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All software and copyright licenses are ideological documents. You don't see the ideology in BSD and MIT because it is your preferred ideology.

They don't want to comply with the GDPR or other EU laws.

Over a two year period in the US, there were over 600 cases where police officers and civilians with access to law enforcement databases violated internal policies and safeguards t…

I'm an American and the best I could answer for that is "on the baseball field." I know it is a baseball position. Many other countries play baseball too. (Looked it up, oh I remem…

The Kia Soul and other Kia models can be hotwired in 30 seconds by popping off a plastic panel housing the ignition, inserting something with the dimensions of a USB A male plug, a…

The pi4 is powerful enough to drive multiple 4k displays while doing face detection from a camera.

Mostly agreed, but "sitting idle most of the time" isn't quite the right metric. The question is if it can handle the peak loads. And a pi zero can run pihole and a rain gauge. I d…

Let's get the actual numbers in this discussion: > Someone making $85,000 a year would pay an extra $170. A worker making $200,000 would see an increase of roughly $822 next year.

> But who wants to listen to a computer copy of someone else's voice? No one. I think you underestimate the cultural desire and pressure for a perfect presentation of one's self. I…

> Salesforce uses the same lean product development concepts that we espouse here. They test messages and products and then make R&D investment based on real customer demand. The c…

Everything in archives pre-2021 is still untainted. All major social media, Q&A, code repos, and archive.org are timestamped. It taints future collection of training data, but not …

If you're not interested in random and creative acts of programming, I think you're on the wrong discussion site. This is for fun. It takes todays headlines and rewrites them. Like…

Can you please explain why? I care about privacy and security, and this trend seems like we're going backwards. If something needs network access, web apps make sense. But I liked …

Your reply shows that you've never had to do this yourself. It's a lot more complicated than that.

So this is some kind of attempt to make a Drake Equation [1] for AGI? That's more useful as a thought experiment than something claimed with scientific precision. [1] https://en.wi…

> Generally teenage parents won't have very high income, but in the UK this wouldn't be an issue. One of the primary reasons women in my family have kids young is for the financial…

My interpretation is that it gives a false sense of how difficult it actually is to raise a baby. First, they only had the students care for the simulated baby for five days, and '…

Their methodology/protocol paper for the study is open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987778/ tl;dr: Students at schools in both the control and intervention…

No thank you. That's not a unique benefit of the patent system, that's a minor ancillary benefit that has already been replicated elsewhere. The patent office doesn't have a patent…

Arlington is to DC as Oakland is to SF: they're not interchangeable, but they've become substitutable for many in the region.

> 1) I am a niche small business - how do I let people know that I exist? 2) I run a website and would like to monetize it - how can I get paid for the content that I produce? You …

As someone whose first language was BASIC, which led me down a path that eventually culminated in a CS Ph.D, I have also not been a fan of that quote. It implies that Dijkstra was …

What's the best open source software stack that can turn a bunch of internet-connected devices (like Pis) with audio devices into a single home audio device available via Chromecas…