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by aliasEli 5y ago
What caused that explosion? Lots of ordinary materials, like grain or milk powder, can explode in a spectacular fashion, but water???
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Most people do not seem to recognize how extremely lucky we have all been that there are such extremely efficient vaccines available. With many diseases we rely on herd immunity, this means that the virus may be present but that is will not
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is a pity because it was quite a good program. Is anyone working on a fork yet?
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This video fails to answer the question how many X's does it require to screw in a light-bulb.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
If you are working on some application that uses cryptography, don't ever use these as a generator for random numbers. If you are working on some other application you should first start with a cryptographic secure pseudo random number
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by aliasEli 5y ago
With the moon landings there were no giant scientific problems. All relevant physics was known and it was (correctly) believed that the remaining technological problems could be solved. Yes, this was expensive, but almost all scientists bel
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It's a long well-written article, and its contents perfectly matches its title.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Static analysis tools can really be very useful, and they can detect potential errors. But there are always boundary cases. Some rules simply state "Don't do this", which might be a wise rule in general but frequently there a
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is a fine example of why the current patent system is insane. Unless something drastic happens, this patent will probably be assigned to Google. The US patent office is understaffed and lacks the expertise to evaluate claims like this.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It's pretty hard to add some form of security to a system, when security was not an important requirement during the design of that system. What's probably even more difficult is to get a decent analysis of the possible threats to
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The problem here is that there are no real links to support their position. Can they provide some real legal evidence?
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Yes, it might. My comment assumed that GPL meant the GNU Public License, where you are allowed to use the code, but are restricted to distribute binaries. AGPL is a different license, and it's probably not legal that code with that lic
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by aliasEli 5y ago
You might be one of the people that down-voted my submission. This is probably a language problem, I don't think the original MIT license is a permissive license at all in this case.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The term "unit test" can mean a lot of things (which is very unfortunate). Does it mean: - A test of some of the requirements that can be done very fast. (That's my preferred form when involves a large part of the code) - A t
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by aliasEli 5y ago
One of the most obvious problems with mocking is that the team that develops some code usually also develops the mocks that are used for testing it. So precisely the same misunderstandings will be present in the code as in the mocks. In oth
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by aliasEli 5y ago
For which code did they use copilot. If it was just software for internal use, there is no real problem with the GPL. That only starts when you distribute binaries based on GPL-ed code.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The entire problem could have been avoided if they had just trained their models on code with a permissive license.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Of course we can trust all people that claim that they were doing nothing illegal. Because they are lawful citizens, we can take their word for it.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
But with this approach you can generate outputs that are identical or near identical to some of its inputs. It is clearly that copyright laws apply in this situation.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
To put it mildly, he author is not a big fan of space billionaires. Is there a typo in the title here?
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Blender is a very good piece of software. The main problem I usually have with it is finding documentation. Although the official documentation is fairly good, Blender is a huge program, and it can be hard to find the info you need. Also th
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Please replace the (cont) in your title just by suicide. That is what the article is about.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The main source of problems in the US is the winner-takes-all system in its elections. The US is stuck with a two party system. There is no realistic way that a relevant third party can evolve.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I have heard some consultant telling me that we don't need consistency because the real world is not consistent. He also told that if we wanted eventual consistency, modern systems do this automagically, but he could not tell how they
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Writing headlines is difficult. My immediate question when I read this one was: Which factor is the cause of the surge in hospitalizations in the UK? I knew that the delta variant was spreading in the UK, but apparently that was not the cau
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Not vaccinating children leaves them vulnerable at some later stage in life. Currently, most (but definitely not all) young people do not appear to suffer much damage from an infection. This is definitely not normal for virus infections, e.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office. Unfortunately, this appears to mean that employees have to be available 24/7 for work for the rest of their lives. There is a way that
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is a pretty good article. The title is a bit misleading, if you interpret agile as is was described in the Agile Manifesto[0], most successful large software projects followed many of its points. And they will continue to do that. Some o
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I did not know that. It appears that conquering the solar system is easier than conquering the PC desktop.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Thanks for your very informative response.

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