To be specific, the GPLv2 clause 6:

And the "license" section of the GBA4iOS readme file (a copy of GPLv2 is not included with the source):

If the code is licensed under the GPLv2, then that grants us permission to use/modify/distribute his code, and thus his supplemental permissions (and restrictions on granting that supplemental permission) is not required. I interpret this as an offer of an alternative license, not additional restrictions placed on top of the GPLv2, which is good, since GPLv2 forbids it. Either you use the code under the GPLv2, or you get permission from him to use the code outside the GPLv2 with the additional restrictions.

You can not do repairs or inspections of any substance in a few hours at a natural gas plant. The turbines and boilers need a couple of days before it cools down enough to insert a bore scope without melting. You would also not be messing with pumps, filters, or anything else in the timespan of a few hours, as you wouldn't know when a dispatch order could come.

The term is "Dark Pattern"

Comcast is losing market share everywhere there is an upstart alternative. My neighborhood got fiber installed just last year and the uptake is more than 50%.

I watch youtube all the time and have never had to agree to agree to any terms of service

I have been saying to do this for a long time. On March 17th, I posted:

I would offer a version of 7 or 10 that only got security updates and charge for the updates.

If people want to run a cutting edge version of Windows, that's fine. The business world just needs a 7 or 10 that just stays the same.

I worked for a place where I was on call about a week or two out of a month. It was pretty rare to get called out, but when you did, IT SUCKED. It might mean a three hour trip, one way, in the middle of the night. That's toward the top of my list why I no longer work there.

And even if you weren't on call, you might still have to deal with things locally or be available to help out the person on call.

Hollow core fiber

Why do you assume that the hardware running the simulation has problems with keeping the state of every particle in the universe?

Not even GNU C, the kernel is written in kernel C and C compilers have to be adapted to be able to compile it correctly.

GCC and Clang are the only compilers that work. There used to be support for icc as well, but compiler-specific tweaks are required for every compiler, and it was not worth the effort.

In the theory of games its called unconscious collusion.

In tournament poker in a 3-way hand, when one player is all in, it is common practice for the other two hands to then check it down, making sure that both of their hands have a chance to beat the all-in player knocking them out of the tournament...

Nobody agreed to this before-hand. The collusion is emergent.

last ice age, there was heaps of ice around the poles, and that ice has mass. Over time, gravity pulled that mass down, which caused the ice free equator to bulge up. Then the ice age ended and the ice went away, and ever since then the planet has been adjusting - the equator pulling down and the poles raising up. Like the spinning ice skater pulling her arms in, the equator pulling in speeds the planet's spin up.

But if this was the case, why hasn't this been a steady speed up over the last hundred years? Why the steady slow down, then sudden speed up? Global warming comes to mind, as it does in everything, but the mass of glacial ice lost is too small and too recent to be having this effect, surely?

Everyone's pretty confident that this anomalous speed up will end soon, and we'll return to the expected steady deceleration.

Because we know the Earth to be slowing in the long term, so an increase is speed has to be a short-term glitch. How short term? I don't see it stretching beyond a second , unlikely to stretch to tens of seconds, and a UTC/UT1 difference of even 10 seconds is unlikely to be problematic.

On the other hand, we've only had clocks accurate enough to measure this for under 100 years, so saying that we understand Earth's rotation might be a stretch.

The digital world is chasing something.

Unfortunately that something is mostly decided by marketing and fetish.

How many millions of lines of code are required to render this post on your screen? Apply that to all webified apps, even the ones that run locally.

We are so far removed from the metal at this point, the only rational direction is backwards.

It remains to be seen if AI-branded computers will outsell anything.