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> "do it without hurting others" is a reasonable line to draw

No, it's really not. If we want to say "without physically, financially or maybe emotionally in an extreme way" then yes. If we're talking about having healthy debate while making sure no one's feelings get hurt then we are truly and totally fucked.

Also, you can't make a worthwhile argument and use politically charged words like "toxic". What the fuck does toxic mean? When a person is expressing anger? When a man is expressing manliness?

My consolation is that eventually the pendulum will swing and smug idiots like you will be the target of the very thing you've helped create and then you will (probably) learn your lesson.

My larger hope is that the Idiocracy your generation is fostering will consume itself soon and skip my son's generation.

When you say "our society" you mean "your society" -- the one that you hope is going to benefit you the most at the expense of others.

Destroying careers in the court of public opinion is madness. If you can't see that you're part of the problem.
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Im keen on this! is there somewhere we can see some more information, or perhaps a sample of how the course is structured?
As I understand it, 300-series stainless is not heat treatable, so this should not be a problem. (304 stainless is routinely used in exhaust systems where they are heated up to glowing red temperatures every time. If the starship tank gets anywhere near that hot on entry I think there are worse problems given that on the other side of the tank is cryogenic propellants.
We do. Bush and aids: https://www.history.com/news/what-was-a-george-w-bushs-great...
Small tidbit, but I am delighted when I find boards that still use through-hole components or chip sockets. Apart from cellphones, you often don't really need the extra space.
Please don't post the same comment multiple times. It lowers the signal-noise ratio.
White space ;)
Can you code?
It can save the student's bacon.

I remember a physics test: Answer one of three problems. Problem 1: I thought not enough information had been given. Problem 2: didn't remember discussing this topic. Problem 3: did not even understand the question.

I beavered away on problem 1, turned it in. Teacher found enough of a thread to give me 20%. Came in 3rd -- and with the curve, I passed (which frankly I don't believe I deserved but I was happy to get anyway).
My guess is that 'half the country' in that comment was supposed to refer to Trump voters, not non-voters.
This is such a misunderstanding of the different interests involved it scares me.
I must be missing something. It's not immediately clear to me, even after reading the article, how this is different from just procuring a Windows OS VM in Azure. Pricing?
> There’s clearly a point in the life of any company where you should move from the list you made in a spreadsheet to the richer tools you can make in coolproductivityapp.io

Now there's a snazzy domain name (that, alas, was already taken).

But I was able to yoink the almost as catchy http://coolproductivityapp.com.

Hey VCs, where you at? ;)
This is not only untrue, this is the direct opposite of what said:

> (Now) Labor Secretary Acosta's plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein was not only extremely lenient, it was so lenient that it was illegal. I wonder whether this makes it possible to resentence him to a longer prison term. I disagree with some of what the article says about Epstein. Epstein is not, apparently, a pedophile, since the people he raped seem to have all been postpuberal. By contrast, calling him a "sex offender" tends to minimize his crimes, since it groups him with people who committed a spectrum of acts of varying levels of gravity. Some of them were not crimes. Some of these people didn't actually do anything to anyone. I think the right term for a person such as Epstein is "serial rapist."

Stallman called Epstein's sentencing extremely lenient to the point of being illegal, and that calling him a "sex offender" was too weak of a term and that he prefers to call him a "serial rapist".
The limit of the airline metaphor is that uber doesn't have to own the fleet. The fight is in subsidizing rides, like with lift. Then comes softbank and they pick the winner because they have the deepest pockets. Who would go up against those pockets but a bigger player? And then, uber can offer them shares and the fight is over and uber keeps on winning.

Regarding the price checkking: it's one thing to compare ride prices if you fly once a month but it is something else if you buy a ride 5 times a day. Like businesses buying flights from one supplier, consumers will buy rides from one app.

Uber will be profitable once nobody is willing to burn more money. That day will come sooner than later.

Uber has thought this through because their name is not lift, but uber.
This quote from the opening paragraph "I recommend in particular Selam G’s original articles on this topic for background" doesn't do much to endear it to me. I'd hardly call the original article a very accurate representation of Stallman's words or even his overall point.
Far be it from me to defend Stallman's outrageous statements and opinions, I don't feel that the original article or the subsequent media frenzy stirred up in its wake is a fair representation of the situation.
The author then goes on in the subsequent paragraphs to talk about how the media circus mischaracterised Stallman...
I have no idea what you think I am making an excuse for, but you're wrong.
This sounds like how I used to think. A question from a mentor of mine: what does being right accomplish?
Like it or not, feelings drive most people’s decisions. Even if you use only the most rigorous logic to come to your own conclusions, it’s naieve to expect that to sway other people. Making a logical argument connect with people on an emotional level is a hard but invaluable skill to learn.

