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The DRM in these tractors doesn't really depend on any IP laws.

There's probably some restriction on reverse engineering it, but for a relatively low volume market with difficult to manufacture hardware parts, there's not going to be all that much interest in overcoming DRM even if there weren't laws.
and the exercises to spot the drowning child faster than the rescue: http://spotthedrowningchild.com/
I dont think "just import them" covers the difficulties a lone farmer would have in transport, customs, language barrier and maintenance of a fairly random piece of equipment across an ocean that is also critical for their primary source of income.

And imagine you have a warranty dispute or similar
Might be okay on a humour site, or perhaps in an internal tool, but some of these are a bit tasteless IMO. It could be far more useful if you were able to pick from a selection of individual images or image sets depending on the usecase. Although even then these kinds of http error images scream early-2000s web humour to me.
Here’s an open source Zanzibar implementation: https://github.com/ory/keto

Ory appears to offer a complete stack for the entire AuthN/AuthZ space: https://www.ory.sh

(I haven’t used or evaluated this software)
Agree. I'm active in some communities that are unfriendly if not outright hostile towards newcomers.

I'm sure they lose a good amount of potential contributers that way. But the few newcomers that remain are highly motivated.
This seems rather obvious, probably worth doing anyway to confirm what common-sense would assume. Perhaps we get less of this sort of silliness: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/does-the-vaccine-give...
There’s a community aspect to consider though. You and I could both decide to continue some open-source project. The community will (reasonably and maybe even “rightly”) look to the original maintainer for guidance on which 0, 1, or 2 forks they suggest to continue.
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Tyson has pretty low standards for rigor and accuracy. Take everything he says with a grain of salt.
Batteries will need swapping (not often, but a high price), and there's the added bonus of being able to "encourage" people to come in for repairs by just tweaking some OTA updates. I wonder who will get caught doing that first.
Thanks to this Redditor [1] for bringing my attention to it :)

Speaking of which: the rest of the thread may be interesting as well.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/nu00y3/ide...
Russia and China did not industrialize until well over a century later. Or are you saying Russia and China build prototypes on an assembly line? I'll need a reference for that!
"utilizing automation to reduce the individual workload for everyone and spread it over more people."

Which is a fallacy of composition - unless you believe you can turn a dumpster diver into a brain surgeon just by applying some amount of training.

It's known as the appeal to fungibility and it doesn't stack up.

Jobs are becoming more skilled, not less, which means that we all have to deploy our hours in solidarity with the skilled who we want to work a full week.

Otherwise they will just stop on Tuesday, once they have made enough for themselves, and have the rest of the week off.
There are two issue.

One is that if you encounter someone who doesn't reflect your values, because you have made those values part of your core identity, you will react very emotionally to them.

The second is that many of the people that use commonly sited values as their identity often simply copy/paste them from the others - without actually questioning them themselves, and so are really more part of a trend than a unit of original thought.

I agree that it's important to have values, but I'd love to see more people tolerant of a diversity of belief systems than a monolithic intolerant mass psyche.
This.

In the cases where I've been welcoming new individuals into teams it has always been made clear to them by me that there are no stupid questions, everything can be challenged if the argument for it can be made and that I don't know everything and wont/can't come up with all the ideas (ie they could very likely come up with a good idea to a hard problem).

In my experience this has really made it a pleasant experience to introduce new developers (fresh from uni or new to the code base/domain) to the product and team.

Just for context, in the country I reside in there isn't this emphasis on titles in the software space, and as such I am not a formal senior dev at my company. I believe I would have that title if living in a country where such distinction were normal.
While the USA is a better place than many, it's far from ideal. It's nice to get a high salary for a few years.

The USA still has a lot of private capital to attract talents. But eventually it's going to run out of it or the dollar will lose value. This will be accelerated by the growth of the Chinese renminbi, especially once countries start to use it as a base currency instead of the dollar.

The USA has high salaries and relatively cheap house but it also has high taxes, high cost of healthcare and education, a good amount of social craziness (political polarisation, crime, revolts, gun shootings in school, badly handled homelessness) - I personally think you may be better off living in Europe for the time being.

Still, Europe is a time bomb waiting to explode. The demographics decline and high paid jobs moving away to countries with lower taxation will trigger a pension crisis, eventually. When Italy needs a bailout, Europe will stop being what it is.

I think in x0 years South America could be the next Europe and China could be the next USA.
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> If, for example, gay people would be voting on gig worker law propositions based on LGBTQI support organization recommendations

Gay people don't have to, and often don't, vote based on LGBTQI organization recommendations.

However, if LGBTQI organizations believe that LGBTQI people are more impacted by gig work, shouldn't the orgs be speaking on that?

