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>GPL advocates say it's so that your code isn't exploited by corporations.

I am not sure which GPL advocates you have spoken to, but I like the GPL, because it puts me center as a user. I can use and copy a programm as I see fit. And if I come to a point where I think something has gone wrong with it or something is missing, then I can modify it myself, or pay someone to help me do that, and I can distribute these modifications.

This ensures my freedom as a user. Maybe the software got abandoned, maybe someone added telemetry, maybe xyz, it's helpful in many cases.

More restrictive licenses, let's say the MIT one, do not prevent me from making making my contributions closed source. This ensures the freedom of the developer to prevent users gaining access to the code. Thus it restricts the rights of the user, that they would have under the GPL.

If a commercial project feels it's within their right to prevent me from accessing the code that is running on my machine, that is their decision, but that is at odds with the freedoms that are granted by the GPL.

Given all that, I would like to disagree with your conclusion

> But I'd say that choosing GPL means it's more important to you that your code "is not exploited by corporations" than that it can be used for good by people with commercial interests.

Chosing the GPL means it's more important to me that my users, not my code, is not exploited "by corporations".

The GPL then does not prevent "good people with commercial interests" from using my code - but given that "good" is a relative term: from my point of view preventing someone from having meaningfull access to the code that is running on their machine is not good - it is bad.
Thank you for your opinion, random internet person. Do you interject in all conversations to comment that the topic does not interest you?
Replace oppressive terms with inclusive terms
I don't remember very well but I think we might have talked about category theory and how I didn't think it was the approach I wanted to take.
Me too, I’m younger but very much in the boat of “paying for software quality with your privacy is usually a bad trade”. Nothing inherently needs to phone home, it’s a design choice rather than a mandate chiselled in a stone tablet. If people want privacy over speedier bug fixes that’s a legitimate thing to want.

Open source users tend to be more privacy conscious anyway, even if Ultimate Guitar / Muse aren’t acting in bad faith (and they do have a bad reputation) then they’re showing a shocking lack of understanding about what they’ve taken over.
My piano teacher used to say "It's not a video-game, you don't go back to the beginning of the level every time you lose."
If you have the opportunity to go to university, my personally small and insignificant advice - do it. If you're already established in the industry but haven't studied these things - do it.
Markdown may be less precise from a technical perspective. But it is easier to use for most people and just good enough.

AsciiDoctor is a great framework for writing documentation and manuals. And there is also markdown support, so you can reuse/embed your existing documenentation.
It's kinda obvious that the 'lab leak theory' was created just to attack China.
Playstation OS is based on FreeBSD, there is nothing to upstream into Linux.

If you want to talk GNU/Linux, then we can switch to Android and ChromeOS, which have indeed done several contributions, in fact many of those left out weren't accepted.
Impact of Undefined Behavior on Performance
The article described something specific that could be tested. I leave it to the scientist to design a similarly specific experiment for humans. Also the "reckless" behaviour exhibited by the cubs disappeared after there were older than 1 year:

While uninfected cubs stayed an average of 300 feet away from lions, cubs that had Toxoplasma antibodies in their blood had ventured within an average of 142 feet from the predators, a dangerous proximity. These differences disappeared after the cubs turned one, perhaps because the survivors learned not to get too close to the felines.
PowerShell also does this and is often used by the .NET folk that just expect the exceptions to work as usual. This causes so many issues...
That doesn't seem unusual at all. If anything, I'd say 10%+ retention over 15+ years sounds pretty good. And that's even allowing for survivorship bias in that, as someone else noted, many companies that existed in 2004 aren't even around today.

In terms of anecdata, I know that no one else from my non-SV company new hire class from 10+ years ago is still with the company.
Sisqó had to settle with Ricky Martin for quoting "Living the vida loca", then there's the debacle around Katy Perry's Dark Horse...

Point is songwriters absolutely get litigious over reproducing small portions of their IP.

complex.com/music/majority-sisqo-thong-song-publishing-owned-by-writer-livin-la-vida-loca

huffpost.com/entry/katy-perry-dark-horse-lawsuit-payment_n_5d43d825e4b0acb57fca3ff2

factmag.com/2016/06/25/sampling-hip-hop-copyright/
Despite leading the second paragraph in a way that suggests it's absurd to even ask, no reason was actually given. Why is version checking bad?
No, they don’t. If they did, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Since you’ll probably pedant me with several names I can already think of, it’s worth remembering that existing does not imply easing burden nor being useful beyond a README and a weekend jog.
Willfully misunderstanding your interlocutor seems ungracious, you apparently know stochastic is an adjective, so why did you try to use it as a noun?

