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Almost all of software in my library/catalog is offline-only, as in - online component is not required, nor wanted: I'd specifically choose local/offline variant vs a fancy online-required one; open-source over freeware over commercial, etc. (I have only addressed the auto-updates, not all other points of my "system", not its exceptions, and certainly not its finer points.)

I thought it self-evident in my post that I expect the software in question to notify me of a new version, provide the cumulative change log, and offer me an update (plus even an auto-update, but only as an option).

Software that did that (let's call it "polite" software), got its net access (for limited aforementioned uses). And if it was a piece of software I particularly found useful and non-clashing with my stances, I sometimes even enabled the telemetry (because it might help improve it).

What I cannot stand is being forcefed those. They break everything when I least expect it, and when I most need the things to function and function fast (e.g. auto-update on program start VS offered update on close). Most (90? 95%?) of my catalog is specific (and offline) use only, so eventual issues usually do not affect me.

Often used software I update on a more regular schedule, but still - almost exclusively manually (by downloading the new portable version). OS is updated once I'm done with a project or whatever I was doing in that duration - meaning when I can temporally afford to be frelled in the posterior by Microsoft's updates, and spend an hour fixing stuff... such as figuring why the bloody gamepads are now suddenly preventing my monitors from going to stand-by, thus messing up my presence & tracking software, thus messing up my home automation recipes. (If you are impacted, it's the 2019-timestamped XBox driver; revert to something ancient [find it somewhere], and "lock it" down by listing device identifiers via group policy.)

To sum up, in simplified terms - any frell-up resulting from an auto-update impacts me 100% (and costs me time, nerves, will to live) VS extremely low percentage of being affected by the critical security vulnerability du jour (and especially taking into account security and precautions I practice).

Constantly-used and online-required software has its own, different set of "rules" (security, precautions, guidelines, etc.). Don't mistake my ire at a certain type of an unfortunately too common (mis)use of a feature (in my specific circumstances and use cases and scenarios) as an irrational blanket refusal of absolutely everything under that category.

(Note: typing on a phone, so due to editing troubles my chain of thought might be all over the place.)
I stopped wanting to work for other people in favor of directly owning my time and the value I produce.

Unpopular opinion: Salaries are golden handcuffs.
Can't afford food is not the same as can't acquire food. If the cost of a loaf of bread shot up to $1000, you would not be able to afford to buy food, but the food in your pantry would still be just as edible, hoarded food seized by either the government or local militias can be redistributed, and as you got desperate there are lots of things which can become "food." You mix some sawdust into some flour, boil some shoe leather, hunt some rodents, slaughter some pets... look at places like Leningrad in WW2 to see populations going years without a functioning food market.
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I love that quote. Like, Elon, dude, it was definitely obvious at the time, too. At least to anyone not cloistered in the techno-utopian echo chamber that is SV.
I mean it's reasonably close - but FWIW thanks for the correction, it's been a wild year
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Depends on the nature of the particular change, but looking at a merge request commit-by-commit is often much easier to grasp and find potential issues. I usually quickly scan the overall diff first and then proceed to look deeper at each commit.

We're working on FLOSS projects where contributors (internal and external) are asked to split commits logically and that's how they end up in the final history. Most merge requests consist of just a couple of small commits, although sometimes there's a bigger and longer-lived branch where it is easier to just look at the diff as a whole (separate commits still massively improve bisectability though and I can't think of any real downsides of having them retained).
> button-clicking and datacenter-construction

Which of these two scenarios seems to favour the rich, in your mind?
It's always something, isn't it? Some people just can't let this go. The fact is, the vaccines we have work against all these variants.

When we had outages at work, we'd amp up our monitoring to 11 and when the outage was over the amount of noise generated by the logs had the tendency to spook people. They'd see a bunch of errors that were always present in the system but never noticed because the logs weren't as high. You'd have to remind yourself "yeah, this stuff always happens... we just have our monitoring cranked up and adrenaline still flowing".

It takes a little while to mentally recover from a bad outage. I suspect something similar is happening here. Society has its monitoring amped up and getting freaked out by every little thing the monitoring is showing.
You said that you're "not so sure that a trained model does (or even should) be subject to the copyright of the inputs."

You missed my point. I'm not saying that the model is subject to the copyright of the inputs; I'm saying that the model's outputs are, which is entirely different. We say that the output of a compiler is still subject to the copyright of the inputs, so why not this?
I'm completely cool with people forking Audacity.

Now we can send all of the privacy seeking developers over to the new project where they can demonstrate their productivity.

