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by SR2Z 7mo ago
> Fortunately 3d printed guns are bad enough that it's not really an issue It does actually seem like they are an issue - the technology has now been used in several high profile murders and police are reporting seizing them pretty
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
It was built by another company, but for a brand new machine of that size and complexity the launch customer is going to be required to do a ton of work to get it functional. Tesla was the first to try and build a car that way, they made w
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Vertical = a fridge that opens around a vertical axis and ditto for horizontal.
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
The ads pushing would be just as possible with a fully native start menu. Using React for it was probably done since it's just objectively easier and faster to tweak a React app than native components (see various folks complaining abo
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Regional planes are for direct routes to smaller airports, but hub-to-hub flights can be filled up and easily justify larger airplanes.
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
T-Mobile also offers free Wifi on airplanes.
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Because owning a motorcycle is a huge pain in the ass on account of motorcycles costing a decent amount of money, weighing 300lbs, going on the highway. If a $1000 ebike can only hit 40mph and weighs less than 100lbs, why not let people ju
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Well, if you think it's not a problem to solve then you should go tell all the paintbrush manufacturers that their services will no longer be needed. Ditto for publishers, patrons of the arts, etc., etc. If art is worth doing it'
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
So if AI can't emulate it, what's the issue? I do think AI can emulate it - one of the earliest headlines I remember is an AI piece winning a digital art competition. The piece was great and the influence of the (human) artist wa
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Well, if you keep in mind that "professionals" means "people paid to write code" then LLMs have been generating code at the same quality OR BETTER for about a year now. Most code sucks. If you compare it to beautiful co
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
> Of those countries, only China remains relatively unencumbered and they've limited exports for internal reasons. Yeah, only China remains unencumbered because only China didn't collapse under the weight of an absurd ideology
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
You make that sound like the US has been stopping Venezuelan tankers for decades. It hasn't, that's a Trump special. Cuba's energy insecurity goes back a lot longer.
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
The country has categorically not been blockaded. A blockade is an act of war where a country prevents all trade regardless of origin. Cuba has been embargoed which prevents US owned businesses, as well as any businesses which operate
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Right, but that cost is also incurred by human-written code that happens to have bugs. In theory experienced humans introduce less bugs. That sounds reasonable and believable, but anyone who's ever been paid to write software knows th
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Yeah, e-bikes with thumb throttles are so good that the only reason they haven't already supplanted motorcycles is that there are ten bajillion old unkillable motorcycle engines in use. It's a shame that US law doesn't have a
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Your watch won't tell you the time unless you drink a verification can
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
They can get away with it because Apple fans (even the ones who are tech-literate) react with visceral disgust when anyone suggests and Android phone or a non-Mac PC. It does not hurt that Android and iOS are both kind of the same OS now.
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
Yeah, but mechanical watches are so much worse at telling time than cheap digital watches that it's not even worth discussing.
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by SR2Z 7mo ago
I don't think that would be a good idea for two reasons: 1. Trump could decide what to apply the negative tariff to (e.g. Trump merchandise or his buddies) 2. If there's a fixed amount of money to dole out and suppliers know it, a
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
A patent lasts 20 years. A copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (at least in the US, thanks to Disney's lobbying efforts). The term of a copyright is too long, I agree, but it is a limited right to control a cr
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
The way it works now is that the accuser has a few days to submit proof that they're suing to defend their rights, or else the platform can reinstate the content. In practice this would (and does) lead to a game of whack-a-mole between
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
How many of the last ten years have had some kind of "temporary" GPU shortage? It was crypto, now it's LLMs, who knows what's next? The only winning strategy for these guys is to exploit the market for all it's wor
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
"Usually?" The point of copyright is that it's a legitimate form of ownership. It's an acknowledgement that someone who creates a work should own it. It's not any more monopolistic than owning a car, for example.
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
Layering in the container spec is achieved by overlaying each layer's filesystem (a tarball, I think) over each layer below it. If file "a" is modified in layers 3 and 5, the resulting container will have data for both versi
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
There have been plenty of lives lost on both sides for almost a century now. It's deranged to think that one side should get to carry on as usual while the other one has to give in. There was a good chance for peace in the 90s. Why d
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
Good thing that police unions are notorious for being weak and ineffective, then!
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
There is nothing that large companies want more than a straightforward, procedural list of requirements on how to comply with copyright law. (ok maybe there are several thousand things, but you get what I mean)
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
> Assess legal challenges. There will be nothing but pain and frustration if you ask corporations to try and supplant the courts. Copyright law is old and does not make provisions for the modern era. You get a copyright when you create
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
> Is there any other area where you would tolerate 35 year-old performance as "good enough"? Yeah. Speakers, printers, lightbulbs, garage doors, etc., etc. I can tell the difference between 60 Hz and higher rates, but I think
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by SR2Z 8mo ago
Imagine having a president who cares about unsexy policy wonk issues that make a huge difference to everyone. Feels like a distant memory these days.

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