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Do you agree with these two statements:

- if Red Hat distributes software to you, they also provide access to the specific code and build instructions to build exactly what they distributed to you yourself

- Red Hat will not, no matter what you do, pursue you for copyright violation for distributing GPL licensed code that you get from them. This is true even if it is one of the many GPL packages that they have substantially written themselves using paid software developers.

Because the above sounds a lot like what the GPL was designed to ensure.

In fact, Red Hat does the above even when the license does not require it ( eg. the large amount of MIT stuff they use in RHEL ).

What angers people is that the following is also true:

Red Hat does not provide you code to their product if they have not distributed their product to you. They provide it only to their subscribers. No license, including the GPL, requires them to do this.

If you break the terms of your subscriber agreement with Red Hat, they will terminate your subscription. One of the consequences of this is that they will not distribute FUTURE software releases to you. As per the GPL, they only provide code to people they distribute software to.

The fury around Red Hat is not that they are actually breaking any of the terns of the GPL ( because they do not ). It is because they will not promise to provide you free copies forever to FUTURE copies of THEIR work after you breach a contract with them.

I am not sure what the “spirit of the GPL” is. Is it that? Because that is nothing like the “values” and “community” that I hear people pretending to care about.
What are the constant factors here? Could this be dropped in everywhere they are already using Shor's algorithm and just get a speed up? If so, this results seems incredibly influential.
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If you read your own link, you'd know that the US doesn't take a stance on whether Taiwan is a sovereign state.

Taiwan is not "legally" part of China because international borders aren't governed by laws. They're constructs of implicit military threats and explicit diplomatic relations.
Either is great, they demonstrate different skills & mindset.
And Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond, who agreed to the original acquisition. Looking back 2 years ago he was making the usual promises that nothing would happen to it, after all his parachute depended on saying so.
>draggable absolute positioning of dialog box controls.

Delphi had layout, so did Java (many of them). Resizable was always a thing, aside for the extremely lazy development with null layouts by some programmers.

VB used to be considered a lame/toy language with its "onerror resume next" paradigm.
Why is it the IRS Criminal Investigation group doing the investigation and not the FBI? I understand there may be some tax implications but I'd have thought they'd let the FBI figure it out and deal with the tax stuff after....??
Extremely unlikely and you'd have to be doing a threesome+. Gut bacteria are present throughout the entire digestive tract, and you can't really reach very far into the anus no matter what you've got.
As a citizen of a country where tax is handled entirely by the government, schemes where for-profit corporations are part of the tax collection infrastructure seems absurd. As absurd as for-profit courts or for-profit election polling stations.

The article mentions that the tax software maker opposes the government doing this, but doesn't mention public opinion. What does the average American think about this?
With the advent of AI it's becoming more and more expensive to be human. By 2030 humans will pay everywhere to prove they are not bots.
I've written both Tcl/Tk code and Lazarus and i think the latter is much faster to make things: not only you have a visual WYSIAWYG[0] editor but also a very rich framework.

[0] A for Almost as technically the program can compile with different GUI backends (Win32, Gtk, Qt, etc) :-P
My girlfriend and I had fun with this, thanks for sharing!

As a sidenote, letsencrypt.com is free :)
House prices are unlikely to crash ever because there's hundreds of billions in private capital waiting to buy up any cheap housing stock as long term rental properties. As soon as there's any dip the demand goes up which pushes prices back up.
The article says it only works in that situation, not that being in that situation is a guarantee of it working. I think the phrasing is fine. Do you disagree?

Like, if I say my car only starts when it has gas, I'm not promising it always starts as long as it has gas.

It's far from a comprehensive list of things that break the feature, but it gets the point across that the existing feature does a fraction of the job at best.
I've collected some documentation and am planning on building a computer around it, first things first, is bringing it up, checking if the clock is working and if I can get it to jump into the ODT :)
They just acquired the company two weeks prior and layoffs are extremely common after one.
This is how unions weaken.

Divide first, by implying that some class of workers are not worthy of collective bargaining agreements.

Then conquer, because unions aren't powerful.
The cash back is 2% anywhere when you use Apple Pay. That’s pretty much the gold standard. Additionally, you get the cash back almost immediately. No points system is good in my opinion.
No, this poster is not correct. You CAN refinance for another 30-year note, or a 15-year note, or a 10-year note, or whatever the bank will let you refinance for and you're willing to sign up for.

All you're doing is taking out another loan and using that loan to pay off the original loan. So whatever terms you can get from the bank are fair game.

Also, there's nothing stopping you from paying the loan off early.
I'm going to be redoing my site and offerings in the coming months, and I was thinking of doing some advertising along the way. There are definitely other platforms, and YouTube is one I'll be trying, but I figured it was worth a shot. Not any more, I guess!
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Rivian is following a similar strategy as Tesla when they were perpetually running out of money but were growing rapidly.

