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My point is that proprietary code being proprietary also only matters if you don't want to get sued.

There is a view that the GPL is more dangerous than proprietary code. This is untrue: it is strictly less dangerous. If you are somehow not worried about being sued over proprietary code (which, to be clear, seems like a bad approach to me), you shouldn't be more worried about the GPL.

You also have no guarantee of negotiating a license from the owner of proprietary code, and such owner is way more likely to have lawyers than someone who posted a patch to bash 10 years ago and them disappeared from the internet.

(Also, for GNU projects, GNU has a policy of requiring copyright assignment to the FSF, mostly because the FSF does have lawyers and are unlikely to be willing to negotiate a private license. For non-GNU software, agreed, but, "This vendor went out of business and we have no idea where the copyright ended up" isn't unheard of either.)
From my comfy armchair, with zero experience in this field, it seems like you could use star tracking to very accurately predict the angle of the sun (since the sun is effectively fixed in position relative to the background stars over the timescales you'd care about). Spotting the target is a little harder, but the same measurement could be made by sticking some reflectors in known positions around the target.

I'm sure there are tons of considerations that aren't occurring to me (for instance, thermal expansion likely contributes substantially to making it a moving target (literally)), but I really don't see where "AI" comes into it...
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Show me a self replicating robot working in Arizona desert first.
IIRC some known working extensions (uBO) will be installed if you log into Firefox Sync and it's installed on the desktop. The Addon interface is still a WIP afaik.
> It seems like they are always saying we are on the brink of some "tipping point."

Of course, as soon as someone says “that’s it, science has concluded we’re all fucked” no one will see the value in the various money-shifting schemes that have been proposed to save the earth.
I copied a tweet because I was lazy to write another text. Honestly.
You do realize that he is not an average Joe with business requirements to fulfill because he decided to mount that high horse, right ?

This argument of 'Oh, he'd be singing a different tune if he had to deal with today's reality' is so naive.

The fact that he doesn't (/doesn't have to) deal with everyday reality is his whole point -- he has claimed that it is unrealistic to use software that confirms to his set of values, so he denied to participate in that reality.
Good story. I'm just considering to change my career to seek a new job for work-life balance.
I do not live in the US, but even i know the DMV being bad is a meme.

What i don't understand is why people have to visit this DMV. There isn't even an equivalent in the UK; licensing is done by the DVLA, but they don't have local offices, it's just a civil service office block in Swansea. If you want to do licensing stuff, you do it by post, or online, or via a local post office.

What is it that people are going to the DMV for?
Yes, the graphs look great, but as usual the fake hand drawn text looks like a fake hand drawn font with some super unnatural inconsistent rotation. Maybe I should make it a project to make a tool that can generate fake hand drawn text that looks like hand drawn text.
Right, but you would only need to mount the etcd data partition (/var/lib/etcd afaik), rather than the entire node and/or container.

The main problem you have here, is chicken and egg. How do you use a StorageClass, kubernetes PVC, or rook to provision Block Storage for etcd, when you need etcd for kubernetes to function, and you need kubernetes to function for rook, et all.

At some point, you need to bootstrap the world, which is people either start off with cloud APIs, ansible, or PXE.
First, don't trust anything that isn't a direct, verifiable quote (basically, on camera). Ignore headlines and anything that is an interpretation of what someone said. Same goes for any other facts - believe what you can verify, or where there's direct testimony from people who were there and know what happened.

Second, make an effort to understand the context of any actions or quotes. This may require some more research and understanding. You can rarely extract this from a news article and requires some careful language parsing to determine what the facts are vs some reporters opinion or agenda.
Yes, it is curious that natural land features are not exploited more. You can put that city wherever you want on Mars.

Cover a canyon (walls for free). Use lava tubes. Or search for any peculiar geological feature that is amendable. I don't get why the assumption is a completely flat, desert surface.
I thought the eye scam was going to be that every time you do an eye exam you get _completely_ different results. I'm talking about cases of people doing 3 or 4 exams in the same month with different doctors and getting 3 or 4 different results.
you can right click on a tab in firefox, and switch that tab to this or that context ;)
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Your opinion contradicts everything reported by https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pi.... The article was written by auto journalists who had access to the design team and the truck, and who studied it weeks before it was revealed to the public.
Sure, the "hothouse" earths are at the drastic end of the scale, but earth has spent significant periods of time at temperatures a few degrees above current. "There is no time" is a complex assertion that needs at least some research, and if there really isn't, what do you propose we do?
That's not entirely true though: plaintext doesn't only allow snooping but also man-in-the-middle attacks such as injecting malicious code or ads.
My tf or pytorch code usually uses custom CUDA extensions, so sadly it will never be plug and play on AMD gpus for me. I hate that scientific computing and ML settled on a (admittedly superior) proprietary API.
The "secret formula" probably looks something like this:

Be rich. Be well connected. Invest wisely. Be lucky.
You should look into git request-pull. I haven't gotten it to work but I'm probably doing it wrong. It should work.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
> This. Modern photogrammetry uses computer vision techniques like deep neural nets.

