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Stallman puts himself up for scrutiny by being in the public eye.

I may agree with his political positions regarding free software, but his talents are otherwise rather run of the mill at this point.

This is the free market. Thanks for your contributions. But you’ve since lost first mover advantage.
That's not new though, is it? Comedy has often created push back from groups that feel like you can make jokes, but not about them. The new part seems to be that it's very public and, if you witness it live, seems very powerful. Before Twitter, you wouldn't see/hear about the angry letters sent to TV stations or newspapers, unless they were so numerous that the executives made a decision to give in to their demands.
In case of doubt, here's the announcement on fsf.org: https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns

Vice published info about this earlier [1], including the actual email chain [2]

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...

[2] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191...
I don't think that libraries should purchase ebooks anyway. The checkout model translated to a digital file is awkward and un-natural- how does one checkout a single copy of an ebook? Why can't there be an infinite number of copies?

I'd rather see libraries give up ebooks entirely until there is a non DRM alternative. Libraries should not reinforce existing DRM regimes. Meanwhile, it would be great if they could function as the physical location for furthering the distribution of Free ebooks already in the public domain and helping to make these available to people, maybe by lending ebook readers instead! Imagine going to a library and checking out a cheap 2nd Feb Nook loaded with 1k of Project Gutenberg classics? Or being able to choose and load the ebooks you want at the library to a device and then taking it home?
Refer to my comment below. This wasn't a judgment statement. I'm not defending Stallman.

I'm simply saying he failed at the task of correctly parsing this statement in a way that is clearly causing him to misunderstand the story.
Fiber isn't rolled out in a uniform grid pattern across the country, so population density is irrelevant.

We are one of the most urbanized countries in the world, more so than many who have rolled out fiber.
Just like Google did with their FloatMath class, after Dalvik got replaced by a proper JIT compiler.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/FloatMa...
Square space maybe
Publishers definitely get hurt hardest because volume and quality of traffic is more important for them, less so for exchanges. They're the ones who are the "huge fraction of news sites [you] visit [that are] including banners that tell people to whitelist ads, or anti-adblocking technology outright".

> maybe it's that impressions actually do matter to revenue in some cases and we haven't completely moved over to conversions yet, or maybe it's that advertising increases consumer spending even without direct conversion rates,

I mean you're right. Branding campaign spend just wants to eat up impressions and don't care much for click or actions. They're a large amount of $$ spent, but they also benefit the least from tracking so they can basically be shown to anyone. Tons of available inventory for them. But there's tons of money in more targeted CPA, CPC ads too.

Disclaimer: I mostly knew things from the RTB angle maybe 3 years ago. I may be out of date with where things are at.
I wonder who will think about the genius who disbanded the EPA, rolled back every environmental protection there is and withdrew from the Paris Agreement at the most critical time for our planet in 40 years.

Hindsight is 20/20 and the „Internet“ was a mainly US centered university research project that was thought of as a toy by the far majority.

Everybody thought they‘d have a replacement for the initial assignment once things got serious... for more fun, google ipv6 history ^^
All generalizations are wrong, including this one.
Citation needed.

Not saying it is or is not true. But these are powerful claims to be marking with no sources.
Landlords having grand ideas about community, consciousness, relationships, etc. is actually pretty normal for any kind of formal, large scale roommate situation. Dorms, coops, co-living, intentional communities, communes, etc. Even for normal individual housing, developer marketing is selling you a lifestyle and a self-image much more than it’s selling you walls and countertops.
Ah yes, that free golden age of the Comic Code and McCarthy hearings.
> There is. A “bright and clear line” means a test is objective, not that it’s simple [1].

Except you were obviously not using the phrase in that sense? There is absolutely no contradiction between "objective" and "taking into account many details of the individual case". There is absolutely no problem with writing a law that objectively specifies that the punishment for "17 years and 364 day" is going to be only marginally worse than for "18 years", for example, which you used as an example for why a "bright and clear line" would be necessary, and that that would mean that you have to have to have a strict cut-off point between hard punishment and no punishment at all.

> There is. Just because something is not consistently enforced doesn’t mean it’s not clearly illegal. Cops may not fine you if they see you jaywalking, but you’re still unambiguously breaking the law if you cross the street outside of the crosswalk.

In other words: There isn't. If you are breaking the law, but there are pretty reliably no consequences, in which sense are you then breaking the law that would be relevant to this discussion?

> Most crimes (although not statutory rape) require intent to be shown [2].

In other words: For most crimes, there is less of a "bright and clear line", and things generally seem to be working well, or even better. So, how is that a justificaton for having more of a "bright and clear line"?