They don't have a demand problem and they don't need to worry about what "most people" want because more people want what they have right now than they can actually produce cars for. What they have right now is of course a premium car aimed at the most lucrative segment of the market and people are lining up to get one. Their core problem is building more cars and do it cheaper.

Scaling production will eventually get them to the point where they become profitable. This requires reducing cost and working on manufacturing processes. That's a capital intensive business and the risk is that capital runs out before the company becomes profitable. That's why the stock is down. Several other EV startups have similar issues. And actually several legacy car manufacturers aren't doing much better but simply have more capital. Quite a few EVs in the market are being sold below cost price right now.

Once Rivian nails profitability is when they can start worrying about mass market appeal. They are clearly starting to think about that.

Tesla did the same thing until they went mass market with the model 3 and y. And even those had a waiting list. The model 3 ramp up nearly killed the company. But once they fixed that it became a revenue machine. Before that they did the model s in much smaller numbers and the roadster in even smaller numbers. They did not become profitable until just a few years ago. Now they are printing money of course and making millions of vehicles. And they are running circles around their competition in terms of cost.

Rivian looks like it might be on track to replicate that success but they have some way to go.
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but it can converge faster to the mean with the sample size...
then fine the littering?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11391
it's pretty much the same thing
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A family member recently got a long term fixed low rate mortgage in Belgium and I’m curious about how different things are compared to the UK. UK mortgages are higher, shorter term.

Is the Belgian bank losing money compared to the UK one? Is there state intervention?
No, but that they support the attacks on it and put the blame on Israel, otherwise you might want to time your protest better.
It’s not unfair because there doesn’t seem to be an advantage in the data to being a trans woman in sport.

When it shows in the data then we can talk about it.

The other stuff is the real issue for you I think. Maybe that is just something you’ll have to reflect on a little bit more.

Is it only celebrating women you like or people you relate to or is there room for trans woman in female sports. I think they should be included because it’s the human thing to do.

I think a lot of conservative types not long ago didn’t think women should even be playing sports, so it’s ironic that the sanctity of female sports is so important now.
It's 2023, the world had a collective brain hemorrhage and now prefer to define their GUIs via two seperate text files.
*so long as your house appraised for high enough value to meet the debt to equity ratio. So if mortgage rates go down, but your home price crashes 10%, you’ll likely only be able to refinance by significantly paying down the mortgage balance.
The operator defined is associative and commutative and doing it twice gives you the identity. So to me, it seems a strange choice to notate this as some kind of word algebra; it feels much more natural to use binary vector notation.

In a later example, the post says ABD*BCE = ACDE. Let's translate this to binary vectors by putting a 1 when the letter is present, 0 when absent, and changing * to +. Then it becomes 11010 + 01101 = 10111. Clearly the * operator being discussed is XOR of binary vectors, which is why I choose to use + instead.

Now I'll attempt to translate the post into more standard linear algebra terminology. If you write the table rows as binary vectors, "setting up A and B and leaving C blank" is essentially setting up a 2x3 matrix (in general MxN) and leaving the third column blank, filling in the leftmost 2x2 (MxM) square with an identity matrix. Regardless of how you fill in C, this gives you a rank M matrix in reduced row echelon form.

Then "decide on a formula for how to set C’s value" is basically setting the remaining column(s) as some linear function of the original columns.

The alias is solving for the nullspace, the large example gives:

[1 0 0 1 0][x0] [0]
[0 1 0 1 1][x1] [0]
[0 0 1 0 1][x2] = [0]
[x3] [0]
[x4] [0]

So you get the system of equations:

x0 + x3 = 0
x1 + x3 + x4 = 0
x2 + x4 = 0

You can find all solutions by setting x3, x4 as free variables, and x0, x1, x2 are completely determined:

x0 = x3
x1 = x3 + x4
x2 = x4

(This looks like a sign mistake, but because + represents XOR, we can freely switch between negative and positive, as addition and subtraction are the same modulo 2.) You proceed by assigning all possible values to x3 and x4, obtaining a nullspace of {00000, 01101, 11010, 10111}, which matches the first row of the table (I, BCE, ABD and ACDE). The remaining rows of the table are obtained by adding that nullspace to every element of the span of the original matrix. (Of course this hits all 32 possible combinations, there is a fairly easy-to-prove linear algebra theorem guaranteeing this.)

These are some abstract computations on binary vectors, why are they relevant to the real world? It mystified me for a bit, but I think the answer is that if two vectors x, y are aliases, we've set things up so that y = x+z for some z in the nullspace of our matrix M, which represents some linear function f(). Then f(y) = f(x+z) = f(x)+f(z) = f(x). The function f() should be related to our experiment and the fact f(y) = f(x) should be related to the idea "our setup can't distinguish between x and y" but it's not 100% clear to me how this conclusion follows. Any stats experts care to chime in?

