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I am using that expression to separate them from the broader Open Source movement. I do think there is a major difference between general open-source and GNU/FSF "free as in freedom" ideology.

I see the broader open source movement as "hey I made this thing to get stuff done, oh btw it's open source under a permissive license so feel free to take it/improve it".

GNU/FSF is more like "here's a list of reasons why the way you do your computing is wrong, the right way is to go back to the dark ages of computing, oh and we have some half-baked software to help with that - and don't you dare use that other open-source thing over there, it's not free enough".

> Name some examples

The hundreds of different Linux distributions, none of which can match the stability, consistency and user-experience of proprietary OSes even from a decade ago? Imagine the collective effort that has been wasted reinventing the wheel and bikeshedding.

The PinePhone, which despite there being a permissively-licensed, battle-tested mobile userspace (Android), would rather try to adapt a desktop-focused userspace to it (and the effort is obviously spread across multiple distros, because why wouldn't it?), and as a result you have a device for sale today that's less usable than a PocketPC from 2003.

The whole "Respects Your Freedom" list from the FSF (https://ryf.fsf.org/index.php/), which looks like a low-budget computer parts catalog from a decade ago, or their absurd position against CPU microcode updates (https://ariadne.space/2022/01/22/the-fsfs-relationship-with-...)? The RYF thing in practice just seems like a major blow to whatever credibility they have left (are they really not understanding that nobody in 2023 cares about mostly decades-old generic computer parts?), and they'd be better off scrubbing every mention of it and pretend it never happened.

I could go on and on. To recap, I think GNU/FSF is pushing some impractical and unrealistic ideology that is ultimately harmful as it wastes effort that could instead be directed to provide practical and pragmatic solutions that offer software freedom, even if partial (which is still better than no freedom at all).
Quicksort can be implemented iteratively, with O(1) auxiliary storage, as well: https://alienryderflex.com/quicksort/
It's probably easier now than 10 years ago with remote work opportunities.

But yes, that is a lot of stars that need to align
I think I’ve run into this misunderstanding in my own conversations. The problem is that there are two different lines of reasoning that can look very similar:

A: You say “Z is true of X”, and I respond “Z is false for thing-like-X”, implying “Z is likely false for X”.

B: You say “Z is true”, and I respond “Z is false for Y”, implying not “Y is like X therefore Z is likely false”, but “Z is sometimes false, so we need to actually evaluate whether it’s true of X”.

I think people who use this reasoning would do well to make it more explicit.

(Here, Z is “there must be a path to compliance”, X is Coinbase, and Y – not, I believe, thing-like-X – is heroin.)
Dealing with Deprecations
Communications skills like yours are not just about management.

Writing, creating, composing, selling, marketing, etc, etc. Many many areas need the ability to get your point across as you seem very able to do.

And you seem to have more candour and introspection skills than most.

I hate to suggest this, but maybe you'd make a good honest politician also!
I used neither the words "good" nor "bad" so I think you're responding to something that I didn't write.
>Sorry if the developer doesn’t like the way it looks…

in my experience it is generally designers or business people who don't like it, the developer generally argues your line.
> At some point in the past it used to be necessary to do many overwrites

Even that has almost always been just a cargo cult. Some people (mainly from the hacker community) claimed that US government agencies can still read data from harddrives that have been erased. It has never been proven by any independent data recovery company.

It might have been somewhat true for MFM or RLL drives (these were before my time in IT), but at least since IDE drives, it was no longer true. However, the cult around "multiple erase cycles" still held, mainly because of companies like Norton etc. who sold snakeoil tools to "securely" erase your data
I think it was this one:

https://www.amazon.com/CRAYOLA-3D-CASTLE-CREATOR-CD-ROM-Ages...

Might be available on abandonware sites.
The Bible also says being gay is a sin, so I’d say it’s not a great source of morality in general. Arbitrary at best.
A lot of that must come from actual children with no easy way of paying. The value prop is so obvious for any adult spending considerable time on the site that’s not in actual poverty that I doubt the vitriol is coming from them.
I am on Aus.social as that is a relevant country for me. It’s a left leaning instance but generally relaxed aside from the usual anti nazi moderation.
Literally the only way to have those things and still give money is to support monero, which is a giant pita for a first draft. Creditcards and other major payment gateways are very easy. If you're serious about services offering such things, you should think about offering such an easy payment integration for folks that maintain services.
Melbourne is the same. Buttons that change the timing are rare or maybe even non-existent. I can’t think of any intersections where pressing the button does anything other than activate the pedestrian lights.
Funnily enough, Reddit cancelled Secret Santa (and indeed all of Reddit Gifts) early last year.[0] It hasn’t been a village for a while.