> No justice system is perfect; innocent people get convicted and guilty people go unpunished.

Well ... sure? I am not sure why you mention that?!

> A good law should allow people to unambiguously know when they would break it.

I am not sure I would agree with that. I mean, yes, ideally, people should be able to know in advance what would constitute breaking a given law and what would not, sure. But the problem I see is that this ideal goal is in conflict with other goals of a legal system, such as being just. And "bright and clear lines" in the sense in which you are using the phrase tend to have very nasty side effects in that regard, because they massively increase the probability that honest mistakes that harm noone are punished the same as premeditated harming of another human, but also that someone intentionally doing harm that just so happens to be on the legal side of the "bright and clear line" goes unpunished.

So, I would agree that laws should be as objective as possible in describing what is illegal. But at the same time, circumstances should always be considered so as to avoid injustice that results from overly simplistic rules being applied. That doesn't mean that judges should make arbitrary decisions, though, in that there is no problem with at least attempting to codify the details of how to justly judge individual cases rather than settling for the simplest rule possible. While you might never be able to codify all the possible things to consider, that does not mean that the only other option is to make a simplistic rule.
From your description and other things I'm reading here, I somewhat expect him to commit suicide.

His work life is over, and he doesn't seem the type to be able to transition to anything else.

He'll write a letter saying: "I've done everything I intended, and can do nothing further."

RMS: If you are reading this: I highly suggest you throw yourself into a major programming project. Something you've been trying to finish for years, but never had time.
> societal hysteria about opiates.

I don’t think hysteria is an accurate term here as the danger and massive negative impact of opiates is very real. It is not imagined.

I like the word hysteria but am careful in its use because historically it has been used to discount and ignore very real problems with large chunks of the population [0].

I think to help patients and to help people suffering from addition and at risk for addiction it’s important to understand the problem. If people dismiss the problem as imaginary or happening to “them” and not “us” it is much more difficult to not have tons of people die.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
> This is why state-owned collectives are also the worst kind of capitalism.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Containers are catching up with features that bloated JVM have had for years, without their monitoring and debugging capabilities in production.

We still don't see any business need to bother with containers, other that being trendy and fashionable.
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> c# doesn't have anything like weak pointers

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.weakrefer...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.weakrefer...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.c...

> event handlers require that you manually dispose of half your objects.

You probably have software design issue on your day job. C# events can be great, but they're not a silver bullet.

For loosely coupled application wide events, event aggregator pattern works better, see IEventAggregator from Caliburn.Micro for an example.

If the two sides of the event handlers need strong coupling for a good reason, an interface or abstract class for the consumer works better, see ExpressionVisitor from System.Linq.Expressions for an example.
I am guessing age would be a string though?
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I can see 3) coming across negatively if your boss feels like you’re treading on their toes, which could be career limiting.
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Really this reminds me of a recent set of CNN opinion articles after the whole ridiculous Greenland thing. On video Trump referred to the comments by the Denmark PM as "nasty". CNN even has a headline "Trump calls Danish PM's response on Greenland 'nasty'".

Okay, but then they also ran a suite of opinion articles that said "Trump calls Denmark PM nasty" and then "Trumps Problem With Calling Women Nasty." I mean, look.. I get the thread and all that but that springboard article headline is just factually incorrect and then you have a whole analysis piece built off it. CNN has no way I'm aware of to report inaccuracies.

So much of news is just designed to get a rise out of people and EVERY site is guilty. It's particularly bad with opinion pieces which are, IMHO, tailored to specific demographics. News orgs hide behind the "opinion" label but really they just kill the whole orgs credibility. NYT keeps stepping in this; most recently with the Sunday Review piece on the new Kav book..
The lack of a headphone jack is the only reason I haven’t upgraded my iPhone 6s. I tend to use them at night, phone plugged in. I have at least five cables and don’t want to buy five dongles which I would lose. I would lose bluetooth earplugs in a matter of days. I just want to keep my system which works perfectly.

If at least they had put in two lightning connectors - these are not nearly as durable and start failing now after 5 years. That and the battery would be the only reason for me to get a new phone.
Homo is third declension masculine, hominum is plural genitive ("of men"). Here you need accusative, so ad hominem.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative homō hominēs
Genitive hominis hominum
Dative hominī hominibus
Accusative hominem hominēs
Ablative homine hominibus
Vocative homō hominēs
I've told my parents multiple times that the Facebook Android app is likely what's causing it to get warm, crash and run slow, and to uninstall it. I get a blank stare every time. You can lead a horse to water...!
Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
I personally find “engineer”'s use in a software context as pretty pretentious, so I understand how they might feel like they're really something different. What they don't know is they're as much a programmer as any other.
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Stallman's final interview as FSF president
Thank you for this. A lot of people here don't seem to get that who says a thing, and in what context, matters a great deal.