I'm surprised to hear that. What good do DNN do for photogrammetry? Aren't they too unreliable?

I only have university course-level exposure to this, most of it spent learning how to compute coordinate systems and transformation matrices from points on a set of pictures taken from different position. I guess DNNs could help with object isolation and labeling (identifying same objects on a set of pictures taken from different perspective)?
Yes, to be able to work with them locally, within your browser.
GitHub now has package registries and security scans too, and adding more features to complete the lifecycle.
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The praise for arrow functions is surprising. They don't enable anything new and their feature - saving a half dozen characters - comes with the cognitive cost of tracking how both types of anonymous functions work and their subtle differences in behavior. It's not worth that price.
> Of course that was not done at the behest of the US Government.

How would we know that?

When ActivisionBlizzard, a US company, banned a player for trying to turn a private event into a political platform nobody wanted to see evidence for how "The CCP forced ActiBlizz to do that!", it was just accepted as established fact, even without the slightest bit of evidence for it.

> Criticism of the US, US politicians and Government officials is rampant on Western social media.

Just like a demand to moderate it even more [0]. Just like this kind of criticism can have very far-reaching consequences in the real world [1].

> The US Government doesn't try to censor this.

No, it just nudges US social media companies into doing it for them under the very real threat of having government regulation forced on them [2] As a German, I'm plenty familiar with this kind of "Not government-censorship censorship" that gives legal plausible deniability but still ends up forcing people into censoring their content if they want it to get any exposure.

> Meanwhile, Chinese tech companies are beholden to the whims of China's CCP leaders.

Unlike US companies? The third-party doctrine [3] is still a very real thing, heavy cooperation between US private companies and US intelligence services is still a very real thing . Just because people sometimes talk about PRISM, and pretty much only that [4], does not change the reality that these crimes are still going on to this day.

But that's okay because "We are allowed to talk about it!", somewhere besides the mainstream, every couple of months when Snowden manages to pierce a headline trough the attention glass ceiling, after that it's back to business as usual.

A reminder: Intel is subsidized by the US government, Intel's ME is pretty much exactly what Bloomsberg fictional Chinese super spy chip supposedly does [5]. The difference is: Intel ME is real [6], Bloomberg's chip has yet to be actually found, even tho there are supposedly tens of thousands of physical samples in the US.

This has very real consequences for companies outside the US [7]. Deflecting from that whole situation by going "We sometimes talk about PRISM", when nothing changes and no major political movements are pushing for change, is belittling the problem for the sake of projecting a completely fictional moral high ground.

[0] https://medium.com/@nayafia/why-do-millennials-support-gover...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/border-deny-entry-united-s...

[2] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

[4] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/20140...

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

[6] https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Warnmeldungen/DE/CB/2018/...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...
I can convince you in the same degree you are willing to understand any evidence I give, a similar challenge arises with anti-vaxxers, a group that few years ago was just a laughing stock but now thanks to the online fear propaganda through social media now has created some focus of kids without vaccines creating disease risks believed to be long gone, such risks of social network are measureable, but there are things that are practically harder to measure like if the "pedophile hillary pizza place" changed what people think about that political candidate; in general the way people are influenciated by propaganda is not immediate but take years to slowly aggregate with other falsehoods or uncorrelated facts in order to disrupt society.

Of course I see the problem of trying to separate truth/false stuff and you can get all philosophical about it but at the end of the day just trying to remove the blatant lies like "Hillary is an alien" and "Vaccines cause autism" would give a better outcome than doing nothing at all that is what Facebook does right now about it.

This guy can explain it better than I do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM
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> We have seen that doctors said & agreed that fats are bad and that cigarettes are good... So to dismiss any reasearch which shows that our effect on the climante is lesser than we thing is equally stupid.

Sure, science is an iterative process and it can make mistakes. But is that what happened here? Folks pointed out that the claim itself is odd since methane breaks down into CO2 which is yet another greenhouse gas, and the paper seems to ignore that. Furthermore, they pointed out he's not actually speaking to his specialty, so extra skepticism is reasonable.

> Climate activism has been politized: and once that happens all objectivity goes out of the window.

