most hybrids run the engine for a few minutes a month anyway, as a precaution. keeps it lubricated and sloshes the fuel around to prevent it from layering.
also i don’t know how common this is but my car pressurises its tank to prevent offgassing, which apparently keeps the fuel good longer.
collecting wood for heating.
i use trekarta. you can load in custom maps for satellite data, and you can get the map to always point north.
i think i have seen multiple of them, some even in theater, but the only one i remember is the first iron man one.
so my hot take is that they’re… not very interesting.
well the important distinction is who is bound, right? your examples are all true of open source as well. the main difference between the two concepts is that if i withhold my changes to gpl-licensed code from you, you can sue me for breaching the license. if the software is mit, i am in my full right to deny you access. that’s not what i got from your wording.
so, what your first post describes is open source. this quote from the fsf also describes open source, but the important stuff is in the nuances of the wording. open source allows you to share your changes. free software forces it through legal means. sorry for being so curt at first, i elaborated in my other reply.
so, free software is a philosophy. software is judged to be free based on it’s adherence to the philosophy based on what they call the four freedoms: freedom to use, read, modify and share the software without restriction. based on those freedoms are free software licenses that enforce this. the most famous one, the gpl, also says that any modification must adhere to the same freedoms. this is what makes “free software” distinct from “open source”. (see also: “copyleft”)
the gpl means that you are entitled to receive the source code of any company that runs modified GPL software upon request. note that this does not prevent them from making money on the software, only that you as a (potentially paying) user must be able to get the sources without jumping through extra hoops.
this matters because all improvements are shared as a matter of course, and all source code can be audited. in theory. in reality this does not always happen, of course, which is why the fsf and similar organizations exist to drive these cases through courts. it matters because it acts as a brake on large actors using community-developed software without reciprocating.
that’s not what free software is.
well unfortunately desktop computers are kitchens, not restaurants. if you want a device purely for consumption, a pc is not the right choice.
is that not what taxes are? not being facetious, just genuinely trying to understand the difference
sorry, apple already took that one. call it Jeff or something.
one method that helps is to not think of it as a workaround but as assembling a kit. the base system only comes with what everyone will need, and adding on an extra piece makes it more yours. that also helps with motivation to do a good job of it.
that’s switchable graphics for you. nvidia refuse to spill their secret sauce so all the effort in supporting that over the past 10 years have been clean-room reverse engineering. the only way it will ever get any good is if nvidia does it, or if they open it up.
maybe not lesser known but Nick Cage’s real surname is Coppola. he’s Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew.
huh. wonder where i got that from then.
i wonder where i got the low number from then :/ can’t find it now
is that for all languages and with history?
I think the full dump of wikipedia complete with multimedia is like 5 GB. the text-only version is something like 100MB.
Tom Scott of all people did a bit of speculative fiction on the topic “what if the first AGI isn’t the one made by scientists” six years ago. it’s a more classic paperclip maximizer story, but interesting nonetheless.