Closi

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by Closi 7mo ago
> the problem is network effects This is absolutely the problem - with the added issue of platform support. I’m the only Mac user in our company of 15, which means I’m also the only person that can open a .pages file. Anyone can read a .
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by Closi 7mo ago
We are going around in circles. Of all the examples, Dave Gnukem quite obviously infringes the trademark. Again, just because no one sued them doesn't mean it's not succeptible to a trademark infringement claim if the IP owners
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by Closi 7mo ago
GNU != Transport Tycoon Different types of media get treated differently by courts. If you repaint a painting 1:1 then you are liable to copyright. If you make a song that is too substantially similar you are liable to penalties. If your br
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by Closi 7mo ago
Giving a list of examples doesn’t mean this example is legal or would stand up in court. Other than the fact that most of these are very different situations, but even if they were the same it is like saying “snorting coccaine is legal beca
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by Closi 7mo ago
This list might just be survivor bias though - it only includes the projects where they didn’t get sued and taken down (either because the developer was ok with them, or because they strayed far enough into fair use). There are clear counte
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by Closi 7mo ago
Also even if it is a ground up rewrite, the look and feel still matters. Try creating a 1:1 dupe of a Hermes bag or a Rolex and see how their legal team reacts (even if you call it an OpenBirk)
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by Closi 7mo ago
Atari own all the IP and copyright. While OpenTTD is open source, it's basis is really that the original game was reverse-engineered, originally using the original assets, and then rebuilt. Also all the map data etc is owned by Atari,
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by Closi 7mo ago
I wouldn't feel that smug considering these are single prompt generations on a pretty small project. As Two Minute Paper's always says, it's not just about what this looks like at the moment, it's about what this might l
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by Closi 7mo ago
> Basically it's because what "AI" can do is extremely different from what "AI evangelists" claim it can do. You always have people at both sides of the aisle though - people who say it can do much more than it c
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by Closi 7mo ago
> Your reference to prompting is pretty disgusting since you try to shift the blame to the user. I'm shifting 'blame' to Spotify, rather than the user or the AI model - although blame is probably a pretty strong word anywa
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by Closi 7mo ago
From the article: > Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it
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by Closi 8mo ago
The counter however is that lots of schools are on 365, which doesn’t work so well on a Chromebook but works great on a mac.
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by Closi 8mo ago
I think we can safely assume that OP was picking a bit of a ridiculous hypothetical example to make a point that it’s possible for something to be deadly and transmissible, although in nature Baculovirus in Caterpillars has a similar mechan
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by Closi 8mo ago
Better models already exist, this is just proving you can dramatically increase inference speeds / reduce inference costs. It isn't about model capability - it's about inference hardware. Same smarts, faster.
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by Closi 8mo ago
Because humans always say 'bread' if you ask them what you put in a toaster. And humans will always deduce that you should switch doors if you are in a hypothetical gameshow and they show you a horse behind one of the doors. (All
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by Closi 8mo ago
Let's not forget that Einstein almost got a (reasonably simple) trick question wrong: https://fs.blog/einstein-wertheimer-car-problem/ And that many mathematicians got monty-hall wrong, despite it being intuitive
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by Closi 8mo ago
Humans aren't immune to getting questions like this wrong either, so I don't think it changes much in terms of the ability of AI to replace jobs. I've seen senior software engineers get tricked with the 'if YES spells ye
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by Closi 8mo ago
I suspect they aren’t doing this (just) to avoid fees - it’s more about national security in a world where the US might stop being a reliable ally, and in a world where the US has used withdrawing Visa / Mastercard as a strategy to wea
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by Closi 8mo ago
I think we have a different definition of free riding. If you and me both buy the same car, but i'm better at negotiating than you and get a lower price, I'm not free riding because you 'funded the design of the car with the
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by Closi 9mo ago
> The rest of the world is free riding. The rest of the world isn't free riding - the USA has just setup a market where there is very little bargaining power for consumers because of how the US medical market and insurance works. No
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by Closi 9mo ago
> It's not a programming language if you can't read someone else's code, figure out what it does, figure out what they meant, and debug the difference between those things. Well I think the article would say that you can d
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by Closi 9mo ago
It's about consistency - you want to build an app that looks and functions the same on all platforms as much as possible. Regardless of if you are hand-coding or vibe-coding 3 entirely separate software stacks, getting everything cons
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by Closi 9mo ago
> Isn’t the more fundamental question why Europe has not been as successful as the US or China in building a native tech industry despite having a huge market? What are the barriers to creating startups and how can you lower them and pre
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by Closi 9mo ago
> What is so wrong with writing refills can be purchased on our website. > Probably gonna share this story online more. I mean I didn't expect the situation to be this extremely bad. Yes it's bad, although I want to emphasis
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by Closi 9mo ago
I used to work for a large Amazon Seller (>$100m per year revenue) who got automatically deactivated with no warning and it took them a week to get re-activated. We are talking a very minor infraction - It was something like one of their
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by Closi 9mo ago
What if there isn't a feasible path for expansion and growth? Vimeo already has contracting revenue, it's either in the maturity or decline phase. Some customers will churn, some will stay, Bending Spoons are the masters of this m
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by Closi 9mo ago
This was an argument that was used to not ban smoking for kids in the UK back in the day. From the parliment debate... > [banning smoking would] afford a direct encouragement to children to smoke. Most boys of a tender age who might be s
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by Closi 9mo ago
They are 100% different and yet kind-of-the-same. They can function kind-of-the-same in the sense that they can both change things written in a higher level language into a lower level language. 100% different in every other way, but for co
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by Closi 9mo ago
In practice, this is managed by: 1) Making the application small enough, and breaking it apart if needed (e.g. I've refactored my old 'big' app into 10 micro-apps). 2) Selecting an architecture that will work, looking after t
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by Closi 9mo ago
For day-to-day coding, why use your own half-baked solution when the commercial versions are better, cheaper and can be customised anyway? I've written my own agent for a specialised problem which does work well, although it just burns

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