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> Since everything in Cambridge is done with special permits, you can't even look at the zoning map to be able to tell.

That's less of a planning issue and more of a natural result of game theory. Updating the zoning map is much more difficult (supermajority vote) than issuing zoning variances, and the process of zoning variance appeals offers the city a chance to wring favorable concessions from developers.

(of course, as it happens these concessions and the appeals process come at cost to the developer, which over the long term translates to less construction and higher per-unit prices. I'd like to see the state find a way to change the way this works, but I'm not holding my breath!)

All of this to say that planning exists, but it might not be available to the public easily or at all.
The problem is if it was a zoo this deep in shit it’d be shut down from an animal welfare point of view.

Perhaps we should consider software welfare as well.

“Clean up your shit or we’ll fine you”
I think you and GP are in some ways saying the same thing.

> But are fonts scarce? Are they scarcer than the attention required to use them? When do we say, "good job, that's enough fonts" and move on?

You disagree about the idea of removing IP protections from fonts, but beyond that you seem to agree that Libre font collections may basically be Good Enough(tm) and that there might not be much of a need or justification to waste time thinking about the proprietary/commercial market at all.

I do generally disagree with both ideas, I think people are a little too quick to dismiss the creative and functional value of new fonts, and I think that typography as a skill is generally undervalued in technical circles. But that disagreement aside, I didn't read GP's post as an argument that there's a pressing need to liberate fonts, just that to them it's not clear what copyright is even protecting here in the first place, given how little (again, to them) functional value that proprietary fonts provide.
Jiangzemin is 95 and is still alive. They received the best medical care imaginable. Xi probably has 20 good years ahead of him.
It seems like using something that's reverse engineering to achieve "interoperability", in this case playing the games on modern hardware, is generally legal in the US/EU, as long as you also own a license to the original, which seems like is a requirement to use the Re* versions, as you need the original game assets.

Decompilation / reverse engineering is very different from "transcribing" a play. Transcribing a play, you would get back an almost exact copy of the source material, whereas decompiling is more akin to taking a car and measuring all the bits of it. You would certainly not get the original drawings or CAD files back out of it. You do not decompile "source code", but machine code, and the source code you get back is not a recreation of the original copyrighted code, but the decompiler's analysis of the machine instructions, stripped of the original design and intent (the creative work part which makes source code copyrightable in the first place).

Measurements (or information) in general is not copyrightable, despite what IP protectionism claims, and in this analogy the machine code is much closer to the mechanical pieces of the car that make it work than the original designs. Either way, the fair use / reverse engineering provisions already create an exemption.

The questions is wether there are enough legal loopholes to squash these generally allowed uses through some other parts of the law or licensing terms, eg. by claiming that some IP (patents, trade secrets) are infringed some other way by publishing the reverse engineered code.
Black box closed source systems sorta make verification of what the device is doing rather difficult.
Not that I sanction all of the parent's post, but for instance Telegram did exactly that, and they still receive grief for rolling their own crypto. So per the parent you can either use back-doored state-sponsored encryption or roll your own which nobody trusts. Which is better? Is there another alternative?
Two things real quick:

Art Coviello is a salesman who headed the company that bought RSA and took the name. It would be a little weird to expect him to meaningfully know what a cryptographer even is. The idea that Coviello would himself be weighing NIST against crypto eprints is pretty silly.

And, more importantly, the only important cite here is Shumow and Ferguson. Schneier didn't analyze Dual EC (he never did work in elliptic curves at all, and claimed not to trust their math); here, he's simply reporting on Shumow and Ferguson's paper, and he doesn't even say Dual EC was backdoored. Nor, for that matter, do the cites before Shumow and Ferguson.

(Before anyone jumps on my back about this: I basically shared Schneier's take on this, that Dual EC was too conspicuous to really be a backdoor, and that the right response was to ignore and never use it. I was wildly wrong about how prevalent Dual EC was --- I couldn't imagine any sane engineer adopting it, because it's slow and gross. If I'd known before the BULLRUN revelations that, for instance, every Juniper VPN box was using Dual EC, I'd have been a lot more alarmed and a lot less charitable about it. Oh well, live and learn.)
> Take pasta and rice for example, both have around the same calorific value however, the carbon chains in rice are much longer than those in pasta.

It doesn't matter. This is over-analyzing the simple fact that reducing intake results in weight loss.

Like I said, this is an unpopular opinion due to the difficulty people have in losing weight.

But I did it and I have the facts to back it up. And I managed to get over my body's natural fight against it by simply continuing to intake less calories.

If my body doesn't continue to get a constant influx of energy, it stores less as fat reserves. It's all proven by raw results.