0. https://reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/nw294q/sunsetting_...
Reminds me of the UK where it used to be very common (maybe prior to the last crash) to simply pay for all insurance monthly. These days it's very common to sign credit agreements and pay 20-30% APR on monthly payments. Crazy.
"Take one small step."

Ignore problem and take small step of buying a book about the problem. Now you have to read the book to get back up to facing the problem. ;)
8% of Californians not having health insurance is an absolute unmitigated travesty, and we should be ashamed to call it “not bad”
To be fair, that might as well be ancient history. I imagine more than 99% of Apple’s value comes from post-iPod activity, and I can’t think of anything post–OS X that failed, let alone post iPod.
Nice! How does that award rank in the French honours system? I am only familiar with the Legion D'Honeur (almost certainly spelt incorrectly)
> It’s not ideal, and ideally people would have recognized talent at home and/or just included me because I was a living person, but they didn’t seem to have this ethics.

What an egotistical thing to say. You're not entitled to have people waste time trying to "be friends with you" just because you're financially successful

> I’m workaholic because I don’t have enough friends.

You don't make friends and are workaholic because of it.
"Look at me doing good for these people! This was MR BEAST that did this, me, I'm MR BEAST AND I HELP PEOPLE! REMEMBER THE NAME FOLKS, IT'S ME, MR. BEAST. Make sure to like and subscribe!"

-->

"This guy is a champion of generosity, a paragon of goodness. I admire him so much." --people like you, and other children
Huberman skips over a LOT of info in that podcast.

First off, MDMA isn’t unique, there are a lot of other empathogens. MDA, 5-MAPB, 6-APB, etc.

It’s just the most studied because it’s the most popular/oldest one.
Are major religions really the only place you can derive your morals from?
You don't have a choice of being born, the same as you have no saying in the world after you're dead. The unborn would have no preference whatsoever, and the life for those who by no choice of their own were born would be better.

Those that don't exist simply don't matter.
> If you don't like Google's implementation, you should use another one.

Once more, maybe this is possible in theory. In reality, I can't find any way to use apple's passkey implementation on my android phone.
> Coinbase' story seems to be that they asked how to apply to become a licensed pharmacist, but never got an answer. While the SEC suggests they never tried

They got an answer they didn't like: they'd have to change how they did business. (Also, what they list. The SEC issued The DAO Report in 2017.) We enacted the '34 Exchange Act in part to segregate the broker, exchange and custodial functions of securities trading. Coinbase was asking how to become a licensed pharmacist without having to check prescriptions.

> gets confusing when the crime is phrased as unregistered heroin sales

Try "opiate." Coinbase thought they found something new, and asked if it was okay. They didn't think they got a clear answer and proceeded. Now they're crying foul at the lack of prior guidance, or that someone else does have a license. The author's point is that these arguments don't make sense. There may be other arguments that do, but these aren't among them.
> He is not the philanthropist because he doesnt haev the money in the first place, he is using other people's money to perform charity on camera.

How does one can acquire money in the first place without recieving money from other people?

Does your money should appear from nowhere, so you will become "true" philanthropist?
my advice is to migrate to a "clean" lifestyle:

1. 100% cleaned up healthy diet

2. regular exercise

3. good sleep

and being alcohol/drug-free comes along for free

I don't agree that social pressures make this impossible as others have suggested...I mean, does anyone here shun someone else at a party who isn't drinking/doing drugs? of course not

it is quite common these days to meet normal, successful people who don't drink, lead healthy lifestyles, you will not be a pariah

don't worry about popularity - people who are fit and healthy have no problems making friends as being in shape is inherently attractive
Depends if you care about CO2 and presumably the CO2 from breathing humans. The VOCs from cars in a busy city will mask/overwhelm/confound any measure of human body produced CO2 in that location. But a more suburban or rural location will be fine.
> Is Python so annoying to use that when a compelling non-Python solution appears, everyone will love it? Less hassle? Or did it take off for a different reason? Interested in hearing thoughts.

Exploring the landscape ends up with you having 29384232938792834234 different python environments, because that one thing requires specific versions of one set of libraries, while that other thing requires different versions of the same library and there is no middle ground.

It's horribly annoying and I absolutely love python!
>But, I'd estimate 99% of the population is white men/boys with antisocial tendencies.

You'd be wrong https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1220127-pol
> but that's what the user expects their scroll bar to look like!

You base that on..? I’ve had users complain about their native scrollbars more than once. Native scrollbars can make things look very broken.

