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GNU GPLv3 At the Heart of the Black Hole Image (www.tfir.io)
arnieswap quotes TFIR's report on the black hole image:
Free and Open Source software was at the heart of this image. The team used three different imaging software libraries to achieve the feat. Out of the three, two were fully open source libraries. The source code of the software is publicly available on GitHub.
Richard M Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project will be glad to see that both libraries (Sparselab and ehtim) are released under GNU GPL v3. Yes, you read it right – GNU GPL v3.
Richard M Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project will be glad to see that both libraries (Sparselab and ehtim) are released under GNU GPL v3. Yes, you read it right – GNU GPL v3.
Because he is a Russian owned Traitor, as the KKK / Republican party that supports him.
Go get your dick wet.
Maybe free software already won the "software wars", now I think there should be a fight against the "close source cloud".
You wolf down Vladimir Putin's jizz just as eagerly as Moscow Donald.
Russia replaced communism with kleptocracy, and on off chance that you are a Russian national instead of a kkk / republican traitor you should know that the reason your country is an impoverished shithole is that Vladimir Putin and his buddies stole all your money.
Moscow Donald's campaign manager and lawyer because even though you republican treason-cucks support Russia over America, especially when the Russian government is attacking our country we still have laws, and we usually enforce them.
My advice is to wipe Vladimir Putin's semen off of your face and to have yourself tested for herpes.
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Nope, it's entirely appropriate to call out a traitor.
Go stand on the WH lawn and say it for real. Posting it here where nobody cares isn't brave at all.
Why would saying it to a building be brave? You're a coward hiding from the truth. Trump is a traitor, everything he says is a lie, and you're a moron if you believe him on any of it - when he dies in prison you'll understand that.
Until then, calling out the traitor is always appropriate.
You're a lying faggot in support of a traitor, so calling you that exactly is 100% deserved. Trump will die in prison and the Constitution will be protected from dumb, inbred Republican faggots that don't understand or value it.
You aren't needed in this country. Try Moscow, traitor. Bring cash and your sucking-Putin's-cock face, like the traitors Drumpf.
Noting that the cowardly liar and his treasonous beta faggot sons are bitches isn't a "leftist" position, that's just the facts.
Trump's obese faggot corpse will hang right down the center of the gallows, and America will be great again right at that moment.
It should read:
GNU GPLv3 At the Heart of Richard Stallman's Butt Hoal
I've worked at a national institute in Europe and worked on software for reading out infrared cameras for space-observing satellites. Everywhere around me, both scientists and engineers, were replacing (or trying to replace) Matlab and other commercial software with Python. There were some Fortran holdouts, but these were also migrating to Python. Software engineers used C++ for the core, but these were little nuggets that shoved data from custom electronics to ethernet, and then Python would pick up the packets.
For some specific stuff, especially electronics engineers were not replacing Matlab. For instance to model electromotors. Mechanical engineers likewise. I never knew what they were using, but open source was not used anywhere at our institute. But the rest: Python, NumPy and SciPy.
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The Mathworks Mafia can burn in hell for all I care. Fuck that evilcorp!
The short clip I saw about the "image" made me skeptical. They threw a bunch of shit together and came out with the image they were expecting... is that really science?
AFAIK, the v3 of GPL is partially in response to companies trying to do content distribution platforms using open source software. The content owners are very particular about having DRM, and the platforms on which that content is distributed have to provide some sort of secure boot chain that prevents unauthorized software from running on the *hardware*. Those companies comply with the open source GPL v2 license and publish their source code for others to use, but they do not allow modifications of that source code to run on their hardware. Not clear to me why a software license should extend to the hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
GNU software is not free software. It was used because it was there, so it was convenient.
Tell me about it. We've been trying to persuade some astronomers off of IDL / Intel Fortran for years to no success.
between engineers and scientists.
Engineers are paid to deliver commercial products as quickly and cheaply as possible with little regard to actual knowledge ... until the company gets sued. There will be exceptions.
Scientists are paid to solved questions with testable and repeatable solutions. There will be exceptions.
No Ada?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
you read it right – GNU GPL v3
Why is it remarkable? Is it because it is weird since the G of GPL already means GNU?
GPL3 is just like a blackhole - it sucks so hard it destroys everything it touches.
i would be surprised if NO open source software would have been used.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
While the initial "G" in GNU does mean GNU (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), the "G" of "GPL" stands for "General"—General Public License. The GNU GPLs are so widely used and discussed that one can get away with saying "GPL" to mean one or more versions of the GNU General Public License. 'General' here means not specifically written for a particular GNU program. When GNU started different GNU programs had their own license—GNU Emacs General Public License for GNU Emacs, for example. It's not hard to see how this approach doesn't scale up well. The GNU GPLs are the license for many GNU programs. Today GNU GPL v3 is the latest such license and the license itself and GNU's pages about that license make it clear that the proper full name of this license is "GNU General Public License".
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Everywhere around me, both scientists and engineers, were replacing (or trying to replace) Matlab and other commercial software with Python.
How ironic! That's what I'm doing today. It would really be nice if scipy.io.loadmat would import nested MATLAB structures structures without a bunch of hacks.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".