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Comment Re:This is why forking is a thing (Score 1) 120

"Redis" is not a person jackass. It is a project where MULTIPLE developers contributed code. Developer's contributed code with the understanding that it would be licensed as Open Source. Redis Ltd, the company behind "Redis", decided to change course and change the license model. That means developers can no longer use the "Redis" code that they contributed to and were allowed to use before. You can fuck off now, you useless prick.

Why don't you educate yourself before commenting in public and making an idiot out of yourself?

First, the people who contributed to Redis did so knowing they were contributing to a BSD-licensed project, which explicitly allows this type of behavior. It's precisely why a lot of people (myself included) don't like the BSD license. The GPL doesn't allow this sort of thing. So why do you think that Redis chose BSD over GPL? If you don't want your code to be taken and used in a closed source application, don't release it under the BSD license. If you do release code under that license, you have absolutely no right to whine about someone using your code in a manner that you con't care for. You explicitly gave them permission to do so. If you contribute code to a BSD licensed project and do so under any understanding other than "People can do pretty much anything they want with this code" then it's your fault for not understanding the license you used.

Second, the developers damned sure can use the "Redis" code they contributed and were allowed to use before. They can't use any ADDITIONAL code which is added to the project under a different license, but the last BSD release is and will always be available for use under the terms of the BSD license - which essentially means for any purpose what-so-ever. Claiming otherwise is either ignorance or intentional misinformation.

Comment Re: On the other hand... (Score 1) 97

There is a significant element of truth in what you say. We need to recognize and acknowledge that. But completely abandoning the concept of race is not the answer. There are significant health issues that are impacted by race. Sickle cell anemia and melanoma are two easy examples that correlate with race for different reasons, neither of which is related to social issues.

The popular concept of race was never particularly scientific, and the issue is absolutely muddied by historical prejudices. Most classification systems are artificial and boundaries are almost always fuzzy. The more you zoom in, the fuzzier things get. But that doesn't mean that generalized classification systems aren't useful, or have no scientific basis at all. Sigma taxonomy seems to be more scientifically valid than alpha taxonomy, but sigma doesn't abandon the concept of species.

Comment Re:Collection (Score 1) 328

We just spent 2 years NOT thinking of the children and focusing on the elderly.
As I recall we made children take a vaccine with higher chance of side effects than the actual virus all for the sake of 80+ year olds.

Just out of curiosity, how many other untrue things do you recall? Have you considered seeking (legitimate, mainstream) medical assistance for the issue?

Comment Re:WAR ON DRUGS RETARDED MEDICAL PROGRESS (Score 2, Insightful) 75

I do see the advantage of some drugs not being readily available. If you google images for "Krokodil drug" (don't do it if you want to be able to sleep tonight), you know why.

But I'd have a very different approach than the average conservative: How about finding out why people reach for shit like that and try to solve that issue instead of just outlawing something? I mean, let's be honest here: This is the time of the internet. These people KNOW what those drugs will do to them. They KNOW that. And despite KNOWING that this crap will (not might, will) kill them, they take it.

Am I the only one wondering "wtf, WHY?"

If you're serious about the "war on drugs", this is your battlefield.

Krokodil is a RESULT of some drugs not being readily available. How many people would turn to it if cheap, safe opiods were obtainable? People reach for shit like that because they're addicted and it's all they can get.

Comment Re:Seems like.... (Score 1) 59

A talented artist does have more control of the output with a pen than you do with an AI drawbot. But then again you have more control with a pen than you do with a cup of paint, and we still call it art when an artist pours paint on a canvas and moves it around. And arguably a novice artist has more control over art with a drawbot than with a pen. I know I do.

I don't think it's arguable at all. Certainly, the output is much more aesthetically pleasing if I use a drawbot than if I use a pencil, as I have no drawing talent at all. But that pleasing appearance is not a result of any skill or control on my part. If I draw a square with a pencil, it may be lopsided and uneven but it will be roughly squarish. I have direct control, even if I suck at it. If I give a drawbot a prompt of "square:, it may be a perfect square with 90 degree corners, or it may be a picture of a carpenter's tool or a bunch of dancers in cowboy hats and boots. I can increase the detail in my prompt to attempt to constrain the drawbot into the particular concepts I desire it to represent, but I am still applying indirect control of an external process.

Comment Re:Seems like.... (Score 4, Insightful) 59

If you believe in copyrights at all that whomever typed the commands to the bot should get copyright. The bot is just a tool little different than a pen or typewriter in the sense of who came up with the original idea to create said comic.

The fuck it is.

I hear you. I only buy art from artists who make their own pigments, craft their own brushes from wood and animal hair, and make their own paper from sawdust. That is a real artist. Anything less is just relying on the work of others.

False dichotomy is false. You're asserting that one either insists that true art must be pristine, completely original with absolutely no relationship to any other act of creation, OR one must accept that that all acts of purported creation are equally derivative and so should be given the same respect and prominence.

Tools can be viewed as devices which accept input and produce output. The output of a pen or a typewriter are highly dependent up specific and controllable details of the input. The output of an AI drawbot is largely dependent on things other than the user input. The user of a pen or typewriter knows what the output is going to be. The user of a drawbot has only a very general idea. The output of a pen or typewriter is very tightly coupled to the input. The output of a drawbot is so loosely coupled as to barely meet the meaning of the phrase.

So you can insist that using a pen is the same action as using a drawbot if you want. And I'll repeat. The fuck it is.

Comment Re:question answered in title (Score 1) 286

He does not seem to understand the difference between text mode and graphics mode.

Maybe not, but most terminal emulators operate in graphics mode. They emulate text mode.

And some if not all of what he's asking for is available.

I can "cat" an image to my terminal using my normal terminal, kitty, and viu. It wouldn't be difficult to write a script or an alias where the command cat would automatically select either the legacy cat or viu depending on file type.

fzf does fuzzy completion in a pop-up window. It wouldn't be difficult to link it to tab completion in zsh or some of the other more modern shells.

Comment Re:First Computer (Score 1) 523

Vic 20 was my first one as well. My first PC was a Tandy 1400 LT. I was in the Navy at the time and I bought the Tandy and a copy of Borland Turbo C++, then spent the next six months floating around the Persian Gulf teaching myself to program from the Borland manuals that came with the program.

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