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> It's not courtesy if it's non consensual, same way that wealth redistribution isn't charity I truly don't understand what you are talking about. When I was in primary school, and…

Can I just say what a genuinely fascinating perspective you have there That pronouns are somehow an exercise of power that must be submitted to, and not just a common courtesy beca…

If you want to bring up CS101 so badly, surely turing machines and lambda calculus would be more relevant. The actually interesting claim is that somebody has found a practical use…

I don't disagree that Python's place in the ecosystem ("generalist" - i.e. load-bearing distro fossilization in everything from old binary linux distros, container layers, SIEM/SOA…

Technologists certainly tend to seek solutions, and find blame in technology or the application of it. Getting technology right is necessary, but not sufficient. In the end, the wo…

... Does this statement come from having actually used things like Hadoop on Sun Grid Engine or any of Sun's other products? Or... what? What knowledge are you drawing on? Edit: I …

I wish folks would use the taint mode they might already have. At some point taint checking bugs stopped being release blockers in core ruby & perl, but having worked through movin…

Worryingly, the 2015 paper didn't seem to have anything about measuring the mass of the device before and after the experiment. An old radar technician asked me to take a look... a…

FWIW Firefox manages to use W^X in their JIT (the experimental patch back in 2011 had a very interesting idea: one process w writing out to memory mapped RW, another process with t…

I think we "outsider" engineers forget (or miss the point on) why amateur radio enjoys the spectrum privileges it does: education, technical investigations, research... things that…

For me, I find it interesting to see which site sells my email address to unrelated marketers/spammers.

Agreed; also in .au, the last time I presented a cheque (in 2011) the poor newbie teenage bank teller strained to recall his training. He processed it ok, but panicked so badly he …

I've just read https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl... - and whilst I still think the Conservancy is being reasonable, I can also see now how Canonical migh…

The conservancy's current level of input to the debate is appropriate. They're clearly not expending resources they don't have for this discussion. Also, they spent years with VMWa…

I see your point more clearly now, I guess we still differ on priorities. Having such a key player within the open source community normalize GPL violation seems somewhat urgent to…

> It's "you can't provide binaries without also providing source code", not "you can't do binaries". Edit: It's "without also providing source code under the terms of the GPL " - t…

> "distribute the binary, not okay; distribute the source + tell user to 'make', okay" That's literally what the GPL says. Look, I'm not a GPL zealot. The only thing even vaguely w…

> It's not their fault that people have a completely fucked up interpretation of "derivative work" that includes any combination of two completely separately developed works. Indee…

I read it as pointing out that it's not up to Canonical to defacto re-license other people's work. Only the copyright holder can do that.

NVidia doesn't ship GPL'd code, and GPL distros don't ship NVidia code. It's the user who downloads it and doesn't redistribute it. This is entirely unlike VMWare, who really did m…

I've read that - no mention of LGPL or why people are still bothering with it, if the GPL already does what the LGPL was designed to do.

My head is exploding. If this doesn't violate the GPL... what was the whole point of the LGPL again?

Having worked with a few asian/eastern engineers, I do believe that a number of things conspire against western maths education: our culture doesn't value mathematics competency (i…

The spirit of amateur radio rights in most jurisdictions is that of an open/public communications medium that any licensed person can join in on (it has twitter-like aspects in tha…

EDIT: Ordinary differential equations, yes - we do here in .au, at least in Maths C (advanced maths) in Queensland. Partial differential equations, the kind that are very useful in…