Even though Stallman wasn't a professor, and was "just" a Visiting Scientist, he maintained an office on campus, and was afforded a certain level of status by MIT. With that status comes an amount of responsibility. Making "philosophical" arguments that appear to defend abhorrent positions, regardless of the intent behind those arguments, is not in line with that responsibility.
As a neuroradiologist, I see these cases occasionally. People presenting with TGA sometimes have small infarcts in their hippocampus.

An example paper you can read if you are curious:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894321/
> Does that confirm that he indeed said it?

Well, no? Surely the coercion bit is the important bit? It's a bit odd that he had to "learn" that sex could bring psychological harm to children, but he's basically saying that adults should not have sex with children.
Do you know if disabling it affects messaging apps like WhatsApp?
> It seems there are many people here who likewise are blind-sided as to why suggesting an underage girl would be entirely willing to have sex with an adult and presented herself willingly would be nothing more than a 'controversial opinion'.

As what he said is literally presented, it is a possible interpretation of the facts: that Minsky may not have known she was coerced because of Epstein's instructions. How much of Minsky's culpability this erases if Minsky did indeed have sex with her (which is disputed itself) is open to debate.

Buuuuuuut, that's a pretty nuanced point to make. It needs to be made more carefully and respectfully to not just descend into rape apologia. Epstein's (and maybe Minsky's) victims are still alive and have feelings. And we want to create a better culture.

And if you're the guy who has already gone on record for not knowing why "voluntary pedophilia" is OK--- maybe you're not the guy to make this point. Because, after all, there's plenty of evidence that you're not so good at it, and your history taints it all.
Your confusion is completely right. The genre classical has an almost insanely wide meaning.

It originally only meant music from the Classical Period of 1720 to 1820, then Romantic music after that, and thus everything you describe above ought to be termed contemporary music (and is usually called something like that as a sub-genre).

There is a marketing explanation which is often the easiest definition to use, which is that labels have to box music into genres to sell and so they do, and get to decide if music should be pitched as classical.

Beyond using vaguely reminiscent ensembles, forms and orchestration then I guess the focus on the composer is probably the next main thing.

It is not a consistent definition though, where film composer John Williams gets called classical because of the aesthetic and influences and orchestration but then show music is not counted because for some reason its use of song forms and aesthetic is just not right, despite using mostly classical music orchestration...

Although there are classical pieces that are quite like show music. Like "The Trout" by Schubert (which comes under Programme Music which is also frowned upon as low tier by many music snobs).

So I can only really conclude that it's essentially the domain of marketers, critics and snobs to determine which artfully composed music deserves to be acknowledged as "classical" in the modern day and I think essentially the definition is "something that somebody collating new classical music for the Guardian / anyone bold enough to claim they define it thinks deserves the title".

Classical music is in the eye of the beholder.
And you can actually do a gradual migration from AWS to another service! With the fully closed system of Dark that seems like it would be difficult.
> People have decided that paying with their privacy is better for them

The hell we have, there's just no alternative other than not using what have essentially become utilities at this point. I applaud people for whom not having Facebook and Google and WhatsApp is an option, but it's not for me.

I'd gladly pay a large chunk of cash to have those companies not be doing shady shit with my data and showing me adverts, but that's not an option available to me.
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tl;dr: For those who applied for the $125 payout option in the Equifax data breach settlement, you should've gotten an email requiring that you provide more information by October 15, or that your claim would be denied.

The FTC confirms it's legit: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq... (FAQ 4 item 2)

The article's author says Gmail filed it into the 'Promotions' folder.
What's the joke here (asking for a friend)
Good afternoon! Dear writer, you have a very good occupation - a combination of work and a hobby. With this combination, people always succeed, the most important thing is not to stop there. When your job is your favorite pastime, then the key to success is in your pocket. The world of creating music has long stepped into software and without programming today, good music will not be. I support your direction. Like me!
Not to delve too deeply into relativism and who can truly know right and wrong, but I think that as a cultural aspect letting patients suffer is bad and if a culture accepts that it may be an area for improvement within that culture.

Of course there are situations where suffering is necessary or cannot be prevented, but I don’t think preventing suffering and pain is a very American trait.
Ah, but it has/had a tech company valuation.

