TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Real Estate Agent is a sink-or-swim job. There are a lot of barely competent real estate agents who go through the motions, but otherwise only superficially understand how to do the job. Language question (ESL speaker here): how does
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> The problem we have right now is that there are some legitimately interesting ideas out there for things we could be using LLMs for, but we also have a ton of "I have a hammer, and everything looks like a nail" going on too.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> A chinese guy could get those parts for way less, have them shipped way faster, or probably just buy them from a physical store not that far away. Or from a previous customer who had to replace a whole power supply module, and those
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
QR codes are still less convenient when you're paying using the same mobile device you're using to generate the BLIK codes. Doubly so when the phone is a foldable, so you can keep the bank open in a popup over the browser or app y
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Given the specific of the "derived works" being produced, do you feel obliged to pay royalties every time you cite or use some knowledge acquired from a book during your daily life?
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Again, the entire point I'm making is that the choice is dictated by copyright law . They can't legally scan books non-destructively. They can legally format-shift them , i.e. scan them destructively. So this is what they&#x27
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Are the bribes round, or is it just usual bullshit journalism practice of fudging the numbers and rounding them in the process (usually made apparent when there are multiple reports for the same number, each using different units of currenc
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Oh so you're aligned with AI lobbying then? j/k, but then again, it's not like we have other means to "help make good governance decisions" that we haven't already tried before. Maybe except the failed cybern
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Are you asking if there's use for temporarily sticking stuff to other stuff? Yes, plenty. Especially if it sticks well while needed, and then can be non-destructively undone when no longer needed.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
It's a manual process. More importantly, it's also explicitly illegal. Destructive format-shifting is not. Thank copyright laws.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> What is the point of destroying the source material? I don't buy the copyright thing. It is the copyright thing. Despite what people say about scanning, the fact is, non-destructive scanning machines have been built and perfecte
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
On the contrary. The problem exists solely in copyright; AI companies are just users that happen to be popular to hate on, but this same legal situation applies to everyone else, including individuals. The issue under discussion is older th
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Not necessarily, since machines for non-destructive scanning were invented and perfected a long time ago. If this is still more expensive, this very discussion shows that improved optics would've made it more than worth it to pay that
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Doing that would be considered deeply immoral and sociopathic in any sane culture. Do you really want to live in a society that finds such attitudes acceptable? Instead of blindly jumping on a manipulated outrage bandwagon, people would do
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Either that or if it didn't work, insurance industry would've created a product that makes it work for commissioned works. Nothing happens in isolation here.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
The big insanity is tying this to AI. Shredding books is about format shifting; it's a concession hard-won from copyright establishment, which would otherwise be more than happy to deny you the option to convert the media you owned fro
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Machines for non-destructively scanning books were developed and perfected long ago. The destructive scanning is neither technological limitation nor an issue of expedience. It's an issue of copyright law and fair use.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
It's not really a surprise to many here, but we don't want to go back there too often, because that topic is well trodden - the intellectual property in its current form is far worse offender against "what is moral or just&
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Not much in biology is simple, but one of the ruthless rules is that an incremental change must be net non-negative in terms of fitness to stick around. In particular, this prevents evolution from keeping around adaptations "for future
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
AFAIK it doesn't affect the System Webview, and IIRC Microsoft was in hot water not merely over the IE the app, but rather over embedded browsers.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes. But we usually start with a high default, and only recalibrate if there's a specific reason in a given situation (e.g. there's been a specific user or sets of users involved in spreading malware, and software in question coul
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
In other words, 2FA might actively put you in danger. Something to consider before travel and perhaps temporarily lowering your digital security to preserve your physical one.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Or anything else you can't easily transfer. I can't help but point at passkeys in particular (or 2FA in general). A variant of this is the well-known scene from a previous century's movie involving extracting an eye to bypass
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
I don't buy it. 70% of the CMPs being "misconfigured" tells us that even if these panels were broken by design, the companies using them must all conveniently not notice this. Strange, given that even a small risk of large fi
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> breaks entire business models Good. No one is entitled to a business model working in perpetuity. Doubly so when it's ethically dubious. The very thing entrepreneurs are glorified for - their ability to invent and execute on n
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
And then people are surprised and saddened when LEO start acting like robots and default to treating you as threat to be mitigated as much as legally allowed in context. The parent described a story from a different reality - one where peop
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Never for a compiler, who even is that person? Why do you care? It's a stranger from the Internet. Same as with any other software you're using. In particular, same as with any OSS tool you're using.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes, but that's by design in some sense. Monopoly is a carrot, entrepreneurs are donkeys on treadmills chasing after such carrots. The market's value to society in this metaphor is the energy produced by the treadmills, so while i
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
What's surprising here is that people still cheer on this, but no one is suggesting to do the same on mobile today. I honestly am confused by this. Obviously, the current situation warrants it 100x as much.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
"Spaghetti" is a great example - notice how you have specific expectations of food that happens to be named in a foreign (relative to where you live) language.

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