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> Use "copyleft" (GPL/AGPL) only if you want to sell proprietary licenses to companies; otherwise they will not use your software, period.

Isn't this, in the light of some European legislation-to-be that could make an unaware maintainer liable because some other company used their code, a win-win? Either pay or don't use.
I think that you'd need to tinker a little with ECL makefile to adjust flags in order to enable static linking. That said ECL does work with musl libc, so at least from the porting perspective there should not be any problem.

If you manage to link musl libc statically then I'd greatly appreciate if you share your experience on our issue tracker or on irc (#ecl @ libera.chat), and if you have problems with it, you may ask in either for advice.
Sounds like BS to me. Cows would have an environmental impact both by their release of methane when they digest the food they eat, and the hydrocarbons it takes to transport them/their food etc. And the electric power it takes to support them. There's also the issue of opportunity cost, i.e. that farm land could be carbon trapping forest instead. Considering eating beef is much more energy intensive then eating the equivalent vegetarian diet, there's simply no way cattle farm is energy negative just from bacteria taking carbon from the manure.
I don't know the US, but in Europe supervisors definitely can take control - at least for acceleration / breaking.

I also think Tesla's approach is the most efficient one, however I do have a problem with their advertising, which is misleading to say the least.

I think we kind of all agree it's a beta version, and they 'develop it in the open'. But it's been at least 5 years they say it's pretty much FSD - their first video where they say 'the driver is there only for legal reasons' was in 2016 !

Same goes for accidents data - they don't publish raw data, that would allow some fair comparisons. Instead they publish bullshit charts which are extremely biased.
$29.1B for 29 films (technically 32 but Disney has bough marvel only in 2009) vs $4.4B for 3 films in the new trilogy, it doesn’t seem to be that much of a difference overall.

Rogue one also grossed over $1B the only SW box office bomb so far was Solo which grossed just under $400M but Marvel movies also had their bombs too.
> Without GPL, as a company you take the code and if neccessary at some point, you employ somebody to further develop it in house (when maintainer gives up or something).

You can do that with GPL too.
They still produce traffic noise, air pollution due to their tires and brakes, and ugly urban landscapes dominated by roads and car parking.

I would rather focus our efforts on improved density so that most people will choose walking, transit or bicycles as means of transport. These ways to move around our towns are also "better for the environment".
The website says limited to 140 characters. Did you pay extra for yours?
you should write a blog post or something about it. I don't find it very prophetic but would like to hear other people's opinions.
Seems that this is implemented [1] in:

- JavaScript

- Rust

- Python

[1] https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki
If you plan on making YouTube a career, work hard to avoid having Adsense be your primary form of income. Linus Tech Tips talks about how even with his media empire they are still beholden to the whims of YouTube in a way that still stresses him everytime they release a video
Very Interesting. See also Michael Gershon's The Second Brain.

In Yoga (and other Eastern physical disciplines) the gut area is often given a prominence that is lacking in Western physical cultures. I have myself felt a distinct difference in my mood/performance on those days that i practice Nauli/Uddiyana Bandha/Mula Bandha. And of course diet plays a crucial role.

I sincerely hope Modern Science unravels more and more of this connection so that we can all live healthy and better lives.
Automakers' responses to the removal of AM broadcasting from vehicles [pdf]
Yes this is also a thing.

I used to do what you're doing. Last 6-7 years I've been running mirrored setup so I could expand by just adding a new vdev. Rebuilt it twice when I upgraded to significantly larger disks.
> We are supposed to love each other, not idolize dolls on a screen. If you can't see how that's sick then I can't help you.

I mean, yeah, but you're sort of just taking one mental image and assuming that's the rule and not the exception
It's a real shame for the 10 to 30% of german children who will have to waste their time attending classes for a language they already know when they could get a headstart practicing english.
"obvioudly skewed" how?

Its pretty much the perfect example imo
Evolved creatures are somewhat handicapped by needing to make only incremental changes from one form to the next, and needing to not be eaten by predators while doing so.

That isn't strong evidence of what would be required by a well engineered system with none of those constraints.

Intelligence is not the end of goal of evolution, it is a by product.
A common take on this for a while has been that the GPL discourages certain types of freeloading while permissive licenses make (commercial, in particular) collaboration easier.

Linux, as you say, does provide an example of mass collaboration happening with a GPL license but it's unique in so many ways that I'm not sure it provides a very useful study point.
Even NGOs need money to run their organization, and even though they’re an NGO, it doesn’t mean all their services are provided for free.

And I’d say that aiming for long term viability by ensuring they run at least break even is in the interest of their users, so not sure how their current actions are against the interest if their users.

