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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 1mo ago
> But with AI (disembodied in software and embodied in robots), the relative value of being normal and predictable is rapidly evaporating. I would argue this is precisely backwards. The normal and predictable is more valuable. Human erro
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 1mo ago
Aviation uses around a million metric tons of jet fuel per day. If you thought habitat destruction from palm oil was bad, that would be nothing compared to coconut oil making up any significant fraction of jet fuel.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2mo ago
What often gets missed is that they are buy one physical copy and turning it into a digital copy. They have done zero to destroy the durability. In fact, it’s probably more durable. If the physical copies are scarce, that is due to the publ
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4mo ago
> The chemicals present a serious risk to infants because they likely interfere with hormones that are critical to newborns’ proper development, and have been found to be harmful at very low levels of exposure. About 92% of 50 samples we
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4mo ago
> We know that at some level and yet still can't help taking credit for our nice things and passing judgment on others for their failings. Is that blameworthy?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5mo ago
Premature DRY and premature attempt at separation of concerns have resulted in absolutely horrible spaghetti code in too many code bases. Many times it's fine to repeat yourself. Many times it's fine for a component to cross multi
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5mo ago
Now do CSS in real life use
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5mo ago
Just finding a drag able area of the window to reposition it is a huge pain.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5mo ago
> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no soverei
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5mo ago
It seems like there might be just a small vocal minority that hates AI art. Most people probably don’t care. I bet there were painters in the 1800s who talked about how people hated photographs and how they were uncanny and creepy compared
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6mo ago
> In closing, let me reiterate this point so it is crystal clear. If you are a maintainer of a libre software project and you refuse a community port to another architecture, you are doing a huge disservice to your community and to your
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6mo ago
> Will my system believe me? And how about their system, whoever “they” are? If not, then what else will I need to do to prove my birth date and age? Who will check if root can’t be trusted? How will they check? If they ever seize your c
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6mo ago
I don’t think the SCOTUS has said that AI output is uncooyrightable just that a human or humans has to own the copyright.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6mo ago
The existence and ubiquity of bash scripts make me doubt this.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6mo ago
Books also cause loss of skills. One effect of widespread books is we don’t have poets like Homer. We don’t develop the memorization skills like they did in the past. And that’s ok. We can use the bandwidth for other stuff.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
> We must realign how businesses work with open source so that payment is no longer an optional charitable gift but a cost of doing business. To do that, we need an organization to create a viable, supportable path from big business to i
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
Artificial Gut Incense?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
I don’t think this split is fundamental or permanent. Look at photography. You have both - the point and shoot people and the ones that use photography as a craft. And I am seeing that with LLMs as well. You do have craft people that find j
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
Yep. > He used to hold long book club style readings of his books among the prominent literateur in his times to exactly impinge in their minds that what he writes is clever and not gibberish. My was so clever, that he had to verbally ha
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
> But what if someone steals your Amazon package off your front steps? Well, what if they do? I guess you would have to get a refund. I guess you might suffer an extremely minor inconvenience. I guess it could be an opportunity to reflec
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
But are you doing real food preparation unless you are hunting and dressing the animals and foraging for your own food?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
And if a result is surprising to you, you should trust it less and look into it more deeply. And if you do so, one of two good outcomes will hopefully happen: 1. You find the result is bogus 2. You learn something new and update your intern
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
So like McKinsey consultans but just at the personal level instead of the corporate and government level. And much cheaper.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
I wonder if there was some confusion between Stryker the Army infantry vehicle and Stryker the medtech company. It seems a really weird target for Iran otherwise.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
That was not what the USSC case was about. It was about assigning copyright to an AI instead of a human.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
Scott References the top comment on this previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246295
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
I don't think Fontana's reasoning holds up. I think it is more like photography. The case law is that a camera can't own a copyright, but a human can, even though all the pixels were produced by the camera with very little in
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
You can have Claude write all these out to a file. Then you can feed them into another service.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
> My, the world has changed. No. Your tech experience was an aberration. For almost all of history, including recent history, tech and military went together. Whether compound bows, or spears or metallurgy. Euler used his math to develop
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7mo ago
I think you could have an LLM produce a written English detailed description of the complete logic of the program and tests. Then use another LLM to produce code from that spec. This would be similar to the cleanroom technique.

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