GPT-3 is conditioned on the entire input sequence as well as its own output, which is strictly NON-MARKOVIAN. In fact, the point in saying something is Markovian is exactly that: the state transition probability only depends on the current state.
A bit fascinated how 8M terabyte looks like in a data centre How much physical space is needed for that?
They'd only own the copyright on the minor change so can't force everyone to use GPL on all of the code.
If you modify a public domain work, copyright comes back. If we're using virus analogies then copyright is like a retrovirus. Forever baked into the "DNA" of our legal systems and you can never be rid of it.

I think, like many people, you consider copyright to be like some unquestionable right. But it's not. It was invented about 400 years ago and it's way out of date. We can and should question it. If you can't think about copyright, you won't understand copyleft.
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Mansplaining? It happens to men too, not just by.

A bit generic, though.
I live in Scotland, it peaks at 20c/68f here, but with >70% humidity, and even at that it's not often it gets that hot. AC is a nice to have on occasion, but definitely not life changing. London on the other hand, sounds liky it's almost a requirement there at this point
I can agree with part of that. I'm lucky - I'm solidly up-to-date, I keep working on new, fun kit (in theory). But the reality.. I find these iterations on problems we solidly solved. I'd like to do something new, not iterate on things I've already done - just with a new company name attached.
Yeah nah mate, the example is good. Assume you're not dropping the c bomb all the time.

The point is, no one would say it's OK to pressure speakers to not speak Australian English.

And not only are they not stigmatized the way AAVE speakers are, in addition to that, it's kind of expected that people who work with Australians make an effort to get used to and understand the Australian variety of English.

That certainly isn't the expectation for AAVE - with AAVE, it's them who should make the effort to speak like everyone else, not anyone else making an effort to get used to and understand them.

Even those who speak perfectly grammatical Standard American English, but with an African American accent only, are still stigmatized. So it's not enough for speakers to speak grammatical Standard American English, they have to completely change they way they speak in order not to be stigmatized.

This is very revealing, because Standard American English, just with an African American pronunciation, is less foreign than Australian English, which has not only different pronunciation but different vocab etc as well.
For 600th time... Toxoplasmosis is NOT a "mind controlling" parasite. Ill animals are preyed more often than healthy animals. THIS IS NORMAL. Because they are ill (and predators have an essential role as cleaners of ill animals).

If a bullet hits somebody (non-fatally) in the head, a common outcome is the behavior of this person changing forever. The bullet is not remote mind-controlling them from the drawer of the physician; It has caused some brain damage that is a different concept. Toxoplasmosis does exactly the same. It causes a brain damage in the cub, so they are more vulnerable.
- I've started to wonder how long before my small business clients start drinking the Docker + Kubernetes + AWS kool

Pretty soon.

I'm not using docker because it's cool. I use it because it has advantages over copying an exe over to a VPS and calling it done. A few of the benefits,

- A Dockerfile in source control that has the setup I need for that exe. i.e. those commands you run by hand apt-get install openssl etc etc.

- Various security features such as usage of linux namespaces and cgroups.
- The ability to chose where I deploy, Azure webapps, Digital Ocean K8s, google, anywhere basically.

And don't have forget after you have setup a VPS you still have to maintain it, security patches etc.
You sound like a great person to be around. Why would I pay you to use your foss when I can read it, understand it, improve it, and never even let you know about it because I decided to write my own version instead. Happens all the time because GPL is so restrictive. It’s easier and more cost effective to just rewrite the whole library than use a GPL one.
On behalf of FOSS developers, I am very sorry for the dysfunctions of your employer.
seems that the reduction in time forced to cut down on crap - starving the beast so to say - and that would be the major reason for the productivity increase:

" In their research into working
time reduction in the last few decades of the 20th
century, for instance, Bosch and Lehndorff (2001)
note how a number of workplaces have indicated
that successful reductions in working hours have been
closely tied to changes in the organisation of work —
whether through workers gaining greater autonomy
over work processes, or changes in operating times and
shift patterns. Such reorganisations have clearly had a
positive impact on productivity.

...

The
stated reduction in working hours did lead to staff
actually working less as a direct result of workplaces
implementing new work strategies, and through
organising tasks via cooperation between workers and
managers.

As mentioned earlier, a central aim of both trials was
to ensure service provision remained the same following
reductions in working time. To be able to work less while
providing the same level of service, changes in the
organisation of work therefore had to be implemented.
Most commonly, this was done by rethinking how
tasks were completed: shortening meetings, cutting
out unnecessary tasks, and shifts arrangements"
That was my interpretation, too. One would think that after 17 years at a company like Google one wouldn't need to have "to prove" himself/herself anymore, crazy.
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> Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?

Small nitpick -- Carmack's assertions are anecdotal, not empirical.
> Is there a word for that? Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?

Faith? Zealotry?
My guess is the issue with sensor fusion.

Radar throws a lot of false readings so there are many situations where it is ignored.

