trelane

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by trelane 6d ago
Would be interesting to have, e.g. an interview about this, recorded someolace reputable.
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by trelane 6d ago
Sounds like a Greg Egan novel. I had thought it was one, but it's different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clockwork_Rocket
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by trelane 8d ago
It has sources (see my comment above). Do you have corroborating sources? I (and others) would be keenly interested in them!
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by trelane 8d ago
Not just. It has the origin as well: "The new version of TECO quickly became popular at the AI Lab and soon accumulated a large collection of custom macros whose names often ended in MAC or MACS, which stood for macro. Two years later,
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by trelane 16d ago
After Adobe's licensing/subscription shenanigans, I would have expected the license to be more salient in folks' minds.
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by trelane 16d ago
I have seen enough atrocious proprietary UOs that I am not convinced your underlying thesis is correct.
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by trelane 16d ago
The student could have just made it all up for some reason too.
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by trelane 16d ago
I suspect if you're buying mad honey that's collected wild on cliff faces and then imported from Nepal, it is likely pretty clear to whoever got it that it is special. Maybe kid could accidentally get a hold of it, or other adults
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by trelane 16d ago
Dunno about AI, but I was turned away by the sheer amount of ad spam on the site
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by trelane 18d ago
Remember Xandros? I'm old enough to remeber Lindows ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
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by trelane 19d ago
Just getting your money back doesn't make it work well with other operating systems. Instead, buy hardware from vendors that ship hardware with the operating system you want to use preinstalled, and with support you can contact to get
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by trelane 20d ago
> research assistants or grad students in universities These are not fully trained scientists, but rather trainees. As such, they don't get paid the same as a fully trained scientist. Like how a journeyman is paid more than an appre
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by trelane 1mo ago
Interesting. Citing sources (heh) would have helped here. I found more sources, and it looks like my understanding is wrong and yours is right: https://opensource.com/article/17/11/open-source-or-free-sof...
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by trelane 1mo ago
> licenses that OSI and FSF approve as FOSS are literally the same and they have to guarantee the same freedoms. OSI is just nicer with industry and have actual professional leadership. OSI vs FSF has nothing to do with the point at hand
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by trelane 1mo ago
It doesn't work for people who don't use Linux, true.
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by trelane 1mo ago
> what is stopped someone else from stealing their FOSS (clone and rebrand) and shipping it themselves? Nothing at all. This is not stealing. The term is "forking." It's how GCC got un-stagnated (see egcs), and how we go
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by trelane 1mo ago
It would work for most Linux distros, since this means that it's (probably) open source and therefore the package maintainers could package it with the distro. If your package is FOSS, having the distros ship it is arguably the easiest
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by trelane 1mo ago
Looks like this is one of the things that Wray mentioned in https://x.com/jaredwray/status/2085084489408294921?s=20
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Anyone who installed ecto 5.0.1 should consider that environment compromised(github.com)
4 points by trelane 1mo ago|2 comments
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I have disabled NPM publishing on all projects that have been affected(twitter.com)
2 points by trelane 1mo ago|0 comments
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by trelane 1mo ago
> The alternative, visual approach in mountainous terrain on a moonless night, is clearly unwise for inexperienced pilots. There is not only one alternative. When presented with two impossible (per your telling) options for landing, you
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by trelane 1mo ago
> disclosing use of LLMs is just being transparent and honest. is it that hard? Your assertion here is irrelevant to the poster's point. You're focused on the "happy path:" everyone has perfect information and judges
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by trelane 1mo ago
> How do you plan on maintaining your CD and DVD players when the new ones will be sold with a subscription plan like printers? If you buy physical media, you should rip it to FLAC and put the original disc in a safe place.
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by trelane 2mo ago
Famously, the Linux kernel does not have a stable ABI for drivers. As a result, by far the majority of drivers are in-tree, maintained by the kernel folks as part of the kernel. The Linux approach has the downside of not having the drivers
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by trelane 2mo ago
> You do have to install Linux yourself though. I said "for Linux" for a reason
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by trelane 2mo ago
And shipping with Linux installed.
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by trelane 2mo ago
The parent was speaking in absolutes, that beyond just didn't work for anybody. A handful of examples is more than sufficient to disprove it. On the other hand, you're arguing that the majority didn't buy it again. I've
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by trelane 2mo ago
This is (one of) the downsides of Windows' vendor-provided driver system. Compared to Linux's FOSS-centered system. When folks ask "Why doesn't Linux have a stable binary DDK API" this is one of the inevitable down
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by trelane 2mo ago
> compromises were such that you really wouldn’t want to buy another netbook if you could. This is directly contradicted by the existence of Netbook fans.
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by trelane 2mo ago
> Netbooks didn’t need Microsoft’s help in dying. Amazing how many of Microsoft's competitors don't need the help, yet receive it. > Nobody bought more than one of them, the experience was that bad. https://www.cn

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