Similarly, it’s often helpful to recognize that there’s some social currency to be gained by compromising on low-priority issues that you can spend to get people on board with your high-priority ones— people will pay more attention to the objections of someone who’s generally agreeable than someone who has a reputation of complaining about everything.
Anybody else surprised this is posted on medium of all places? I'm surprised Stallman would agree to such a thing.
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> I cannot believe people keep defending him given the accounts of what he's actually done (assuming you believe the accounts). What about the women who have been creeped out or harassed by him, or who have left the field because of him? Don't they get any consideration?

No, because obviously, his contributions to free software are more important then him making women uncomfortable in their workplaces/places of study/conferences. /snark
I had previously heard this attributed to Yogi Berra, so I had to check. Apparently[1], it's an old Danish proverb.

[1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/
Yeah, from someone who was there, that's almost it. I'd add hacker punk as another key influence. But seriously, you don't say that stuff in public these days.

Edit: Even if you're joking, or just doing it to light people up. Which was, you know, quite the thing. Back in the day.

And damn, had to work at it, but I found a couple BOFH episodes that actually mention women.[0,1]

0) https://bofh.subversivedata.com/story/2009/4

1) http://bofharchive.com/1998/bastard98-21.html
Bushnell authored GNU Hurd:

"RMS: I am not very optimistic about the GNU HURD. It makes some progress, but to be really superior it would require solving a lot of deep problems. However, mainly what I think about the HURD is that finishing it is not crucial."

https://redditblog.com/2010/07/29/rms-ama/

I think Bushnell makes some good points but:

(1) he’s biased.

(2) a Googler calling out Stallman is just rich (given the debt Google, its employees, and all modern tech companies owe free software and the relatively little they repay).
And this is exactly the problem. The article talks about the huge amount of carbon that could be prevented from going in to the atmosphere because devices will last longer and be repaired. Well think about how much more would be saved if anyone could repair their own thing. And I say this because a new screen for my iphone that I put in myself is about 20$, if I go to Apple I am looking at 99$. I Can't afford to go to Apple and having replaced my screen multiple times as I am currently running an iphone 4s which came out in 2011 with the tiny little screen that has been broken at least 5 times if not more. So making it for professionals is just another barrier these companies were able to squeeze into the law in their favor. We are talking about swapping components here this isn't Rick's Restoration anybody with some basic know how and determination could do these jobs but the companies got away with arguing it was for reliability and product safety.
The other term people are using is "neuro-atypical". That might be a good phrase here. Whether its autism or not, its pretty clear there's a great deal of neuro-atypical happenings in that brain, and many of those clearly impinge upon his social abilities in a really extreme way. There is years of public evidence to support that (including the current crap-storm).
For me, I would like to have the Focus available, lock up a few hundred volunteers somewhere for a few months and have thew rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust or something...

"A Fire Upon the Deep" and its differentiation are referenced in this interesting article [0].

[0] https://ristret.com/s/qk8wpt/philosophy_computational_comple...
Something built into my Apple watch, maybe, that's my "notification" device. And it would be nice if it didn't cost $10/month to the carrier.
You're absolutely right about the various advantages of pagers over cell phones.

On the other hand, all of that medical information goes over the air in plain text. It is trivial to capture and decode POCSAG [1], requiring less than $100 of hardware: a Raspberry Pi 3 has enough horsepower to handle the 2 RTL-SDR's needed to capture both the 929MHz and 931MHz bands.

Modern security simply demands that pagers go away (or at least be heavily modified). This is not a theoretical concern [2][3].

[1] https://github.com/pvachon/tsl-sdr

[2] https://www.rtl-sdr.com/art-installation-eavesdrops-on-hospi...

[3] https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/09/open-privacy-discover...
Bushnell calls himself a "social justice warrior". These exact words. And in my experience, he's lived up to the common meaning of that phrase. Does this behavior affect how you should regard Bushnell's recent article? Make up your own mind.
Give them a build quality/repeatability scale similar to the power efficiency one.
First I've heard of "Taco Bell Programming"[1]. I love it, this needs to become a normal part of my lexicon. Also heck yes, it completely mirrors my experience - a few dozen tools combine in fairly simple ways to make absurdly useful results. The problem is finding the useful N-dozen elemental tools you'll use.

[1]: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
> The intermittency argument you are giving is quite flawed. Solar and wind can go far past 20-30% and still be cheaper than new nuclear.

I'll believe it when I see it. History so far has demonstrated otherwise. In the meantime, the French are laughing at all of us as they enjoy their cheap, carbon free energy with enough surplus to export 3 billion euros of it.
To drum up sympathy for his behavior, by blaming it on a medical issue.
My point is that "gangsta" rap music is every bit as offensive as blackface, perhaps even more. But outrage culture selectively applies the "harmful" argument to the latter, not the former. Nor do they make as a big deal of it.
Lucky they have 100's of millions of militant people working to stop the mild discomfort from global warming in 60 years time.