For examples, readings of stationary objects are mostly false.

My guess is that the speed difference was so big that also in this case Tesla decided that the radar reading was stationary and false.
That's mind blowing how frustrating it can be. I had to come up with way to justify my product manager that implementing a loading spinner animation is essential. I failed.
I think there is a difference between running short bouts of Max speed sprinting versus running long periods at a lower effort. It is the difference between zone 2 and zone 4/5 running, taxing different systems (aerobic vs anaerobic).

I am not saying there is a need for speed, power, agility training as well, but I think it is achieving different things than long, slower runs.
There was a thread recently about it here. I think it contains some very solid advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653357
“Dynamicland avoids productization: people learn to make it for themselves”
Humans aren't robots and our laws aren't designed to equate the two, even if you assume that copilot is anything close to intelligence
I totally agree. But also, critically, an auto-pilot is precisely expected to have "a brain", it's implicit in the name.

Maybe we should just agree that auto-pilot, in its common interpretation, is currently just a sci-fi concept, and communicate more honestly what a computer inside a car can't and can do.

Apparently, dodging weird obstacles is something it struggles with. Which is a problem, since all driving is, essentially, dodging weird obstacles.
When I care to fellow internet person.
They are not the only one, I see the same. Kids without math drills have problems in storing crucial bits of information in long-term memory and consequently fare worse at solving simple arithmetic problems than myself when I was much younger. I'm not talking about complex things but basic arithmetic, like multiplying digits, adding fractions or, more importantly, dealing with ratios. Drills give you a considerable advantage here.
Only if stars and galaxies were eternal and hadn’t first formed about 13 billion years ago.
It sucks when you need to buy / move furniture though.

I really miss that side of the freedom in the US. It's also much easier to drive in the US due to the huge, straight roads.
For accuracy, full quote that was too big for the title: "Dynamicland's strategy is to avoid productization entirely, by creating a medium that people learn to make for themselves, stewarded by new public institutions."

https://dynamicland.org/dynamicland-501c3-narrative.pdf
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I think you can motivate people to work too hard for a while before burn-out given some rest time, much like you can overstrain your car engine for a while if you let it cool a bit after.

Some cars have better cooling systems than others, and most cars once had great cooling but now the radiator is busted and the coolant is all gummed up.

In the end, the I'd bet the sum comes out more or less the same.
Yeah, the closest most people here have been to a mind controlling parasite is Facebook.
> you(stereotypical US IT worker) have little to no paid vacation, work 8-12h a day, sometimes even on the weekends?

Oddly defensive considering that a) nobody in the thread seems to be american and b) none of those things apply to your average google employee (the original subject that was being discussed)
"Passive Media Consumption is Fundamentally Bad"

This sounds like the worst empty slogan. Similar to those thrown around by all sorts of life coaches.

The author gives no definition of 'passive' entertainment. Therefore, a few supporting questions: Is playing games passive or not? If I stomp my foot to music is it no longer passive? Is reading a book passive?

Huge arrogance, by the way:
"consumption of any media – film or television [...](means) to be filled with other people's mediocre thoughts and games".

For me, movies, games, books or music are an extension of my mediocre thoughts. They give a glimpse of how other people feel or see similar situations. They show them from a different perspective.

If the author thinks he has already seen all the perspectives of the world then I am purely sorry.
> "The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019."

Does anyone knows is it same amount per hour or monthly ?

I guess if it is monthly this is only for permanent workers, contractors/freelancers who are paid by day/hour would be exempt from this study/practice as it would mean that their rate would increase.
It's not that I expect a NoCode tool to give me the code, it's more that I'm used to having software under version control.

So if I use your tool how to I handle change management?

Wether or not your app needs to be deployed on-site, kind of depends what your target market is and what it does.
Former Googler here, too -- 2011 to 2018. The Google I joined was definitely a different place from the Google I left, and seeing the "phase change" up close was ... interesting.

Your sentence about salaries resonates; the Google I joined had a lot of folks for whom the salaries were a nice side-effect for a job they were intrinsically motivated for, the Google I left seemed to have many unhappy people that were fearful of leaving that salary behind.
Telephone operators were female because female voices were easier to understand on contemporary telephones (their voice frequencies had a better signal/noise ratio). Their hiring into this specific profession is in fact a counter-example to inclusivity, since one gender was predominantly hired for this role specifically.
I've seen some really fun or thought provoking movies recently: Parasite, El Hoyo (The Platform), Quo Vadis, Aida?, 200 Meters, Luzzu, El robo del siglo (The Heist of the Century). Just don't watch the mind-numbing crap that hollywood churns out every year. Truth be told, I've enjoyed some excellent american movies as well, like "Knives Out", "Us" or "Get Out".
When looking at all of the facts, it's almost certain corona came from the WIV corona lab.

