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> The experience is much worse than physical books [...]

We must have different reading habits, because my experience has been the exact opposite. On my Kindle I can read every book with the same font, same text size, same layout, same backlight. I don't have to struggle to balance big heavy doorstops, a book feels the same in my hand whether it has 200 or 1200 pages. The latest Paperwhite models are waterproof too, so I can take mine with me in the tub with no fear of dropping it in the water and ruining it. I read dozens of books each year, and a big reason for that is how convenient it is to do it on an e-reader.

Now, tech books, graphical novels, comics? For sure an e-reader sucks for these, and I still buy these in paper form, but for plain words (fiction and non-fiction)? You can pry my Kindle from my cold dead hands.
That was a really interesting article, thanks!
You don't have to get to the sun. They said "towards" the sun.
> unless they are burning down

Given that meat production accounts for >15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, this is literally what is happening.

> There isn't enough soybean grown and distributed around the world for that to happen.

Excuse me, where do you think all the calories we feed livestock comes from? Despite what greenwashing pictures on meat-packets try to tell people, we don't grow 80 Billion pieces of livestock anually by letting them graze peacefully on fresh green pastures in wide open plains.

Instead we waste truly vast areas of land growing maize, soybean and grain, aka. foodstuffs that are completely fit for human consumption, which then get sold as feedstock, to go into one of the most nonsensical wastes of resources in history. Just as an example of how absurd this is: The energy efficiency for beef production is 25:1, meaning you need 25 calories of feedstock, to make 1 calorie worth of beef. And again, these are 25 calories of things humans could eat.

For comparisons sake: The energy differential between LED and incandescant bulbs is merely 1:10. No one argues whether we should use LED or incadescant bulbs any more, but somehow for meat and it's much worse ratio this is still somehow up for discussion?

So yes, we do absolutely produce enough calories from growing plants alone, to feed every single person on this planet. In fact we could feed many more people, and have way less problems, if we didn't waste mountains of maize, soybeans, grain and other valueable foodstuffs, by force-feeding them to animals.
This hides one major component, however: ground compaction. When you draw down the water table, the ground compacts, and the capacity is never regained, which means you now have far less capacity in the aquifer for a particular area.

It will only get worse in overdeveloped areas or areas that overdraw their water for agriculture and industry.
I gave GPT root access, so far without regrets

admittedly I recently added a soft barrier "for dangerous commands please ask for confirmation"
There's so much vacant office space right now, it's absurd to me that companies aren't giving out offices to their employees like it's 1976.

For nearly every job, some work is much better done in a focused, quiet, environment, and some work is best done in a highly collaborative setting.

Give permanent offices to anyone who wants one (and actually uses it 3 or 4 days/week), reservable offices for anyone else who wants to pop in for a day, tear out all the cubicles, and create great collaborative spaces in their place.
I guess this paper looks very interesting for someone in neuroscience as we know little about how the brain works. For a layman like me, it's funny that we went from very imperfect observations on wet neurons to variations on computerized neural networks culminating in Transformers, and then here we change again of perspective by trying to understand wet biology from computer science.
France has a civil law system where precendent is not binding nor persuasive.
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Thanks for the easily understandable TLDR!
Is there any case where anything remotely related to signals is not full of perils? UNIX has plenty of rough edges, but signals must be one of the worst..
As someone who always knew I didn't really need to know code for what I wanted to do, I'd posit that a developer comes across as someone who may not be formally trained. Maybe they're a hacker, maybe they know a language or two and dabble. A software engineering is someone who is comfortable at various levels and understanding machine level code in so far as also being comfortable with software patterns.

-shrug-. That's what I feel like in my org at least.
five minutes! with some silliness groupby("name").agg(the math stuff). So their testbed (coiled, a cluster manager?) is meant to do exactly what the challenge requires. and it was data out of S3.

one thing that i caught there was that parquet serves the same purpose as CSV but for much bigger datasets and now i want to learn more about it.
With music, in particular, if you use any analog sources while recording, the signal will contain so much noise that any dithering signal will be far below the floor and will most likely be completely redundant. I know that people claim to hear a difference, but they also claim to hear a difference between gold and copper contacts.
Tens of metres needs training, but I recommend to everyone to take a discover diving PADI tour if you're holidaying in a place where it's available.

