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by bdowling 4y ago
Perhaps employers are actually valuing jobs based on the scarcity of candidates with the ability and willingness to do the work?
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by bdowling 4y ago
Sort of. The Raspberry Pi CPU had a configurable clock generator that could output up to about 125MHz to a GPIO line. Some people figured out that it was possible to rapidly change the configuration registers to modulate an audio signal ont
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Your Browser Is No Longer Supported > To view this website and enjoy a better online experience, update your browser for free. Yes, I'm on an old laptop, but it works with most sites. No way to even let the current browser try.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Your Browser Is No Longer Supported > To view this website and enjoy a better online experience, update your browser for free. Yes, I'm on an old laptop, but it works with most sites. No way to even let the current browser try.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> I even had an early midlife crisis and earned a law degree Same. In my case, I paid my way through law school doing software development contract work, which paid better than entry level lawyer work. Now I do a mix of software consulti
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by bdowling 4y ago
The coverup may be a crime, but it’s not a claim a civil plaintiff can recover damages for. If the defendant destroyed or hid evidence, however, the judge could order a negative inference against the defendant. The other problem is the stat
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by bdowling 4y ago
In 2019, Hillary Clinton, in a CBS News interview, called Trump “illegitimate”, claimed that Trump “stole” the election, and accused him of voter manipulation, including “hacking”. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics&#x2
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by bdowling 4y ago
Appropriation of name or likeness is already a tort that defendants can be held civilly liable for. Would you also make it a crime?
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by bdowling 4y ago
It would be interesting to know what the board thinks of this. Does Founder/CEO Han control a majority of the board? What about the minority shareholders? Will minority shareholders bring a lawsuit to stop the majority from harming the
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Unless I connect an Apple TV to it, on which nothing is broken. Did you calibrate the Apple TV using an iPhone? (e.g., https://www.macworld.com/article/344476/iphone-apple-tv-colo... )
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by bdowling 4y ago
> ... when I use my memory of having seen someone else's copyrighted materials to produce my own wholly new but similar looking works. That's called "non-literal" copyright infringement. Plaintiffs win on the claims a
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by bdowling 4y ago
I may have misunderstood. I thought we were talking about an AI output that might be substantially similar to an original used to train the AI. If we're considering only the use of the original as a training image, then I don't kn
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by bdowling 4y ago
If there was an actual case, the question would be whether the defendant had access to the original work. If the original work was used to train the AI model, then the answer is yes. It's not necessary for the model to contain a copy
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by bdowling 4y ago
Commercial use isn't required for copyright infringement.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Again, where in the neural weights does your original work live? That's not the standard for copyright infringement. The standard is (1) access to the original work and (2) producing a work that is "substantial similar"
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by bdowling 4y ago
> In July, FBI Director James B. Comey said while the investigation revealed potential violations, “our judgement is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” In other words, crimes were probably committed but the FBI dropp
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by bdowling 4y ago
More info on that degausser. https://www.mediaduplicationsystems.com/sd-1-hard-drive-tape... On sale, now only $3,990.00 (previously $6,999.99).
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by bdowling 4y ago
“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”
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by bdowling 4y ago
Last one standing.
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by bdowling 4y ago
Elitism doesn't mean thinking for yourself or being a creator or doing something better than anyone else. Elitism is the idea that only members of an elite (e.g., people of the right class or those who went to the right schools) can or
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by bdowling 4y ago
> I've come to understand it as both the rarity of creators, and of the need to create. That's an elitist attitude and probably the opposite of what Asimov intended [0]. Any child can create. Give a child a pen and paper or cla
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Purring Is a Love Language No Human Can Speak You might say that the human version of the language is not “purring complete”.
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by bdowling 4y ago
Among the general MTV-watching audience of the 90’s, Usenet was very obscure.
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by bdowling 4y ago
I've seen this in the US in two types of places: (1) hotel restaurants/room service, and (2) really cheap no-name fast food places and food trucks. Franchise/chain restaurants (e.g., McDonalds, Five Guys, In-N-Out) and fancy
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by bdowling 4y ago
According to the decision, the planning division initially approved the project but the neighbors appealed and the oversight commission reversed the approval. Hence the lawsuit and appeal of the trial court's ruling. Interestingly, the
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Rather than building a luxurious single family home, the developer is encouraged to build a multi family home and actually expand the amount of housing available in the area. The property here is a hillside 1.76 acre lot in a "hea
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by bdowling 4y ago
The rest of the lyrics make it clear that Weird Al knows exactly what he's talking about. https://genius.com/Weird-al-yankovic-its-all-about-the-penti...
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by bdowling 4y ago
> There is zero moral difference between mailing someone a Bluray disc . . . and streaming the (censored) contents to exactly one person at a time. Streaming is making a copy of the contents, which, if done without a license, usually vio
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by bdowling 4y ago
I think this is it. Some people are into owning fancy sports cars that they don't actually drive, building high-end gaming computers but not playing games, or buying vintage cameras but not using them to take pictures (note: I'm g
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by bdowling 4y ago
If the language subset can't loop, can't recurse, can only call functions that are guaranteed to finish in finite time, and only allows finite-length programs, then its programs will always halt in finite time.

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