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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)? I…

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 "c…

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…

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 Enhan…

Interesting, thanks!

Wow, I'm way out of date - when did Dave Chinner step down as XFS maintainer?

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 s…

> 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…

> 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 …

> 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 reaso…

> * Brake fluid. It's hypergolic, after all You probably meant "hygroscopic" here. One probably doesn't want to be carrying hypergols in their car!

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.…

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 assump…

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 oth…

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 da…

> 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…

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 a…

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 …

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 wh…

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…

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 comp…

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 thes…

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 virtu…

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, understan…

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 se…