The truth is you can lose weight on a diet of Cheetos, pasta and soda. It's not healthy, and you may die sooner than you planned, but you will lose weight, as long as the intake is less than the expenditure.
And they say linux desktop environments UI is inconsistent...
I don't think "we go with the majority" just because you prefer the majority's preferences. There are many cultures on the internet and the planet, and they have their own local preferences. If anything, I think it would make sense to go by the Robustness Principle (be conservative in what you send, liberal with what you receive), though not everyone has to accept that, of course.
There is nothing "bad faith" about pointing out the mentality behind this of total device surveillance. Most people who are angered about this aren't worried about false positives of baby's first bath. They are worried about Apple scanning stuff on your phone as a proxy for police. What's next? Copyright infringement? combing through texts for drug activity? thought crimes against the CCP? It's not slipery slope as all through history governments have Always wanted more power over their citizens and to not even have your phone be safe from arbitrary scanning is just too damn far.
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If copyright terms didn't last so long, then other people could take the old layers and "compost" them into fertilizer for new code.
Computing that ratio is challenging here because the franchisees are the ones hiring most of the lower wage employees, and their profits aren’t included in McDonald’s corporate. There are about 3 million people working at a McDonalds worldwide.

Giving McDonald’s corporate raises of $9k/quarter would mostly just move middle class and upper middle class further up, excepting a few corporate stores.
Even more infuriating is that they're using en dashes places where they should be em dashes. For example:

[…] choices – e.g. I cannot fix small-resolution screens or bad user font choices – but at least […]
Thanks, interesting details.

I guess the legislators and the tech companies can work something out on the practical issues instead of turning people's devices into always watching policemen.
> Stuff like this is, on the contrary, evidence that the NSA can't break modern cryptography.

Unless they're one step ahead here and they want us to think that which is why they add backdoors knowing that years later that knowledge will become public, giving us all a reason to think they cannot break modern crypto.

<takes off his tinfoil hat>
Sorry it was a long time ago and I looked it up and actually it was more than I said. I bought it on Amazon, not eBay it turned out, and I paid closer to what you said.

I ordered mine in October of 2016 according to my Amazon history (holy shit, time flies! I would have guessed 2018 or 2017), and I paid $130 for it at the time. New in box. It came bundled with a Lego Movie game and a DualShock 3 controller, and I bought some second hand Vita games that I played on it.

I used my PS4 controller with it instead of the PS3 controller that came with it, and let a friend borrow the PS3 controller for use with her PS3. She never returned the controller actually, but that's ok – she gave me a hoodie once, and I don't like PS3 controllers all that much anyways :p

I have actually heard about this effect when I was in university, that if we are happy with a product we tend after a while to think we paid less for it than we did. So at least it might be an additional indicator to anyone reading this that I really was happy about my PSTV :^)
lol who are at this point just a proxy for the police intelligence.
Firefox has improved a lot in recent versions in regards to following the system theme on Linux.
LibreOffice is still meh. I have a friend who uses Manjaro and a lot of buttons in LO are basically invisible with the default theme.
Very very true. When something causes a 1 point story to take three days; bring on the hacks and compromises and ignore anything that doesn't need dealt with to get it out the door.
I can understand if the grass is extremely long and it will cover it, so it will die. But it will rebound pretty quick anyway.

Otherwise, I always leave my clippings on my grass, even if decently long. The grass survive just fine.
She can do whatever she wants with her stuff. I told her I could run it back for her if she wanted when I saw she was on 11 but she said she liked it.
> Many people are sensitive to VOCs at levels most people aren't.

Yes, but she’s making huge leaps to claim that her 3rd-floor apartment is being filled with VOCs from an old toxic waste container that may or may not still be buried somewhere on the 100 acre property where her apartments were built. If VOCs were truly the cause, and we don’t know that, it would be far more likely to be coming from construction materials or the furniture in her apartment.

I’m not doubting that she’s experiencing distressing symptoms. I am very skeptical of her conclusion that it’s due to buried toxic waste somewhere nearby and her ongoing battles against the city and apartment builders.

This same person has been in the headlines for 3 different victimization stories in the past 6 months: The toxic waste story and her ensuing battle with the city, the time her work phone was subpoenaed for a legal case and lawyers wouldn’t let her selectively delete files from evidence, and now her harassment lawsuit against Apple.

The harassment claims should be investigated like any others. However, before we grab our pitchforks in the court of public opinion it’s important to know the context of her actions. When someone is becoming an extreme outlier victim in multiple situations and promoting her case vigorously on social media, skepticism is warranted.
No.

You do not have to build an actual thing, nor does anybody else have to, for a patent to be valid.
It's naive to think maintaining a yard is just walking your property once a week with a push mower.