It didn't discuss at all how to pick generators, but I would guess (1) you want all variables to be varied at least once, and (2) you want alias classes to contain preferably at most one "low-entropy" entry (where "low-entropy" means combinatorially a low popcount, because a priori a simpler explanation is likelier than a complex one (Occam's Razor), and possibly some application-specific context.)
Exactly. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy about around 70 percent the mortgages issued by banks. They only by conforming mortgages, meaning conforming to their terms.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/fannie-ma...

See also the Federal Housing administration which insures loans.

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/fhahistory

One can see there really isn't a laissez faire free market at work when it comes to housing in the US. The government is in deep and it's regulated out the ying yang.
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Those entrepreneurs are nagging you to look for films online because plastics accumulate forever
Ah, I meant having a single transaction in a SQL file, as that’s how we’re using it. So having multiple queries with a BEGIN and COMMIT wrapping them.
Adobe also did its part. They could've open-sourced Flash Player instead of acting how they did. Thankfully, Ruffle is a thing and is improving compatibility rapidly. Runs on iPhones too.
Apologies. I was simply attacking the quote. I did not mean to comment on your other words. Reading my comment now I see how "how about you" can sound like I am talking to you. I meant it like, the modified quote was being said by a very pro-piracy strawman and I was talking to him, "how about you."
If everyone is doing it, it's not even an advantage, but merely a necessity to be competitive.
Depending on how straight forward the IRS makes it, considering they already know what most people owe and yet still force us to jump through hoops, then I’d be willing to give it a go instead of paying a company to help me with my taxes or using one of the various “free” websites that usually just try to sell you something else.
> because it almost certainly won't happen.

A return to zirp in the short-term most likely won't happen.

But the world simply cannot afford higher rates. The Fed is pausing, in will likely cut next year.
That’s ridiculous, you’re conflating productivity (due to slack and meetings, I assume) with fast internet access.

You need to install potentially large packages and images, commit code, and be clear in meetings - that’s a minimal standard for software and if someone can’t do that because they’re on some crazy kbps internet then they’re not suitable for the job.
You edited out the important part of that quote. Swapping out carbon for silicon is hardly imaginative enough to be worth mentioning when we are talking about potential forms of life completely outside what we might expect.

We have examples in popular culture already that are neither fragile nor organic: sentient machines.

Im not saying that the universe is full of Transformers and Terminators. Just that searching for silicon based life isn’t all that different to search for carbon based life when you consider that life is just a sophisticated machine and you can literally build a machine out of anything.
Is it illegal to charge a URL on your country? You might want to try to share a Google search
I didn't know we became pyromancers on July 4th.
If you look at a graph of interest rates there is a centuries long trend of declining interest rates. The current interest rate hike is the "abhoration".
I really dislike Southwest's boarding system.

I set a check in timer and I still get group C -- after being bit twice, I decided to never fly Southwest again.

SWA veterans tell me I need to be A-list but it's a chicken and egg scenario. I dislike them so much that I will never fly them frequently enough to get A-list, and without A-list I will continue to dislke them. So I just never fly Southwest.
> Thank you! It means a lot to me that so many people were able to use VB both to get their start in programming, and to develop applications that businesses relied on.

Oh, then you should know that there are still VB6 apps in heavy use being actively maintained out in the world. I'm working on a treasury management system that is in use by 90+ banks in my country, where the bulk of the app is still VB-based (we're moving to C# but it will be many years still before we can say a complete goodbye to VB).
> Your own internal world can surpass any notebook.

If you have exceptional executive function and memory, but a lot of people don't.
You can have zero inflation but high time-value of capital.
This fits the bill, but it's noisy https://github.com/ggerganov/wave-share
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> especially when it's someone like me who literally sat down with someone from the CERT insider threat team for coffee to discuss career paths pre-Snowden.

You have an delusional and inflated sense of self worth because you cannot even discern the difference between being in the recruitment pipeline and being the star player. If you take a brief glance in the mirror, you'll realize why you couldn't make it from the former to the latter.
I recently discovered that if I put a plate between my food and the keyboard, the keys don't get nearly as dirty as when I put the food directly on the keyboard. Life hack!
I'd say Delphi/C++ Builder back then (not sure for now) and nowadays Lazarus are better than VB6 in pretty much all aspects when it comes to RAD tooling. There are many more controls (and with way more features in them) than VB6 ever had, it has much better functionality for layouts (in VB6 controls do not even have automatic resizing and alignment is limited to "picture" controls - but even that is more limited than even Delphi 1), in VB6 non-visual controls/components (e.g. timer) felt more of an afterthrought and at least in Delphi and Lazarus/Free Pascal the language itself is designed so that any object can in theory be inspected by the object inspector.

