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dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Please link to where I said not to use copyleft licenses. Check the usernames carefully.

Note that I don't agree that GPL and MIT are equivalent, or that GPL becomes a non-copyleft open source license if not enforceable. IANAL but it might revert to the regular copyright law for wherever you publish software, not an open source license.
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
I didn't say you should avoid non-copyleft licenses? Indeed, all of my own OSS projects are non-copyleft.
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
From the blog post it seems like existing users kept using Redis but new users adopted alternatives instead.
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
There are good legal reasons to avoid the GPL; there are open legal questions about whether the GPL and its variants are enforceable.
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
I make an open source, MIT licensed piece of software. I don't accept unsolicited contributions, but I document that people are free to fork the code and provide instructions on how to develop, test and build on your machine.

Am I "fake open source"?
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Search "LTT Windows Modern Standby" on YouTube. Sadly all the workarounds to turn it off no longer work reliably. For reliable sleep, buy a Framework (only current Windows laptop that still supports S3 Sleep) or Macbook.
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Framework does! I think they might be the _only_ one to consistently support it.
dharmab
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Oh no, Windows Modern Standby is infamously terrible and unreliable. Here is a youtube video with millions of views explaining the problems in detail: https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c
dharmab
·3 lata temu·discuss
I do all my <3 mile trips on a ebike these days unless it's raining/snowing or I need to carry something large. It's great. The lifetime cost of ownership is a little more than my annual running costs for my car.
dharmab
·3 lata temu·discuss
I'm not sure about this specific use case, but a reason for using cgroupv2 over rlimit is that cgroup allows you to limit the resources of a _group_ of processes, which is handy if, say, your Python script uses the `subprocess` module.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
This is covered in the 9/11 commission report. Quoted below:

The protocols did not contemplate an intercept. They assumed the fighter escort would be discreet, “vectored to a position five miles directly behind the hijacked aircraft,” where it could perform its mission to monitor the flight path of the aircraft.

In sum, the protocols in place on 9/11 for the FAA and NORAD to respond to a hijacking presumed that:

(1) the hijacked aircraft would be readily identifiable and would not attempt to disappear;

(2) there would be time to address the problem through the appropriate FAA and NORAD chains of command; and

(3) the hijacking would take the traditional form, not a suicide hijacking designed to convert the aircraft into a guided missile.

On the morning of 9/11, the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen. What ensued was the hurried attempt to create an improvised defense by officials who had never encountered or trained against the situation they faced.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
Did you not get the intro pop-up explaining this is intended for use as part of a history class lesson plan for students born after 9/11?
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
I don't remember which news site, but one of the major ones had to go to a basic text-only format for several hours.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
Wayback machine for some web news of the day:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010911230123/http://www.nytime...

http://web.archive.org/web/20010911204733/http://www2.cnn.co...
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
> By the time I got out of training, the news cycle had moved on so it wasn't until the first anniversary of 9/11 that I saw the news footage of the event for the first time.

This might seem strange to some younger readers, but remember in 01-02 internet video (and, indeed, internet faster than dial-up) was not ubiquitous. My family has a VHS tape recording of the news that day because that was how the average person preserved TV broadcasts.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
There are very few days in history where so much changes in a single day. There's a very clear "before and after".

In my opinion, the 1990s began on Nov 9 1989 and ended on Sep 11 2001.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
LOL there's barely any regulation of motorcycle safety in the US. ABS brakes aren't even mandated here.

Pretty much the only regulation is the laughably bad DOT helmet standard. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUyp3HX8cY). Every rider I know who wears a helmet, buys an ECE or Snell helmet instead.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
While the majority of motorcycles in the US are recreational, there are many of us who use them as our primary commuter vehicle. Outside of the US, this is much more common, especially in Asia.
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
Oh man, wait until you find out about motorcycle helmets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUyp3HX8cY
dharmab
·5 lat temu·discuss
The Fortnine video being posted throughout this thread discusses the math- they're 50 times more effective than armor plates and are race-proven in motogp.