If you have a tree canopy, as most older homes in Georgia do, then you have to contend with the debris from the trees (e.g. fallen limbs, leaves, pine needles, pine cones, acorns, etc). If you want the lawn to look nice you need to do edging, weeding, watering and fertilizer=. In Georgia most homes have "pine islands" that have some sort of ground covering like mulch or pine straw and contain plants ans shrubs you need to maintain.
These systems rely on the premise that catching pdos and putting them out of circulation does* protect children, since many children are abused by relatives and such. I think it's a reasonable assumption!
Is it good for humans to eat more fertiliser, pesticides etc ?
If this process is simple to scale then we absolutely do need it. There is little chance of us fixing our food waste problem and increasing the efficiency of foreign aid in a timely manner. If more and larger crops could be grown on even more marginal land closer to where people desperately need the food then it is a solution we should use. I'm assuming that we'd aim for making these modified plants easily available to any farmer that wishes to grow them.
Have you got any videos of statistical trends or other evidence that what you believe is actually true? Or are we just working from viral anecdata?
If you do your personal ad blocking, at least in part, via DNS and run your phone traffic through a VPN to home, then it can work for many apps too.

Though that is a bit of faf, a lot more than just using a browser add-on, if you don't already have it setup.
See the comment re: copyright issues. Here in the U.S. the First Amendment severely limits what one can and can't do regarding font licensing. Restricting what one can and can't do with a (rasterized, at least) font has historically been interpreted as limiting speech. As a result, it's generally not possible to do the typical software licensing thing and say 'you can do this and this but not that' as the First Amendment will steamroll much of what one tries to put in the license.
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You're touching on the "Neat -vs- Scruffy" dichotomy in AI. (But it's not necessarily a dichotomy -- they can be combined!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_and_scruffies

From the "Scruffy" side, there's Charles Rich's classic work on "Programmer's Apprentice".

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6054

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6054/AIM-1004...

>The Programmer's Apprentice Project: A Research Overview

>MIT AI Lab Memo No. 1004, November 1987.

>Rich, Charles; Waters, Richard C.

>Abstract: The goal of the Programmer's Apprentice project is to develop a theory of how expert programmers analyze, synthesize, modify, explain, specify, verify, and document programs. This research goal overlaps both artificial intelligence and software engineering. From the viewpoint of artificial intelligence, we have chosen programming as a domain in which to study fundamental issues of knowledge representation and reasoning. From the viewpoint of software engineering, we seek to automate the programming process by applying techniques from artificial intelligence.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41967

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41967/AI_WP_1...

>Plan Recognition in a Programmer's Apprentice. Ph.D. Thesis proposal.

>MIT AI Lab Working Paper 147, May 1977.

>Rich, Charles

>Abstract: Brief Statement of the Problem: Stated most generally, the proposed research is concerned with understanding and representing the teleological structure of engineered devices. More specifically, I propose to study the teleological structure of computer programs written in LISP which perform a wide range of non-numerical computations. The major theoretical goal of the research is to further develop a formal representation for teleological structure, called plans, which will facilitate both the abstract description of particular programs, and the compilation of a library of programming expertise in the domain of non-numerical computation. Adequacy of the theory will be demonstrated by implementing a system (to eventually become part of a LISP Programmer's Apprentice) which will be able to recognize various plans in LISP programs written by human programmers and thereby generate cogent explanations of how the programs work, including the detection of some programming errors.
I don't understand. That's not what that PR says. That PR is about using == null. It offers no substantial information about is_instance_valid.
> Application developers are your users.

No. Equating internal teams with paying customers is the very attitude that is causing these problems. Encouraging teams to think about their "internal customers" leads those customers to become entitled. We work together in the same company, our relationship is not the same as with actual external paying customers. I can't tell a paying customer that they're being unreasonable or lazy or unrealistic. We absolutely should be able to have that conversation with other internal teams when appropriate.

The post is describing the situation that has evolved as a result of QA being phased out. Telling Ops to suck up that extra work because "Dev are your users" is exactly why the post was written.
It would seem to me the most significant challenge would be having functional data structures in C++, that would be a non-trivial effort I would think. Even if you were to use other libraries that experiment with this. Without those, the language just doesn’t make any sense.
The human element, or design and UX/UI & ergonomics. Don't code for 'the developer', code for your users.
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I think you need better examples, because my first association with this one is how her behavior is evidently not authentic. We were already at risk of unreasonable people making our lives difficult anyway, so your broad claim about 'these types' feels more like shadow boxing (without broader context punctuated with specific examples).
But Apple doesn't need a new ISA version ( ARM v9 ) when it is 99% the same as ARM v8.3 with more mandatory feature set.
A fascinating aside. Thanks for sharing
>> but in Texas, how likely is the staff or the store owner to be armed, and actually confront you?