In terms of responsiveness, true for a normal website, but sometimes impossible in more complex ui elements (like I said, not the page scroll, but in page scrollable elements)

I would really like to see some research on this idea that people prefer native elements, it’s not what I see in user tests and the feedback I get. My experience is that people want a functioning app that doesn’t look broken.

My whole point is: we should be able to provide a great experience that’s accessible and allows the user to give their preferences (like prefers reduced motion).
> "scrollbar = more to see" has been somewhat of a standard for a while now.

That's not a great standard because it conflates conveying information with providing control.

001 px width is enough to convey isScrollable info, but makes it impossible to scroll

100 px width makes it easy to scroll, but is a waste of space to convey convey isScrollable info
Which might be exactly, why nobody wants to talk about this. (This may be especially nasty where archives had been digitized and then the analog originals were disposed of. What can you even do about this?)

PS: In order to have learned anything from this, there should be a rule for the digitization of archives containing core documents to use (at least) two unrelated scanning technologies, with unrelated processors and unrelated software from different sources (much like Airbus does it with flight computers). A sole, single scan should attribute to nothing.
Enforcement agencies don't have to stop you ahead of time, even if that action is disallowed or even illegal.

For example, police officers will regularly sit by the side of the road with a speed gun. They'll make no attempt to stop you driving at 150mph on the motorway but, in the UK, you'll receive a court summons through your door after the fact (and probably lose your license).
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They were a provider for other customers with high security requirements (this is Europe, so the GDPR is very much in effect here) and they apparently had contracts with those customers that the drives were not to be re-introduced into the market in any way.
I seriously doubt he's producing more QALYs than some effective altruists on this site. Someone on a typical software engineering income (going w/120k) can donate enough to save ~2-3 lives a year[0] at 10% giving, let alone someone trying to maximize their impact (of which I'm sure there's several).
[0]: https://www.givewell.org/impact-estimates
The one with Abe breaking the chains of a slave and rising from his knees is the one I was thinking of when I wrote this. I'm not sure what its called I don't live in the USA
Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed
What was the upper limit on number of virtual monitors you could stream from a Mac when you were working on it? The demo videos only ever show one which doesn't seem all that useful. Optimally you'd be able to just drag the actual MacOS windows out into space and the cursor would just hop to them when you look at them.
You're describing a (weak, but whatever) rationale for the stretching algorithms used to protect a client-server system such as on the web. On the way there you get a bit confused about how exponential numbers work and convince yourself that you can brute force a 256-bit AES key in less than 71 million years. Look at bit closer at your arithmetic there.

But, Office isn't a client-server setup, it's desktop software. So the encrypted file, and the software, live on somebody's five year old work laptop. They are not running a tuned brute force kernel, they are general purpose software, and so unsurprisingly they'll take much longer than your estimate from a brute force kernel on chosen hardware.

Now you've made Kirsty the assistant secretary moan that opening the encrypted Excel sheet takes "forever". Guess what they do about that? Did you guess they adjust the tuning slightly to ease it off? Nah, that's a Microsoft internals parameter, Kirsty's team just stop using encryption altogether, game over.

The "guideline" you're talking about is reasonable for web sites and similar systems as a poor alternative or adjunct to e.g. WebAuthn, but it doesn't make much sense for systems like Office.
A lot of it isn't filmed and just happens in the background

https://www.beastphilanthropy.org
No, what they do is predict a single token that follows the preceding token sequence (which was indeed analyzed using self-attention). Longer output sequences are created by repeating this simple task multiple times, where the previously output tokens become part of the preceding token sequence.
Service reliability here is trumped by governance. The servers were up when this person's account was blocked and they lost access to all usability on their devices...
There's a reddish haze near the ground (which rotates with the earth). What is that? Light pollution?
> I listened to his interview on the Joe Rogan show and was really impressed.

I wonder many of the critics in this thread have seen him like this. I've also seen a few videos where he's talking about his channel and he certainly has me convinced he's not in it for his own benefit.
It's not cynical, it's fairly neutral. It doesn't mean he's a bad person. There are worse things he could do with his money and at the end of the day, he's doing a lot of good.

But it's not altruism, it's philanthropy. It's more about the performance than the act itself. Some of his videos literally reycle game show ideas ("do X contrived thing successfully and you get $Y money"). His antics help people and that's a good thing. But he's also making them jump through hoops (not literally AFAIK, though I wouldn't be surprised) and perform gratitude for his audience. Things can be good and bad at the same time.

Consider the American trope of "feel good" news reports about, say, an elementary school kid doing a successful fundraiser to pay off his classmate's school lunch debt. Yes, it's amazing that an elementary school student did that but it's also horrifying that this means school lunch debt is just a thing society has come to accept as normal and that society is so dysfunctional a literal child had to take the initiative instead of just getting to be a child.

