You can’t generally just add license terms to an open-source license. At that point, it is not anymore an open-source license, but rather your own custom (a.k.a. proprietary) license.

As in, there’s a list of license texts that are approved by the Open Source Initiative and you don’t really want to deviate from that. (There’s also a list by the Free Software Foundation for the more freedom-loving among us, which is rather similar and also valid.)

This also has larger legal implications. There’s been lawsuits for open-source licenses, to which you can point and tell a company to fuck off, if they do a similar violation. As soon as you start adding own terms, there can be contradictions and just generally surface to attack.

In particular also, most code exists in the form of libraries. If you’re a library and you want users, you do want to stick to the well-known licenses, because no one wants to deal with each library having different custom terms (considering you can easily end up using hundreds of libraries in an application).

Did you maybe accidentally turn on the “drunk” mode at the top?

I saw this picture many years ago already, so I don’t think that’s happening anymore…

Hmm, that’s interesting. Don’t you guys generally use concrete for paving in the US? In building construction, you’re supposed to give concrete like a month to fully harden, even though it already looks firm after a day or so.

For paving, they’re likely using a hardening accelerator, so the timelines wouldn’t be the same, but if building construction is anything to go by, it seems like you’d want to give it as much time as possible, not send cars on there while it’s still hot. 🥴

Well, no, but not every funny story ends with a near-death experience…

First rule of the community is “You must post before you leave”. So, people just put “rule” into their post title to reference that.

Said first millionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brannan

It’s quite wild. He’s also considered the first to publicize that there is a gold rush, much like these modern AI companies hype up their products to no end.

Labe explains that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere tends to peak in April each year as decaying plants release greenhouse gases after winter. Some of that CO2 gets reabsorbed by plants as they grow during the warmer months.

In case anyone else is wondering why it doesn’t just go up continuously…

A bucket of bytes. 🙃

The old “tomatoes are not a vegetable” is pretty frustrating. They are a vegetable.

In botanical terms, the concept of a vegetable does not exist, which is where tomatoes are classified as fruits. But in culinary terms, vegetables do exist and tomatoes are classified as such.

I just find it frustrating, because I believed that garbage myself at some point, and I thought, I was smart for knowing that.
Just one of those examples that you can easily spread misinformation, so long as you make it sound plausible.

Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.

Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman’s discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand

If it’s brandname Jell-O, then the brand might know how much they’re delivering to each store…

Huh. We don’t either in Germany, but I assumed, it was largely because the whole place is inhabitated. Is there not some desert or Alaska or something in the US, where no one minds?

Oh man, if not someone else would’ve also mentioned Spongebob, I would’ve been really on the fence whether you’re just making a elaborate joke or not…

I mean, without knowing the details what your scrum master does, that feels more like a ‘product owner’ role to me.

But to be fair, I’m also not sure, what the ‘scrum master’ role is actually supposed to do. Some say, scrum masters really need to be deeply involved in the whole project to be able to question/assist the way of working.
And then there’s the reality at my company, which is that scrum masters often have 10+ projects, where they just hop between meetings to host them, while hardly being able to contribute anything…

I imagine, this is more about software devs than sysadmins. Sure, you’ll hire a couple more sysadmins to help with the massive user growth during the pandemic. But especially combined with loans basically being made free in the same time, it’s suddenly worth hiring a bunch of devs to build the Next Big Thing™.

Once those loans start costing again and the user numbers fall off, you quickly have lots of devs that you can’t find tasks for, that are worth doing.

A flork of cows? I hear, you have to license their works…

Also worth mentioning that universities generally see themselves as research facilities first and foremost. They teach students, because they want to get the next generation of researchers.

Sure, they’ll also do job training to some degree, because it’s a good argument to get more funding, but yeah, just not their primary goal.

I feel like that’s exactly why we don’t have a generally-accepted definition of consciousness. Western ethics assigns special protection to whatever is conscious, so it is convenient to come up with a definition of consciousness, which excludes groups you want to exploit.