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> open source nature is something of a technicality No, but maybe this highlights that it's never accurate to conflate "open source" or "free (as in speech) software" with end-user…

Probably clergy?

> In the numbers it's almost more boring than the industrial revolution. Being almost more boring than the thing that caused Malthus to become wrong is quite an accomplishment.

> That law is so board - "public morals"? Should every porn site be taken down? The age-gate / anti-anonymity laws popping up everywhere are because there are enough people who wou…

> can't taste much of a difference between "good" coffee and "bad" coffee. I found a 5+ year old half-full bag in the back of the pantry once; that was quite noticeably bad even th…

> greatest communication techonlogy 1. Snail-mail 2. Public cork-boards 3. E-mail

> Is this new term broader than the old term of CP or is it the same? Why did we even switch? The purpose of the new term was to emphasize that producing it involves the actual abu…

I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first. I would think the claim in the second sentence would only be relevant in case of the inverse of the claim in the first …

Those do not measure the same thing.

I guess I could imagine this being tricky if you're stuck in a city apartment with no yard and no park nearby ...

What's the less insulting but similarly concise way to make the same substantive point?

> Using RMS as an example of "how to not be political" is uh... interesting. He's known for staying focused on one single issue, which is important for personal reasons unrelated t…

> best effort parallelization of arbitrary loop like code across SIMD, multiple threads, multiple cores and GPU with a small directive. I doubt GPU is included by most runtimes yet…

Most of my stuff isn't CPU-bound. Most of it is in managed languages, like Bash and C# and SQL and Python and Yaml and .tsx . It's been at least a decade for me since SIMD was more…

The comment I was replying to said > When people say "We're not political", or "That's not political". What they're actually saying is that it's within my own politics. That assert…

> Pretending Are they though? I see "We are more than just Git hosting: Our community is ..." right in the highlight box on their landing page.

No, there's a big difference between "net effects are not guaranteed to be perfectly neutral" and "I am going to intentionally put my thumb on the scale". The position that everyth…

> How do you know what the politics will be next? That's the neat part, you don't. (Or, well, you could pay attention to the individual humans involved?)

A nice thing about Git is that you can trivially push to a new upstream any time you need.

Commercial and criminal activity are not actually the same. Also commercial activity tends to happen when everyone involved in the activity comes out ahead, so placing it as oppose…

Self-hosting based on an external project is still a dependency on Someone Else to keep it up to date, unless you have both the time and skill to take over maintenance of that proj…

Ethics as opposed to morality is about codified rules . This seems to be somewhat conflating the two. Also this sounds like it's talking about both designing those rules and also a…

The closest thing there is is e-beam lithography. It isn't really practical.

There's a decent amount of distributed stuff that has a design principle of not trusting the hardware it's running on.

> There is no world where accepting data corruption in order to save 3% cost is a reasonable tradeoff. It is if you're doing something where corruption is detectable after the fact…