You'll go to at most 10 meters with their gear and a bunch of professional minders. Great fun.
What _is_ the reason people should prefer 48k over 44.1k though?
It doesn’t end here. I won money this way and getting them to actually pay is near impossible unless you want to burn like $50k on lawyers putting caveats on all their stuff.

Like, the law is so broken, nothing happens if they just don’t pay. Eventually your “win” can expire after 13 years or something and if you didn’t collect the money then it’s no longer collectible.
You may have misophonia. It’s not uncommon with misophonia to react with rage to eating noises. My husband cannot tolerate certain sounds, for example a dog lapping water.
But it does provide clarified opinion on how to apply tge law in similar cases, and that will be followed in future cases.

That's how it works in Germany, and in principle our systems are similar enough.
How do you calculate your fix rate if a product is deprecated/cancelled instead of fixed?
This seems easier to digest, but it's a long way off from The Practice of System and Network Administration of yesterday.
When you see something that doesn't look right it's good to engage and work things out, but it's also courteous to check that you haven't misunderstood. I see how you could arrive at the understanding you had, that "how many times you can divide by 2" is equivalent to base-2 logarithm. It's not the right interpretation however, and in context it's clear.

Could I recommend phrasing this kind of comment as a question in future? (Notwithstanding the lifehack of making a false statement in the internet being the shortest path to an answer.)
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Seems the war-mongering attitude of American citizens is really high in today's world. Peace is spat upon and treated with contempt - planned coups/bombings/large number of non-american fatalities is far better! More bonuses for the C-suite executives (and main shareholders) of the American War Industry!

Kindly recognize Palestine as a separate state according to United Nations Resolution 181, before you recognize Taiwan and kick-start yet another war.
Great option to use as a CI server / job runner if one has a project targeting RISC-V. Of course one could use emulation or put a CI runner on some board in a closet somewhere. But cloud image is convenient, so it is nice to be able to do this now, just as on x86 and ARM.
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Then that will become a piece of orbital debris, just on solar orbit. Unless you can accelerate it when it is near sun and thus yeet it away from solar system. Doubt that's cost effective either.
How come? Don't you "just" have to escape the earth's gravity?
On the other hand, some people freak out too much. All I did was use a ghostscript dll, which is LGPL if I recall correctly. :/
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I think "bare" Kubernetes is still a quite nice tool that allows for learning transferable skills across clouds (similar to Terraform). E.g. even if I have to spin up my own nginx-ingress to be able to handle ingress resources, after having learned that initially, I can basically do the same thing across clouds.

It's just that GKE (Autopilot) does a lot of those out of the box for you that, so you get a much easier end-to-end experience for non-admins (= "request resources -> have them instantiated").
How much CO2 could a country save by deleting their unused data?
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I want to make an app that is going to have a public non-commercial instance a-la Wikipedia. This app will rely on a community and therefore I want its source to be open, and I hope it will enjoy some network effect: hopefully the community will prefer it over commercial competitors and thus protect its value.

OTOH, I want to offer companies etc to buy a private version of the product, where they could use it internally without giving access to the rest of the world, and enjoy more business oriented features, integrations etc.
The commercial product should also help fund and develop the non-commercial one.

I was trying to figure if the core product shouls use a GPL style license or a more permissive one like MIT.
I think a permissive license will make it easier to include functionality from the open version.

Im afraid that if I use GPL I will need to have contributors sign a copyright waiver or something like in Emacs if I want to include their code in an extended closed source version.

Sometimes companies use GPL for their products to prevent competitors from taking their code without contributing back, but I think that in this type of product the community could be the differentiating value so there is less worry about this kind of risk.

Does it make sense?
Is there a different license/model I should consider?
I'm always getting this error message

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> Many don’t believe that simply importing a GPL Python module is enough to make your extension have to comply to GPL

Wasn't this the, "if the source is in your tree everything is GPL" and otherwise "if it's downloaded module as a package it is not"? Or was that LGPL? Asking to show clarification for everyone.

edit: the question was stated as ignorant to get a few decent explanations. Thank you for the effort!
If the secessionists in Texas gained a majority as strong the Anti-CCP sentiment is in Taiwan, the feds brutally repressed it, and then Texans asked a foreign power for help, then you can start making that argument. It's a silly comparison.
"We haven't fully understood why the model leans left" sure sounds a lot like "Reality has a well-known liberal bias".