It seems relevant to me. As long as dismissal for being gay is still possible, workers' rights seem to be very much in scope for these organizations.

[To downvoters: What's the point of having an organization, otherwise?]
Financial support is pretty arbitrary and not related to quality, user numbers or importance of the software.

OpenSSL has only recently received support despite powering all the Internet infrastructure for decades.

Xorg, xterm etc. have received very little or nothing. Same for most Unix system tools.

Projects that receive the most are "open" source corporate vanity projects that are also used for bait-and-switch hiring.
It also begs the question of why politics is the one field everyone seems to be an expert in - and the true experts in the field are never listened to.

Having the broader population decide geopolitical relationships, is like telling your doctor which cancer medication you should take.
Belarus are already imported into the US, as I recall.
Indeed! According to that, The Dennett Dam drowned three people (between 2006 and 2009, so perhaps many more since it was built in 1933 and ruined in 1940). It's now been removed, and you can see when it's dry that it's about six feet tall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeCaEHsIa_U

https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2018/08/damned-if-you-do-dam...
> So what is left is simply trying to avoid work and perhaps hoping that some companies will come around and provide reasonable working conditions and pay or to start businesses themselves, while trying to survive the bullying tactics of said companies.

There is no getting around the fact supply and demand = price. If society wants to change the price, society needs to work on moving the supply and demand curves. So what is left is providing people with the information on the market, such as publicizing pay rates (Colorado has made a good start here), and then providing people with the means to get an education so they can provide the type of labor that the market is willing to pay more for.

Another option is unions, although that is more difficult when the global supply of labor is so high and people around the world are willing to work for 10x less. In this case, tariffs are an option, but then you get into politics and there are other consequences to consider.
But isn't this self-defeating reasoning? on one side you say things need to be simpler to repair, on the other you say simple technology doesn't cover your needs. A lot of these advanced features are so complex and so intertwined to each other that you really want only a qualified person to be able to "try to fix it"
> But, is it just me or has it become rarer for open source project maintainers to feel free to let projects go? I don't mean to let them die, I mean, to find like-minded individuals to which you can defer some or all of the work?

There are few projects that actually get used for longer than a couple years at most, the churn (especially in JS projects) is massive. You'll always find people to work on Big Old Stuff that's used everywhere - think Linux kernel, Qt/KDE, Gnome, Firefox, Thunderbird, libc, gcc, LLVM, jQuery, ReactJS - but the small stuff that gets disrupted ehhh replaced by some shinier newer toy? That will eventually diminish and die off, when the original author either has all their needs met, burns out or no longer needs the project.

Additionally, all of the above projects have massive financial firepower and/or other institutional backing behind them that contributes either with direct man hours or financial grants.
In my personal experience (take it with a grain of salt), the thing with "rationality" is, if you're looking for it, you'll find it, schools or not.

People want to learn about the world around them, STEM or not. What stops that learning from happening is mostly internal: a fear of looking dumb, a fear of being proven wrong before peers, etc.

If we can teach people to be humble, change their mind when faced with new evidence, etc, I think the rest comes naturally.
One thing about 2D animation is that it is amenable to an infinite variety of drawing styles. If you can draw it, you can animate it. It's why 2D animation is so appealing, whether in short film or feature film form.

In contrast, 3D animation (for feature films) feels stuck in an aesthetic rut - call it the "Pixar look".

The recent animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has a refreshing 3D/2D hybrid visual look. It's a satisfying break from the 'convential' look of 3D animated movies. I hope the success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will inspire more visually varied computer animated films to follow.
I think you just said exactly what the parent comment meant.

Nodejs is the new Java jar dependency hell.

Maybe package the entire project into a docker container so that people can download and run the pile of dependencies in one step.
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Is there a legal reason why they can't sign a waiver? You are always a misstep away from injury or death working on any heavy equipment. That has always been the case.
Are you sure it wraps the LibCST library (https://github.com/Instagram/LibCST)?

> Bowler builds on top of the Concrete Syntax Tree (CST) provided by lib2to3 in the standard library.
I think we are straying from the point of FOSS once we talk about money. If I start a new open source project, it will be my gift to the world, and I expect to gain nothing from it financially. If Google make a billion bucks from my project then I'm sure some other dudes running a startup is using it too, and if my project helps them then I'm happy. If my help is not appreciated, lotsa luck gentlemen ;)

As I have made my point before, if all I want is money I would spend my time working a paying job. But money is not everything isn't it?
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IIRC it's difficult to walk macroexpanded code in Common Lisp because you have to deal with lots of implementation-specific special forms.