At a CVS? Not likely at all.
Ops/Infra teams don't usually start software projects and not aware that there is a project for them to offer their help with.

My experience has been that they can be very accomodating and supportive if you do talk to tham.
this post and the top level parent literally never used the word taliban.
If you love Gibson's prose I'm not sure what to recommend. Maybe you'd enjoy James Joyce, or Kerouac or Burroughs maybe. If you love fiction generally there are all the great novels to read.
Several ways, the most simple being that if A needs a life support machine, vaccinated B is much less likely to be using it already.
and yet mrna vaccines completely sidestep the immune system. We can break out of local minima just by the fact that we are coming at the problem of organism design from a different perspective.
Hey, thanks for the SVGRepo link!

There's a number of these types of sites, and I like to keep links to them all, for when I'm looking for inspiration or graphics.
It is important to remember that Copilot can improve. 40% is not a bad baseline, but one data point does not give us much info, we should wait and see the rate of improvement.
But the cryptographic community was RIGHT on this, with at least six papers from respected researchers raising concerns back around 2007. It was businesses (like RSA and Juniper) that overrode these concerns under pressure.
I hope you're not confusing me with another commenter.

I provided a few things that I thought were in kind of a gray area, in order that you might clarify how you categorize them and how you think such situations could be avoided or handled differently.

It seems to me that my comment was manifestly a combination of factual claims and questions about your beliefs, not justifications of anything.
Amazon's co-mingling of inventory facilitated large-scale theft by enabling stolen goods to be sold along-side legitimately sourced items. One has to wonder: at what point does Amazon's reluctance to improve supply-chain integrity venture into the territory of aiding and abetting crime?
FYI: google's are Apache licensed here: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

Twitter emoji (discord uses these also) are open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/

Both of these are very consistent and good open source emoji. I think in the past a lot of these projects that were not backed by companies eventually devolved into a paid product that was no longer open source, but I'm hopeful that openmoji continues down the FOSS path.
> something like Netflix

Isn't that, basically what Overdrive is doing? They license content (just like Netflix does), and then make it available to "subscribers", AKA library patrons? Or are you referring to things like "Kindle Unlimited", which offer a very similar service?

> (more) copyright exceptions for libraries

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The problem, as I see it, is that there needs to be a way to connect the value created to the income of the creators, otherwise the creators can't create.

> Go rogue, find the datahoarder people and give them money

I think the idea of "datahoarder" gets to the core of the disconnect here. You say "datahoarder", while other people say "publishers" and "authors." You're proposing giving them money -- which is exactly what Overdrive does! How is your proposal different?

> Individually go rogue. Just pirate all day and tell your friends

I fail to understand how piracy is a system that can support authors and publishers, who require income in order to produce books. Maybe you can explain this to me? Or are you just being facetious?
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I'm in the camp that "style" has very little real impact on readability, and linting for it mostly just creates friction. Maybe one time out of 100 I've got a weird case that truly needs to be indented differently, but my linter forbids it as dogma, so I either end up with code that's less readable or I add the noise of linter-disabling comments.

The things that really impact how understandable some code is have little to do with punctuation, or whether or not these two characters have a space in-between, or what type of quotes we use.
I appreciate your statements here. You are correct. It's an unconscious choice. Remember: the bias exists in the speaker.
I would not say it is "scanning" as the device doesn't know the final result (match or not). If I had to summarize very broadly the thing to my understanding: it will be like doing a "loose" SHA on every photos in the Photos app and sending these to Apple (if iCloud is enabled). Server side, Apple checks if the hashes match or not. Isn't this like "scanning in iCloud" but without Apple needing to have a decrypted photos in their servers ?
It's that old saw of "anyone can create a security system that they can't break". How do you know that your combination of methods is secure?

There may well be hidden (or at least non-obvious) complications with using certain methods and/or implementations together that make them easier to break. If you're not aware of that, but someone else is, then the first you'll know about it is years later when a security leak is traced back to your "secure" system. And the only other way of knowing about this sort of stuff is to spend a lot of time staying current with the research.

Or you can let someone else do all that hard work, and run the extremely small risk that their work has been silently compromised by the NSA (or other state actor of your choice).
And I’m saying the pull quote is a lie or incorrect.
But that's the thing, they have reached a compromise regarding iMessage being "E2EE" by keeping all those avenues (iCloud backups and iMessage on iCloud) that essentially trade E2EE for the convenience.

Most users opt-in to the convenience for iMessage making it, for all purposes, no longer E2EE.

I don't see them removing that precisely because of iMessage.