Ryan Barrett 6 months ago

> > These two statements are both true: > *all accidents are preventable*> and > *we cannot prevent all accidents.* > – [Timber Stinson-Schroff](

Timber

Chronology

), *[Safe New World](

Summer of Protocols

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Safe New World Timber Stinson-Schroff From 1900 to 2017, the fatality rate in the American coal mining industry fell by 97%.1 What made this ...

)*, [Summer of Protocols](https://summerofprotocols.com/ )

Ryan Barrett 7 months ago

For me, the defining characteristic of open source is that you’re *giving up control* over your code. You can choose how much to give up, based on the license, but you pretty much always end up with less control than if you kept it closed source. That’s good! It’s the point. I tend to license [my open source work](

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) as public domain, which gives up as much control as possible, but that’s just me. Regardless, once you’ve given up control, it’s gone. You can re-license going forward, but not retroactively. You can’t – or at least, shouldn’t – try to claw back control later. You gave it up. That’s the whole point.

Ryan Barrett 7 months ago

[Morpheus, *The Matrix*, 1999]( ): > > What we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to…A.I. > 🤔

Ryan Barrett 7 months ago

The organizations with offices here in the [Mechanics’ Institute](

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) building have some pretty wild names. [](

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Ryan Barrett 7 months ago

Last night’s dream: I was on a TV game show where I had to search for Snoop Dogg, Tupac, and other ’90s rappers dressed in furry animal costumes, hiding in a basement. When I found one, they’d try to convince me to let them go. Nas said he was a nuclear scientist on the run from the Iranian government.