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That's non-free. Quoting from https://opensource.org/osd

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.


nonfree according to OSI and several other organizations. If you have strong feelings that direct you in such a way, there's no reason to hold their opinion in sacred regard. Multiple philosophies can coexist. The DFSG and the FSF's schools of thought for instance are often in conflict and yet the world keeps on spinning.

Your custom license built with your own philosophy will still interoperate just fine with many common open source licenses, and as a bonus for some, will ward off corporations with cautious lawyers who don't like unknown software licenses.


Non-open, you mean. OSI never tried to contribute to the free software movement.

Indeed. One of the most important freedoms you grant to others by using an Open Source license is the freedom to do something you might not like.

You're often not just building under existing things, but through them. We now have a lot under the roads. The Victorians built the subsurface lines of the London Underground with cut and cover, but Oxford is currently suffering overrunning works to lower a road under the station, because of unknown brick arches and utilities. Even the TBMs are building beside existing tunnels and basements.

What projects in developed countries have used cut and cover recently? In trying to find out, I see that HS2 under west London and the Canada line under Vancouver chose tunnels over cut and cover because it was cheaper.


> I see that [...] Canada line under Vancouver chose tunnels over cut and cover because it was cheaper.

Canada Line was mostly Cut-and-Cover - only the bits below downtown and crossing below the water were bored, the bulk of the underground was done cut and cover for cost and speed to make sure it opened for the 2010 olympics.

It was not a popular choice - not really announced before the project was approved, and local businesses along the route took a big hit.

Vancouver's current Broadway Line Extension is being done with TBMs to avoid the impact that the cut and cover canada line segment construction had.


It also resulted in a rail line that has to slow down significantly to round screeching curves along the path of the road above.


> What projects in developed countries have used cut and cover recently?

Not really a new project, but parts of the subway in Stockholm are cut and cover. One of those tunnels (from the 1930s) has been leaking in water for some years and is up for a total overhaul, so basically digging up everyting and doing a new cover.

The section is 8 m wide and 925 m long, projected timeline is 6-7 years starting this fall. It will be a massive project, as one of the busiest streets in Stockholm is directly on top of it.


> What projects in developed countries have used cut and cover recently?

I know in Sweden the Västlänken project partially used cut-and-cover at least for the part going southwards..

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


The article said out of 89 current projects 80 were TBM so it isn't surprising you don't know of the exceptions. I don't off the top of my head either.


I imagine it's also a bit difficult to separate it this cleanly, as most bigger projects will probably use a mix of technologies: cut and cover where possible (if it leads to savings), TBMs or other technologies like NATM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Austrian_tunneling_method) for the rest. Even if TBMs are used for the tunnels, cut and cover will probably be used for things like stations, emergency access points and intermediate TBM starting points (of course, the TBM starting points might be future stations).


> I imagine it's also a bit difficult to separate it this cleanly, as most bigger projects will probably use a mix of technologies

Case in point – the Karlsruhe tram tunnel (listed in that dataset as simply "Tunnel Boring Machine") used a tunnel boring machine for the main east-west tunnel, but a combination of NATM and cut-and-cover for the north-south branch. The stations and the associated road tunnel project were all cut-and-cover, too.


Combining is an option. However a large part of the cost of TBM in the initial get it into place and then when you are done taking it out (sometimes you just leave that expensive machine down there). Thus if you must use a TBM the farther you can go in that one dig the overall cheaper the tunnel.


Is it possible to compare this to humans in another way? Could it be said that Waymo avoids 95% of the accidents that we regularly get in, and does have 3% of accidents that we manage to avoid. I think a major hurdle to mainstream acceptance is the errors that robots make, and a real mind doesn't.


CorsixTH - https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH

A modern platform's clone of the 1997 Bullfrog game Theme Hospital, where you manage a series of hospitals. CorsixTH is mostly feature complete, with additions like player made maps and levels, and some ease of use changes. The game logic and layout is in Lua, the backend is C++. We have some issues marked Good First Issue, and long term plans including multiplayer. The documentation and wiki are good, and there's a Matrix/Discord room. Also an Android port - https://github.com/alanwoolley/CorsixTH-Android


I wrote a bash script to put a colour dot in the mac menu bar to represent the CPU temperature. I barely used it when I was on Intel, and it doesn't work on Apple Silicon. It's now only possible to ask for the thermal pressure, and be told a descriptor, always 'Nominal' in my case. I wrote the change but haven't pushed it.

https://github.com/tobylane/Bin?tab=readme-ov-file#tempinbar


The Chelsea Physic Gardens say they have a microclimate that supports more tropical plants. I enjoyed the other half of the garden more, where they explain where medicinal plants come from and what they're used for. There's a riverboat pier near there too.


I've bought William Dalrymple's new book The Golden Road for my dad's birthday, which I plan to borrow and read before seeing the new British Museum and Library's exhibitions. I wonder if these will prompt more articles like this.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140886441X https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/silk-roads https://silkroad.seetickets.com/timeslots/filter/a-silk-road...


Thanks for the link. Weirdly, the hardcover (not yet out) costs less than the paperback for the US. https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Road-Ancient-India-Transformed...


A good interview with the author https://youtu.be/xw4Wb2v-6yk?si=8uAixLGUCt4Yl9sE


Jenny Radcliffe's The People Hacker is a similar book, with an adaptation in the works. https://deadline.com/2023/04/people-hacker-jenny-radcliffe-s...


When would the Chrome version be frozen? Once you've completed the UI?


> When would the Chrome version be frozen? Once you've completed the UI?

Updates keep us secure. /s


You're not testing what you think you're testing. We can verify an image, but still have problems with the story below the image. I don't think this should be half-solved, it would give false credence to real images used in lies. Or the reverse, you discredit a fake image of Musk you saw yesterday, but tomorrow he does it for real.

You'd need to give political campaigns' keys some trust, for images you expect from them. But what if they start signing images that you wouldn't expect from them, then you have 'verified' fake news.


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