Eric S. Raymond

@esrtweet

Yes, I *am* that ESR. Well, it's the question people usually ask. Programmer, wandering philosopher, accidental anthropologist, troublemaker for liberty.

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Joined May 2010

Eric S. Raymond
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Everybody loves @MarkKnopfler. It's worth thinking about why. It only starts with the fact that he's an amazing guitarist and songwriter who's been pouring his soul into recordings for nearly 50 years. I think it's because he's not fake, doesn't project a huge ego, and doesn't
🎸 Rock History 🎸
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Happy 77th birthday to the legendary guitarist and singer of Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler!
Eric S. Raymond
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16h
Announcing cvs-fast-export release 2.4 Your system package manager probably knows this as 'cvs-fast-export' Export an RCS or CVS history as a fast-import stream. This program analyzes a collection of RCS files in a CVS repository (or outside of one) and, when possible, emits
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Export an RCS or CVS history as a fast-import stream. This program analyzes a collection of RCS files in a CVS repository (or outside of one) and, when...
Eric S. Raymond
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23h
Former mathematician here. Yes, the RH probably would have practical consequences, though they would take a while to materialize. The most likely avenue is through what it would tell us about the distribution of primes, which eventually could ripple through into cryptography and
TheHeretic
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Aug 11
Would solving the Rieman Hypothesis have any real world value beyond allowing Mathematicians to masturbate themselves into a frenzy?
Eric S. Raymond
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Aug 11
I always laughed at "defunding the police", because I know how that would go. The people who advocate it are incapable of thinking beyond first-order consequences. So, let's suppose major American city X fully defunds its police. How will this play out? For a short time,
Eric S. Raymond
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Aug 11
There's been a lot of talk lately about open-source projects getting overwhelmed with AI-generated pull requests. So I'm going to report my experience with this. I maintain 64 projects personally. To give you an idea of tempo, I've shipped releases of five of them in the last