bencollier49

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by bencollier49 4y ago
Well the law is written that way, and I don't think it's completely unreasonable (at least to the life of the originator). Just seems like the IA have been bold as brass here. Also, the term "abandonware" is hugely overu
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by bencollier49 4y ago
To be honest I love their computer games archive, but it boggles my mind that it's allowed to exist.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
They literally just announced they were doing it. https://gizmodo.com/firefox-update-stop-url-tracking-chrome-...
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Great timing. My children have friends around. I am now playing Scorched Earth with four 9-year-olds.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This blew my mind. Gives an idea of the timescales we're talking about: "The reason why Old Tjikko now finds itself on the barren rock near Trysil – more than a hundred metres higher than what is considered the tree line – is simp
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Kemi Badenoch seems to be anti.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Arrest you when you change planes at Heathrow. It's nuts; most of the Internet will be locked off from UK users.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I don't think this defines what a false credential is, though. It defines how one might illegally use one, or issue one, or falsely claim to have a real qualification, but I don't see a definition of a false credential. It sounds
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This sounds like moat-building. But what does "the use of higher education credentials from diploma mills and unaccredited schools" actually amount to? Listing them on a CV?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
A lot of religious ideas fall into this basket, particularly their manifestations in the USA. You could make a strong argument that American televangelists and their ilk killed Christianity in Western Europe.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
A cynic might be tempted to make facetious comparisons to Copilot.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
It has become much more socially acceptable to communicate ones emotions in the last few decades. This, added to the fact that female authors have tended to communicate differently (and I see no attempt to control for that in my admittedly
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I should qualify this by saying that it happened on the day I first got the device. I was really excited to receive it, and it did everything hoped it would, but a gentle pull to the side on the power lead was enough to break internal compo
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I bought a Pinebook which was bricked almost instantly by a child gently tripping over a lead. The build quality was terrible, it wouldn't have happened with any other laptop I've owned in the last 15 years.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Canon vs. custom, I think. The point being that you don't want a random person complaining to their DM that they're not using the rule about magical trousers, when it was actually written by some random on the internet and added t
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This happened to me on Amazon, I think it was. They shouldn't be allowed to use the word "buy".
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Pubs were closing long before the internet appeared, albeit in smaller numbers. The main driver, in my opinion, is specialisation. We've got a much more professional workforce these days, with more specialist skills, who for this reaso
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I feel very sorry for people working in cryptography who've had their prefix stolen.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Perhaps we see it as natural from a 21st century perspective. It's entirely possible that to people from back then, the thought process wasn't as obvious.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
What, in Kanji?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Presumably there are computational models which can predict this sort of thing at the subatomic level?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Depends on your country, but I do know for a fact that if you're in the UK, there are government departments which will teach you modern development practices alongside COBOL, if you're near one of the relevant hubs.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I found it a bit jarring the way that the mass of regular BBSes go unmentioned in this piece. Fascinating though, I'm from the time (in the UK) and have no recollection of the Microsoft Network.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
That's a better demonstration of the principle than I managed, actually. It does seem faintly absurd, unless there's something else involved.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Which raises a very interesting legal question: If the data is recompiled, despite having come from another source via an intermediary (who are using that data to describe the products they are selling), is it still subject to the database
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Bit of a stretch to figure Oxford as "ravaged by industry" though, isn't it? The Cotswolds are suffused with bucolicity.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Thanks, will take a look at this - would be lovely to add something of this nature to a CI pipeline.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Okay, so if you're in a country covered by GDPR, then any company (from wherever) has to give you control over the way that your data is used, within reasonable limits - there are exemptions for certain things, but probably not this. S
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by bencollier49 4y ago
If you're based in Europe then you're quite right. This is a GDPR issue - identifiable PII in the model, and you can force the vendor to remove it.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Perhaps it's a little bit like employing a human programmer with an eidetic memory who occasionally remembers entire largish functions. If he were able to remember a large enough piece of copyrighted code, and reused it, then it still

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