Aren't you guilty of doing exactly that in this post?
The earth isn't going to return to that state any time soon :) I posed it as an open question - given any particular rise in temperature, what is the total loss and gain of inhabitable land?
This has always been my thought as well, and I have never gotten a good explanation as to why it's wrong. If anyone has one I would love to hear it.
500 error.

Also, please send "a bunch of pages" at the time"
No, the statement 'knowing a thing is almost always better than not knowing it', is balderdash.

An individuals knowledge is like a garden. It needs to be kept in order and it takes time to maintain. There is simply too much information being produced and a limited bandwidth to ingest this information. To select the right information is of the essence. Form a strategy of knowledge gathering. For example, one can decide to pick a topic that is not well known, in order to be a valuable amateur expert on that topic. But, just ingesting information without any rhyme or reason is a recipe for disaster.
They still do: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-7390...
No, it is FUD. Their threat model is explicit:

> Complex parts like the cellular modem or the WiFi can access the very same RAM that is used at runtime to store your most private data, but at the same time they are controlled by binary-only firmware that no one except the manufacturer of that chip has access to.

For the cellular modem, in your run-of-the-mill iPhone or Android phone nowadays, it is simply false that the cellular modem can access arbitrary data in RAM. Can't tell you about WiFi, but I expect a similar situation.

There's a lot of room for improvement in secure smartphone architectures, but the "baseband can read your photos" trope is simply false.
Correct. Also, they won't give you that money if they know your motivation is the will to fix things. The money flows instead to the ones who have receiving more money as their motivation.
What it comes down to is the board wanted a large pile of cash so they could do more of whatever it is they like doing, which apparently is not what many of us think their core mission should be.

I look forward to reading how much the board members are being paid now, and how much they will be paid in a years time.
I already have some horror stories. I tried getting someone on FIVERR to draft the patent. Despite many 5 star reviews it was a bad idea. At best I lost $300.

Anyways for me part of the benefit in taking my time is building out the skillset to do this in general:

- knows how to file patent

- knows how to make case

- knows how to get a case design

- knows how to design the board

- knows how to get the cases and boards manufactured

- general idea of all the prices involved

- how do to Kickstarter marketing

- how to handle the legal side (like an LLC or ...?)

Because you're right I'm just kind of hoping people will like it. But if they don't I'll still then have the skillset to try something new. Plus the more people I ask the more likely someone will demotivate me, or steal my idea, or just leak the concept which would take some shock and awe out of marketing. I'll do more market research when I get closer to launching.

How did you hear about the campaigns that you backed?
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You can't.

Despite the social shame associated with it, I no longer even believe main stream history around things like the kennedy assassination. I don't know what happened, but I'm skeptical that what they say happened actually happened.

We live in an epistemological radical age, with mass psychological operations being carried out by multiple state and non-state actors.

The good news is that the only sane response is to step back and focus on the ones we love around us, which is what we should be doing anyway.
I.e. expect to see prices increase by 10% a year for the foreseeable future...
Expandability. If you need more space in any direction, all you need to do is put up a few (high-tech) tarps, instead of excavating rock.

Cities on Earth are generally not being in canyons either, even though that would give you "walls for free" as well.
Ooh! A story about me! I'm a very inactive Twitter 'user' (Can you really be an inactive user? I'm not using it at all.) Ages ago I made a Twitter account[0] mostly to test some social media links for a website I was working on.

I don't even know what half of my tweets are about. Spammy contests apparently? But I do stand by my Scala comment. (Actually, thanks to EcmaScript 6 it makes more sense to me now.)

[0] https://twitter.com/MartijnCVos
I’d imagine building out some new support pillars and flexible ceiling would be much faster and cheaper than digging out the same space underground.

I know tunnel boring is supposed to be getting cheaper and easier, plus on Mars you’d be starting from a blank slate rather than working around/under existing infrastructure. But for big tunnels you still need a big boring machine, and that would either have to be shipped to Mars or built on Mars.
You have heard of deepfakes, right?
Most of the things that they say have caused the high cost are sunk costs in design.

Given that the design is open, it should be possible for another company, who doesn't have these sunk costs, to deliver the same phone for less.

Does this mean that they have the price wrong? Can selling open designs ever recoup such design costs?
Ummm...Never do personal work on a company-owned laptop. If you work anywhere it's monitored. What's dumb about your current company is that they are having you be aware of what's being installed...that's really poor IT.
Using personal Github accounts at work means your code...ALL of your code is potentially property of the company. Lawyers love these area...cuz companies win.

