ThenAsNow

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by ThenAsNow 1y ago
Do you have any substantiation for either the point that onerous regulations are the primary impediment or that most of these have been created since 2008 (by fiat or otherwise)? It's always going to be cheaper to make things in places
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by ThenAsNow 2y ago
There are different solicitation types. Not everything is Lowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA). LPTA is not usually the solicitation types for anything R&D. It's more for "commodities", like tires, or bids again
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by ThenAsNow 2y ago
Good job penalizing this project lead of an ambitious open source project for his engagement with the community. Obviously, needless dicklike comments can only help the project and its users.
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by ThenAsNow 2y ago
I was confused by the use of "EDRAM" vs. "eDRAM" here and by the HN capitalization of the original article. The EDRAM I'm familiar with, by a company called Ramtron and later Enhanced Memory Systems, seems to be lar
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
Wow, I'm way out of date - when did Dave Chinner step down as XFS maintainer?
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
We probably need better, consistent terminology for different types of "not all the freedoms of open source but not proprietary secret source either", the way "open source" means something very specific. The Wikipedia pa
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
> First of all, some of them DO call themselves that even though they unambiguously aren't. And even for the ones that don't, they usually try to sound as similar as possible to it and downplay the differences. There was unders
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
> They deceive users and leach off of the good name of open source How do they do that if they don't call themselves open source (or "Open Source (TM)" if you prefer) in the first place? Regardless, something needs to be d
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
> If you want people to pay then be paid software. It seems like source available type licenses ( e.g. , Kyle Mitchell's Big Time license: https://bigtimelicense.com/ ) are a reasonable middle ground for being paid
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
> * Brake fluid. It's hypergolic, after all You probably meant "hygroscopic" here. One probably doesn't want to be carrying hypergols in their car!
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
It's not a boolean matter of the assumptions being "not valid" - sometimes, the non-idealities are of significant enough magnitude to make a meaningful difference. Other times not. If one is taught ideal spring-damper theory
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
This quote has always seemed cute, and coming from Berra it would be, but hardly true. Theory (at least in physical disciplines) is always taught with up-front statements of assumptions, what non-idealities are assumed away in order to trac
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
First of all, I genuinely wish him well. He's an extremely talented developer, and we need more people focused on securing our digital infrastructure. My sentiments mirror what others here have said, hoping he can work his way throug
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by ThenAsNow 3y ago
Not usually in this habit, but really needed to commend you bringing in not only Robocop, not just stopping with Dick Jones, but including his quote as well. This really made my day. Signed, A fan of Robocop as dystopic corporatocracy prev
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
> The most horrific thing I discovered about tcl is that curly braces within comments can affect flow control. This is not true. Once Tcl sees a valid comment, the rest of the line up to the newline is treated as a comment. An odd numb
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
I want to like systemd, especially since it is the default and has all the mindshare in Linux. I'm also not particularly in love with the historic shell scripts approach, as some are. Some systemd elements, such as its journal, are c
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
This isn't "you like vanilla, I like chocolate, to each their own." Grandparent post states a view on the tangible harm caused by this media empire. Using the flavor analogy, it's more like vanilla vs. lead ( https:&#
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
If you are willing to go to the professional/office grade, I can recommend the Canon imageClass line (caveat: only the models with native Postscript support) for use in Linux or wherever you might not want binary blob drivers: https:&
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
Anyone is allowed to prefer a programming style that suits their aesthetics and habits, and like that one over all others. Aesthetic preferences are a very valid way to choose your programming language — ultimately that's how we a
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
I am not familiar with the studies you are relying on to make the point that statically-typed languages have no significant difference in terms of number of bugs in production compared to dynamically-typed. Measuring such things is challen
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
I've worked on large engineering projects in physical disciplines. When I am the customer, I often bring in a group of independent experts to review the design products. Often these experts provide inputs that are not 100% usable in
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
We can trade anecdotes on this topic, but I've written numerical code in OCaml and also Julia. The strictness of OCaml's type system is painful in a numerical context but for virtually all other things it is awesome to pass code
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
So, I really respect what you've done (for those who don't know, Chris is the original developer and lead of DifferentialEquations.jl) and use your work heavily. However, understanding and writing idiomatic Julia, especially with
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
I agree with the kernel of your point here, but also with the author of the article when he says "But systemic problems like this can rarely be solved from the bottom up, and my sense is that the project leadership does not agree that
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by ThenAsNow 4y ago
I'm an engineer in physical disciplines, and I don't think it's a certification issue. It's more that "engineering" in the software world is conflated with craftsmanship. The word "engineering" as u
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
The single best antidote I have personally found against loneliness is staying busy doing things I really care about. If you would prefer something outside of work/career/projects, there's almost certainly some kind of self-
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
I'm surprised to see so few recommendations for Arkenfox's user.js: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js It's a pain to go through all of it the first time, less so with subsequent updates, but it's
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
I have argued with @pfdietz about this before. In the zeal to make the point the majority of leading edge heating arises from the dissipative effects of shocks, they make statements that have to be very carefully parsed to be correct. You
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
> It's still a proprietary license that rejects the most basic principle of open source, which is the ability of anyone to use and modify the software. Anyone is able to to use and modify the software, it's just that if your

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