I see this fork as a wonderful thing as the Audacity people can finally kick the excessively whiny to the curb--I mean the new forked project.
this guy wrote a book that will teach you how to name variables, only with 275 pages!
> Stepping back, though, one could still ask the question; what's the risk of a Java developer accidentally getting some OpenJDK code a little too closely? There's an order of magnitude difference between even a smaller AGPL developer and Oracle.

It would be extremely interesting to know how much accidental and non accidental code infringement happens and in what proportion of those cases go to the courts. I would guess that both cases happen utterly constantly and it is only a tiny minority of those cases where legal action is taken. If that's the case right now, then nothing has changed with this tool except the possibility of playing hot potato with liability when those few cases that do happen make it to courts. Even if the developer actually wrote the code that infringed, copilot could make a useful scapegoat and every case will have plausible deniability if copilot lacks really good explainability.
Good question! From a template repo commit at work[1]:

Advantages:

- Separates development and production dependencies.

- The dependency version is specified separately from the lock file. In
practice this means that the version in pyproject.toml generally only
needs to be set to anything other than asterisk if and when it becomes
necessary to use a specific version range.

- The lock file includes SHA-256 checksums by default, and these are
checked during installation.

Disadvantages:

- More complex configuration than Pip.

- Python package managers come and go, and this one is likely going to
suffer the same fate eventually.

- Introduces poetry.toml simply to specify that the virtualenv should be
in the project directory. The default is to put virtualenvs in
~/.poetry, which is a non-standard location and therefore might
interfere with typical IDE setups, mounting the virtualenv in containers
or VMs, and the like.

[1] https://github.com/linz/template-python-hello-world/pull/106...*
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But if you’re only inputting and extracting at 50MW then having more than 600MWh of storage means it takes longer than 24h to fully charge and discharge. If anything 500MWh of storage is already well into diminishing returns as daily storage makes money every day but long term storage has less frequent returns.
There is the option of a chemical gas generator, which i much more compact than any battery. However it too has a limited operation time.
I can think of a few reasons like "personal portfolio" and whatnot, but for me the main reason is to kind of have a central place to keep my personal projects that is not as messy as my "projects" folders and also to travel in time with my code. That's just me tho
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I am not sure what you mean -- measuring impulse response in cars good but measuring impulse response of datacenters bad (or impossible). Measuring the weight of a car is an empirical observation as well. I also don't see how it follows that PID will necessarily overfit second and 3rd order effects whereas bang-bang wouldnt
> Adding constraints usually makes problems harder.

Adding constraints can also make a problem easier. Which is why you've carefully worded your sentence in this manner :-)

You clearly know about those edge cases, but I felt it necessary to elaborate on this point: Additional constraints can make a problem easier OR harder, depending on the problem and the search space. Its very non-intuitive.
It sounds like much of the anxiety comes from not having control over your life.

There's a book I recommend, Everything in its Place: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Its-Place-Mise-En-Place-Or...

To quote the book, “By being organized, you will be more efficient. By being more efficient, you will have more time in your day. By having more time in your day, you will be more relaxed in your day; you will be able to accomplish the task at hand in a clear, concise, fluid motion.”

A lot of it is waste. When you're anxious, you try to do more, but it's usually lots of really small things instead of several things in a single big motion. There's redundancy when someone tells us to do something or ask for information and we don't callback. There's wasted mind space when we leave too many small bugs like typos and UI glitches and prioritize the important tough bugs. There's waste when you have 50 tabs open and take too long to find which one you want now.

A lot of that waste can be reduced with planning and preparation. This is nothing new - we expect to write reqs and draw layouts on paper before doing anything, but when you're anxious, this usually gets ditched. And it feels like friction to do all the time. The book covers putting it down on paper, so you can internalise it in your head later.
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I am not a religious person, but I admire the Sikhs. They embrace equality and should be an example to other religions on how to truly help their community.

They make exemptions to their religion when it benefits society, like not wearing kirpans on airplanes. As much as I would hate to see a Sikh (or anyone for that matter) badly injured in a motorcycle crash, not wearing an approved helmet has no external victims - so I respect this as a good compromise. Please supplement this with a good backboard and an airbag vest that provides neck support.
Is calculator.exe the equivalent to TI-84?
Having written my rant(s) elsewhere in this thread, I'm just gonna telepathically project the "(slams the palm on the desk) THANK YOU!" gif.
Audacity brought this problem on themselves. They walked down the slippery slope of telemetry.
No, but parent comment did say, "feed all proprietary code into GitHub Copilot".
Adding the state as a middleman for a huge fraction of all production does not promote freedom, unless your definition of “freedom” is “the unfettered ability to smoke weed and watch cartoons all day”. In reality, if UBI passes, it will be used as an excuse to un-person political undesirables while keeping people with no intrinsic ambition satiated.
you know, I have never explored anything but git. I'm aware of the esixtence of mercurial, svn, and hg but have never looked into it.

