lordmauve @ lordmauve @programming.dev

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This software is not for you. It's for the author. It's in furtherance of their research, or their career, or their interests. It is only incidentally available to you.

That's it, that's the whole story. You get a GUI if the authors wanted there to be a GUI.

If you join a community around the product - which would require being nice, willing to engage, understand, not make demands - you might be able to give feedback and occasionally help steer the direction of the product.

And fuck you.

You mean...

This bullshit is why I use Pyrhon

Finally, the drivers will be able to play Angry Birds while they race.

Yeah, I shell out for the premium electricity, the 99% electrons. The 95% stuff is fine but I have a lot of expensive devices; I want them to run as fast as possible.

Isn't the point of these discounts to allow the store to unload goods that customers otherwise would avoid due to low remaining shelf life, and recoup some of the purchase costs? If they don't discount it will end up costing them money.

Python already has this.

Maybe I'd take the first year in prison for a half a million* but ask me again 1 year later, do you want to do a second year? No, I want 600k. Next year, 700k. 44 years? Honey, you can't afford it.

I wouldn't, my number is higher than that.

The price difference is quickly made up for with the re-usability factor.

I don't think that's true, CD-Rs cost pennies. You have to rewrite every CD-RW 4 or 5 times before it's comparable in price. In practice, across every CD-RW ever made, the approximate number of times it is written is probably about 0.5

No, those are both trademarks, you're associating 𝕏 with your tech business (to the extent that Elon Tracker is a tech business).

But if you start a plumbing business you can call it 𝕏, because trademarks are industry-specific.

You might be able to get away with starting a business called XYZ and putting 𝕏 symbols all over your website as long as it obviously isn't your logo.

Or you can publish images of people doing unspeakable things with the 𝕏 logo. As long as you are not claiming to be 𝕏, you can use the 𝕏 glyph however you like.

This is not true of the bird logo. You aren't by default allowed to reproduce it, so the company can allow you to, with extra conditions of their choosing. They can make you take down images of people doing unspeakable things with the bird logo, on the basis that it contravenes their terms and therefore is not covered by the license.

I like Tom Scott, I think his videos are interesting and well produced. But I'm glad for the break, I think I've reached saturation on Tom Scott content and am starting to find Tom Scott's Tom Scott mannerisms and speech patterns to be a bit too gratingly Tom Scott. The earnest Tom Scott monologues, Tom Scott's Tom Scott laugh while experiencing something Tom Scott about 3/4 predicted, the Tom Scott pause before delivering that last Tom Scott factoid.

Anyway, I hope he has a nice break and comes back some day soon.

𝕏 is actually a Unicode symbol, so musk can’t trademark it

That's not true, it absolutely can be a trademark. You might be thinking of copyright - he can't copyright the current 𝕏 logo.

The rights you'd get from each protection are different and a sensible business probably would want both. Trademark protection would prevent another tech company trading as 𝕏; copyright protection for the logo would let you set terms on how it is used.