The virologists who claimed otherwise in early 2020 have financial conflicts of interest if funding was cut, or if they were banned from the lab by the CCP. You can see the same CCP influence over WHO and the WHO "investigation."

What hasn't been explained is why WIV deleted all their corona DNA sequences from the NIH database (some have been partially recovered.) Their claim is that their excel was taken down for computer security reasons, but the NIH database is separate. Normally NIH deletions are only done for "mistakes."

Australian media have been investigating hard since early 2020 (they were not subject to TDS or racial shaming) and are basically one source away from connecting all the dots between the US, Australia and Chinese involvement in corona and GoF.

COVID-19 is an international conspiracy involving numerous virologists who travel between multiple countries, partly to evade GoF restrictions in their home countries.

(If you recall the CCP saying that the virus came from the US, I believe they were referring to the funding source. The CCP says a mixture of transparent statements and PR, but often there is a kernel of truth in their message.)
I'm not seeing any research linked. It will have to be pretty convincingly done too because we've seen a metric ship load of issues in psych research of late.

I don't have an opinion on the issue at hand. "Because the science says" With nothing in support makes me really suspicious. It really starts looking like "Because $authority says so you may not question" Which is the opposite of what scientific inquiry is meant to be.
> You sound like a great person to be around.

Thanks!

> Why would I pay you to use your foss when I can [..] never even let you know about it because I decided to write my own version instead.

You wouldn't, and that's exactly what I want.

> It’s easier and more cost effective to just rewrite the whole library than use a GPL one.

Which is exactly as intended.
Legally yes. Anybody who drove a truck or even utilitary vehicles with blindspots know to give way when a truck activate its blinkers, and honestly even when i did not know how shitty it was i was carefull, because my driving instructor told me a dozen time about truck blindspots.
All I want is a phone that is as capable, reliable and fast as the iPhone and which has a port that I can connect to a USB-C Dock with keyboard, mouse and display to get a fully fledged high-speed open Desktop Linux or macOS just as if it was a regular capable notebook PC.

I tried out many of the alternatives (DeX, Pinephone etc.) and they all don’t meet the requirements and have some form of compromise involved.
Seems to have only picked up in the last decade or so. Before that it wasn't really practical, and everything seemed to work fine without it.

When I was a kid, computers weren't connected to the internet. The first time I had a connection it was at 33.6 kbit/s (at 25 cents per minute).

Can you imagine if I had had all these 'modern' programs on my computer that would suddenly try to talk over that tiny straw of a connection? It'd be unusable!

There are still a lot of reasons why you would like to maybe hope that a computer doesn't try to randomly talk to everyone and everything on the intertubes on a whim.

For instance: said computer might be acting as a firewall, or it's being used for SCADA, needs to comply with corporate or government security policy, or is otherwise supposed to be something-gapped.

I guess for regular consumer technology that hope has long fled. You'd think that floss software could automatically be trusted to be quiet-by-default, but I guess that time is now past as well.

Possibly software that is quiet-by-default needs to start explicitly noting that it is so; so that if you have a particular task that really needs a quiet-by-default machine, you can draw from that subset.

You are right that audacity probably doesn't need to be in the quiet-by-default category. But ...eh... somehow this feels like a retreat.
Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but isn't Mozilla saying they will share any data they've already collected with law enforcement (which should be just basic telemetry stuff) while the Audacity EULA says it will actively collect data if compelled by law enforcement ? Doesn't that imply collecting any other type of data LE wants? Again maybe the exact wording makes no real difference but the way it is phrased can make it enough of a valid concern to "justify' a fork imo.
The government cannot compel the Muse group to do anything with data it doesn't have.
I'm pretty sure a Tesla also starts alerting and alarming if you take your hands off the wheel
Thanks for sharing wormhole!
I think like with everything, it depends on where you live in the country. Another commenter mentioned no car, because living in Stockholm, where I'm sure the price of housing has skyrocketed up as well.

Same thing in London, big urban center. But if you are able to move out into the country, quality of life can improve markedly, especially if you earn the same as you do / can in London.

Same in NL where I live. I'm relatively lucky in that I got a smallish modernish two bedroom house with a driveway, small back yard, etc, but most people can't afford this (hell, housing prices have gone up so much that even I can't afford this house anymore if I were to buy it now!) even if it becomes available on the market.

Meanwhile, my parents live up north, bought a house in the 70's while mortgage rates were >10%, a four bedroom house with a big front- and back yard, which they've turned into their own little paradise (lots of plants, fish pond, roofed sitting area with a box of sigars, etc).

Long term we might end up moving there, but besides our son's school and social life, the biggest factor there is work and income. It may be more feasible with remote work which I've done for the past year and a half now, but not in the current market where every somewhat decent house put up for sale gets hundreds of interested people.