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When I think about the two models, I have Linux as the dictator type and XML as committee designed. Both are functional enough, but the while so few data points are hardly conclusi…

Why is it a binary value? What about masochists, or people who lost a bet and want to be stabbed just a little? Or strangled?

Yea, legitimate with illegitimate is a weird kind of calculation, as the risk with illegitimate market is to end up in jail, and few people want to calculate the monetary value of …

Yep. The US did drop around 160,800 tons of conventional bombs on Japan during WWII, thought that's still relatively tame compared to the 623,000 tons they drop on Germany. Though …

Guess it depends on the software. I have seen enough business critical software that was built 15 years ago with the developer having long left the scene and nobody having any idea…

Oh, the analogy does work. Every construction needs to be adjusted at times. Sure, not as often as software, but new regulations and the passing of time is eating at the substance.…

Yea. Many places in Europe have historical city scape protection. Buildings that have been built centuries ago are being rebuilt internally all the time to fit new purposes and reg…

As a GNOME user, I kinda understand what they want to achieve, but they are seriously short on resources, so there is really little substance to all the rosy aspirations. They are …

Sadly, doing the work is usually just half of the effort if you want to be independent. Maintaining business contacts is the other half. You seem to have been doing quite some codi…

I found that ChatGPT needs to be rained in with the prompts, and then it does a very impressive job. E.g. you can create a function prototype (with input and output expectations) a…

There is a reason that Esperanto or one of it's siblings is not the language of global understanding and we are discussing in English. The world at large generally does not care ab…

Seeing Anya (the girl pointing at pictures), I'd guess the author is partial to Japanese culture. As their writing system does not have a concept of upper/lower case, he might just…

Well, the main reason why Wayland even exists is, that the X11 maintainers got fed up with a design from a time when graphics cards were not even a thing yet and decades of patchwo…

Yea, that's basic culture here. The bins are also sized according, and using the recycle bins is cheaper. There is still unsorted/compound waste, but plastics + metals go into the …

I'd be very skeptical that AI would worsen the situation with music. For example, many pop music titles in last decades incorporate the same millennial whoop over and over and over…

Being part of the security industry, I'm certainly not impartial, but your view seems to be a bit naive and you seem to be generally angry at the world. Thing is, when computers pe…

I'm still not sure what you suggest. Do you want to police the world of software, only allowing stuff to be released that has obvious use and limited negative effects? That won't r…

Security through obscurity does not work. As soon as deepfakes have proliferated on TikTok for stupid stuff, they'd inevitably be used for this kind of exploits by any adversary th…

JS also had the major advantage of being sandboxed by design, so they could work from there. Most of the technical legacy centered around syntax backwards compatibility, but it's a…

Hah, so true. If you give up on your ICE now in one of the western democracies, it will be sold as a used car in your country first and continue being driven around by someone poor…

Yea, same here back in the day. Stage 1 installations for Gentoo really made me interact with the kernel and software in a different way. It did not just work, but while solving th…

Yea, at this point he probably pissed of the judge enough to enjoy his wait behind bars.

Judicial process is a very methodical thing. Lot's of paper needs to be filled with words and filed properly. Judge needs to review and condense all that and put it together into a…

This is just the conviction. Sentencing is sometime end of March next year. But considering that he was found guilty on all accounts and after the mess he was making during the tri…

PS: in the case of Musk and Twitter, which I believe started this discussion.. It's Musk, so you can throw out the book. He just takes the stock value and then tweaks it so that th…