I think git for me was just the thing I learned at work and just continued using even in personal projects. Do you mind elaborating on why you prefer svn for personal stuff? I'm gonna look into it too :)
The U.S. population is getting exactly what the U.S. population wants.

If the U.S. population didn't want this outcome it would make changes.
For Toyota, the representative company of Japan, it's not easy decision to all in to BEV because of energy situation. Japan is going to be stuck for global decarbonize campaign because the land/grid is too small to make stable distributed renewables, and obviously nuclear is no longer future option. Making BEV (or Li-ON battery) is energy intensive so it won't competitive with other decarbonated countries for future carbon tax era. That's why they must investigating hydrogen, solid state battery, xEV, and so on rather than just BEV. Other companies investigating other techs like co2 collector.

Investigating hydrogen for other uses like truck, ship, storage, emergency generator looks reasonable (Toyota also sell fuel cell system for various use), but still I doubt is they serious for hydrogen car like Mirai, or it's just a demo or for special case.
> Chisel is not synthesizing Scala

Obviously I neither wrote nor meant that.
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Sanders isn't a member of the Democratic Party. The DNC owes him nothing. It would have been corrupt for the DNC to spend its resources backing a candidate who was not a registered Democrat.
Wow looks like ad brochure filled with videos affiliated to their website.
I see "rr" as a little different because it is a developer tool. There is going to be a little more sensitivity about accidentally sending proprietary information.

Audacity is an end application and really isn't likely to accidentally send something sensitive short of packing up entire audio files (which would be stupidly obvious if it were being done).
The licenses that I am making implicitly acknowledge the argument that training an ML model is fair use.

However, GitHub said nothing about the output of the model being fair use. My license will say that the output of their model is under the same license as the input, which means they have restrictions if they want to distribute it (i.e., actually have people use Copilot).

I think this will work because it doesn't say that GitHub is wrong. Instead, it says that, even if GitHub is right, it doesn't matter.

It would also be very bad for GitHub to claim that the output of an algorithm can't be under the same license as the input because we feed licensed code to algorithms all the time and claim that their output is still under the same license. We call those algorithms "compilers" and the binary code they produce is still copyrighted and licensed.
The alleged resistance is vs CoronaVac, which we already have good reason to believe isn't very effective in general.

This doesn't say much about resistance vs 2 dose Pfizer/Modern/AstraZenca (which would be most worrying), or J&J/Novavax. That's what's important to check. Experience until now was that the mRNA vaccines could handle all variants, and JJ/Nova are apparently fine too.
I often wonder if you could use different wavelengths of light to do the same. Kind of how you could mix yellow and blue to make green.
It's especially bad for rr, since it doesn't otherwise have any reason to talk to the Internet (I see people mentioning Firefox telemetry, but you know, Firefox is a browser, you expect it to talk to the net).

The best I can think of is to incentivize it other ways; e.g., telemetry only for bug reporting, or a "you ping us, we give you a nice hat" or something.
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My experience has been that such tricks don't hold up. For example, smaller speakers that EQ their way into seeming like they have more bass by boosting harmonic frequencies -- they sound nice on first listen, but handle low volume poorly and, after prolonged listening, give me a headache. And nothing lets you feel the bass like big speakers moving air.

But this is mostly music, not movies. There, I find the quality of the script and acting far more immersive than fancy audio tricks, so I'm probably not the target audience.
Be that as it may… the people of Hong Kong (and Taiwan) seem to be very emphatically (with few exceptions) communicating a distrust of and desire to be independent from China and the CCP.
The case in florida wasn't due to portland cement, but due to incompatible aggregate (read: sand) being used.
We have a good understanding of the mechanisms now, and non-flowable concrete doesn't have lifetime issues (unless you could centuries as "temporary").

Turns out: capital markets don't incentivse >>50y investments.
1 GBPS is a lot of video though. Something like 10 streams of the highest quality and like 40-100 of really good quality.
Just wait until the anti-vaxers hear about this.
Unpopular opinion: IP had to be invented so the concept of 'theft' could be applied to it. If your product can be reproduced by anyone then you have no real edge.

