CWuestefeld

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by CWuestefeld 4mo ago
I mostly agree with your criticism of my post. I was being generous trying to avoid being inflammatory here, since I know there are readers that strongly support socialist ideas (in the strict sense, not just the "safety net" sens
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by CWuestefeld 4mo ago
an honest and accurate correlation between display of effort and value Hmmm. Your choice of words here has just sparked a realization for me. Before you said this, I was completely on board with the original post. But in juxtaposing effor
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by CWuestefeld 4mo ago
This has been my policy for a couple of decades. When somebody posts just a bare link (especially if it's to a video), I refuse to click. If it's not worth your time to introduce why something is relevant, then it's not worth
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by CWuestefeld 4mo ago
I acknowledge that the airline captain has some responsibility for our security. But part of this responsibility is being a steward for our overall well-being. And in this case, the "security" aspect is so vastly overwhelmed by th
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by CWuestefeld 4mo ago
I think godelski is being far too permissive in his odds. As he says, we need to examine how (un)likely is it that somebody is trying to execute this terrorist action, including being competent enough to create a workable bomb, to sneak it
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
Essentially, put in the effort and do the liquid bowel prep. It's not just about effort. I must do the liquid prep due to my Crohn's disease. And while I am able to get the liquid down (as you note, it helps to make it as cold a
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
I generally agree with your point about it being simply emergent behavior. But on the other hand, the timing (having seen over the past week or so several articles about the most disastrous IPCC model now having become implausible) makes me
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
Trademarks are a fundamentally different kind of IP. With copyright and patent, the creator of the work is being protected. But with trademark law, it's not about protecting the content of the IP as such. It's about protecting the
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
I assume that the repository of books was used as training data, but not by way of the annas-archive domain. Instead, it would make a lot more sense for them to download the whole pile via bittorrent, which has nothing at all to do with the
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
This was referenced at the bottom of the linked article. And yeah, I'm a big fan, too. I still have the CDs for it, and it still runs in Windows 11!
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
So they brewed up a bunch of ugly C macrology that enabled C programmers (or Visual Studio wizards) to define COM interfaces in header and implementation files that just happened to lay out memory in the exact same way as vtables of C++ pu
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
Speaking of single datum... > It's $4, the reviews are good, just buy it. Yeah, $4 isn't relevant. What is relevant is the time investment, which your response ignores.
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
I recall an internal (never released) project at IBM in the late 1980s. It was a tool for creating client-server GUI apps, programming them with the REXX language. You may remember that client-server was all the rage at the time, and REXX w
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
I think you mean "Envelop" (note the lack of trailing "e"). That was a neat tool, and community, back in the day. Too bad it didn't get anywhere.
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
I've seen that, but always assumed it would be a more accessible account, and not tickle the technical developer itch. I recently read Jordan Mechner's The Making of Prince of Persia , and while it was interesting, it wasn't
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
VB was never included in Windows (although it did include the runtime files). Windows did include other BASIC-related stuff, like GW-BASIC, QBasic, and VBScript.
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
Economic theories, like scientific theories, are successful if they correctly predict what will happen if you do X. In addition, an economic theory can only be useful if the actions that they dictate can actually be put into practice; if
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
There is this pervasive idea that MMT promotes limitless spending and I'm not sure where it comes from Right. The theory says you can (should?) spend until you hit the "inflation ceiling," then use taxes to drain liquidity.
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
I'd MUCH rather consider the completeness of my experience based on what I was able to experience, rather than how long I'd lived for. Sorry for the tangent, but this is a pet peeve of mine. From my perspective, it seems like our
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by CWuestefeld 5mo ago
If we take the point of view that LLMs are tools (I agree), then people need to be absolutely certain that these tools don't contain (compressed) representations of copyrighted works. I've pointed out elsewhere in this thread th
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
I'm not sure where in our lawbooks there are laws that specifically target humans to the exclusion of human-operated tools. There's also a TON of irony here. What an about face it is, for the community at large* to switch from &qu
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
And now are spitting out big chunks of copyrighted code and presented it as somehow transformed even though all they've actually done is change a few variable names. It's pretty likely that I've done the same thing. I mean,
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
You’re not a product that was created by other human beings based on someone else’s IP. It turns out that's false. We know that genes are patentable; remember back during the Human Genome Project, when there was such a rush to patent
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
I can't see how that can work. As a developer, the fact that my source code passed through a compiler - an automated tool - doesn't give the author of the compiler any claim on my executable code. As an artist, the fact that I use
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
but the ability for the agent to build it in the first place is based off of stolen IP. I honestly don't understand why the attitude that underlies this is so prevalent. When I write code, what I write and how I write it is informed
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
Anything I missed? Under Jobs, UX was king. Devices had to be intuitive, and features discoverable. Today, all that user-friendliness is gone. The devices are no longer approachable for a newbie: you have to just know how to use them.
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
This is so wrong, on so many levels, that I don't even know where to start. There are plenty of potential photographs that even modern sensor (or film) technology just can't do, like with questions of dynamic range. There are oppo
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
There's a kernel of truth here. But it's not true in the general case. Others have responded about dynamic range and HDR, and that's one area where a particular feature set is necessary for certain kinds of photography. Astro
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
Have you vetted them? They are all the same. Obviously I haven't tried all competitors, but I have tried many over the years. Some of them have innovations, some of them are crap. Lightroom imo has the worst raw converter algorithms
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
I'm not sure how what Adobe insists on is at all relevant. Reality informs us that there have always been competitors in the field: GIMP, DarkTable, ACDSee, Luminar, and many others. It's surely true that their existence has been

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