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More abundance per person isn't a good thing if only 1% of the population sees the benefit and everyone else is squeezed tighter.

> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. So what incentive structure would you suggest? How do you prevent the concentration of wealth tha…

Whatever the legal outcome, whether it's ultimately decided that people can or can't "get away" with using LLMs to license-launder code, it's undoubtedly a dick move.

I never particularly liked the standard hard disk icons from MagicWB, but in general I really liked the aesthetic, especially the drawers with topic icons overlaid. As for MUI, it …

Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code? * no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.

Also, strictly one question per email - otherwise only the first will be answered and any others ignored!

The problem is, quite simply, insurance. When something is paid for from a big nebulous ball of money rather than straight out of people's pockets, the downward pressure on prices …

I would pay what I used to pay for DVDs.

Sure, I can do that, but there's some value in being able to check quickly and easily that, for example, the xz utils binaries shipped by a major distro actually match the publishe…

Sure, but a signature doesn't prove that a particular binary came from a particular codebase - merely that a particular human (or other trusted entity, for varying degrees of "trus…

> But online retail (and food delivery, etc) does seem to be slowly but surely eating away at local shops so I think it's within the realm of possibility. Online retail eating away…

Showing my age here - it took me a while to realise this has nothing to do with old Apple keyboards and mice.

> In my experience the driving-behavior part of my brain can run virtually autonomously It can, but I've heard quite plausible claims in the past [1] that you shouldn't let it - be…

TMK includes firmware for an ADB to USB converter which is really easy to build using a 5 volt ProMicro. For the last one I made I just cut an S-Video cable in half and wired it di…

If some of the things that the C standard left undefined had instead been made implementation defined then the compiler would at least be obligated to do something that makes sense…

> but the text color is usually set slightly off black (why!!??) This can be cause by colour management. If the black is defined in terms of RGB and then converted to CMYK as part …

Good choice! oss-cad-suite will give you the open source toolchain for ULX3S in one convenient package. There are plenty of example projects and other resources, plus a discord ser…

For teaching / learning it's hard to beat Quartus Prime Lite - the virtual JTAG infrastructure (for SignalTap logic analyzer) is much better than the other options. (It's easy to c…

The notion of being expected to pay for software that was formerly free - when Windows users aren't expected to bear those same costs - does indeed piss me off. If I were actually …

> In other words, they're saying hobbyists and beginners are on Windows anyway I suspect they're massively underestimating how many hobbyists and students are on Linux. We're not t…

So does Quartus Prime Pro - and for specific Agilex 5 devices it's also free. (Presumably it was too much trouble to backport support for Agilex to the Lite version.) There are als…

> I see no problem with monetizing Linux users. If I am monetizing Windows and macOS users, there should be no exceptions towards Linux Here I agree with you - Linux users shouldn'…

When did we stop spelling it "nybble"?

Inkscape is awesome - I use it regularly for extracting design elements from PDFs and vectorising bitmaps. It works surprisingly well for simple CAD tasks, too - I've used it in co…

Indeed. Trusting that it will only be processing the user's queries - as opposed to, say, becoming part of a distributed grid of AI processing nodes - isn't a bet I'd be willing to…