drewcrawford

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by drewcrawford 2mo ago
Couple of methodological notes * pre-chatGPT is not an effective control because language evolves. In the arxiv corpus in particular there are "fashions" in research depending on what gets funded lately, not to mention many new w
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
My assertion had nothing to do with whether they made it easy or hard to remove their trademarks. My assertion was that Red Hat customers make agreements with Red Hat in which they agree not to redistribute RHEL. That is directly analogous
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
No, you also have a right to free speech against private actors (in certain circumstances). For one example, see Snyder v. Phelps.
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
> Your first quote covers trademarks. That is unrelated to source code. Source code contains trademarks, that is why CentOS has to remove them. If you distribute the source code you get from the RHEL subscription area you have violated
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
You are talking nonsense. The "right to free speech" in the United States has developed over hundreds of years of jurisprudence. It is impossible to summarize here but for starters involves not only Congress but also states (Git
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
> Red Hat. They not only do not prohibit one from distributing source code and the patches they apply to it Of course they prohibit it. e.g. from [1] > This EULA does not permit you to distribute the Programs or their components usin
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
> The question of law is if threatening recipients who exercise their rights qualifies as a restriction on them exercising their rights. Thinking that it does is not a fundamental misunderstanding of the text. It is a fundamental misun
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
> Currently, Grsecurity is a commercial product and is distributed only to paying customers. My understanding from several reliable sources is that customers are verbally or otherwise warned that if they redistribute the Grsecurity patch
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
This is a common misconception. It is "traditional" macroeconomics (e.g. Keynes) did not engage with microeconomics at any point [1]. It was not until the 1970s and the Lucasian rationalist critique that microfoundations became a
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
> there's no way to disable objective-c interop Believe it or not, this compiler option is named `-disable-objc-interop`. > Could someone explain why I should build a language developed entirely by and for writing Apple ecosyste
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
You misunderstand my argument, and OP's. I'm asserting something like "our children will be protected from firings when they express an unpopular opinion." This would be a regulation that applies to business , so the
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
The problem with "the freedom to exclude" is that the same argument underpins, for just one example: racial segregation. If the blacks want to go to the movies, well then they can have their own movie theater. We can't abridg
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
That's not relevant. You said: > you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one. To refute this, it's sufficient to prese
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
> Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one. Of course there is: http://www.nwcr.ws/Research/pub
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by drewcrawford 9y ago
iOS's permissions model is patented [0]. It takes some lawyer trickery to implement something that doesn't run afoul of the patent. [0] https://www.google.com/patents/US8646100
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
This is already being done. Swift 4 (unreleased) has source compatibility with Swift 3 [0], so all Swift code working today should work in the next version, no migrator necessary. Additionally, the goal of Swift 4 is to finalize the ABI.
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> So: do you want to grow the ecosystem around your software or not? In short: of course not. Or at least "not at any cost". Open source projects do loads of things that reduce the potential ecosystem. People choose to work o
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> will impede adoption of the software they cover I think this is really the core of the issue. For someone to "adopt" my software but not contribute in any way (whether that be patches, documentation, support, financial, repe
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Most people do pay dumb amounts of money for content. They pay their carrier for the bandwidth to download the ads. That's in the ballpark of a nickel per page [0]. You can't say that micropayments doesn't work when ads
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
The term is based on a figurative bug being found. OED traces this usage to > Mr. Edison, I was informed, had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his phonograph—an expression for solving a difficulty, and implying tha
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
All models are wrong, some models are useful . And what is useful is subjective. The Newtonian model works brilliantly at human-scale resolution. But if you are a quark, it is totally unconvincing. So the quarken-creatures' underst
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
The primary reason I moved things off GitHub was to self-host. If I wanted someone else to host it I would probably go back to GitHub.
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Right, but your licensing is per user per year. I add 50 NEW users in a month. Each of them use the product for about 20 minutes, but I believe I would need to license them for an entire year.
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Hi sytes. Thanks so much for this. I was active on the thread trying to get it added to CE, and it makes a big difference. One thing GL is still missing in its licensing model is a good story for my usecase. I run a GL install that's o
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Of course there's perspective involved. Restricting yourself to perfect opponents is very silly firstly, because there are no perfect opponents because chess is unsolved. So right out of the gate our definition assumes the counterfact
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
To become the Tiger King you must overcome the entire population of tigers. To become the President, you need only overcome a thousand Florida voters. To intern the Japanese, you need only overcome two members of SCOTUS (Korematsu v. US) It
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
The audio "loss" example sounds plausible in passing (and the diagram looks plausible) but is actually incorrect. The frequency and timing dimensions of analog audio below the Nyquist frequency is preserved perfectly by digital
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
The problem with Arch is that Swift relies quite heavily on Glibc so the work to port to alternate libc is very substantial. The other problem is that the mess basically starts there, e.g. Swift programs in practice also depend on Glibc a
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
You do have them to yourself, as long as you don't use them. T2 instances work on a credit system, where you are allocated X credits per minute. If you use less than you're allocated, you will rack up hours of CPU time (there is
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I agree with you that we should be engaged, but I don't think there's a simple solution. > Trump's campaign relying so heavily on social media; social media as a recruiting and organizational tools for extremist organizati

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