never really created notes on mobile, but I can read them using the Dropbox app.
Ease of compiler implementation specifically
I agree with most of what you've said: popular modern "Open Source" projects are mostly just corporations uploading more-or-less obfuscated source code from time to time. If I found a bug in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, my first move to fix it would be to get hired by Google, Apple, or Mozilla. In other words, I'll just sigh and move on.

But I'd disagree with you here:

> I believe that this focus on process is why the GNU project has fallen out of favor as well. The tools that the GNU project uses to develop its Free Software are arcane, ugly, and unique to them.

GNU and other old-school projects (Perl, Python) are the only large Free Software or Open Source efforts to which I would consider trying to contribute. They have spent years building reputations and creating communities. I don't care whether I submit a bug or patch through email or GitHub, but I do care whether or not my effort will have a real effect.
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I blame the people that work at Google.

But, hey I hear the money is good.
I watched a presentation on this chip at Strange Loop 2013. Unfortunately, the whole presentation was a sequence of "look at this cool cryptic programming trick I can do on this chip" by Chuck Moore, without a single legitimate use case outlined. It made the design look needlessly complicated to use and really didn't answer the question of why the chip is actually useful or in any way better than existing low-power microcontrollers. That says more about Chuck Moore's lack of marketing abilities than about clockless designs, however.

Strange Loop 2013 presentation:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip
Is this not the full version? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id78480155...

It's not quite as feature complete if you're not using Office, but it's still pretty handy.
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Corruption can always occur if the moons and sun don't align for you on the day of the power outage.

Battery backup is usually req'd if you want to use write-caching on your RAID. You can also use flash backed RAID controllers, it's prolly better than a battery backup today.

Ultimately, keep things in perspective. The battery backup option might be the same cost as a decent UPS. You can also always build your own or get a decent zfs appliance.
I for one would rather see common utilities move into proper naming and static classing with proper returns. For instance, strpos(string haystack, string needle) will return the position of needle in haystack as an int if found. If not, it returns false. To me, the proper thing in this scenario is to either return an int (even -1 is fine for not found) or throw an exception.

There's inconsistencies in typing of what is returned. There's nothing wrong with loose typing, especially in the place that PHP is used. It's just that the PHP API regularly returns not what you'd expect.

Throw into the mix that the built in simple-functions are all over the place (https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php). Seriously, there's str_replace, strpos, and parse_str. These could easily be solved by doing something similar to C#'s naming by changing it to something like String.Replace, String.IndexOf, String.Parse.
privacy is a valid reason, this makes sense.
I hope the CIA steals Apple's ability to innovate
I agree that, to really think about this problem, you need to keep zooming out. But I also know that programmers tend to reach for abstractions quite often, and you can go up and up and up that chain. I was trying to stay at this one specific level, and not zoom out too far :) Thanks for a great comment.
Well the same kind of confusion exist in color books for toddlers. In most books they show purple color for violet. Or they call violet as purple! https://curiosity.com/topics/violet-and-purple-arent-the-sam...
Ummm, "omelette -> egg" is a lot harder "plastic -> plastic monomers". And really, if you want to convert omelettes to eggs, you just feed them to chickens. And eventually, you feed unmarketable chickens to pigs.
Good point. I wonder if that would apply though.
The comment I responded to was quite clear about placing "all" of the blame on consumers, but sure; we all share some responsibility. The problem is that placing the blame on consumers will get you precisely nowhere.

>If there's nothing but coal powered electricity generation then vote to change it.

Most people are struggling just to get by. Expecting their votes to be driven by large, complex issues which on their surface do not seem to impact their lives directly or immediately (or actually don't at all) is wishful thinking. The vast majority of people don't understand these issues to begin with.

>If the company you buy electric from uses more coal than others, then change company

Where do you live where you have competing electrical companies? Of you're proposing that they spend money on e.g. solar or electric cars, well... I think you're a bit out of touch with the general populace. We don't live in a world where paycheck to paycheck workers can afford such things. It has to be cheap and easy or you're just not going to get anywhere. Same goes for something like DRM; until it causes huge problems with the way most people consume content, well, they won't care, and complaining about that is a waste of energy.

Problems like these require smaller groups of dedicated and informed individuals to help make change and educate others. It does actually work. The US has much better environmental policy than it did 50 years ago and people are more informed now then they we're then. It's just slow, and tech related issues are relatively new.
Afaik it's built to a ubuntu + vulkan setup, but I suspect the rendering will go directly to a proprietary encoders framebuffer and that it uses custom input mapping and not libinput.

What would be nice if they released offline linux + vulkan versions in addition to the streaming version but that probably goes against their MO of tracking and monetising. It would make me much more inclined to buy on their service though.