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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
> The copyright vacuum: If AI-generated code cannot be copyrighted (as the courts suggest), then the maintainers may not even have the legal standing to license v7.0.0 under MIT or any license. I believe this is a misunderstanding of the
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
Nope. Stallman helped create this mess. Free software underpins all the infrastructure of surveillance capitalism.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
With the cloud, GPL won’t protect you either
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
There are probably more Windows enthusiasts than there are Linux enthusiasts in absolute numbers.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
> then I become a little pissed off at having my time and attention wasted by somebody who didn’t care enough about what they were doing to actually do that thing. I remember people saying this about emails vs postal mail.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
This is like arguing I can hear humans talk, therefore the souls must exist. You can wire voltage to CPU pins without software.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
Doesn’t silent, invisible, intangible also apply to software? You can’t really tell a particular piece of hardware is running software by a direct physical measurement. You can only infer that indirectly.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
I think Nancy Guthrie and the release of the doorbell video by scouring Google’s caches has done far, far more to make people want video cameras and cloud storage than any ad.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8mo ago
> Starting around 2015, paleogenomic studies revealed a dramatic genetic turnover across Europe around 3000 BCE. In many regions, 70-100% of male lineages were replaced within just a few centuries. The Yamnaya and their descendants didn&
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
And then some person realizes that government ids can be faked, so they set up a system of doing a retinal scan of the person dropping off the car and then comparing it to the retinal scan of the person picking it up. Then they realize that
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Open source and free software was the largest transfer of wealth in the form of techne freely from the craftspeople to the business people. Knowing how to write a database could make one fabulously rich. Now the person who knows how to make
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
> He believes that the erosion of shared reality is a greater danger than putting AI in control of nuclear weapons. Likely the hype of the doomsday clock contributes to that erosion.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Isn’t this how Russia always fights going back to the Czars?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
I think that might be wishful thinking. It is privileging 200 of history verses several thousand years of human history.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Are you against income tax? Are you against business registration? All of these are subject to the similar issues with the stalker ex abusing a position of power?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
> People who love using AI to create software are loving it because they don’t value the act of creating & understanding the software. This is very similar to the statement - People who love using Python (or other language not C or a
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Interestingly the creative community benefited from stealing. US Laws about photography in public places is much different than other countries where you have to get permission from people being photographed. Creatives have used this to cre
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Good example of Hardy and the reception reflects the cultural change
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
You are right. Updated the post
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
You are correct. My embarrassing mistake.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Yes. See also Fleming’s James Bond. Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby. * This phenomenon is post-WWI and post-WWII and losing the greatest empire in history in a single generation trauma being retconned as if were the historical English perspectiv
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
I think this supposed English "heroes" is more post-WWI and post-WWII trauma and coping than the actual historic English culture. Basically it is cope for losing history's greatest empire in a generation. You don't see t
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Wasn’t part of the goal of tariffs to penalize the importers? To make it economic viable to use American sourcing instead?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 9mo ago
Thank Open Source and Free Software which commodified hard skills and pushed business to value them as zero.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo ago
This makes sense with the quality and quantity of testing they do. https://sqlite.org/testing.html >As of version 3.42.0 (2023-05-16), the SQLite library consists of approximately 155.8 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thou
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo ago
You would probably have the same answer if your boss said, I have to get rid of one of your co-workers or your use of editing tools - ie all editors. You either get rid of your co-worker or go back to using punch cards. You would probably g
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo ago
Now do hand drawn cartoons vs 3d rendered cartoons. Is Pixar Incredibles where a computer algorithm made decisions about exact colors worse than Disney Cinderella where it was hand-drawn animation?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo ago
That would result in the obliteration of France? You really think the French are going to sacrifice themselves to avenge the Italians?
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo ago
I think there is peace now because little-endian won. All modern CPU are little endian (or dual selectable) Other than backward compatibility, there is non need for little endian.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo ago
Is this why you only wrote in machine code until you fully understood the entire compiler front end, back end chain?

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