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by alacombe 6y ago
> their code is non-proprietary, doesn't belong to someone else, already has a open-licence Then say "we can't share for legal reason", not "we're planning to". This is just a bs corporate answer. >
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Migrating the code to open source will be a big effort. No, it is not. It's 5 shell command at the most. $ git init $ git add . $ git commit -m 'Initial import' $ git remote add origin git://... $ git push orig
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by alacombe 6y ago
Are you planning to share the code ? GPT-3 has some pretty interesting demo which unfortunately are unfortunately rather disappointing once outside a carefully crafted environment. Said otherwise, a paper is nothing it it cannot be reprodu
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I want all your lunches, or I’m going to break your legs In this case, the cost of duplication of the said "lunch" is free, so there is not really any problem. The question arise when the school bully sells your "lunch&q
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Danish musicians I don't think Danish musicians had any choice in this decision.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Shouldn’t the musicians be the ones how decide how much they want for their music? Then break up Koda to start with, they're the state created monopoly.
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by alacombe 6y ago
In times of economic pressure, buying a $1000 phone is not the smartest idea.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people are buying new phones while they're sure they can, to avoid the risk of being stuck with an old and potentially failing one when they can't. I think you're incorrectly assumin
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by alacombe 6y ago
Do you mean the same systems driving Tesla cars to immobile objects on the road ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
I wonder how a computer would have reacted to Search US Airways Flight 1549...
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by alacombe 6y ago
I'm not sure you'd like the fully automatic sentry miniguns associated with drone ships !
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by alacombe 6y ago
Classic NIMBY'ism :-)
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by alacombe 6y ago
It's not as if a computer didn't crashe 2 737-MAX8 on take-off, despite pilots trying to correct the trajectory !
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by alacombe 6y ago
Canadian suicide statistics show no such correlation.
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by alacombe 6y ago
There has always been shady part of the Internet sub-culture. Nothing is new, as you so infer. People were just more open-minded. Nobody's forcing you to read 4chan. If people hold a conspiracy theory gathering in a bar without causing
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by alacombe 6y ago
I don't see blood running down the street because of a few teenagers comments. The pre-moderated internet has never been a blood bath.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Killing 230 would force YouTube to have zero content moderation beyond removing illegal content. It would be a bad outcome (which is why 230 was created). That actually sounds much better than arbitrary moderation.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Do you think Krebs got it wrong? This is irrelevant, how can you have a fair justice system if the mob has already condemned the defender.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Three examples from the front page of the NY post right now. So does the NY Times, cf. the whole Slate Star Codex failure...
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by alacombe 6y ago
Happened to me twice in the past couple of weeks (minus the "being scammed" part). Once claiming to be from the CRA (Canadian's IRS), and once obvious fake impersonating the IRS on a text app. In both case, the initial messag
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by alacombe 6y ago
Canada here too, DDG loads fine via Shaw.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Raw number says 0.026. isn't it 2.6% rather than 0.26% ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
Food for thought, more than 50% of the federal budget is already spent on social services.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> As an owner, I want to be sure that when I lock a device, it's actually unusable to anyone else. So this is good (for me). You want your data to be inaccessible. Not providing a way to factory-reset a perfectly functioning device
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Not sure what that has to do with hardware but I'll bite: users don't care Sure, if you keep a population ignorant, they won't care about the pettiness of their lives, as they don't know about freedom.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Apps shipped with macOS are actually good imo, ... As long as your standard is low, sure. Scanning with Image Capture results in needlessly large files and it has turned to be quite a piece of crap. Moved my scanning pipeline back to L
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by alacombe 6y ago
> ... but it's downhill from there as you maintain and update I've been maintaining a Fedora desktop installed 8 years ago without a snag, updating every year or so as time permit. Not a single problem.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Applications and hardware drivers on Mac just work. ... until Apple decides to break an API and not provide equivalent functionality, and then you end up with a perfectly functional soft-bricked paperweight. I can't use my externa
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by alacombe 6y ago
I'm fine with that. They decide to take a political stance, they shall deal with the legal consequence of their actions.
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by alacombe 6y ago
I was studying RNN-driven image classification 12 years ago. No doubt defense companies were waayyyy ahead of a master-degree course in an university outside the US.

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