And the fact that users put time and effort in creating content on the platform, this doesn’t mean all its services need to be provided for free to these users.
Research applications, in particular to obtain funding.

It is common for researchers to apply to grants/funding for work they are already doing. They tweak the research application to meet whatever the funding criteria is using knowledge they have from existing experiments.
Every pair of vans I bought fell apart in a year. I think they used to be quality back in the day before they got popular and shipped their manufacturing overseas. I've never seen a homeless person in vans but that's just me.
One day, maybe, as long as whales keep pumping money into hypothetical ships that they might be able to use in a hypothetical upcoming game.
tl;dr of that thread:

> I don’t get it. Where’s the localizations [read: non-English]?

> One of the authors: haha, there’s only English so far because it’s not localized yet :)
Django ninja performs better primarily due to relying on pydantic for parsing and validating requests. In a high throughput scenario that's going to be the primary CPU bound area. However usually network or file io is going to be a limiting factor far before CPU.

Django ninja also is build with async in mind fron the start so immediately opens up possibilities that are not possible with DRF.

Seems like as of 4mo ago the maintainers of DRF added async support via a separate module.
As of OTP25, released last year, Erlang has JIT.
Above all, it means IPv6 or IPv4/UPNP(gateway) are very same same.
this is false. people wear Aldens all the time and people wear crocs all the time to all kinds of different functions and events.
The string basically is the identifier, but easier to read, and less easy to mistake for something else. Many people will have a problem with Italian identifiers in code, but there obviously are Italian code bases. IMO, the identifier should be in the same language as the rest of the project.
Better in this case is durability and there's no way of BMW is more durable than a Toyota Corolla and that is objective.
I think this is an unfair opinion of Gren.

In the past, while using Elm, if you wanted to support some browser API that Elm didn't support yet you would have to fallback to kernel code. What Elm wanted: a core package that provided this low-level kernel package that provided typesafety at the Elm level. But as we know, this was a pipe dream because you could never contribute to Elm unless it was from the Elm dictator itself, or from his inner circle of cool people.

It seems like Gren is already ahead of this. Gren has community members actively working on the Websocket API to provide a typesafe core package with Kernel bindings.

The question is: will Gren keep being open to contributors that can provide kernel code.
> Is there a log of who instigated a wayback archive? Could they have been a different group doing what this person was?

Yes, IA now has a "About this capture" popdown at the far right of the injected toolbar. The first ever capture and some of the subsequent captures for one of the sites was from Alexa Crawls, provided by Alexa Internet; some later captures were from a "Survey Crawl" based on "a list of every host in the wayback machine". So this is basically automated, long-tail vacuum cleaning work.
edit: visionOS not realityOS
In my experience, different workplaces can have very different cultures. Size of company matters a lot, as does industry, your role within the company, etc. If you don't like cutthroat coworkers, finding a smaller place, a less competitive industry (maybe not pure tech, but a tech job in another vertical), or being part of a more niche team can all help.

It might not be you, but the environment you and your coworkers were forced to work in. That sort of culture is meant to encourage high turnover instead of cohesive long term teams. Not all places are like that though.

Early in your career it's easier to get exploited as commodity labor. But if you hang in there, you can usually less find toxic places (and eventually nice places) over time. Or consider moving to a different field or country with better work culture, if that's possible.
> desktop apps have so many issues (installation/breakage/crashes

Day-to-day I use a Mac. Installation is me dragging an icon to a folder. Sometimes I use Linux or FreeBSD. There installation is a single command. I don’t see the problem. Difficulty/effort level is equal to bookmarking a website. Indeed, with PWAs it’s literally the same thing. The meme of installation being hard needs to die. First lack of it was born as a made up advantage of webapps, and then webapps copied it.

Breakage/crashes — same thing happens with webapps, but is more frequent, annoying and silent (as in: often you don’t get a popup that something crashed, instead clicking on things stops effecting anything, buttons are randomly marked inactive, scroll is broken), not to mention terrible responsiveness.
Plenty of more recent events which are pretty universally despised, like the invasion of Iraq, and the prison at Guantanamo, for instance.
I think that qualifies.
The amount taxed is not relevant. It's the tax rate that would grow higher.
Right, I was talking more about how it SHOULD work. As you correctly said, it doesn't work at all right now. As in, no CO2 can be emitted, before buying the offset first. It's the only solution I can see, but I agree that it's unlikely to be implemented like this.

As for "China and the like want to grow", they shouldn't and the countries who already emitted a lot of CO2 should have a certificate debt that they need to pay back, slowing their economies down, which would also let the others catch up.
To put it politely I have a distaste for being referred to as an ‘individual contributor’ (or even worse a ‘resource’). I also don’t like being ‘managed’ and have gained little from ‘line management’ over 20+ years developing software systems.

