Jerkface (any/all)

As a FreeBSD desktop user from the mid 90s, I held out for a LONG time before installing my first linux OS in my home. I still don’t really feel comfortable on any of my linux boxes, but I guess it’s been well more than ten years now.

Sooooo… he’s NOT leaving YouTube?

I think the distinction between data acquisition and data application is important. Consider the parallel of photography; you are legally and ethically entitled to take a photo of anything that you can see from public (ie, you can “scrape” it). But that doesn’t mean that you can do anything you want with those photos. Distinguishing them makes the scraping part a lot less muddy.

Yes. Piracy in the sense of stealing from ships in international waters is different from piracy in the sense of copyright infringement. Thanks for that.

Are you saying that the mere action of scraping is fair use, or that absolutely anything you do with the data you scrape is also fair use?

An “off” switch… She’ll get years for that! Off switches are illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AZZVnNw60&t=26s

what do ex lispers write? reality bubbles?

It doesn’t have a head like that. It places things in a conceptual space, not a numerical space. To it, a number is just an adjective, like a colour. It is learning to play chess by looking for language-like patterns in the game’s transcript. It is never attempting to model the contents of the board in it’s “mind”.

A proper Faraday cage, a truly excellent one, just the most Faraday of all the cages, is easily defeated by physical attacks such as getting your phone cloned when you get mass arrested and summarily released on OR.

emacs has been with me since the 16-bit era, across paradigms, across generations, across careers. When I use emacs I think in terms of what the elisp is doing. It’s such a deep and developed relationship, I would be throwing away so much personal power to use anything else.

There’s no rational reason typefaces shouldn’t enjoy protection.

Alternatively, why wait twice as long for your python code to execute as you have to?

It coerces any value into a bool, which can be a very helpful side effect.

I use Blender for that, too. Anything I don’t do in Blender I probably do in emacs…

I use Blender for video editing, and as long as I never use another video editing package, I am sure to remain perfectly happy with Blender.

Truthiness is so fundamental, in most languages, all values have a truthiness, whether they are bool or not. Even in C, int x = value(); if (!x) x_is_not_zero(); is valid and idiomatic.

I appreciate the point that calling a method gives more context cues and potentially aids readability, but in this case I feel like not is the python idiom people expect and reads just fine.

The main thing not is for is coercing a truthy value into an actual bool.

Strongly disagree that not x implies to programmers that x is a bool.

Then the new owners were only doing it for the money.

As opposed to what reason for owning a factory??

pro gamers disagree.