I think Mr Beast is one of the better people when it comes to using their ridiculous wealth and social capital for good, but it's horrifying that people have to perform misery for an online audience to get relatively cheap medical treatments and frankly it's horrifying that a single person can have access to and control over such an amount of wealth that they can perform this kind of stunts on the regular while at the same time so many people are so desperately poor that their lives can be changed by being gifted mere crumbs in comparison. Mr Beast may be a relatively good person but that he (i.e. his channel/brand) can exist at all should be deeply concerning.
You can write rules without knowing how they'll be broken.

Some people defend themselves by saying they didn't take the action they're accused of, others can cop to the action they took, and argue that the law doesn't apply because x, y, z.

So, like, that's why case law is a whole thing, it extends "the rules" to "here's how the rules have been interpreted in these situations"
Can you point me to a site? I've had no issue using Google's Passkeys without actually using a Passkey.
> Anyone with a brain could understand that if people weren't in a position to breath on each other, the virus wouldnt spread as quickly.

This can be rephrased as "it's just obvious/common sense that lockdowns work" and it's a really common argument, but wrong.

Unfortunately there's nothing really obvious or intuitive about viruses. The Diamond Princess cruise ship showed right at the start that lockdowns would be ineffective. They locked down everyone on the cruise ship the moment the first outbreaks were confirmed, confining them to cabins. In the transmission model that lockdowns rely on that would have ended the outbreak immediately. But it didn't, instead people kept coming down with COVID completely at random, scattered all over the ship. From this two things could be concluded:

1. SARS-CoV-2 is airborne, that is, it can move long distances in gaseous clouds, i.e. through air ducts, by hanging in the air for long periods and other ways that lockdowns can't affect.

2. The clouds must have circulated through the ship, yet not everyone was susceptible.

This wasn't a terribly surprising result because investigators had concluded the same things about SARS-1 back in the day. SARS-1 clouds were able to move within apartment buildings even when everyone was locked down in their apartments, apparently via air ducts.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa032867

Some people pointed out at the time that this would render lockdowns irrelevant right back in March 2020, and were ignored, but time has proven them right. There's no correlation between lockdown severity and results.
Why does it being a business make what he does any less? Don’t the acts stand on their own without the need to pontificate on his motives? He could have started or ran his business in many ways, he chose a charitable one… I think that’s all that matters

Being a cynic isn’t cool, and it is not being objective - the good he does is staring you in the face and you can’t even see it
Nice catch! And as you can see, many corners haha
> Is he required to?

Not knowing the answer to the most obvious question is mildly embarrassing, to say the least. It's clear that he didn't do his due diligence and jeopardized the SEC competency and integrity. His very clear conflict of interests with FTX (i.e. Sam) and Binance (where he was refused a position some years ago) were already not really helping.

And yeah, not knowing the most obvious answer just begs a simple question: how shall all these crypto exchanges have known (better than the SEC) that A, B or C are a commodity but D or E aren't? Please...

Crypto will prevail, Gary is just a bump in the road. The question is how much more damage he is going to cause to the US before he is removed, while the world is watching China toying with Ethereum having issued yesterday tokenized notes on that blockchain.
That is what we see, it's just suppressed — with ridicule, and dismissal.

Also, our physics is a human model remember: it's completely anthropocentric. As is the human propensity seemingly to assume that's all the physics there is.
A lot of coffee people would argue that 82-88C coffee isn't hot enough to brew properly...
Use e.g. LeechBlock. As soon as going to a site is muscle memory it is impossible to prevent for me.
It seems a common "debating" tactic to spend inordinate amounts of effort questioning the analogy and seemingly pretending to not understand what an analogy is.
If that’s your “normal and friendly”
Threshold I dread to think what you believe about Washington DC!

Haven’t been to Kyiv for a few months but immigration was fine, shops restaurants were open, people were normal. Sure you might get an air raid, but then in the US you might get shot
Most people are quoting a FOV of between 90 and 100 degrees which is about average for the VR market
>Isn't this incredibly circular reasoning? You're critiquing someone for their action

I think it's perfect, as arguably, you could say that about the initial point as well (it's not altruistic because ego). When reduced this way, it doesn't really matter if ego is involved if the result actually makes an impact and betters someone else's life.
The really nice part of Whisper is being able to use it offline and on-device, it seems whisper memos is uploading your audio and notes to a server of unknown security, confidentiality etc.

I like Aiko for on-device transcription both in macOS and iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aiko/id1672085276