I do however find it extremely motivating to help a true leader solve their problems in a self-organising team of collaborative peers.

I can’t fathom why so many software organisations are still structured for hierarchical command and control, with the trend of good engineers being ‘promoted’ to management?

Yes I think we need more leadership: with organisations cultivating a culture of leadership, communication, openness and trust. Everyone can display leadership skills depending on the context/task within a team. It is not something reserved for the ‘manager’ (appointed leader).

Do we really need more ‘management’? I don’t think so. Management != Leadership.

Would be keen to see some more articles along the lines of ‘Growing leadership skills for engineers’.
The United States had been interested in unconventional warfare before the CIA was established in 1947.

The Japanese Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.

While Unit 731 researchers arrested by Soviet forces were tried at the December 1949 Khabarovsk war crime trials, those captured by the United States were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered during their human experiments. The United States covered up the human experimentations and handed stipends to the perpetrators. The Americans co-opted the researchers' bioweapons information and experience for use in their own biological warfare program, much like what had been done with Nazi German researchers in Operation Paperclip. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
I bought and I was working through the book, "The Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang", 2013 Edition, several years ago, and then I tried to do the exercises in LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang). I am more a Lisper than a Rubyist, however, I do like Elixir. Gene Sher author of the book makes a great case for Erlang and ANNs and the book even has a preface by Joe Armstrong. I played with LUSH (Lisp Universal SHell) by Yann LeCun and others[1]. I wish they would have continued with Lisp too instead of moving to Python. Personally, I am now more an APL/J fan and the language being array based suits matrix math for ANNs very well. There are some nice papers that showcase this. I'd like to see advances in APL for ML. I am currently playing with April (Array Programming Re-Imagined in Lisp)[2] to scratch this itch. It gives you the general programming of Lisp to do the regular programming and APL to do the number crunching and matrix magic in terse code.

I get how array languages such as APL suit ML, and distributed languages such as those which run on the BEAM (I am now looking at Gleam, an ML-like language that runs on the BEAM. I prefer the syntax to Elixir's the same way I tried LFE first) and seem to fit ML. Python's angle is that it utilizes C/Fortran libs like LAPACK and BLAS and hooks to do what it does in ML, and Elixir's Nx is similar in that sense to get the performance in number crunching that the BEAM languages are horrible at. You can use Zig now to write NIFs for Erlang/Elixir so maybe this is how Elixir moves in the direction of Python's approach to speeding up the number crunching for ML along with Nx.

I prefer to try and use a more suitable language rather than try to make it work like Python/Numba/Numpy/Pandas and Elixir/Nx do. Funny thing is that Pandas by Wes McKinney was inspired by the J programming language. So I think you may not be with the crowd in my approach, but there is some harder-to-reach fruit in this approach that is more rewarding to me, and sometimes for others.

[1] https://lush.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://github.com/phantomics/april
I have not seen the link between talking about the Mk Ultra connection and endorsing the manifesto at all. In this very Washington Post article there is no such connection.

If the program at Harvard was innocent, why does Harvard refuse to comment (again, according to the WP)?

Why was there such a program in the first place?
Flipping this on it's head: fully automatic coffee machines have existed for decades, as have conveyor belt ovens. Why hasn't Starbucks replaced its cashiers and baristas "easily" in that time?

The answer is likely to be a combination of the financials not making sense, along with a reduction in quality, and the type of service that people go to Starbucks for.
The second part is perhaps more important than the first - once we have nearly perfect automatic translators, the need to learn the lingua franca will drop.

As it is, the "movers and shakers" in the BRIC all speak the lingua franca (English), and more importantly; they speak English between each other even when no native English speakers are around.

In fact, the downfall of the Pax Americana (which from a language perspective is just the Pax Britania continued) may result in solidifying English as the lingua franca, as it would become a neutral language that doesn't show deference to any particular up-and-coming power.
> 19th century anarchist essay

I think primitivism is a later invention. Certainly Kropotkin is very pro-mechanization. If there is a point of contention, it's to do with ownership, not technology itself.
> But Laughlin hit on a topic that was far more taboo than any of the above. He had the idea that most of the scientists were doing no work at all. They were actually stealing money from the government, just creating all these fraudulent grant applications.

I don't think there are that many fraudulent grant applications. Too many eyes and resources at stake.

> Laughlin had done a lot of work studying the physics of super-high temperatures (superconductivity and the like), and he once told me that, of the roughly fifty thousand papers written on the subject, maybe twenty-five of them were any good at all.

