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nickwitha_k , to science_memes in Academia to Industry

It’s even better at seeming knowledgeable about things that it may or may not be knowledgeable about.

nickwitha_k , (edited ) to linuxmemes in GNU-Linux

That’s the beautiful thing about gifting software with permissive licenses (when one wants to): it’s a gift and anyone can do whatever they want with it for free.

ETA: I DO think that it is important for one who chooses to license software permissively to be informed about their decision and its implications. But, just like consent in other areas, as long as one enters into it intentionally and with the understanding of what the license means, it’s noone’s place to judge (and, like consent in other interpersonal areas, the license can be revoked/modified at any time - with a new version). Honestly, really weird of those that take issue with individuals choosing to gift their software to humanity - there’s way more interesting and useful things to engage in in the FLOSS landscape.

nickwitha_k , to linuxmemes in GNU-Linux

…People who wanted to donate their software to the public with no strings attached could see an uptick in the number of users?

nickwitha_k , (edited ) to mildlyinfuriating in I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.

Yeah. That’s different. The way that I’d do it, supposing it didn’t need to be perfect (I’d use a vector-based program like Inkscape for that), would be to create the selection, paint bucket, contact selection by desired number of pixels, clear. Not as good as converting to a path but more intuitive to me having learned PS circa early 2000s.

nickwitha_k , to mildlyinfuriating in I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.

One can reduce to two steps:

  1. Draw elipse selection
  2. Fill with paint bucket

I’ll not disagree that it is unintuitive, however. But, that was not the statement.

nickwitha_k , to mildlyinfuriating in I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.

So does Gimp…

nickwitha_k , to news in ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

Nah. They’ll be happy that minorities are hurt too.

nickwitha_k , to technology in The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

And if you have a 3D printer, you can make your own pieces and share them with others.

I really wish that an affordable desktop chip fab was a thing. Maybe with graphene semiconductors it could be feasible.

nickwitha_k , to technology in Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

Curious from your perspective what you’d like to see. From mine, Viture and Xreal are nearly perfect, with the exception of Xreal failing to be supportive of open APIs.

nickwitha_k , to news in ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

This is an appropriate reaction, in my opinion. Modern economic philosophy is entirely myopic with no apparent perceived value in anything beyond the next quarter. From that perspective, if your employees have already created value and you’ve budgeted more than severance would cost (or think you can get away with constructive dismissal), then, for the quarter, getting rid of employees looks like a financial positive.

nickwitha_k , to news in ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

One day some MBAs are going to learn that if you don’t want constant turn over you give workers a pension so great they would crawl over their mother’s corpse to get it.

Plus, modern MBAs see turnover as a good things because it makes the short-term investors happy.

nickwitha_k , to technology in Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

That’s what they were SO close to getting. Solutions like Xreal Air and Viture are just much more comfortable and less isolating.

nickwitha_k , to nottheonion in Michigan Republicans' bill: Make AR-15 state's official rifle

Indeed. I think that my questioning was more rhetorical but explicitly spelling it out can be helpful.

nickwitha_k , to linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

Exactly. Bad actors are going to act badly. Unfortunately, something that we have to accept as reality (and something that some political philosophies fail to plan for). Bad actors will break the rules and, if they are wealthy, they will more often than not get away with it in the current state of affairs.

However, I would say that you bring an interesting point. It would be worthwhile, philosophically to have a “Pacifist MIT” license, being permissive but explicitly denying legal use to MIC.

nickwitha_k , to nottheonion in Michigan Republicans' bill: Make AR-15 state's official rifle

The state of Michigan has no historical connection to the AR-15, to my knowledge. Why don’t they pick something that is actually native to Michigan like the Johnston Muzzleloader?

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