Youtube of Guinea worm, like many of these things stopping productivity and schooling can cause a cyclic issue -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCB1A2gFvuU (2013)
I occasionally ran into exam questions that were "discuss the motivation behind making this maneuver instead of some other maneuver in this proof we discussed in class," which is a sort of meta-showing-of-work.
Yeah, but his support involves less constrained mechanisms.

And you know, to the extent that the mainstream world notices Stallman's ouster, it will increase support for Trump.
You realize that that very well could be the case and reason why Stallman stepped down, correct?

MIT could likely get into deep trouble if they chose to publish all of the formal complaints against Stallman for obvious privacy reasons and this incident could've just been the proverbial final straw.

And regardless: Apply Occam's Razor here. What is more likely: A group of random people consisting of professors and students bringing grievances against Stallman, or some sort of conspiracy where all of those people are lying, embellishing etc for some form of revenge? If multiple disconnected people are calling someone an asshole, maybe there's an issue here. It's amazing to what lengths people will attempt to create a narrative defending RMS.
These projects depend on some way to discover public keys, but Keybase is not federated and https://github.com/google/keytransparency/ is way behind schedule.
BGA are the hard ones and virtually not doable for a home gamer, the rest are fine.

Imo, through-hole are worse, harder to remove than SMD if you have hot air.

(edit) What is actually necessary for electronics - "schematics" and datasheets. It's quite hard and time consuming to trace stuff, esp. on multilayered PCB. Lack of datasheet is even harder to overcome in many cases.
IIRC, in a biography about him, his mother suggested that autism would certainly make sense given some of his childhood behavior. As far as I know, he doesn't have a formal diagnosis, but I'm hardly some expert on RMS.
Can't you do all this same research in just a few seconds for like pennies, just by sending a few sql queries to Google's BigQuery? I'm pretty sure we've had stories about that here.

https://medium.com/google-cloud/github-on-bigquery-analyze-a...
I've got a Tesla, and while I use the autonomous driving approximately 0% of the time, I do use the adaptive cruise control quite a bit.

It allows you to set a speed limit relative to the current speed limit, and of course override it by stomping on the accelerator.

Can't say it's had any impact at all on how often I speed. I don't really see an increase in autonmous driving will decrease tickets. After all on a busy highway running at the speed limit will cause significant traffic issues and pissed off drivers cutting you off.
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>I am genuinely curious to see what types of "compute-intensive" applications fit the bill here.

Well, for example, physical simulations using finite element or boundary value approaches. Pretty much anything you'd use with MPI or do on a supercomputer is going to run better on a machine with a nice network stack like this.

Even large scale storage (think backtesting on petabytes of options data) that uses a map-reduce paradigm and is properly sharded for the data access paths and aggregates would benefit from something like this.
> I see a bunch of people beating up on and attacking an awkward "nerd". It reminds me of high school.

That perfectly captures my own impression of this whole debacle.

People keep piling on RMS because he's "weird" rather than anything objectively bad that he's done - notice how often his travel binder is being raised even though it's really completely harmless. That's literally witch-hunt behaviour: persecuting somebody because he's different.

And of the things he was attacked for that would be objectively bad, so much of it turns out to be either a misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or outright fabrication (like apparently the "hot ladies" sign).

I can believe that there is a true kernel of bad behaviour from RMS, but it's blown way out of proportion by all the other stuff around it, and that gives this whole affair the stench of persecuting somebody merely for being different. It's very frustrating.
news is 99.9% of the time just that. Who What Wher When. The Why and How, How do we know, and How does it compare makes it journalism.
Indeed it is remarkable progress as this chart makes clear [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-number-of-reported...
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Sure. The free software guy exploited the status quo. This inquisition reminds me of the people trying to protect women from the Muslim hordes and other instances.
List one neuro-atypical with as many achievements and as much world-changing added value.

To me this whole ordeal is simple to look at:

RMS: created software that shaped today's world and hurt some people's feelings.

RMS' criticizers: ...?
I've finding it hard to understand what sort of progress is reached by, say, enabling weird dudes to constantly and inappropriately hit on women.

Suppose there is some future society that has decided that weird stinky dudes that make inappropriate remarks, stare at women's tits and compulsively hit on attractive women who are just trying to exist in a professional setting are actually A-OK. Why is that society's alleged values superior to our own?

If we are trending towards a direction that makes what we now regard as sexual harassment ok (again) then I would say we're going in the wrong way, and there's no more reason to regard that hypothetical futures' values as better than ours, any more than we regard the 1950s values better now.

This doesn't remotely analogize to "gay rights" or racial tolerance, etc. Being enraged/uncomfortable about, say, interracial marriage or consensual gay relationships was always a matter of people becoming involved in things that were none of their damn business (e.g. "I'm angry about what those gays are doing behind closed doors") or denying them to right to participate in society as equals. Not liking stuff like sexual harassment is something we do because of its effect on the person involved (e.g. "it's hard to be taken seriously as a professional and feel that I have dignity when Stallman makes remarks about my virginity and stares at my tits") or others like them.

IMO second guessing what you think (?) and say is hardly all that difficult. People could go a long way by (a) being kind and (b) acting (shock horror) professional in a professional context and not trying to use the workplace to get dates or get laid, and (c) shutting the hell up once in a while rather than treating us to their opinions about Every Goddamn Thing. Honestly, the sheer egomania of Stallman deciding the whole world needed to hear his thoughts on underage sex is pretty wild.
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This “Cambrian explosion” is exactly what we’re trying to help with at Monolist (https://monolist.co).

The number of tools used daily is growing, which is in one way beneficial for the worker since they get a better and more specialized tool to do their work. However, it increases fragmentation and the chances of missed work.

Email is the most common solution, but that has its own downsides and seems to be used less and less for daily work. We think the solution is an ever-updating and fully synchronized “command center” for everything across every app you may be using.
Yes although you might not get caught if you were careful and quiet.

You’re aloud to sign things, so if you’re doing ip/packet you can use client side certs for authentication and then I think with OpenSSL there’s a way to only enable the “null” cypher.

The other issue is you’re not supposed to use it for profit (except selling radio equipment and I think there are other rules on that too) so you really couldn’t usefully replace your internet connection with it.
I wonder how it compares to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager.
I am waiting for the results showing how much copy pasta is on the plate.
Stallman did nothing to harass people. It's all hearsay. Some of the supposed harassment stories contain verifiably false details, for example, that Stallman was in an open marriage. Stallman was in fact never married. There is a very good reason that we do not admit this level of evidence in courts of law.

You know all the people on Twitter claiming that "numerous" women have confided in them that Stallman kept them out of tech? It's all fake. These claims are identical in structure and purpose to Joseph McCarthy's famous "I have here in my hand a list" line. What the mob is doing now to Stallman is exactly the same thing that the mob did to everyone suspected of communism in the 1950s.
I came across FSLogix a few months before MS bought them and have been entirely impressed by how fantastic the product is. If you have ever dealt with roaming profiles and huge amount of junk in C:\Users\username folder, FSLogix is a blessing. In simplest terms, once installed on Windows (physical or VM, doesn’t matter), the entire user folder lives as a single VHD file on a network drive but appears to the local machine as a regular user folder. This means browser temp files do not need to be synced upon log off. In fact there is no syncing. Everything is accessible using just one network file stream. As someone who manages 200 users on Citrix, it is beautiful. Their Office plugin does the same with user’s Office profile, including Outlook. I haven’t played with the integrated FSLogix/MS offering but the pre-MS stuff is nothing short of a relief for sysadmins.
> I don’t mean to underestimate what you’re going through and those in similar situations, but consider the significant harm being done by unnecessary procedures and medications which add no value to a patient’s life. A lot of it is being done by a glut of avaricious physicians in metropolitan areas, particularly those with large elderly populations. Witness end-of-life care with its outrageous in-hospital costs, which again adds little to the quality of someone’s life. This is one of the great scandals in U.S. healthcare.

I wasn't one of the downvoters (and in fact didn't read this comment until after your edit), but I think part of the issue people might have had with it is that it does across as a bit dismissive of GP's complaints. Yes, you've also correctly identified a problem that's tangentially related to the one under discussion, but you haven't given any insight to why that solving that problem will have any effect in what people were already discussing. It's sort of like jumping into a discussion about people starving due to inadequate food supplies and saying "Yeah, but what about people dying from eating food that should have been recalled due to contamination?" Both issues are about food, but there's no apparent context for the sudden shift in topic.
Yup! They got people still clicking on their posts hundreds or even thousands of years later
This reminded me of Histogram:
http://tomasp.net/histogram/
Thank you Digital Ocean for once again proving that 'The Cloud' is not a backup.
Disclaimer: I use they/them pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, there’s two ‘gender neutral concepts’, people who you don’t know the pronouns of, and people who explicitly use gender neutral pronouns. If he wanted to refer to people as per by default, I don’t care, you do you. But as soon as I tell someone that I go by they/them, I would absolutely expect them to respect that. By reading his article on pronouns, it sounds as though he likely would not do so.
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One of the issues whenever this sort of cancelling occurs is of the people who come out of the woodwork to join in the calls, it turns out some of them have personal issues with the person aside from their contentious conduct. This is why these things, as others have mentioned, should be tried in official channels, not merely be executed in response to public attitudes and press releases.
Studying Statistics has ruined every "psychology" article out there.
That's not an 'only'. Unsprung weight is very precious.