matrixrunner

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[–] matrixrunner 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, sure, unless somehow the dad-bod cop in the picture is a heavily disguised Carmelita Fox.

[–] matrixrunner 31 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Android Studio is a fork of IntelliJ IDEA, which is open sourced and free software (under Apache 2.0), with additions from Google (proprietary and closed source, as far as I can tell), so it has components that are both. This is compatible with the Apache license, which doesn't require that derivative works be distributed under the same license.

So, ultimately, Android Studio has some components that are open source and some that aren't.

[–] matrixrunner 2 points 10 months ago

Don't lose them.

[–] matrixrunner 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Without, for anyone interested. NoNewTextDocument

[–] matrixrunner 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, one can assert that a principle is useful, but that is not the same as asserting a specific claim. The point being made is about buttressing claims with supporting reason and evidence, not that making an uncomplex statement can be casually thrown out.

A different expression of the same idea is the (relatively new, but still not as recent as the 20th century) Latin phrase "Quod gratis asceritur, gratis negatur" -- loosely "That which can be easily asserted can be easily negated". The criticism is again of the support for the specific claim being made.

The point that unifies these two statements is that it takes effort to produce a robust, defensible, truth claim. What the Latin describes as an "easy" assertion, Hitchens can be read to imply as being lazy i.e. that gathering evidence and clear reason takes time and energy.

As to this principle itself, I would have difficulty arguing that it is easy to produce a valid truth claim without at least some effort. Brandolini's Law is an observation that it is easy to produce false or misleading information and difficult to refute the same. This is, again, just a distilled observation of a pattern, and the argument supporting it regresses to gathering as much bad information as possible, pointing at it, and saying:

"All of that wasn't checked and because we now have to unlearn these falsehoods, it takes that effort as well as the effort of learning the truth to improve our knowledge from this point."

[–] matrixrunner 5 points 11 months ago

Death - Symbolic

Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

Dream Theater - Images and Words

Mastodon - Leviathan

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Riot - Thundersteel

Symphony X - V, The New Mythology Suite

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

[–] matrixrunner 2 points 1 year ago
[–] matrixrunner 1 points 1 year ago

And the recent cover by Ghost is excellent too.

[–] matrixrunner 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cell connectivity.

A physical internet connection doesn't have many issues as at all with bulkier formats, but cell networks -- especially legacy hardware that is yet to be upgraded -- will have more issues sending as much data (i.e. more transmission errors to be corrected and thereby use up more energy, whereas the power cost of transmission error correction for cabled networks is negligible).

[–] matrixrunner 16 points 1 year ago
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[–] matrixrunner 4 points 1 year ago

Game of Thrones

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