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by TillE 2y ago
I haven't read a ton of legal filings in my life, but I assume the copy-and-pasting of obviously irrelevant affirmative defenses (lack of copyrightability? statute of limitations??) is normal. Still, pretty funny. Anything that could p
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by TillE 2y ago
The history of just about anything is very interesting, but it's generally not relevant in a textbook which has a specific purpose.
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by TillE 2y ago
Several verified parts from MH370 washed up off the coast of Africa years ago. It absolutely did not crash in the middle of Cambodia.
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by TillE 2y ago
Yeah I've had good luck with just "Do not explain." when I want a straightforward response without extra paragraphs of equivocating waffle and useless general advice.
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by TillE 2y ago
I don't think there's any particular secret sauce in the AGI engine, such that competitors would benefit from a leak. There are probably other examples I can't think of, but Hugo's House of Horrors was basically an AGI-s
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by TillE 2y ago
Fentanyl only exists because it's cheap and easy to make. Anyone with a choice would always take something like oxycodone, and there are a ton of occasional recreational oxy users in the world.
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by TillE 2y ago
Yeah I can't reproduce this with my AirPods Pro either. Simply connecting does nothing. I would assume something is causing a stray input as if you'd pressed the button on your headphones, which can launch Music.
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by TillE 2y ago
Right, it's obviously end-to-end encrypted because if it weren't, everyone would have been screaming for years about how horrendously insecure it was. iCloud Keychain is fine, just use a good password. There's no particular h
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by TillE 2y ago
Myst's 1994 Windows release is pretty far into the CD-ROM era. I was playing Monkey Island with its great CD soundtrack in 92, and the talkie versions of Fate of Atlantis and King's Quest 6 in 93, for example.
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by TillE 2y ago
Yes, unfortunately the default is German dubbing. If it doesn't say OV or OmU, that's absolutely what you're getting.
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by TillE 2y ago
That was really common among shareware developers back in the day, one guy sort of pretending to be a big serious company. I suspect Tim Sweeney was joining this trend but also mocking it with the name "Epic MegaGames". It's
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by TillE 2y ago
I dunno about the entirety of Germany, but I don't think I've ever seen graffiti removed in Berlin, and there's a ton of it. It's fine, nobody cares.
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by TillE 2y ago
> I can't recall any other company doing this Years ago Microsoft used to do stuff like this, notably releasing .NET Framework under its Reference Source License (you're allowed to look at the code, but that's about it).
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by TillE 2y ago
It's probably the best C++ IDE out there, with a great debugger. For C# a lot of people prefer Rider, but in terms of free options VS is much better than VS Code.
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by TillE 2y ago
> We already have (weak) AGI No. We all intuitively know what AGI means, we've read/seen enough science fiction. It doesn't have to be "superintelligent", but it does need independent agency . None of the recent
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by TillE 2y ago
The response you're waiting for is a refresh of the screen. The Kindle excels at being a low-cost device for reading novels, or linear non-fiction with no graphics etc. For anything fancier, it's simply not built for that.
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by TillE 2y ago
The $349 iPad is a fantastic tablet computer for mainstream users. I'm sure they sell a zillion of them. It's not really clear who the iPad Pro is for, aside from people who want to watch videos on the best screen.
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by TillE 2y ago
This year really feels like the time to do something exciting with the iPad, so soon after launching an absurdly powerful iPad Pro. Either macOS in a VM or a major revamp of iPadOS. There's an exciting story to tell about the iPad Pro
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by TillE 2y ago
Reminds me of how Siri used to make jokes after setting a timer. Now it just reads back the time you specified, in a consistent way. It's a very impressive gimmick, but I really think most people don't want to interact with comput
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by TillE 2y ago
It's cool tech but disappointingly I've yet to find a practical use for it. I think the only scenario where it makes sense is a difficult-to-reproduce bug that you're actively looking for. If you can reproduce it once, then
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by TillE 2y ago
> but most code is not solving complex problems I see this claim a lot, and I have no idea whether or not it's true. I just struggle to imagine that there are millions of people employed, well compensated for doing pretty easy jobs.
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by TillE 2y ago
It's so easy to imagine Lennon doing a Gollum that's funny for five seconds and then just incredibly irritating.
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by TillE 2y ago
A Hard Day's Night is great because it's basically just them goofing around. The rest of the Beatles films have their charms, but they're not actors. I really can't imagine that the idea was to do a straight LOTR adaptat
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by TillE 2y ago
Ideas are cheap, an idea is not interesting by itself. There's a very long history in science of ideas which sound good but are wrong. The question is always: do you have the data?
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by TillE 2y ago
This has all the hallmarks of genuine scammers, where you agreed on one thing and then they aggressively upsell you into something else, maximizing confusion and time pressure. It's something you expect from small-time grifters, not th
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by TillE 2y ago
> At the same time, she clearly didn’t exercise good discretion with who she shared this story with. This is a bizarre conclusion, because it's not like she shared some confidential or sensitive information. It's just a story a
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by TillE 2y ago
Definitely save those recovery keys, because BitLocker loves freaking out after BIOS updates or minor hardware changes. I think I had to enter mine after a GPU firmware update.
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by TillE 2y ago
That's just absolutely untrue, humans are entirely capable of reading critically without internalizing. There are tons of liberal-minded Lovecraft fans, even though nearly all of his work is grounded in varying degrees of xenophobia.
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by TillE 2y ago
I know it's silly to say "Steve Jobs would never...", but Steve did earnestly love music, it was a huge part of his personality. I absolutely think he would have found this ad distasteful.
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by TillE 2y ago
> Fable was profitable - "highly profitable", Lionhead's Simon Carter told Eurogamer - but in a now too-familiar story, it and its genre was seen by Microsoft as just not profitable enough. I suppose this is as good an exp

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