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by Ukv 2y ago
The supposedly infringing quotes from WP Engine in Automattic's "Exhibit B" ("Increase website speed with the fastest WordPress hosting", etc.) are extraordinarily similar to what the Wordpress Foundation's tra
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by Ukv 2y ago
The WordPress Foundation's trademark policy[0] seemed fairly clear that: > The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit. and > a business related to WordPress
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by Ukv 2y ago
> I've seen conflicting claims made. Everything from "WPEngine gives nothing" to (in this thread) "WPEngine sponsors a dozen developers" [1] To at least partially back up my claim linked for the latter, WP Engine
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by Ukv 2y ago
They are, and the foundation's policy[0] already explicitly states: > The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit. Matt's whole "WP Engine needs a trad
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by Ukv 2y ago
To my understanding WP Engine already sponsor a dozen developers on the WordPress project, maintain their own open source projects, and host events. Matt's demand was allegedly specifically for "tens of millions to his for-profit
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by Ukv 2y ago
WordPress's trademark policy[0] explicitly said: > The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit. and > Similarly, a business related to WordPress themes can de
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by Ukv 2y ago
> while i understand the sentiment of wpengine not contributing back To my understanding this isn't even particularly true - WPEngine have contributed significantly to events/sponsorships and with their own open source contribu
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by Ukv 2y ago
I don't see much issue with using the term in the sense defined by the W3C[0], particuarly for a group developing technology around that definition. It doesn't mean the term can't also have a broader/colloquial meaning (
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by Ukv 2y ago
My guess, having never used OSX: 1. In the save dialog, filetype can determined in multiple ways (maybe selected from a dropdown, or be set by the program opening the dialog) and not necessarily just inferred from user-entered filename 2. S
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by Ukv 2y ago
> I specifically made my comment about wind and solar You said "Suppose you have a devastating earthquake that wrecks renewable power sources in an area" - hydropower is considered renewable. I also did address a similar risk o
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by Ukv 2y ago
Banqiao Dam failure alone flooded over 12,000 square kilometers, killing ~30k directly then ~100k more from water contamination and famine. Even solar still requires various minerals the extraction and processing of which has environmental
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by Ukv 2y ago
In terms of single-incident, I believe hydro takes the lead due to the Banqiao Dam failure (floods over 12,000 square kilometers killing ~30k directly then ~100k more from water contamination and famine). But even that's still dwarfed
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by Ukv 2y ago
> but do not manifest as immediate deaths. This isn't just counting immediate deaths - else it'd just be ~30 for Chernobyl and ~0 for Fukushima. In fact, Fukushima's death count seems to primarily be down to that "peo
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Nuclear is not safe Nothing is 100.0% safe - but as far as I can find nuclear comes incredibly close[0] even when including Chernobyl and Fukushima. [0]: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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by Ukv 2y ago
According to the paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271 ), the vast majority of water usage is not from cooling but indirectly from energy usage. The paper in turn gets its electricity water intensity from: https:&#x2
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by Ukv 2y ago
Python existed even in the early 90s. Not that cURL should have been written in it, though.
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by Ukv 2y ago
Haven't used WhatsApp but presumably it indexes client-side. On Discord people want to search large servers including messages since before they joined, so this approach wouldn't really work. That said, it could potentially work f
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by Ukv 2y ago
I addressed model output (infringes copyright if substantially similar, as with manually-created works) and the process of training the model (requires collating/processing ephemeral copies, possibly fair use). What do you think the &q
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by Ukv 2y ago
> No, the question is whether those genAI we have around are mass copyrights violation machines or whether they "learn" and build non-violating work. I refer to the training process in question, which may or may not be be viola
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Why would we embrace this now that a computer can do it and there's a level of deniability? Generally I don't think people are arguing that copyright law should be more lenient to AI than it is to humans. If your work gets
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by Ukv 2y ago
Still gets 3 r's in strawberry shortcake in a fresh context: https://i.imgur.com/EGI2UT9.png If I'm understanding, your theory is: * When asked for r's in strawberry it outputs 2 because it's interpretin
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by Ukv 2y ago
Ah so you think it's interpreting it as "is the second r-sound a single or double r?" But, even with that interpetation, I don't think it really explains the errors. Like just now I asked how many i's were in "
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by Ukv 2y ago
LLMs perform poorly at tasks that require considering words as their component letters because they only see tokens. "strawberry" is split as [str][aw][berry] and becomes [496, 675, 15717]. To some degree they can learn from data
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by Ukv 2y ago
From what I can find: 1. Andrew Bauer submitted the package for review[0] 2. It was pointed out that that he should also consult the Fedora Security Team since it's a crypto package 3. The URL in the documentation was dead so Andrew ma
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by Ukv 2y ago
If you are dealing with many-gigabyte files or a performance-critical pipeline then yeah, you'd want to do it line-by-line. My example is just a quick and dirty script, or REPL input, without any of the boilerplate - which I think is a
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by Ukv 2y ago
I've found pathlib (in Python's standard library) very convenient for tasks like these. I think the entire second example could just be: lines = Path("in.txt").read_text().splitlines() trimmed = "\n".
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by Ukv 2y ago
There was a report from China's first manned mission of a sound like "knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer", which was eventually determined to be air pressure changes[0]. But the fact that this sound is coming throug
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Those have a skill floor though Point-and-shoot cameras, finger painting, or crayons have a lower skill floor than even basic text-to-image generation, I'd claim. You can give those to children prior to the age where they'd h
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by Ukv 2y ago
> And I think that's partially down to the fact that image generators are themselves, by their existence, low-effort easy-to-use tools to create images Is the same not true of point-and-shoot photography? Or crayons? There's a
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by Ukv 2y ago
I think this is mostly just Sturgeon's law (ninety percent of everything is crap) opposed to anything unique to ML tools. The vast majority of photographs you see on the Internet have also likely been quick phone-camera snaps, with com

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