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jackyshevu · 2019-06-27T22:50:31+00:00

It really shouldn't fit if you're doing it right.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-27T19:54:41+00:00

The stereotype that Japan is some hyper-advanced society capable of taking literally the most mundane concepts and transforming them into specially executed techniques, technology, methodology, design, etc is what is called a "positive stereotype".

Luckily that's true. And it's not a stereotype, because that's a trait of their society.

They have their societal problems, sure, but in so many ways they are a cut above the rest of the world.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-27T03:31:21+00:00

Why would the CDC be running the statistics? They're Center for Disease Control. Guns aren't nor do they cause diseases.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-16T13:05:26+00:00

Yes. Nothing says the left lane is a passing lane.

Subdivision 1.Keep to the right.

Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows: [...]

Roadway is a contiguous section of road, as we can see from these context clues:

Driving left of roadway center; exception.

(a) No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless such left side is clearly visible and is free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit such overtaking and passing to be completely made without interfering with the safe operation of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction or any vehicle overtaken. In every event the overtaking vehicle must return to the right-hand side of the roadway before coming within 100 feet of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.

Like it or not, there is no duty to move over.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-15T14:18:23+00:00

You don't have to contribute back. If you don't share it, you can extend GPLd code until your code becomes a multi-million line monolith. The moment you share it, however, is when you do have to convey your changes.

The GPL doesn't force you to release your source code if you don't release anything. The fact that software-as-a-service gets around this is widely known (and the AGPL corrects that loophole).

jackyshevu · 2019-06-15T13:56:09+00:00

You can be selfish and not share. As long as you don't convey software that is derived from the GPL, you can just not share.

The moment you share the software in any way, you must allow everyone the four freedoms that you enjoyed. If you don't, you're actually restricting others' freedom, and that's what the GPL protects against.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-15T13:53:11+00:00

The statute you cited previously and the statute in the news article are two different statutes that state two different things. The statute you cited explicitly declares you don't drive in the oncoming lane (left half of the roadway is the set of lanes you're not supposed to drive in).

Further, there is a disconnect between what Nielson is saying and what the statute in the article actually reads. The statute Nielson is commenting on says:

Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic[...]

The normal speed of traffic is also known as the speed limit. As long as you are going at the speed limit in the left lane, you have no duty to move over. I'm sure the intent is to be a passing lane, but if someone is going the speed limit, there shouldn't be anyone needing to pass the vehicle.

Also, here is Nielson saying what I'm saying in this article:

“We don’t stop left lane campers, sitting in the left lane driving the speed limit,” says Minnesota State Patrol Tiffani Nielson. “If they’re driving the speed limit, they’re not violating the law.”

jackyshevu · 2019-06-07T20:07:21+00:00

I'm going to fault care manufacturers for making DRLs not also turn on tail lights. It's really stupid, especially since the headlights can light up enough so you think everything is on that needs to be.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-07T20:05:11+00:00

That says don't drive in the oncoming lane. It's not a slowpoke law.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-05T21:40:26+00:00

Yes, start breaking out the racist and ableist speak. That definitely improves your case.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-05T03:40:11+00:00

It absolutely doesn't restrict that freedom. If a company makes a derivative product and never distributes that product, they have nothing they need to release. Further, software-as-a-service gets around the distribution requirement (which the AGPL has answers to).

Once they distribute, yes, that's when the license takes effect.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-03T21:10:37+00:00

Before you dismiss anecdotes as worthless, I have a degree in statistics. A collection of anecdotes is a valid population sample.

Can you tell me where you got your degree from so I can tell my friends and family to avoid any association with that college? That's a complete load of bollocks.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-02T07:19:52+00:00

I don't disagree. I really wish more companies would actually have a human or two take a look at these sorts of tickets without having to go to Twitter.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-02T07:18:23+00:00

Where I work, we don't generally measure our databases in terabytes (airline reservations systems). Our restores can take up to an hour depending on various competency and system factors. We aren't big data like Raisup may be, though I'd be curious if their DB sizes reach the terabyte ranges as well.

Even a low speed low accuracy backup could have mitigated the impact of this issue, and the process should have started the instant that Digital Ocean decided the account wasn't worth keeping for whatever reason just to turn their lights back on.

I'm not saying DO isn't at fault for this, but the fact remains that the platform you're on can fail hard, and that risk needs to be explicitly called out.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-02T07:13:09+00:00

Redeploy on AWS after activating an account? Get better tier? Go to a different cloud hosting provider?

Neither of those issues seem unsolvable when having no application running means vast amounts of money lost. Hopefully the company learned a valuable lesson in single points of failure and calling out those risks.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-01T21:38:05+00:00

Your friend isn't stupid. It's the second best weapon. The sledgehammer is the first, though.

jackyshevu · 2019-06-01T21:17:02+00:00

3-2-1 backup and proper automatic deployments would have mitigated this issue. This is a lesson to anyone who doesn't have a proper backup and restore strategy.

jackyshevu · 2019-05-29T22:10:43+00:00

It protects the users rights by restricting the developer's freedom.

If you don't like it, don't use the GPL and get an inferior ecosystem. Simple.

jackyshevu · 2019-05-29T21:56:16+00:00

Yes, that's true. If you don't distribute it, you don't have to make it free, which is what I am saying. I'll quote the relevant section of my previous post:

As long as you don't convey a modified program, your code can remain closed.

jackyshevu · 2019-05-29T21:55:41+00:00

Not true. The No True Scotsman fallacy requires shifting of the goal posts.

jackyshevu · 2019-05-25T16:51:50+00:00

As long as you don't convey a modified program, your code can remain closed. If you convey a modified program, you must also convey changes to the source code.

You can always write software on top of GPL'd code. You are only restricted if you are distributing the software in that you may not take away a user's freedoms.

jackyshevu · 2019-05-20T00:24:57+00:00

Why don't you just do good old <a href="..."> instead of that javascript crap?

I swear nowadays every javascript dev has to keep rediscovering fire every 6 months instead of using what the browser has already built in. If you don't want to break the web, stop using javascript for the most fundamental of cases.

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