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makemyworkforme commented on Is Atlas Shrugged the New Vibe?   commonreader.co.uk/p/is-a... · Posted by u/HR01
hinkley · 8 months ago
The problem was that all the people who volunteered that they’d read the book were narcissistic assholes who just became much bigger assholes afterward.

I really wanted to read that book as a young man to understand why it was so toxic. But I didn’t want anyone to ever see me reading it. I went as far as making a plan to glue another book cover over it. Problem was I also didn’t want the Rand estate to profit from my curiosity.

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
As someone who grew up in a society with rampant corruption (India), Fountainhead (the destruction of buildings at the end of the novel) and Atlas Shrugged (motivated me into leaving India to self-implode while I traveled to US to have a better life) quite a impression on my teenage years. It was only later when I thought about these books more that I realized how crazy they are.

In the meantime, India didn't self-implode, at least not yet.

makemyworkforme commented on German economy contracts 0.2% in 2024 in second consecutive annual slowdown   cnbc.com/2025/01/15/germa... · Posted by u/belter
ChemSpider · 8 months ago
Important new developments in Germany in the last 10 years? Interesting question, I can think of two right now:

- Stable Diffusion at Heidelberg University

- Biontech/Pfizer covid vaccine in Mainz

- What else?

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
None of them were commercialized in Germany though.
makemyworkforme commented on US Government Bans Linux Foundation from Doing Business with Tencent, Huawei [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=eqtN0... · Posted by u/jarsin
gdjskslsuhkso · 8 months ago
There's risk that the kernel will get forked and the fork becomes dominant, subverting the power of the linux foundation.

There's probably more linux users in China than the US, perhaps even more than US+EU.

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
Not as many developers though, yet.
makemyworkforme commented on Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).   github.com/pipelight/boul... · Posted by u/jean_dupont
dmd · 8 months ago
What I really want is a way to get a read only root shell. I do a lot of work on a "traditional" multi-user unix host, where hundreds of scientists share a powerful computer. I often need to become root to look at files. I want to be able to do that without the ability to screw anything up.
makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
Can you create a group and set a sticky bit for ACLs for your root for the filesystem with read permissions for that group? That way all files created under the filesystem root will have read permissions for that user, but you cannot modify anything.
makemyworkforme commented on Can we communally deprecate git checkout?   mirawelner.com/posts/chec... · Posted by u/mirawelner
vrosas · 8 months ago
I’ve found that people are either die hard rebase fans or die hard merge fans. Neither side can understand the other and I’ve never had it properly explained to me what the difference is or why I should care.
makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
People who are these fans don't really use git. They use github subset of git. Hence, all these problems. In my experience, people who actually use git instead of github don't have these issues.
makemyworkforme commented on Can we communally deprecate git checkout?   mirawelner.com/posts/chec... · Posted by u/mirawelner
sonofhans · 8 months ago
> … the only way to really understand deeply how git checkout works, you have to fundamentally understand the internal workings of git.

This is, and always has been, the primary UX problem with git. You use commands to manipulate the program’s model of the data, rather than to demonstrate your intent. It works only as long as your mental model of git matches git itself, but it doesn’t easily afford abstraction, and abstraction is the essence of efficient manipulation.

Put another way, a good tool allows you to use it well even if you don’t understand how it works. Git OTOH will quickly punish you for not understanding its model of the world.

A good UX for git would maintain the complexity for experts and provide a clear and simple surface area for most people who just want to perform familiar tasks. The fact that each person and team seems to have a unique incantation just for everyday tasks is an awful smell, and a sign of git’s immaturity.

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
I must admit that when I first learnt git, I thought that the only way to correctly use git was to know the object model of git. I thought this was important because git is at the end a data manager and I then though that one should know the data model you are manipulating in order to manipulate it in correct way. In that respect, I always found git commands mostly intuitive.

Much later in my career I learnt that people were using git without even knowing anything about what a Merkle tree is and I must say I was extremely surprised. I'm not saying its good or bad, just describing my younger days.

makemyworkforme commented on It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)   sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3
bruce511 · 8 months ago
Your rule is a common one, but somewhat misses the point of the argument. In the absence of a CLA who does own the copyright to the work you do?

The point of the article us that it may, or may not, be you.

I notice that you weren't clear on this part in your post, suggesting perhaps that it's not something that's front-of-mind like the CLA is.

On the CLA front I'm on the fence. Assign, don't assign, that's for each person to decide.

But the alternative to CLA is not necessarily "I keep the copyright". That's the point the article is asking you to consider.

Aside; unless you have a specific bit of paper assigning copyright to you, and assuming you have a day job, it's very unlikely that you hold the copyright even if you only do OSS work at home on weekends.

And lastly - have you ever enforced your copyright legally? If you have never enforced a copyright violation then your work is effectively public domain. Yes the threat that you could take action exists, but in practice your contributed-to-project can change their license and call your bluff.

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
The contributor owns the copyright. In Germany for example, there's no transfer of copyright, only non-exclusive license to use. The Developer Certificate of Origin can be used to be make it legal.
makemyworkforme commented on It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)   sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3
patmorgan23 · 8 months ago
Would you sign a CLA if it specified the License your code would be able to the project under? (I.e. the project can only use your code if it says MIT or BSD or GPL licensed).

CLAs can have a legitimate purpose in clarifying copyright ownerships.

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
How do you need CLAs to clarify copyright ownership? DCoE does the job equally well.
makemyworkforme commented on Xiaomi global bootloader unlock policy has changed   xiaomitime.com/xiaomi-glo... · Posted by u/patrakov
n144q · 8 months ago
Yeah

> The new policy signifies a key change in Xiaomi’s way of handling things and now raises several questions over how developers, enthusiasts, and other users will be affected.

I don't know any human who speaks or writes like that.

> Although not explained by Xiaomi officially, the following could be some of the reasons for this update.

Likely LLM, but will give it a pass

> Allowing a limited number of devices that one can unlock reduces for Xiaomi the possibility of misuse of an unlocked device by performing some unauthorized or potentially harmful activity.

Exactly how ChatGPT would "enhance" your writing.

> The new limit will indeed be a big problem, especially for those working with several devices for testing and development purposes.

"a big problem" sounds too unprofessional for ChatGPT, and this part likely was revised by a human writer.

> To the Community of Custom ROMs: This move will delay the development of third-party ROMs, kernels, and mods for Xiaomi devices.

A confusing claim without any context/explanation/evidence? That's LLM.

makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
It's a very common way to write in Indian English. What is probably happening here is that ChatGPT is trained in text over the internet and it is possible that there's lot more Indian English text on internet than others, and hence this effect.
makemyworkforme commented on Xiaomi global bootloader unlock policy has changed   xiaomitime.com/xiaomi-glo... · Posted by u/patrakov
jdiez17 · 8 months ago
I know it’s off topic but this post reeks of LLM-generated content. The itemized lists with bold two word headings are a dead giveaway.
makemyworkforme · 8 months ago
No.

u/makemyworkforme

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