The R&D argument is also bunk as there is little to nothing to support the idea that innovation would just stop if IP didn't exist to protect it
Q: Into the Storm is worth watching. You get to hear what the siterunners have to say rather than what a banner they put up says.
> 1. Users enjoy product for free.

You got this part wrong. Users contribute to the project and/or draw contributers to the project. This happens to proprietary projects like twitter as well, where key features were invented by users. https://qz.com/135149/the-first-ever-hashtag-reply-and-retwe...
^^ this.

I've open-sourced some subcomponents of other (closed source) projects — sometimes they've been personal projects, sometimes projects for clients (either way, usually hosted as a private project on GH) — because I figured these things might be useful to someone else.

Nothing big nor overly exciting mind — but the majority of them have gained a small handful of stars, a couple of them have been forked, and a couple of them have had issues filed and/or pull requests.

The OP asks: "perhaps it's just that I'm getting older?" — IDK how age factors into all this, but I was 50 on my last birthday! O_o
Maybe. Is their quality of life better than it is aboard the ship?
OLAP is not SQL or NoSQL in any way, shape, or form. Completely separate concept and completely separate technologies.
I really doubt that. Video phones were a sci fi thing for a century.
I think the difference here is that it’s a pre-existing condition that is explained. There is no license change to adapt to. What Audacity is doing may be perfectly reasonable, but they are presenting it in the worst possible way.

And, while not all software requires submission of personal information, those that do are usually required to hand over information when required by law enforcement. It’s just a fact of life. If you don’t like that, then don’t use or register that software.
I understand that: He's saying the same thing as the previous guy. More red tape = bad. Just for different reasons.
Why should we care about size? As far as I understand it real estate isn't a limiting cost for data centers
This short clip of Lisa Lampanelli roasting Gene Simmons talks about that, and ends with maybe my favourite gag of all time:

https://youtu.be/5eG5llG9uoA?t=176
So, why didn't the Tesla acquire the pickup truck and brake? If they really aren't using a front-facing radar to avoid collisions, maybe they really deserve to lose this one.
The more we learn about Neanderthals, the clearer it becomes that they were very similar to Homo Sapiens.
Tl;Dr a driver in a pickup truck cut off a Tesla at high speed, got rear ended. Pickup truck passenger wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was ejected during the collision.

Rest of the article is copy pasta of all the usual talking points of musk, Tesla, autopilot, etc.
What do you mean by “pairs” in this context? Pair programming, or something less strict but similar in working style?
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I bet both France and the US will run the other way. The above is another thing that happened during that era. Hundreds dead.

I was just a really young kid but even I remember it.
The Famous Article was about C, not C++.
> Ultimately the choice is the user's

That's really not how choice seems to work in real life.

Anecdotes about recovered junkies are meaningless until you talk to those, which in my experience are the majority, who a) haven't recovered and b) repeatedly choose to try and c) fail to recover because humans just don't have the infinite willpower and rationality that this freedom of choice dogma always assumes. I mean people often don't even have enough information to make rational/good decisions in the first place. Until you stop looking at only success stories, and really have a look at the rest of the iceberg that is human failure, you're just chewing on ideological preconceptions.

> I am addicted to caffeine

Apples and oranges. Caffeine doesn't have much in the way of negatives, and if you experience one of the negatives then the positives most likely aren't strong enough to keep you coming back. So sure, Mormon judgements would then in the 'eye of beholder'.

Maybe talk about alcohol, there's some pretty objective negatives - not only for the person 'choosing' to do it but almost anyone around them - and I know plenty of alcoholics who wouldn't be alcoholics if they were capable of making that choice.

> The world would be a much better place if free heroin were available in unlimited quantity on every streetcorner.

Well now I really can't tell if I'm just feeding the trolls...
Not a guy.
Yes, similarly I could definitely create a simple ML algorithm and feed it a single codebase to learn. Then it would be possible to predictively output code, such that it reproduces that entire codebase verbatim.

There's nothing magical about a complex copying method that makes that less of a copyright infringement.

There may be some threshold where it becomes fair use, but I agree with you that it's not cut and dry at all.

The argument that someone could create all possible works of art or music or whatever and copyright them all is a ridiculous idea, from someone who doesn't understand exponentials.
This is totally wishfull thinking. Customised logix means customised code.

The GPU has an h265 and h264 hardware video encoder that has no support on Mac and ia a bitch to get working on linux. Most software doesn't support it most software does not support GPU compute either, and we had that for a decade now.

Fuck, we had SIMD in every CPU for like 30 years, and out of 50 most popular programming languages how many even support it? 5?
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It's the first OSI approved open source license written in two languages
You talk as though it's a trivial problem.