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by beej71 26d ago
I don't understand. Your comment seems to imply that the Internet has no effect on the ability of groups to organize?
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by beej71 27d ago
Very cool. I love that, as someone steeped in digital programming, such solutions would not have occurred to me. It's a good argument for breaking out of ones shell now and then.
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by beej71 27d ago
Great. Time to relive the glory days of mini USB, micro USB, and carrying a pile of different cables around to charge your stuff.
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by beej71 27d ago
Not quite. If you abolish copyright, then some place like Google or Amazon will be the only one who will make money. Authors will get zero, relatively. The second you publish your book, Amazon will instantly republish it and collect 100% of
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by beej71 27d ago
15-25 million is too small a number in this context. We're taking about 8 billion people suspectable to a new virus or collection of viruses far more lethal than polio. :(
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by beej71 27d ago
But they have been trained on data that was created by people who do have motivation, and they tend to mimic their training.
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by beej71 27d ago
> If you don't think the problems are real, make the case to the voters. Let's say we could demonstrate the problems aren't real beyond any shadow of a doubt. Do you think that would change votes appreciably?
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by beej71 28d ago
I called it quits about 8 years ago (I'm 55), mostly due to the fact that I couldn't get excited about anyone's "next big thing". Got into teaching, which was a new, rewarding skill to work on mastering. (I've
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by beej71 28d ago
Good to know. Still wish it wasn't another connector, though.
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by beej71 29d ago
I actually like the magnet and use it to stick the reader to my phone. :) I don't consider it a thing that keeps me from using my phone; it's just a way to carry it in my pocket.
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by beej71 29d ago
I have an X4. I've read about 15 books on it so far, and I carry it everywhere. I used to read books on my phone (Moon Reader), but it wasn't as compelling. I think it was a combination of the screen and the fact that I'm use
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by beej71 29d ago
What kind of access can the government get, I wonder...
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by beej71 29d ago
Morally, the net gain of data preservation and access outweighs the copyright issues. This is especially true for abandoned works. And, morally, the current copyright duration is unacceptable. Depends on ones morals, of course.
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by beej71 29d ago
They can't hear you over their loud and non-ideological renaming of Lake America.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Never forget the one goal of the corporation, and that everything is said and done in the furtherance of that goal.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Yet we did, indirectly.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Unless the US government ripped parler off the Internet, this is not a sensible comparison.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Or J6.
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by beej71 1mo ago
It is a little weird that the government is allowed to distribute for sale a poisonous product without warning consumers, but private industry is not.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Don't need school for that. Just ask the LLM for two stupid hard problems and get the equivalent skills of anyone with an MS. Or maybe there was more to it?
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by beej71 1mo ago
It's a very powerful learning tool that, when misused, lobotomizes students. Students who use it correctly > students who don't use it > students who use it incorrectly
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by beej71 1mo ago
When I write technical documentation, here's how I use LLMs: * If I need to learn something before I write about it, I rely on LLMs heavily to answer questions that I have about other source materials, e.g. to clear up ambiguities. * I
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by beej71 1mo ago
Everyone against data centers is doing cost-benefit analysis. If the data center folks want to solve this, work on that ratio. And both sides, if you please, since the perceived benefit right now is basically zero.
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by beej71 1mo ago
And physical, objective reality, too.
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by beej71 1mo ago
I walked to school alone when I was 4, crossing several streets. I bicycled when I was 5. This was typical of the time.
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by beej71 1mo ago
I don't want another landfill. Ours is almost full and they're talking about converting a beautiful valley into the next one. And it's way father out of town. Shipping trash ain't free. There's a balance between saf
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by beej71 1mo ago
The C64 was a tremendously hackable machine—you had so much control. And, IIRC, the clock was something like 900Khz but that still allowed (with the help of VIC and SID) all kinds of incredible effects in assembly. I'm grateful my pare
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by beej71 1mo ago
Nothing makes me happier than holding down ^W at the end of the day.
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by beej71 1mo ago
I see setting such pricing to be an impossible task. What should be the fee for me sharing the computed word count of a book, an uncopyrightable figure? We'd likely agree that a large payment should not be required in that case. And no
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by beej71 1mo ago
I disagree with restrictions on digestive use of a work. If I legally acquire a book, I should be able to run that data through an algorithm, and I should be allowed to share the result freely as long as it's not replicating the origin

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