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by TheBicPen 7d ago
Why GNU? I get the appeal of Linux, but Android has that angle covered. What makes GNU a better userspace than Android for phone use? I actually think the Andoid userspace is very good for what it is. If Google's influence were magical
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by TheBicPen 1mo ago
Any creative work you create is copyrighted by default as soon as it is recorded onto some medium, at least in the US. https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
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by TheBicPen 1mo ago
Not OP, but I absolutely know people like this. Devs who don't even know what POSIX is, let alone care whether their OS is compliant.
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by TheBicPen 1mo ago
People have preferences. Some preferences are shallow. That's it, really. All kinds of people exist in this world, and wanting to be perceived as high-status is practically quintessential human behaviour.
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by TheBicPen 2mo ago
An AGI doesn't need that level of detail to do most tasks effectively. To use the OP's example, a cat catching a bug out of the air does not need to run a fluid dynamics simulation of airflow over the bug's wings to be able t
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by TheBicPen 2mo ago
There absolutely are laws restricting what hardware you are allowed to use. e.g. https://www.fcc.gov/faqs-recent-updates-fcc-covered-list-reg...
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by TheBicPen 2mo ago
Can these services not use the same fallback mechanism that already exists for non-passkey logins? i.e. an email with a 1-time code or similar. Yes that somewhat defeats the purpose of passkeys but that option is going to exist for a long t
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by TheBicPen 2mo ago
I've had the opposite experience. Lightning was been far more fragile than USB-C.
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by TheBicPen 2mo ago
> throw out all the ones that don’t > encouraging as many other people as possible to also throw out their cheap cables One of the main advantages of a single standardized plug is reducing e-waste. This just sounds irresponsible. Havi
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by TheBicPen 5mo ago
> I didn't have a way of running that code and only giving it access to a single USB device and nothing else. To be honest I think that's the most compelling case for webUSB today. If desktop OSes had sandboxing tools (or more
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by TheBicPen 7mo ago
I'm partial to "The AI is more A than I"
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by TheBicPen 7mo ago
> you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes. I wonder how true that is. While this site doesn't have incentivize engagement-maximizing behaviour (posting ragebait) like some other sites do, I would imagi
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by TheBicPen 7mo ago
> Last month, Apple released an update for the iPhone 8 and iPhone X [1]. The iPhone 8 was released September 2017. I seriously doubt 9-year old Android phones, even flagship models, are still getting software updates. How usable is an 8
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by TheBicPen 7mo ago
Do you have a link to the agenda? The only Monday meeting I see on the mountain view site is a Board of Library Trustees meeting
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by TheBicPen 8mo ago
The best way to draw a circle in gimp is still the awkward select -> foreground fill workflow. At this point this example is beating a dead horse, but the horse shall continue to be beaten until a proper ellipse tool is added.
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by TheBicPen 8mo ago
As 1 datapoint to support this, see Audacity moving from WxWidgets to Qt for 4.0.
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by TheBicPen 8mo ago
https://thebicpen.ca
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by TheBicPen 10mo ago
Maybe the real humanitarian failure is that the US didn't nuke everybody and start over from the stone age. Can't any societal problems if no societies exist, right?
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by TheBicPen 10mo ago
Does any serious historian believe that fully defeating the Soviet Union after WWII would have been possible? Even with the advantage of nuclear weapons, I doubt the US would have made it very far.
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by TheBicPen 10mo ago
At least NK's human rights abuses are contained within their borders. I hope future generations will look back on the many US invasions of foreign countries over the years and all the war crimes that took place during those invasions w
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by TheBicPen 10mo ago
While I agree with you, I find it hard to argue against the view that politicians are elected for the views they held during their campaign. They may change their mind after being elected, but their constituents that voted for them will not
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by TheBicPen 11mo ago
No. But which nation claims to be all about freedom, and which is known for restricting individual liberties for (whatever the people in charge consider to be) the greater good?
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by TheBicPen 11mo ago
> I'd agree but we're beyond hopelessly idealistic. That sort of approach only helps your competition who will use it to build a closed product That same argument can be applied to open-source (non-model) software, and is about
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by TheBicPen 11mo ago
As opposed to every other country where it is somehow not short sighted?
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by TheBicPen 11mo ago
And in France specifically, the first case you open is guaranteed to not be a good item. So it's essentially the same system but with an additional $2,50 entry fee
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
It's a shame how many platforms are moving away from transparent moderation. I get that there are strong incentives to do so - a user that knows they're banned will immediately try to find a way to circumvent the ban. Shadowbannin
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
It's been stuck at stage 1 since early 2022 unfortunately. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Where does the 4 come from? I thought it was R+G+B+A, but you already have 3 colour channels in that calculation
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
In 2022, sure. But not today. Even something as simple as generating and running a `git clone && cp xyz` command will create code not directly generated by the LLM.
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
> First-passed-the-post voting is fundamentally flawed, and so is ranked choice... What voting system so you think is best? None are perfect but IMO ranked choice is the best as it keeps the good attributes of FPTP without suffering from

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