Life imitating art, I suppose.
What constitutes linking, dynamic linking, and static linking, if you use python and plugins? Can the rights holder of proprietary software contribute to or distribute a GPL or LGPL plugin for that software?
I read that China would interpret such an action as a declaration of independence and threatens with invasion in case Taiwan does so.

Similarly to how China threatened Hongkong if there had been any democratic reforms by the British. That does not hinder China apologists now from bringing up the lack of democracy under british rule.
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Don't forget that incident also leveled 35+ houses; damaged more, and injured 58 people, some badly.
It can probably be done already, but no one bothers with bespoke clothing any more.
Copyright in Europe fundamentally does not work like Copyright in US. More precisely, the law does not govern the monetary gains possible from copying but rather the author's artistical expression in the work. Which is kind of moot regarding source code, but, it makes for an important decision: author's rights are created automatically and you cannot transfer them under any circumstances whatsoever.

Per default, the law states that the author retains all rights. They can license it, e.g. to their employer, exclusively; The employer can then sublicense that. However what licenses are possible is exhaustively defined in the law; on an abstract basis at least (e.g. using, creating derivative works, ...). It has been not exactly clear if conditions evoked on a license still have their roots in these licensable acts, or if they are based on contract law - where literally anything goes as long as it's not against the law or immoral.

Both can be enforced. However, I'd argue that it is good that it was decided that this is a copyright law matter, because this gives authors _much_ more protection than contract law, where all circumstances need to be evaluated for each single case and rulings might as well contradict each other.

Not a lawyer yet, though.
To be utterly nitpicking it is "Time", not "Times". I only point this out because it is probably my favourite series ever.
The war would start if China starts an invasion and not before. That is completely on China.
The article mentions increased yield, but from what I can find on their website its mostly about the different crystal structures that result from zero g

https://www.varda.com/biopharma#business-benefits
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I highly recommend following Ken Shirriff on Twitter, some great threads on the work he does to keep machines running at the Computer History Museum. https://twitter.com/kenshirriff
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At least he's not telling us to learn coal mining, I guess.
Varda lost multiple opportunities to do re-entry because the feds couldn't get their shit together for a year+....

...and meanwhile Richard Branson didn't abort a launch when there was a malfunction that caused his craft to massively miss the re-entry flight plan, thus endangering commercial and private aviation. The FAA took less than a month to investigate Virgin's fuckup and said "whatevs, it's cool, just change a few things": https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/faa-clears-virgin-galactic-f...

It goes to show how the emperor has no clothing when it comes to romanticising space exploration as being this matter of science, knowledge, wonder, etc. Space isn't about any of that as far as the government is concerned. It's about military applications and letting rich people do what they want.
https://www.notboring.co/p/varda-the-space-drug-factory

This might be an interesting read. Can highly recommend this article
A previous coworker used to get into the office early, around 7am, because they dropped off their kid at school. They also left around 3pm. This is reasonable and would be accepted by any competent manager.
It's absurdly energy-intensive to get something to fall into the sun, so there would be no point unless it was too dangerous to have on earth. If that were true, then the risk of launch failure, failure to enter and leave orbit, etc would be too great.
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>Linux could be as great as macOS, but it's the fragmentation that kills it.

No, Linux is as valid technologically as the other offerings, fragmented or not. It's just that it doesn't have a mega-corp behind it to push, to make deals with businesses, schools, governments. As soon as Google stepped in with Android and ChromeOS, suddenly it was everywhere.
I mean lot of left wing people are the same double thinkers - How would you explain that somebody can be deeply concerned about what Israel does in Palestine, but also cheering up for Russia?

How come that LGBTQ people are concerned about their rights and then support most intolerant Islamist regimes, who would slaughter them on spot?
Devil's advocate.

Private offices facilitate sexual harassment and some other undesirable behaviors.
Interesting examples. Also, a weird take for them to think that’s not triggering the virality, if not that, what then? Directly using the source code only?

> the GPL is about the spirit of the license, not the exact words. They often say not to worry about litigation.