Yes. Inflation in academic research has been around for a while. And nobody's doing anything about it.
Interesting low-ish means for Software Engineers for the FAANGs. Weren't they all supposed to earn 250k minimum or something?
I think Iran-Contra put a damper for awhile, but not permanently. Like "they caught us, we have to be good for awhile".
Kissinger did not end the war, or help in ending it, though. He did eventually help negotiate a withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, but only after having participated in several serious war crimes, as well as helping to sabotage the 1968 Paris peace talks, as a political move to get clout with the Nixon campaign in the first place.

Famously, Lê Đức Thọ, who was jointly given the Nobel with Kissinger, refused to accept it, partially because peace had not in fact been achieved.
An international carbon price would be awesome, yes.

As long as the carbon sinks are genuine. Planting a tree that later dies or burns is not carbon negative.
There's a lot to unpack here, so I'll probably miss something.

I'm British and living in Berlin; my German is… I can get most written text, and the carefully-edited examples in recorded lessons, but I only understand about half of spoken German, regardless of if that's DW Langsamer Gesprochen Nachrichten Podcast or a conversation.

Most of the Germans I talk with have ample examples of exported culture from Hollywood to learn English language from.

But: (1) I'm mostly interacting with the companies that hire foreigners like me, and (2) everyone says Berlin is exceptional in how welcoming it is of outsiders.

Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek? I'm not sure, as I have no experience of working there, και εγω barely μιλαω two of them, but I assume the external cultural pressure from Brazil helps a bit with promoting Portuguese, and the rest of Latin America likewise with Spanish.
Having been through basic training (OSUT) and done my own cadre time at the JFK Special Warfare Center at Bragg... I have never experienced nor customized training to a student based on their beliefs, or background, etc. The training is to the standard, not to the student – and ain't nobody got time to look at student's records anyway.
Indirectly, any good coder should be considering the impact of their work on the cost of computing each operation. We do this less so now that compute power is so high but it should still be on our minds.
I think it means whatever you want. I read it as if you are able to make money using Caddy wouldn't it be fair to share it with the developer. I think there is a sub-text that implies if you sponsored Caddy and needed some extension or support that is available also.
Before Open Source was codified the was an attitude where the software is free but the documentation costs money.
Maybe this came from evolution. Requirement for a recordkeeper before writing was prelevant?
> What companies have actually found is that collaborating on OSS infrastructure projects is extremely beneficial, essentially outsourcing some of the work to focus more on their unique selling points.

I think there are examples of this in FreeBSD: after a company effectively forked the project, FreeBSD kept rolling forward—with bug fixes, updated drivers, etc. The company(s) had to maintain larger and larger internal diffs to get all of these improvements.

At some point they tended to just start giving back whatever wasn't their secret sauce and keep their own code as self-contained as possible. I think a popular workflow nowadays is to just track -CURRENT [1], and maybe branch when they cut a release of their own product.

[1] https://klarasystems.com/articles/evaluating-freebsd-current...
The eyes you mention have to be independent to be effective. Laughlin was exactly such an eye, but not for long.
The wayback machine is also a crawler; it will (or did) archive things based on crawling around the Internet sniffing things out.

You can request it to archive a page at a time, but for many things it will have already found it.
Star citizen is the most obvious money laundering scheme imaginable. I await the documentary in 15 years.
That’s true, but maybe there is a probability you can multiply to get the revenue? Just like freemium users
A big chunk of FAANG compensation is stock, which isn't part of the H1b filing. Cross reference those salaries with levels.fyi to get a better picture.
Some numbers (like $157,477.00) are very frequent; what's up with that? Is that a specific threshold that holds legal significance?
It is also the unwillingness to spend the money required for the necessary number of teachers to have a differentiated curriculum. If 1 teacher = 25 students, everyone of course has to learn the same stuff.

Edited to add: this also has nothing to do with some students being “brighter”. Different kids have different learning requirements, and not speaking the local language is an obvious one, though not at all correlated with intelligence.
I think my success rate with grocery store digital coupons is about 80%-90%. I don't bother to ask the self checkout attendant or the unstaffed CS line to fix the bill when a coupon doesn't go through, which I'm assuming is factored into the margins.
I don't see how events like the Holocaust and a mind control experiment are related. The first one is a universally acknowledged shared experience, i.e. no substitution of reality takes place.

The latter is literally designed to make the victims doubt their own sanity.
If a car maker can’t figure out the electromagnetic interference issue the I have to question the level of engineering in their car in general. It’s not like gasoline and diesel cars lack electrical systems yet, historically, they have not had issues that make AM radios unusable.
Nope, you’re thinking of Aldi Nord/Aldi Süd. Both are present in Germany and in the US (with one under the "Trader Joe’s" brand, other countries are served by just one of them.