(Edit) This article has some good info: https://zenodo.org/record/3254669#.YL3-WzYzb2w
First time I hear this but I think timelines match up and at this point I think it is completely believable. (Not saying I'm sure it is actually true, only that it won't surprise me more than if it is untrue.
Is the tax to be paid on that income significant?
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VAT excludes the VAT paid when the company purchased the raw materials, i.e. it's paid net.

The end result is, the consumer pays VAT which is 20% of the price (i.e. 20% of the revenue), and the tax is spread out evenly across the whole production supply chain, weighted by the amount of added value by each company in the chain.
>FreeBSD has superior:

>- package management (pkg & ports)

Debatable

>- file system (native ZFS)

Debatable... ZFS is good for many use cases and is a hot broken mess for many others

>- instrumentation (systat & dtrace)

Debatable

>- documentation (handbook & examples in most man pages)

Debatable... I have not fund this to be true in 15 years at least.

>- event notification interface (kqueue vs broken by design epoll & inotify)

Debatable

>- license (BSD, no GPLv3 at all)

Debatable

The GPL is why Linux is miles ahead of *BSD in mindshare.

>- stability (POLA)

Debatable... Maybe 20 years ago FreeBSD was more stable but I had more stability problems with FreeBSD in the last 15 years than any Linux distro I ever used.

>- quality control (no shellshock, no dataloss on fsync)

Again debatable.

>- network performance (200gbps TLS encrypted traffic on a single socket at Netflix, millions of open connections per server at WhatsApp)

LOL debatable again! Youtube, Facebook, Amazon Video, Hulu, most stock trading exchanges. FreeBSD used to be the goto for web servers and services now its nearly dead in that space with market share in the single digits.

>- scaling (there is no cliff when resources get saturated just a bit of a "back pressure")

Benchmarks have shown Linux outperfroming any of the BSD's in scaling since 2003 at least. And the Super Computer and server market proves FreeBSD can't scale.
I did precisely this too, as I needed storage for a few thousand hours of video footage I’d shot for a documentary, needed it now, and nobody had anything other than external HDDs in any kind of useful size.

I was really careful - I had two NASes, each with raid 5 volumes holding a full copy of the footage, as it was irreplaceable.

I got up one morning to find a disc had failed in one of them. Swapped it. During the restripe, another failed. Oh well, I have the other NAS, I thought, and after replacing the busted disks and reformatting the failed one, started copying the data over again - and then a disk failed in the backup nas. And then another. And then another in the previously failed one. And that was that. Five disks, all dead, within a day of each other, all the same model. The WD drives in them were all absolutely fine.

I haven’t bought a seagate drive since, and never will again.
I think you may be misunderstanding "simple". Simple works great for complex software because simple functions and features are assembled together into the fully complex solution. As a matter of fact, that is what makes a great dev - someone who can envision a complex solution, but then break it down into simple programming tasks.
You don't have to do OS, you can if you want.

It could be fun.

The hope to find similar people who really want to work on the project too and split the workload for everybody.

Giving something back: i use so many OS tools, so i give back a tool that a made to solve a problem for me, hopefully it could solve problems for others.

On the other side, you don't have to maintain an OS project, you can publish it "as is".

I know people that publish basic OS software and sell their time to extend the project to the needs of customers. (so it could be a business model)

Burnout is not a OS specific problem, it is something that anybody has to learn and find his own limits. I hope the post author learned how to deal with it in the last year.
> In college, it certainly has and is recognized. Tenure, in particular, is at least partly designed to protect professors' ability to research and speak, free of censorship or influence.

It is true that tenure is there to protect professors engaging in the liberal project on unpopular topics. However, many do not pass the bar to receive tenure.

Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 project is not engaging in the liberal project tenure seek to protect. I've said elsewhere in this thread that the goal the 1619 Project is not, and never was, to improve our historical understanding. Rather, its goal was always to perpetrate a critical historiography that muddles and besmirches it (i.e. problematize). This includes undermining trust in the liberal ideas of individualism and human universality, wherein people are judged by the contents of their character and recognized for their common humanity, and forwarding identity-group thinking that is more useful for (radical) identity politics.

She is therefore in direct opposition to the liberal mission of the universities, and she does not deserve to receive tenure protection to continue subverting resources intended to further the university liberal mission to what is useful for (radical) identity politics. Protecting the universities liberal environment agains activists like her is a necessary precondition for continuing the liberal project.
I don’t know why paying for someone’s time and effort is a bad thing. If anything, undervalued/unpaid labor seems a little dystopian, especially when some large companies are getting value out of someone’s volunteer work without giving anything back.

I get the value of free software, but lately it feels like OS went from geeks sharing code because we value knowledge, to people who use the software making demands on someone else’s personal time.
25 years ago I had pay by the minute dial up so would connect, download a few pages and then hang up while I read them. It was epically slow of the click a few links then go make a cup of tea and come back and see if they'd loaded slow.