Even weirder. Especially since then, why pick the GPL at all? The only reasons I can see is that you care about free software, and want virality for that reason, and/or you want companies to pick a commercial license.
Similar, emoji-oriented posts:

- Entomologist rates ant emojis: https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/

- Which emoji scissors close: https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

- A thread of rating every horse emoji: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832

- Ranking the "Ringed Planet" emojis: https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1232662211438370817

- Reviewing Steam Loco Emojis: https://twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790

- Talk about Telescope emojis: https://twitter.com/BeckePhysics/status/1233414553607819267

- Snake emoji review: https://anothertiredmonster.tumblr.com/post/156610510939/sna...

- Would you survive a skydive with an emoji parachute? (my own post): https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/
Pipe/exec into GPL generally considered okay (not a derivative work)

What you described only okay with LGPL
Personally (I) think Java deserves more respect from everyone. We all understand the impossibility of perfection but we have to admit that Java changed software development forever.
I still remember my small experience at Sun Microsystems with those first versions of Java and how, from my inexperience, a world opened up that, for me, has never ceased to be wonderful involved in software development.
I've always been pretty partial to the explanation that Bosch was an Adamite or member of some other heretical sect - Cathars, etc. But that has not been adopted as historical and critical consensus.
That may well be true. I suppose then we should simply post our usage. Our highest bill (at $199.88) had 327 kWh total of energy consumption and 31 "therms" (apparently about 3.27 GJ) of gas energy. I would obviously prefer they measure gas by volume or mass of it provided but overall that doesn't seem outrageous.
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> The plaintiffs have always maintained that they don’t intend to pursue legal action against the targeted Redditors.

Ok, sure. But wouldn't admitting to downloading movies off BitTorrent open them up to legal action from other parties? In other words, if you downloaded a Sony movie, couldn't they bring a case?
> I tried to get Sun to buy them but alas

Commodore had major management rot and corporate issues. Maybe that rot would have reached Sun, which would have been detrimental to the future of Sun at that time.

I think that without Sun, the world of computing today might have looked quite different.
You can say the same about a lot of SWD roles, even the ones considered "harder".
It's not semirural - there are no farms or fields anywhere, and there are plenty of houses. It's just they are spread far enough apart for people to have space.

> that there literally isn't enough space on Earth for everyone to sustainably live like that.

That's really not true. Half of the US lives in cities, half don't. You really think the US is so completely full there's no room for those city dwellers to have more space?

According to my quick math there enough room for 40 times the population of the US to each person (not each family - each person) to have a huge suburban lot.

> They are crushingly expensive.

No, they are not. That's an urban (ha!) myth. Roads are really not that expensive once you move out of dense cities. Rural roads cost around half or less of urban ones, and they last around 4 times as long since traffic is much lower (5-10 years vs 25-40 years). So a rural road costs like 1/10 an urban one.

And since according to http://demographia.com/db-intlsub.htm suburbs have around 1/3 the population density, suburban roads are actually 3 times cheaper per person!

Hardly "crushingly expensive".

> Towns would not be able to afford them if it were not for huge federal and state subsidies, which are largely funded by... wait for it... tax revenue from dense cities.

And cities would not exist if not for all the goods made in non-urban areas. Cities have tons of high-revenue, high-tax services, but they don't actually make anything. That's all done outside the city.

If everyone moved to the city everyone would die - there would be no food or anything else.

There's a balance in the world between cities and rural and suburban area, and you mess with that balance at your peril! You can end up with terrible imbalances and very expensive food and other goods.

And don't forget you need all those rural roads, or nobody could get any goods to cities. So be doubly cautious about suggesting fewer rural areas because of "road costs".
Most people in this forum possess the skills and education necessary to get a skilled workers visa. So yes, just.
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That's the joy of increased weather volatility.

You might start to think that the wild good years will float you through the wild bad years, but you're more likely to be wrong.
Interesting food for thought. The author disclaims that the article is meant to be entertaining and provoke self-reflection on what data one generates and keeps. Mission accomplished.
McDonald's absolutely does need global data centers. Even now the kiosks are frustratingly slow here in Europe, can't imagine what a round-trip to US servers would do.

My siblings work there and their work information system is not so bad but definitely it'd be totally frustrating if it didn't run on AWS in EU.
" In 2022, the company announced plans to build residential “Storyliving” communities across America, with special neighbourhoods for those aged 55 and up. "

I can't remember whether Disneyville features in Odyssey 2 (2010) or Odyssey 3 (2060) but Arthur C Clarke was right it seems