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At least that is my understanding; I'm not a lawyer or constitutional scholar :)
Well, not quite. Immunity from prosecution is not immunity from impeachment/removal (which is a political, not judicial, process).
Of course, that has its own problems, but just pointing out that in theory there are more checks than just the one you mention.
But what I was trying to describe is a "mild mannered" getaway driver. Not fleeing from cops, not speeding. Just calmly driving to and from crimes. Should we punish the road makers for enabling such nefarious activity?
(it's a rhetorical question; I'm just trying to clarify the point)
It's a stretched metaphor at this point, but I hope that makes sense (:
In fact, given the full-throated open source nature of that platform (you can even build your own player with a raspberry pi[1]), I doubt I'll ever need to use anything else for the rest of my life for playing music in my home, even as my devices die and need replacement over time.
... which does make me wonder: that's great for me, but I can definitely see it as a deterrent for companies to do similar. If they want to make a competing future product, they'll be competing against an open-sourced version of their past selves, too.
(I understand that mlock prevents paging-out, but in my mind that's a separate concern from pre-faulting?)
Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...
I mean, I like your comment and am glad you got thinking about this, but it's just a line of reasoning that I see a lot and I wish I saw less, so that's why I bring it up (:
"True for most people" does not imply "true for me" or "true for that person over there".
And the reverse is not valid either, of course - "true for me" does not imply "true for most people."
There's always some tension between people's individual anecdotes and experiences (which are fascinating, and I like), and the claims of broader studies like this one.
Sometimes I try to remind myself of this with the "on average, people have 2.3 children" factoid. Obviously, nobody actually has 2.3 children; the general truth does not necessarily apply to specific individuals; potentially not even a single one.
Though that's just gravity-fed, of course. Still pretty cool though, I think (:
I don't think anyone is complaining about that too much. I wonder how many people there are like you, where we don't get much data. If people don't complain about it, we generally don't hear about it, because they're just quietly moving on with their work.
Not to be confused with the AI hypesters who are loudly touting the benefits with dubious claims, of course (:
Not that I disagree with you, but maybe not for the reasons you say (:
It's the eternal trade-off of security vs. convenience. The downside of this approach is that if there is a vulnerability, you will need to wait on someone else to get the fix out. Probably fine nearly always, but you are giving up some flexibility.
Another way to get a reasonable handle on the "managing a whole OS ..." complexity is to use some tools that make it easier for you, even if it's still "manually" done.
Personally, I like FreeBSD + ZFS-on-root, which gives "boot environments"[1], which lets you do OS upgrades worry-free, since you can always rollback to the old working BE.
But also I'm just an old fart who runs stuff on bare metal in my basement and hasn't gotten into k8s, so YMMV (:
[1] eg: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/upgrade-freebsd-wi... (though I do note that BEs can be accomplished without ZFS, just not quite as featureful. See: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ufs-boot-environments.796...)
Special Relativity was not such a big breakthrough. Something like it was on the verge of being described by somebody in that timeframe — all the pieces were in place, and science was headed in that direction.
But General Relativity really took everyone by surprise.
At least, that's my understanding from half-remembered interviews from some decades ago (:
John Carmack was well-known for keeping his development notes and other thoughts in a .plan file[2][3]
Aside: it saddens me a little how the simple idea of copying files onto a server is so many steps removed from modern "web framework" behemoths. I think some people genuinely don't know about the simpler older ways, and the pros and cons between them.
[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122782/what-is-plan...
[2] https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/
It's on my back-burner list to make a portable projector that does this.
For a purely-online version, check out: https://exptv.org/ (warning: sometimes has nudity and stuff)
(and not meaning to contradict you, just thinking aloud)
I think there's some overlap between "taste" and "thinking for yourself" — though they are not the same thing.
Lots of people don't want to think for themselves in every teeny aspect of life, so choosing from a menu of "good enough" options is reasonable. It doesn't mean they lack taste, just that they lack the energy/interest/etc in that moment for that activity.
Another aspect: plenty of people will know whether they like something when they see it, but they won't be able to describe what they want beforehand. So, they have taste (ability to choose a good one), but not an ability to enunciate it, or conjure it out of thin air.
Also, the "taste" terminology is often intertwined with "style", and I think that's unnecessarily limiting. An "engineer's taste" might help them decide between gadgets and gizmos, based on their merits, even if they're both ugly.
To your last example, I think modern Lodge cast iron frying pans are mediocre. Not because of ugliness/prettiness, but because the sharp ridge/seam on the handle from the casting process is not ground down. It makes it uncomfortable to hold. Also, the cooking surface is left rough. Compare it to an old Griswold — miles apart, according to my tastes. They're both handsome enough to look at, though.
Much of the technology was there, but Docker was able to achieve a critical mass, with streamlined workflows. Perhaps as much a social phenomenon as a technical one?
[1] https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/revsets/
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22520751/what-is-the-git...
Clearly written by someone who was also frustrated by the experience (:
So, this sounds to me like an expanded version of that, more or less.
I think I'd prefer an AI future with lots of little focused models running locally like this rather than the "über models in the cloud" approach. Or at least having such options is nice.
[1] https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Any_word_completion
There's also omni-completion, a bit more advanced: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Omni_completion
For another data point, this catalog.data.gov site[1] lists the license as "us-pd" (ie public domain in the USA). But then yeah, like you said the attribution demand is invalid.
[1] https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/u-s-department-of-agricultu...
You can have fun with 'em since they're public domain (:
Note 1: The metadata, such as title, author, etc. seem to be missing. If anyone knows of a collection with all that included, let me know (it's not in the EXIF either, I spot-checked).
EDIT: aha! Here is metadata, which you can correlate to the image files: https://github.com/Wumms/pomological
Note 2: I saw this in the MARC catalog record:
Use of the images in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological
Watercolor Collection is not restricted, but a statement of attribution is
required. Please use the following attribution statement: "U.S. Department
of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special
Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705"To abuse your metaphor a bit...
I get the sense that some people see the "nihilist pit" (or somesuch) as a dark scary thing (it is). Maybe they have gotten lost in it a little bit, did not like the experience, got out, and so advise everyone else to avoid it, too.
Other people have spent more time in the pit, whether by choice or the lack of it, gone deep down, and found the bottom. And that can be a wonderful, freeing feeling, to get to the end of that hard journey.
I guess for my own part, at the bottom of my pit, I found that there is something to stand on down there. It was an absolute relief to find, life-affirming, and has helped me ever since.
YMMV of course (: Different people are different.
This is not embedding the C Lua runtime and compiler, but rather a
complete implementation of Lua 5.3. This feat is made possible by the
underlying Luerl library, which implements a Lua parser, compiler,
and runtime, all in Erlang.
Also a sign of Lua's maturity and popularity, that it's got various independent implementations (LuaJIT, this one, perhaps others I don't know about).
As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1314/
(though I do find myself in the "don't worry about documenting it" camp more often than not. The nagging background thought of "don't forget to take a picture" tends to bring me out of the moment, sometimes)
What would happen if I print all this down at the scale we have been
discussing? How much space would it take? It would take, of course, the
area of about a million pinheads ... All of the information which all of
mankind has every recorded in books can be carried around in a pamphlet
in your hand — and not written in code, but a simple reproduction of
the original pictures, engravings, and everything else on a small scale
without loss of resolution.
[1] https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf