Bjartr

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by Bjartr 3y ago
It makes less sense in the day of computers and the internet, but I think the reasoning seems to be that law enforcement asking someone that you voluntarily gave information to, for that information, is not a search of you or your property
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by Bjartr 3y ago
It is absolutely not self evident to me. I don't have high confidence that what the situation feels like based on the media that is readily available to me accurately reflects reality. Especially when it comes to international relation
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by Bjartr 3y ago
How does the rate of conflict in those places compare to the past few decades? I have no context to evaluate if 8 coups in Africa since 2020 is high relative to history.
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by Bjartr 3y ago
> also many more people claim to have without evidence I've long been curious what the ratio is in various situations like this. It seems the lynchpin for any argument for withholding support. I've only ever seen the equivalent
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Don't forget, there are two discussions here. One is around whether use of copyrighted works in training violates current laws. The other is whether the answer to the first question is to society's benefit, and if not, how should
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by Bjartr 3y ago
> Windows has become fairly good over the years at keeping the core UI responsive even when the system is under heavy load. I would say that's debatable. There are fewer complete freezes that require a restart, but things like the t
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by Bjartr 3y ago
That comments section is a trip and a half
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by Bjartr 3y ago
`greetingMsg`? `greeting`? Naming the other one differently? Splitting the work done with that message and the work done with this message into their own functions?
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by Bjartr 3y ago
He did say "unreasonably"
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Information can be both public and potentially sensitive
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Morally yes, but not legally.
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Can you go into some detail as to why?
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by Bjartr 3y ago
> too much scale for a few people to truly know what's going on Somewhat related is Dunbar's number https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Right, but Qt abstracts that interaction so KDE code doesn't have to care about it. The person you're replying to never implied X11 wasn't involved, just that it was abstracted away.
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by Bjartr 3y ago
It's a lot easier to add a pass to simplify an explanation by rephrasing or eliding information than it is to smarten up an overly simplified answer. You do want the underlying model to be capable of the advanced answers, since if it i
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by Bjartr 3y ago
I agree, this seems fairly cut and dry. People are jumping past the law as written to downstream actions that become feasible for the state if the law exists. This required reporting isn't the problem to attack though, it's those
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by Bjartr 3y ago
AIUI, turning on a dormant power plant is an expensive process, but utilities need to be careful to balance the amount of power they put into the network is close to the amount of power being consumed or "bad things will happen™"
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by Bjartr 3y ago
I feel like the intended colloquial interpretation of "ownership" here is a combination of responsibility and agency. Just because you're responsible for something doesn't mean you actually have power to influence the th
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by Bjartr 3y ago
As far as effective regulation from the FCC goes, one example would be how well 911 works (and that it actually works on cell phones in addition to landlines). It's because the FCC mandated telecoms include 911 capability, and that it
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Is there more to a death sentence than revenge?
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by Bjartr 3y ago
That raises an interesting question: Is modification of the source that is used to produce the executable software necessarily modification of software from a DMCA perspective? Or does the circumvention have to involve influencing an extant
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by Bjartr 3y ago
But then the hotels would have to manage & support it, with the extra apps and 3rd party management, it's somebody else's problem.
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by Bjartr 3y ago
> Paying for the service might be harder to manage without complicated apps. I mean, I can’t picture companies or utilities doling out power without a way to manage or bill drivers. Isn't that precisely a major point of the apps and
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by Bjartr 3y ago
How would the GPL stop them from removing the check? They'd have to share their changed kernel source, but nobody would want it.
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by Bjartr 3y ago
> I don't believe this at all. Feels like overexaggerating. Never underestimate how petty people can be. We've seen plenty of times in the past decade where people doing hiring will examine social media of candidates (on the ex
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by Bjartr 3y ago
You're right, it is open source. As such, this doesn't violate user freedom since if Nvidia, the user in this context, don't like this, they can fork the kernel and change the behavior however they want. Of course, nothing co
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by Bjartr 3y ago
For some, there's more to job satisfaction/QoL than just money.
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by Bjartr 3y ago
To add detail for the curious: Blood is hemoglobin, and circulates the body, delivering oxygen to where its needed. Whereas the "juice" from a piece of cooked meat is myoglobin, stores oxygen inside muscle cells until needed, and
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by Bjartr 3y ago
> Where I live, my monthly living cost is just $150. That's quite low! Mind if I ask where in the world that is?
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by Bjartr 3y ago
Not offended that Excel can do more, but potentially still inconvenienced by Libreoffice not having the thing they are familiar with or are forced to work with?

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