I find the modern web quite quick with an adblocker on but a bit horrendous with it off.
Whom should they hack? Every internetuser? Yay...
Bingo. The reason that non-US governments (like the UK) want to get a share of the tax on profits is because they lack domestic innovative high-profit companies. They want to take a share of the added value created / subsidised by another government (US in this case). It's bad incentives all around.
At the time of the constitution most policing was done by a local sheriff that was elected and did not really have a "dept", the sheriff would enlist local volunteers if there needed to be a police action that required more than him and a single deputy.

For this reason the ability to local community members to be armed was required as they needed to defend themselves as well as the local community when called upon by the sheriff.
> Truman relieved General MacArthur of his command over coalition forces in Korea in large part because he planned and aggressively advocated the use of nuclear weapons against the Chinese.

This is still debated, and MacArthur later denied it in his testimony to the Senate Inquiry. His removal has a clearer and simpler reason: Truman felt MacArther's communication with the Chinese violated his December directive and preempted the President, while the Joint Chiefs' concern was that "if MacArthur were not relieved, a large segment of our people would charge that civil authorities no longer controlled the military." [1]

The simplest explanation for the removal is that MacArthur tacitly disobeyed the Commander-in-Chief (enraging President Truman).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur#Re...
Doug Gamble wrote that shit; Reagan was just dry Satan toast.
There was this character of an aspiring, wanna-be writer in "Plague" (by A. Camus), named Joseph Grand, who obsesses over the first sentence of his novel. He'd keep on rewriting it infinitely, never getting beyond it. "Perfection spells p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s", as the man said (Churchill, if I'm not mistaken).

For what it's worth, I considered quoting Plague's first sentence here (if it were somehow fitting or interesting), and as I googled it up, I found an article devoted to this very subject: https://theconversation.com/first-sentences-establish-a-cont...

I didn't find Plague's opener to be particularly inspiring after all, but there are a few other examples.
> I'd only do it if it paid money. If people aren't willing to pay then I'm not willing to work.

Would a form of UBI, together with 20 or 30 hours work week work for you? I seriously wonder what the state of open-source hardware and software would be if society would focus on redistributing automation gains more.
"There are always going to be middlemen. Too few and resources are allocated inefficiently due to a lack of management. Too many and it's a waste of resources. The trick is to find the right balance"

Yes, agreed, though I'd argue that middlemen aren't actually needed - as actual middlemen are folks getting paid when they aren't really necessary. It is kind of like car dealerships don't really need to be as they are, but that is part of the service you pay for with cars. Instead, you simply need enough people to get things to work - and sometimes that can be lessened. For example, standardized medical billing and coding in the US would reduce the labor required to deal with insurance - and suddenly, fewer people are needed at the office. Fairly standarized coverage would help as well (fewer misunderstandings) and decoupling it from employment (US based: Would take away HR jobs, but reduce burden on companies).

But the main point really was that sick people, who could easily be missing work to see the doctor, shouldn't be expected to pay for everything.
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The source of this article is BBC Online News, which is essentially now an unreliable tabloid media source at this point.

This source is no longer trustworthy. Only hungry for clickbait, outrage, lies and your attention. It is not healthy.

I hope a replacement for this garbage comes sooner to see how they fair against the competition to see why no-one wants to pay for their extortionate TV license fee which just went up again.

As for the actual context of the story, this is another person getting cancelled for past crimes he said as a youngster. His apology was rejected and was immediately suspended from the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Always with the supporters of such actions of cancelling someone, there is no 'Please, I can explain', 'Its not what you think it is' or 'I am sorry'. There is no redemption once sentenced into the lost and banned.
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But how would you estimate the contribution that libc has to Android? Is libc entitled to 10% of Android's revenue? 20%? 100%, since it is a vital component? This is what the GP was asking.
Maybe.
At the same time I think most senior developers have been through the hype cycle a few times.
Junior to intermediate level devs seem to jump on the latest "silver bullet" trend quite a lot not realising that this happens all the time and probably isn't anywhere near as good as the hype.
I read this as V8(js engine).As in it's now an Electron app. I panicked!
I'm not sure if it's "become" rare or rarer. But in a way Github, npm, or maybe it was just ourselves in general... but we seem to have promoted the idea of "build it and they will come" to an unrealistic level.

While interested people will come, I think it is rare that a distant and complete stranger will suddenly appear and not only share your same interests but also with the same level of compromise. And given that some projects now seem to suffer sudden popularity growths as flavour of the month -or week-, it would also be rare that such a person or persons would appear before that happens and the pressure suddenly increases.