fourthark

Puff piece with critical title.

Or as long as the service you bought it from cares to support it.

(Granted, Project Gutenberg is probably as immortal as you describe. Kindle less so.)

I wasn’t looking for a new title, I was just trying to find the story.

But thank you, this title is way more informative!

Buried the lede.

In the fourth quarter of 2019, we created a large task force made up of passionate community advocates from across the company to propose solutions to this core problem. The team’s mission is to improve our feedback loop and working relationship with our community. We added a member of our Community team to our leadership team and restructured the organization to invest in Product leadership to build Community-centric features. We are also forming a moderator council, which will include a group of users with diverse experience levels and backgrounds who can help guide our processes. We’re making hard choices and treating no assumptions as sacred in considering ways to evolve the community.

... We want to serve all of the millions of people who use Stack Overflow, not just those who know the most about how the site has worked in the past. To be clear, this does not mean channels like Meta will go away, but they need to grow to ensure that users are heard and responded to in a timely fashion.

We’ve completed the process of defining how our moderator council will be structured, shared an internal framework for asking coworkers tough community questions, defined the important functions that would be best served by more scalable solutions than Meta, and built outlines of our new moderator training modules. By the end of this quarter, all of these initiatives will be shared publicly with you, our users.

Confusing. I’ll be interested to see this explained to mortals.

But I would assume that derived works could not choose to use the code as BSD - it’s not “choice of copyleft or BSD” it’s “copyleft unless you try to do something shady.”

Somehow..?

I am guessing that now the software can’t be included in something else that uses “predatory copyleft“.

And those derivative works do not have the option to use a less restrictive license that allows such behavior.

Not sure of this though.

Bigger. Faster.

And people are desperate - as benmanns put it, it's a "line of credit out against depreciation on your vehicle. Sure you lost money, but you get cash today."

Unintended consequences can happen. Looks like it’s an active debate.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Glyphosate+bees&t=fpas&ia=web

They buried it

Pesticides are used for all kinds of crops across the state, but the almond, at 35m lb a year, is doused with greater absolute quantities than any other. One of the most widely applied pesticides is the herbicide glyphosate (AKA Roundup), which is a staple of large-scale almond growers and has been shown to be lethal to bees as well as cause cancer in humans. (The maker, Bayer-owned Monsanto, denies the cancer link when people use Roundup at the prescribed dosage. So far this year three US courts have found in favour of glyphosate users who developed forms of lymphoma; thousands more cases are pending.)

On top of the threat of pesticides, almond pollination is uniquely demanding for bees because colonies are aroused from winter dormancy about one to two months earlier than is natural. The sheer quantity of hives required far exceeds that of other crops – apples, America’s second-largest pollination crop, use only one-tenth the number of bees. And the bees are concentrated in one geographic region at the same time, exponentially increasing the risk of spreading sickness.

It would be interesting to see stats on this.

I would guess between monopolies and hostile governments, more people worldwide have no choice, and it's a good default, but I don't know.

In any case, both Firefox and Chrome should make it super clear to users that they are doing this.

Completely agree with both sides here.

It's a tradeoff and people should weigh the pros/cons seriously. Firefox claims it shows a notification popup, but it may be too easy to click away. (I didn't see it.)

It should be front-and-center.

In the name of privacy.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs

Yes, the version on my machine prints

    Type  :qa!  and press <Enter> to abandon all changes and exit Vim

You shouldn’t use a phrase just because it sounds familiar, without considering the meaning of that phrase.

It wasn’t a bad article, but in my head I was hearing “danger, danger, danger!”

Morality is childish? What?

600G / 300M = 2K

Just don’t try to scroll back to see any of them again, or you will end up somewhere else on the page.

I think the scoring depends too much on word length. I consistently did better on longer words.

This is why AGPL exists. I think it is agreed that deploying your app to the cloud is not distribution and doesn’t run foul of plain GPL.

Doesn’t seem like a “one time lock that is forever disabled upon purchase“ would work for your use case. You’d need Apple-style Find My / Brick My stuff.

Why?

Some people were hoping for more particles.

I’m not sure I agree... was just trying to explain why there is a perception of progress slowing down.

Probably stuff like, we still don’t have any new particles despite spending a lot of money smashing stuff.

And string theory looks like it may have wasted a lot of people’s time with no result.

The ideology just happens to align so well with the interests...

So you got the sense that it was recalculating based on the response it got?

I wasn’t clear on that from the article.

It sounded like it precomputed the route, steering, drift for the whole course first, then executed it.

If the friction were variable and unknown it would get completely lost.

Every year I glance at it, thinking maybe I will learn something about the state of JavaScript. Then I remember that it's a popularity contest and I get bored pretty quick.

I'm not sure why I should care what everyone else wants to learn. I guess it's worth finding out if there is a new popular framework this year. Sigh.

Page kept scrolling to end and getting stuck there (iOS/firefox). Not encouraging.

Sure but that’s not the algorithm you used in the repo.