Ask\Demand a company laptop if one isn't provided then you don't have the required tools to do your job and find a different employer.
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Oh, thanks. I got that from some old notes since my bookmark didn't work for some reason ;)

For me, running Gitlab locally is extremely heavy (webpack especially). How beefy is your computer, as a Gitlab developer?
As a self-employed person who has lived in Australia, the UK and now Canada this thread is eye-opening.
It was explained to me as: "even if an activity is carbon neutral, if it increases the net free atmospheric carbon it can have a negative effect."

The areas we devote to cattle raising are increasing (often at the cost of carbon fixing native flora). So the amount of free methane and carbon are on the rise just by nature of human expansion.

I'm not sure that is the whole story, but I always found that explanation helpful for questions like, "Why can't we switch to using charcoal based local power if its carbon neutral?"
> if we are going to consider absolute effects on biodiversity, direct human activity has already had a significantly worse effect

Do you have a source for this or are you just basing it on "common sense"

It does toe that Hans have primarily impacted species that tend to sit higher on the food chain. We have caused the extinction of more animals than plants. Rapid warming can kill of plants that can't move quickly migrate quickly enough to stay within the temperature ranges where they can survive.

It isn't just matter of spreading their seeds far enough (like the reforestation of New England), many plants rely on a prexistingnset of conditions created by the the presence of other species to be able to grow. When the required shifts get large enough there simply may not be enough time for those conditions to be established elsewhere before the temperatures in the current areas kills off the species.

Plants species (and animals like coral) serve as a critical component for many other species. It is quite conceivable that rapid global warming will lead to an extinction event that far exceeds anything that humans have managed to date.

Our understanding of ecological systems is still pretty limited and I don't think we can know for sure how bad it will be. I am personally hopeful that we can delevope terraforming techniques to assist with ecosystem relocation that can mitigate some of this.
A lot of this is automatic - someone uses the proper @Annotation in a commit messages or pull request name, and I get an e-mail that I was just mentioned in some random repo.
Regardless anyone seeing it will quickly realize it’s not you. From the bio/location/topics etc.

This isn’t that big of a deal at all.

Plus all you have to do is login once in a while to keep it active as far as Twitter is concerned. I think 6 months is way too aggressive though.
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The discussion is still ongoing, the latest official communication I'm aware of was the blog post at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/update-on-hiring/

Note that this was always only about excluding certain job roles who have administrative access to production servers, not all jobs in general.
I'm confused now. Are you saying A) that OP doesn't have any know-how to contribute to the project, and you deduce that from their political views, or B) that, no matter how much OP may contribute on a technical level, it's meaningless if their political views don't align with yours?

In either case, I suggest you stop using the internet. It mostly runs on (GNU/)Linux servers, which were strongly influenced by RMS who you probably disagree with, so none of that can be any good for you.
Methane is 16.04 g/mol and CO2 is 44.01 g/mol. PPM of CO2 is 415 and PPM of Methane is something like 1.8 PPM.

Increase in CO2 is something like 15PPM/decade. Increase in Methane is 0.1PPM/decade (or less).

So in absolute terms, the relative effect of Methane compared to CO2, using the 80x figure is (1.8 * 16 * 80) / (415*44.01) = 12.6%.

And in growth terms, the relative effect of Methane is 19%.

However, since methane is limited by total land under cultivation, and it has actual hit a stable PPM in the last decade (unlike CO2 which grows exponentially), CO2 is by far the larger component in any climate models projecting into the future.

In conclusion, Former White House adviser can actually math while your 80x figure needed to be put into context. I do not know where you get your information from, but I expect that it is from someone trying to make a tendentious environmental case against cows more than it's about someone trying to present unbiased facts.
Yes, it's because the impact of putting greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is not immediate. Temperatures will continue to rise after the fact. Sea level rise is also much slower, meaning that even if we stop emitting, levels continue to rise for hundreds of years.

There's a lot of uncertainty regarding the tipping points. Some scientists fear that if we cross the 2 degrees celcius, we could have a runaway breakdown due to processes such as melted ice heating the ocean much more and permafrost releasing enormous amounts of ghg.

We don't know for sure that will happen, but its extremely risky. Some fear we could lock in devastating processes within 12 years (even if they won't happen immediately).

Some people think that even if we don't know for sure it'll happen, we should follow the precautionary principle and not take the risk of these extreme events.
I’m not sure how your anecdote is important.

You could have no friends, and only talk to the crazy guy that hangs out by the liquor store.

You could work at a senior center so most the people you talk to aren’t allowed to drive, but hate new fangled technology.

Or...

You could have a horrible sample size of anecdotal evidence (which is horrible evidence itself) to draw any reasonable conclusion.

:-)
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