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I like plastic in that I prefer the lower cost and lower pollution and lower weight and lower breakability compared to glass.

Back in the day, my father worked as a researcher for a large, old dairy company. He was tasked with finding out what was environmentally friendly for packaging milk; whether they …

> A huge company is using unpaid artist's labour to create tools that will reduce the potential for these and all future artists to get any paid work at all in the future. "Will" i…

While I've not played with k8, I did run stuff in Google's Borg for a very long while, and that has a similar architecture. My team was petabyte scale and we were far from the team…

> Random perturbations are a parsimonious explanation, but a deeply unsatisfying one. Why? I've always found it satisfying - it matches with how a lot of other things in biology ha…

> So, this is just number rearranging. The public pays either way. "The public" isn't one person. Denmark has progressive taxes; getting rid of subsidies so prices of food increase…

> programs are written much less frequently than they are run, so surely developer keystrokes are laughably unimportant compared to runtime performance and other user-facing concer…

If we can, and it works out to less harm vs benefit than otherwise: Yes. But it turns out we can't for alcohol and cigarettes (except regulation). We fairly much can for workaholic…

There's at least one bit that's missing here, even if the claim is entirely accurate: Both the total pie and the total number of creators has increased. Hollywood feature film prod…

Scientific libraries categorise into *several categories*. They effectively use hierarchical tags, with the set of tags very carefully curated.

The better candidate is spending more on the evaluation. E.g, for my company's twice-yearly evaluation, everybody writes up a short report on the most impactful stuff they've done …

I've lived in Norway (>30 years), Ireland (>10 years) and in California (3.5 years). There's extreme differences in culture around dog ownership in different areas. In the time I l…

An A3 (11-3/4" x 16-1/2") poster here in Ireland starts at around 7 euro ($7.50). 80 euros is presumably for the aluminium dibond print - which sounds like an extreme quality print…

I spent a decade or so of my life writing assembly, and a few years as a performance specialist for a programming team. What you're describing is a specialist skill. There's nothin…

I have a problem with the leadership. OpenBSD does good technical work, but I don't want to deal with deraadt again.

Back in the 1990s, I was a FreeBSD guy, and at some point I looked over the code for a few of the popular Linux ISA networking drivers for some reason and was shocked at the low qu…

> If this loophole exists it probably goes against the intention of the lawmakers and would be struck down by supreme court. It's Common law not French/European law. The intent of …

You can dual-license if you own the full copyright ownership but if you include GPLed stuff (and don't have the full copyright ownership) you'll have to GPL the result. As for "at …

For speed-architected C compilers/linkers lexing time is typically a very significant part of compilation time. The Unix compilers typically hasn't been speed-architected, instead …

Where did Linux enter into it? I just don't typically use GUIs much, and I use the Mac GUI much more than I use Linux GUIs. But I've used command lines since I started with compute…

It actually wouldn't be the same music. DJs typically adapt their set to how the crowd reacts. See e.g. https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/05/dj-getting-people-to-d...

Let's not presume the development would happen if the code was copylefted.

As somebody that used program on the Amiga, using SAS C: GCC is/was terrible, speed-wise. We're talking 10-20x slowdown. Sounds like ack is on the same level as SAS C, and clang is…

MacOS has been a pain for me with this; in some of the later revisions it's always a pain to get around to the right place. I don't spend time learning Mac in depth; I'm mostly a U…

> If the authors of software X or Y chose the GPLv3 as license I imagine they were completely aware and agreed to the terms of the license they used, including the limitations it e…