Why do you think valuations varied so wildly? You get the same thing with Tesla, it's valued more as a tech company than as car company.
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I still love TextMate -- but I have to be honest, I switched to VSCode recently. The community around VSCode is hard to pass up, and thanks to documentation (and it being JSON), I've found it fairly easy to configure, and in a few ways, it's much easier to configure the whole UI. (pros and cons there...)

I won't say VSCode as stable as TextMate, and it certainly doesn't feel like a native Mac app in the same way, but it's simply easier for me to find plugins that I need.
Well, he started the movement and got it very far, with the dominant OS using his foundation's license. Despite his limitations. There is no one in the movement who should have the authority to sack him.

But, he resigned himself. This is moot.
The age of consent in Massachusetts is 16, as it is in the majority of US states. In fact, only 13 states put the age of consent at 18.

While it might seem icky, sex between 17 and 75 year-olds isn't a crime.
Phpbb forums didn't go away because of self censorship, they were simply replaced with bigger sites like Reddit. If you're trying to create a community around a niche topic, a subreddit is substantially easier to create than deploying and maintaining a forum.
Read carefully.

> China has no legal basis to claim "historic rights" within its nine-dash line in a case brought by the Philippines

The tribunal did not find that the Philippines had such a legal basis either. Mischief Reef is not in the Philippines' territorial waters, which only extend 12 nautical miles. It is within their exclusive economic zone, which means that China would not be allowed to e.g. drill for oil. But the surface is international waters and no nation has the right to obstruct another's vessels there.

> only China is putting military bases next to other countries

Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namyit_Island

Malaysia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_Reef

Taiwan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Island
> He is a pedophile. How could he not be?

I believe the confusion is that you're using "pedophile" to mean "attracted to anyone below the age of consent" while pedophile originally means "attracted to prepubescent children". In that regard, you're most certainly not a pedophile if you're attracted to a 17 year old that has gone through puberty. That's also what RMS was referring to if I recall his email correctly.
Many languages do support type alias. In C# you would do

using NiceType = TypeReference<FooResponseCollectionResource<MemberUpdate>>
// ....
new NiceType ()
I don't wanna touch the Stallman / Epstein story with a 10 foot (3.x meter?) pole, but I do believe that standards vary.

In Germany a 17yo cannot drive, CAN drink and can have (I'm old and it doesn't apply to me, so this might be only somewhat accurate) sex with other people (but cannot be a prostitute), might marry (needs parents approval I believe). Age of consent is 14 (but .. not for sex with adults as far as I'm aware).

I know that German law has nothing to do with this. But please stop and reflect for a second: The US allows 17yo to steer 2+ tons of steel at high velocities, Germany (as the one example I'm familiar with) lets them have consensual sex or drink beer. The same way you say 'How can they agree to sex' one might ask 'How can they be responsible enough to drive'.

It's cultural, not absolute. I understand the outrage, I am in no way defending Epstein, Stallman or anyone here - but please don't present your moral position/your upbringing as absolute truth. See it as something that you were raised to believe and that A LOT of people disagree with on this globe.

(It's obviously not helping the fact that the girls got paid, it's a completely disgusting, sad and shameful story with no recourse - but don't claim 17yo can't have sex with someone older, ... just because)
Am I the only one excited for this tool but with an actual programming language like Python instead?
The president of the United States never fires anyone. He informs them he expects their letter of resignation on his desk at x time.

FSF was pressured. RMS did not decide this all on his own of his free will.
Is it? Finally an opportunity to understand how the damn thing works.
Was going through this article this morning, and absolutely loved it.

Post that, you can go through the vid lecture recommended in the article. Makes it easy to follow.
Reminds me of how I started with PHP.
I think you managed to perfectly exemplify the point parent is making. Stallman never argued this, but in the frenzy of outrage his points are being misconstrued and he is villified to rationalize the punishment he has received.
this list is silly in that it doesn’t even mention the lg v series phones. not only do they have audio jacks, they have audio DACs built-in such that you get better sound with better headphones. they are really quite good with my buyer dynamic headphones.

the lg v35 and v40 are insanely good value right now, and the lg v50 is yet another sleeper flagship, high-end phone that does it all, aside from removable battery. however, unlike apple, lg offers a reasonable repair service directly with lg.

also, my lg v35 has the same water rating as the iPhone xs line and is thinner and lighter despite still retaining the audio jack and expandable storage.
I don‘t think it was ‚a man‘ but a close fellow scientist who is dead and can‘t stand up for himself. Which is one reason RMS did not stay away from this fire and one making him speak his own mind - ignoring the other hats he was wearing (but using a lecturing voice). On the one hand it makes it harder to condemn. On the other it is a failure that can‘t be tolerated by high profile figureheads.