whoever came up with the name 'earworm' needs to be shot
Readit Newsplatz commented on Getting forked by Microsoft philiplaine.com/posts/get... · Posted by u/phillebaba
The author said that in the last line.
Highlight the part of the essay where he is claiming MS didn't have a right to do what they did.
The point of the article was that MS showed interest in his work, asked him about his designs. Said nothing about internal plans to fork it or use it. Then he shows up to a talk and sees them discussing his work.
Reading between the lines, it is 100% clear they didn't feel like telling him they planned to fork his software, and they danced around it. They didn't reach out to him afterward and say "thanks, we are building a fork and your free time was really useful".
The essay isn't claiming a legal issue. It's pointing out a substantial, practical issue with OSS that didn't exist nearly as prominently in the pre-cloud era: megacorps forking software and cutting out the OG developers.
Licenses communicate your intent; if you choose the most permissive one possible that is also implicitly communicated.
The thing we keep on neglecting to mention is that life on earth actually happened pretty quickly in the time scale of the universe. I can't remember but I think we're one of the earliest points for life in the "broad" time scale. I wouldn't be surprised if stastically we're some of the first intelligent life, or the first wave.
Actually, we're already past the peak of star formation in the universe. So the universe is well on its way winding down.. less and less stars are being created.
We're seeing the universe more middle aged than especially young
It’s different because it’s simpler to assume that the total angular momentum of the universe is zero. If one black hole is rotating one way there must be other stuff rotating the other way to counterbalance. If you assume instead that the whole universe has angular momentum, well, where did that come from?
Where did the the values of the coupling constants between the various fields come from?
There are many parameters that do not have a reason for their value.
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As someone who's had quite a few dealings with animals (the family business is a horse farm) my interpretation is that human psychology is basically animal psychology with a "language instinct" bolted on as a peripheral.
You might very well misinterpret an animal's experience or motives but it is not just mistaken "anthropomorphism" but could just be the same kind of misunderstanding you might have about another person's experience or motives.
From time to time I see a paper proving that horses or dogs could do something that people who work with horses or dogs always believed they could do or that some bird or mammal has a "theory of mind" -- I believe all birds and mammals have a pretty good "theory of mind", it's just hard to do an experiment to prove it.
We've had a cardinal that has been coming to our window for a few years that we can't agree on naming "bad bird" or "noisy bird" that sets up a nest a few yards from a bird feeder and spends all day fighting it's own reflection in the glass. My interpretation, which could be wrong, is that it believes it is a very successful bird that has found an excellent nesting spot and finds meaning in its life by fighting off "competition" for its nest -- certainly it does not need to spend a lot of energy foraging and has the time and energy to peck at the window all day.
How do you know the bird just isn't entertaining itself with its own reflection.
What's been your experience with budget gear vs expensive setups for lunar photography?
Generally there are some broad categories:
1) tracked vs untracked mounts
2) shooting single frames vs shooting with high FPS and processing that into a resulting image.