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by _Understated_ 5y ago
As it happens, I have a USB stick with Fedora 34 on it. I tried it a few months back after Ubuntu and POP OS and found it to be great with one issue: Nvidia graphics! Too much fannying about to get them to work. If i just used the built-in
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> The best thing good OS can do for me, is not to get in my way when I run apps This has always been my complaint about Windows. I've long considered the OS as a tool to launch my apps ONLY!. That's it! Of course, under the sur
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Maybe I'm getting old or jaded or something but I can't/don't get bent out of shape any more when I read what tech mega corps do these days. Most days the story is a variant of "Tech Megacorp has done a thing that c
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> a disease that causes literal brain damage For a tiny tiny fraction of the population! You forgot that bit.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> I'm an engineer former researcher and this lack of willingness to dialogue pains me deeply I want dialogue! I want lots of it. I want people on mainstream media and social media to question all science. They are not able to. They
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, so please, show me the list of side effects after 5 or 10 years of trials. Does that information exist? Edit: sounded a bit snarky, toned it down a touch
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
For your information I trust nothing about COVID that has been published either by mainstream media, social media or alt media now. Nothing at all. As far as I am concerned there are far too many people with vested interests polluting the w
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Serious question: Do we have the infrastructure to support everyone driving electric cars? I'm in the UK and I don't see many charging stations. Sure, it's not zero but it's a tiny number. Edit: By infrastructure, I don&
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Can you please be more specific which vaccine you consider experimental? All of the COVID-related ones. There are no known long-term side effects as these drugs that have been injected into humans are only a few years old at most. Acco
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Well they did, and developed a vaccination system which the anti-lockdown people refuse to take, because those people are not only anti-lockdown but are against anything coming from the governments I take issue with that statement! I h
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Ask HN: What has happened to the quality of docs.microsoft.com?
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I guess I'm now somewhat jaded with tech (despite being a developer as my day job) but I find I'm going backwards nowadays. I live in totalitarian Scotland for those that are interested. I just found out that I may be able to sell
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Whereas the risk of COVID is, obviously, death. This is nonsense... children are at a miniscule risk of death from COVID-19[0] [0] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57766717
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Instagram was founded in 2010. You may not be far from the truth: last year I watched a talk given by Jonathan Haidt (sp?) and he specifically showed the suicide numbers increasing when the "Like" button appeared... the incre
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I believe you say it like "leed"
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I have not heard of many of the ad blockers in this list [0]. However, it was good to see that UBlock Origin is consistently performing better than most of the other "security" extensions. Edit: It appears that this anchor is used
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
The other comments here talk about hoarding potential for rain in the future and depriving others of it but what about weaponising it? You could potentially annihilate your enemy by generating masses of rainfall and destroying their infrast
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> [Disruptive Digita] is also looking into technology that would let Facebook deliver personalized ads based on targeting data stored on the user’s device, meaning Facebook wouldn’t need to access it. Anyone know how this would work? My
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Losing the ability to re-target products to customers after they viewed them online but didn’t buy hurts businesses trying to sell more expensive products, advertisers say How is this the case? If I have an online shop using any of the
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
It should be fairly trivial for a judge to ascertain whether someone owns a patent to use legitimately (tech company owning a tech patent for example, whether they are currently using it, invented it, bought it etc.) or whether they are a b
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Yeah, I realise that now. However, where does one draw the line between fair use and derivative works? Creating something based on other stuff (Google creating AI books from the existing ones for example) would possibly be fair use I think
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I thought I understood fair use but turns out I was wrong... That being said, creating a transformative work from something else is considered fair use. So, for example, if I read a whole bunch of books and then, heavily influenced by them,
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I understand the concept of fair use (I think) but I can't see how it applies to Copilot. Google didn't create new books from the contents of existing ones (whether you agree that they should have been allowed to store the books o
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Google did not scan those books and use it to build new books with different titles. The comparison doesn't hold up at all. Not sure if you meant to reply to me but I agree with you: you can't compare what Google did to what
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> You can wipe your ass with the GPL license if your use of the product falls within Fair Use. Is Copilot fair use? It's reading code, generating other code (some verbatim) and making money from it all while not having to release it
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> By comparison, Copilot is even more obviously fair use. Not sure I see it that way. If I take your hard work that you clearly marked with a GPL license and then make money from it, not quite directly, but very closely, how is that fair
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Copilot isn't strange from a technical prespective. The strange bit is how they are allowed to use other peoples code to create derivative works (this is how I see it from my non-legal perspective anyway). Even if it's legal (to t
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I don't doubt that an army of lawyers has poured over this but they have size on their side: the cost of litigation vs potential revenue will be a massive factor. Edit: > There's a decent bit of caselaw indicating that computer
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Yeah, that bit I realise but the point I was getting at is this: if I take someone else's code, use chunks of it in my app, say that it's mine and make money from it is that not illegal? Or, at least in violation of the license? S
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, my curiosity has been fired here... I have conjured up two scenarios here: Let's say I use copilot to generate a bunch of code for an app, something substantial, and it regurgitates a load of bits and pieces from many sources it go

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