CaptArmchair

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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Sapiens has only been around for 300k years. Writing and, arguably, civilization is only 5.000 years old. If you subtract 5k from 300k, you still have about 300k left. If you subtract 300k from 10 million years, you still have about 10 mill
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Interoperability isn't the problem. Leverage to enforce your own IP, or lack thereof as an individual, is. Just because you publish content on the Web doesn't mean you give license to anyone to use it however they want. IP is root
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
> Only if you want the species to survive Paradoxically, "survival" assumes adapting to ever-changing circumstances, which means that homo sapiens, given enough time, is bound to evolve into one or multiple new species given en
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
I think this is going to be a test of the fair use doctrine. https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/ Now, there's this idea that "news" is just factual and therefore falls under "fair use". However
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Well, here's the link to the post-mortem of said "horror" story on the Roblox blog: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-... TL;DR The outage was caused by (a) they enabled a
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
I think the point of the author was that as a young - implied: inexperienced - developer he was blinded by the power of being able to describe the world in code; and inadvertently got stuck in the rabbit hole. Learning to take a step back a
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Moreover it's "opt-out" and not "opt-in": > A new metrics collection setting will be added to the privacy page in gnome-initial-setup and also to the privacy page in gnome-control-center. This setting will be a t
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
These laws being byzantine is the result of almost two decades of legal battles. Meta and Google have batteries of competent lawyers and lobbyists, constantly testing for legal loopholes, interpretations and contesting complaints in Europea
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
> A lot of Isn't that the issue? How is "a lot", and is that number representative for everyone who publishes text, video, pictures,... on the Internet or, more limited, the Web, or, even more limited, a handful of online
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
The author also designed the "Spring '83" protocol, which is a really quirky, neat way of disseminating information in a small way i.e. like classifieds in a newspaper. https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/spec
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
Yes, gambling ads will be banned as well. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belgium-bans-gambling-a...
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
I don't think so.
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
> To develop the third world, it might be more informative to look at the postwar trajectories of Japan, Singapore, Korea, and of course China. That's the exact sentence, and it doesn't sit right with me for three distinct reas
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
I would argue that "applying lessons" ignores not just local geology, but - more importantly - local / regional culture, politics, socio-economics, etc. as well. It assumes that, throughout history, the rest of the world sub
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
Well, I disagree.
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
The author actually acknowledges that opinions on legitimate use of pre-flop charts in the poker community are highly divided. It's a controversial topic. > Overall, the app was controversial. Many of the Reddit comments were negati
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
I can think of several good reasons to self host from your own home. Then again, those reasons are tangential to the core notion of self-publishing / independently publishing on the Web. There are two key goals here. First, being in fu
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
Yup. 10 commits, first commit was just 4 days ago. Same with their public website & docs. On Github, it's all barely 4 days old. Brian Lovin has released his work under the MIT license. AFAIK I believe this leaves it open to others
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
> No-one ever gets sued. ... Yet.
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
Yeah, it's a fallacy called "changing the goalposts". It's bringing up an argument that, although true in and of itself, is not relevant to the subject of the ongoing debate.
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
> How can it properly attribute it? There it is. If you have to ask that question, it follows that co-pilot isn't the right tool for developers to use in the first place. Would you - or your employer - want to risk a lawsuit because
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
> His code is already used in thousands of repos without proper attribution. Isn't that worse? True. And those are license violations as well. But we aren't discussing those. We are discussing an online service created by a lar
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
Regarding Canberra, after WWII: > Immediately after the end of the war, Canberra was criticised for resembling a village and its disorganised collection of buildings was deemed ugly.[96][97][98] Canberra was often derisively described as
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
Well, I just pointed out it's an ongoing debate, I didn't connect any particular value attribution to that statement. > Suppose we add a button to a visual studio plugin called 'Copy me a function' and when you click
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
> A human quoting a human without attribution ... as opposed to AI. At the heart of the matter lurks a debate whether AI is an independent phenomenon which behaves in its own right, or a just a tool that's created and wielded by hum
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
> There's no known issue with file formats being lost. (I think this is what it's about) Esoteric, proprietary formats have a high risk factor. Long term preservation goes beyond administrative archives and includes niche softw
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
The answer is yes. Definitely yes. When you're the leader, it's not just about you and how you feel. It's about everyone. It's about fully understanding the gravity of the enterprise you're all pursuing and how the
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
US Residential electricity use in 2022: 1477 billion kWH. [1] 6% constitutes about 88 billion kWh according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). As of August 2022, published estimates of the total global electricity usage f
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
More apt would be: hindsight is a b. Everyone has a tendency to evaluate the past with today's knowledge and experience. That's a fallacy. You didn't so much "lose" 10 years, it just took 10 years to come to an unde
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
I was recently taught in first aid class that the survival rate of an out-of-hospital heart attack is about 10-12%. Heart attacks have a ton of causes, lifestyle is just one of those. Sometimes, things go very wrong without an apparent, exp

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