mmt

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by mmt 7y ago
No, I'm not mistaken about precision because I never brought it up. It's a strawman solely of your own construction. (I, instead, suggested a much less precise rule, prohibiting all replies/discussion.) You're implying
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by mmt 7y ago
I do disagree with the rule, but I fear you're having a knee-jerk reaction either to me or to any criticism of the rule and thereby missing my point, which I don't believe you've addressed at all: If you can explain in a shor
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by mmt 7y ago
If you're going to prevent me from responding and having my response visible, then go ahead and just delete my original comment. I have, of course, personally read all these justifications for the rule before, but they do nothing to ad
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by mmt 7y ago
The problem here is there's no way to figure out the "spirit" without having followed a rather extensive history - and the fact that the same justifications are repeated every time the rule is questioned in any way is testame
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by mmt 7y ago
The problem here is there's no way to know the "spirit" without knowledge of its history. Why not just say what you mean, instead? If the desire is "no replies that are or might spark a controversy", then why doesn&
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by mmt 7y ago
How is this posting to complain? It's a question about a potential existential threat in the form of recent regulatory scrutiny.
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Scalability but at What Cost? (2015)(blog.acolyer.org)
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by mmt 7y ago
What about the ongoing cost of waste and eventual cost of decommissioning? Are those affected by quantity of fuel used (or, more specifically, by Transatomic's design)?
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, appending an empty string to -i doesn't modify it in any way, AFAIK. It's that the GNU version doesn't require an argument, but, if an argument is to be provided, it must be done as part of the flag, not as a separate
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by mmt 8y ago
At some point, though, if you're the one complaining about a specific detail, in a way, you're the (only) one. I've seen plenty of un-portable shell scripting, too, but my professional experience includes a time where, esse
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by mmt 8y ago
This strikes me a bit like a "doctor, it hurts when I go like that" problem. What's the use case [1] for using a zero-length suffix argument (i.e. editing the file "in place" with no backup)? It's not as if sed
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by mmt 8y ago
> the right sterile environment This has echos of No True Scotsman. Computer storage media also have ideal conditions that can be used to extend their lifetimes (though, granted, not indefinitely, AFAIK). What about in real conditions, s
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by mmt 8y ago
> the outperforming endurance of DNA compared to any modern hardware This struck me as a strange analogy, considering DNA's inherent fragility, but it would make more sense compared to modern software than hardware. Alternatively, i
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by mmt 8y ago
> Vendors have support plans and SLAs so if you need 24/7 support then make sure that is indeed what you're paying for. Those are totally useless during an existential crisis without associated indemnity (which any vendor would
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by mmt 8y ago
> they would solve it for you That hasn't been my experience, at least not on any suitable time scale. I strongly suspect that the vast majority of those of us who have worked somewhere "not more capitalized and viable"
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by mmt 8y ago
> California has about 8.5% of the US population. I think you misread the line for California in your footnoted reference #1, which shows it at 12.14%.
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by mmt 8y ago
> you seem to be treating bus stops independent of alternative means of transportation Perhaps you misunderstood my point, which was more about data and statistics, as is the article itself, rather than transportation. A similar argument
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by mmt 8y ago
I'd argue that it's not over sampling at all, but, rather, that the measure of "average bus arrival time" is what's invalid or misleading. After all, the point of the bus arrivals isn't in service of the bus (
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by mmt 8y ago
> the original posters words Since those words never mentioned contributing back, I was, understandably confused. > I am saying that contributing back doesn't happen magically because of the GPL. I don't see where anyone was
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by mmt 8y ago
> The event did occur. I saw the source with my own eyes. You didn't say so, and, even now, you're only implicitly saying there was a GPL violation. The details are important, in order to further understanding. > The point t
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by mmt 8y ago
> Again GPL doesn't magically make people contribute back, That's my understanding, as well, but that was never asserted, only "play nice", (re-)"release under the GPL", and "gets to live as long as peo
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by mmt 8y ago
> 'Secret' purely internal use of modified GPL software is not a violation - if the modified software is never distributed publicly, there's no issue. As the parent pointed out, purely-internal isn't what he meant. Di
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by mmt 8y ago
> Maybe I didn't make it very clear. Each time I observed it the company I was contracting for was selling it to a 3rd party Indeed, that wasn't at all clear. The comment to which I was responding only used the word "compa
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm a bit confused, since, initially, you mentioned dehumidifying. However, I'm getting the impression that the heat pump in this case is entirely internal to the machine, which is not what I had in mind when mentioning heat pumps
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't understand what compilation has to do with anything, if the company (user) in question isn't distributing the software outside the company. How is it any different from an individual making changes to GPL software and usin
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by mmt 8y ago
> Electricity is far more expensive than gas. That's usually only if the gas is natural gas, and that's not available. Even then, "far more" can be misleading. My experience in California is that it's on the orde
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by mmt 8y ago
> Their energy consumption is about half that of a condensation drier. Again, this is not necessarily a fair comparison, if what's being pumped actually costs something that can't be measured at the dryer's plug. $500 woul
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by mmt 8y ago
> there is an almost 10 year old Miele dryer in my apartment, with a heat pump. I stand corrected. I'd be curious if it's actually any more efficient, especially if the heat it's pumping comes from gas, oil, or resistive h
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by mmt 8y ago
I think you (and the OC) will find that, with dryers, there's really not much room to gain efficiency. It's not as if modern dryers are using a heat pump instead of burning gas [1] or "burning" electricity with resistive
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by mmt 8y ago
> software that is only deployed on one or two servers on a company intranet and the general public will never see it. I thought that, in this case, it's the company itself who is the "user" of the software and isn't

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