josephcsible

Even with your definition, my question stands: if stay-at-home orders aren't lockdowns and so don't stop the virus, why are >95% of the countries in the world doing them, since they still…

You're mixing up freedom and power. It's impossible to have a license more free than the GPL. The extra thing that permissive licenses give you isn't more freedom, but rather the power …

But just not releasing the source code doesn't even stop those kinds of cheats. Even games that make you install a privacy-invading kernel driver to play still get cheaters.

Can't you fix wallhacks by just having the server not send the position of things that the client doesn't have line-of-sight to? And as for auto-aim, can't cheaters do that no matter ho…

If lockdowns that aren't "real" (by the way, saying "real lockdowns" brings the no true Scotsman fallacy to mind) don't work to stop the virus, then why are >95% of th…

There will always be nut jobs willing to go as far as to assassinate people they disagree with. The point is that "just" cancelling people you disagree with used to not be mainstream or comm…

No, the premise is that not locking down and not sending COVID-19 positive patients to nursing homes with healthy ones would have left us better off than locking down and sending COVID-19 positive pat…

> but I've yet to hear a compelling narrative why that should be the case. Why does that matter? We can be confident that something is true without being sure why. We aren't sure what dar…

> How many times were you despaired in 2000 that you still feel the effects of today? And how many of them are on the same level of importance as a temporary lockdown? This is unfair. For a lot of …

Almost(?) every country on Earth had a lockdown at some level. Australia is one of very few that got a good outcome.

Before Twitter existed.

If your attempts to prevent cheating rely on a "trusted" client, you're going to have cheaters whether or not your code is LGPL. The only right way to stop cheaters is to run game logic…

Aren't GPL-incompatible licenses generally considered poor choices even if they're FOSS, since they lead to the ZFS-on-Linux problem? (And trying to sidestep the issue with permissive licens…

I feel like saying "more nuanced" is misleading. It doesn't change the answer to "is it FOSS?" from "no" to "maybe", but rather to "no, but...". …

One point to consider: Godot is FOSS, but Defold is only visible-source.

We didn't throw away C++ back when the STL was no good. Why should the situation with Haskell be different? (And Prelude's problems are way less severe than the problems the STL used to have…

The issue is they stole the name. Had they made a clone under a different name, it would be fine.

De Jong, Piet, The Health Impact of Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws (February 24, 2010). Risk Analysis, 2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1368064 or http://d…

> They did not trade it away for WiFi and internet https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/tiny-nation-of-niue-w... says "The IUSN took control of .nu in 2003, as par…

tl;dr: Years ago, Niue traded away their rights to the .nu TLD in exchange for free Internet access and Wi-Fi coverage for their entire country. Now that the value of .nu went up, they want to unilate…

Are you talking about this? https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html It's a GNU extension, not part of standard C at all.…

My point is that you know at the end of the while loop, it's going to test the loop variable you wrote at the beginning, no matter what's in the loop body. The fact that other things could c…

> the whole codebase You can't goto out of a function, and you know there's exactly one such label inside it. If goto isn't local, then neither are function calls, since the function…

With a while loop, to know what happens at the bottom of the block, you only need to check the top of the block. With defer, to know what happens at the bottom of the block, you need to check the enti…

Goto isn't nonlocal. You know you'll only every jump from them, and that you'll only ever jump to the specified label.

> destructors being called magically on an object that goes out of scope Which C doesn't have.

But here's the kicker: the worst thing Oracle can possibly do is to say "yeah, that whole Linux distro that we used to give you for free? We're not doing that anymore." So even if …

This is what Oracle Linux already does, so Red Hat is only hurting themselves by not doing so, since anyone who wants this can just go to Oracle. (Notwithstanding the fact that Oracle is evil.)

No, we shouldn't. Copyright is important; it just happens to be broken right now. We should fix it instead of destroying it.

I think the point is that a lot of people use Word for jobs that LaTeX is designed for.