VB6 was easier to get started with and learn though, but IMO that was because it didn't provide as many features and on that front the earlier VBs (up to VB4, before the new IDE was made) were even easier.
The latter.

For me, I find the performance/lost functionality fine: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT205234
I respect that. I just happen to think Red Hat is in the right morally as well. The right to commercially compete with a company by shamelessly ripping off their product and contributing nothing in return is not something I see as deeply moral. Trying to make that harder feels, to me, like a perfectly ethical thing for Red Hat to do.

And as I said elsewhere, “the code” is not the value that the RHEL clones are trying to rip off and commercialize.
I'm actually not super familiar with Spotify. Does it not allow users to upload their own music? I understand YouTube, it's easy to upload to it, so all an artist needs to do it add some cover art and upload the music. Surely Spotify wants to encompass the SoundCloud functionality.

As a listener, I use yt because it's easy to find new things similar to what I just heard. And people also do mixes of many different pieces together, like a mixtape from someone I don't know. Those are great for uninterrupted listening. Can you do that on Spotify?
Whatever problems it has, Java calls the shots on JVM.
Southwest is not a budget carrier -- they were never that cheap.

But I would pay a premium not to fly Southwest. If there was Delta flight that was a $100 more than an equivalent Southwest flight, I would take the Delta flight.

That's what OP meant by paying a premium.
Goa trance was a great genre in the 90s. After that it went downwards (with Filteria & Suntrip 2004 revival from death of the genre but on life support). It got completely overshadowed by this abomination called psytance which I don't like.

The specific album you mentioned, has two tracks I like (Heavyweight and Suliman) because I saw a fellow on YouTube using a guitar to 1:1 the riffs. It was that good that I donated to him. But otherwise I've never been much of a fan of IM. I find they're overrated.

When I think of goa trance I think of names like Astral Projection, Green Nuns Of The Revolution, Hallucinogen, Man With No Name, Miranda, Prana, Transwave and many of these dabbled into the psytrance genre. Some came back!

I'll mention some of my favourites: Hallucinogen live at DNA Lounge (2001?), Paul Oakenfold's Essential Mix ('Goa silver and gold mix', '94), any 90s live set by Astral Projection (there are many), and Imperial Project / Goa Syndrome (all of which were released on MP3.com). Also, any remix by MWNN and AP is gold.
What happened to your sense of fun?
> I got the impression RAND and CERT treated my interviews as free consulting sessions, so they're no longer on my list. Any other questions?

Given how much of a professional failure you are, why do you believe that these failures are due to conspirational environmental factors rather than your own inability to execute? What makes you think your "free consulting sessions" would contribute rather than erode value?
Amazon plans to start drone deliveries in the UK and Italy next year
No, he's been upfront that he supports Democrat candidates
> By this definition we are just a few RepRap 3d printer revisions away from creating life.

They included it because one of the scientific definitions of “life” and specifies the ability to reproduce.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

A RepRap wouldn’t satisfy every criteria though.
I think the NLRB recently changed their rules and any interference or law breaking automatically confirms the union.

The problem then becomes bargaining—companies (see Starbucks) can drag out negotiations indefinitely. This part of labor law probably can’t be changed without congress unfortunately. The PRO Act included rules which forced companies to negotiate within a certain time window but it didn’t pass.
> I am not really a fan of games that force an arbitrary timer on the player, it feels like a holdover from the bad old days of coin-op arcade machines.

I like it in RPGs, when it’s well-done. It improves immersion for me, when there’s not just talk about urgency, but actual urgency.

But one of the games where I loved it most, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, people complained a lot about it.

After my first few playthroughs, I was so much faster, and had far more time than I needed, and I always wished I could go back to knowing less and being back under time-pressure.

I do not like it for non-RPGs or games with "RPG elements" like X-Com.
How do you get it to work? If I try it with a Kindle book it just comes up with a message saying it is protected by DRM.
Absolutely correct. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
I've been using proportional fonts in emacs since many years ago, I can't remember how many. When I find code aligned with spaces to a horizontal position I keep it there. If I have to modify it I realign everything. Example

a = 1
ab = 2
abc = 3

becomes

a = 1
change = 2
abc = 3

Nobody ever said a word about it.

In Elixir projects we've been using the language code formatter for years and it forces a coding style like mine by default.
I left out things that a typical battery management system will prevent, like over/under charging, or operating outside safe temperature limits. But yes, charging a typical cell below 0 degrees Celsius will immediately and permanently damage it. Here's a ref with some details on why:

https://www.bonnenbatteries.com/lithium-battery-low-temperat...

Li-ion chemistries that are tolerant of charging at low temperatures are a subject of active research.