cedilla

5 ms·

31.
by cedilla 6mo ago
That may be how JavaScript started, but unless your claim is that JavaScript hasn't changed at all in the thirty years or so since then, your argument is a complete non-sequitur.
32.
by cedilla 6mo ago
I don't know why it would matter, but Einstein didn't hate quantum mechanics. He literally got his Nobel prize for his role in discovering quantum mechanics. He is one of the earliest people to propose that light exists in quantis
33.
by cedilla 6mo ago
Allowed to do? Not prevented from by technical measures, but certainly not allowed to do. Considering the goal is to identify people, this is undeniably PII. As the article demonstrates, it also pertains sensitive information.
34.
by cedilla 6mo ago
If other people collect data like that it's probably also illegal.
35.
by cedilla 6mo ago
Voyager 1 and 2 are 25 and 21 billion kilometres away, respectively. Even if we built a rocket just designed to get stuff as far away as quickly away as possible, it would take decades to catch up to where they are now.
36.
by cedilla 6mo ago
Strange. If you compress complex topics into one four-word sentence, they are not as coherent any more.
37.
by cedilla 7mo ago
Microsoft never called their productivity suite "simply" office, nor have they registered a product under that name.
38.
by cedilla 7mo ago
Microsoft does not have a trademark for "Office", which is clearly a type of product and can't be used as a program name (just like you can't name your oatmeal "Oatmeal" and expect trademark protection). Micros
39.
by cedilla 7mo ago
Brains are not doing linear algebra, and they don't follow a concise algorithm. What LLM do is even farther away from what neural nets do, and even there - artificial neurons are inspired by but not reimplementing biological neurons. Y
40.
by cedilla 7mo ago
Fair use is much more narrow than most people think, it's just that most rights-holders are not very belligerent. For example, streaming video games does not fall under fair right, most video essays critiquing films or series use way t
41.
by cedilla 8mo ago
I know for sure that each and every AI I use wants to write whole novellas in response to every prompt unless I carefully remind it to keep responses short over and over and over again. This didn't used to be the case, so I assume that
42.
by cedilla 8mo ago
There are a few exceptions though, like most mobile games, visual novels (many of which use Python of all languages, due to an excellent framework called ren'py), and of course games written using Unity or XNA, which use .NET languages
43.
by cedilla 8mo ago
You've got it exactly the wrong way around. And that with such great confidence! There was always a confusion about whether a kilobyte was 1000 or 1024 bytes. Early diskettes always used 1000, only when the 8 bit home computer era star
44.
by cedilla 8mo ago
Companies pay millions and millions to get away from bespoke software, but not simply because of the costs. Companies want to do their core business, they don't want to also be a software enterprise, and assume all the risks that entai
45.
by cedilla 8mo ago
> billions of people now have access to better translations on deman As a German speaker, I experience the quality of German language technical documentation steadily declining. 30 years ago, German documentation was usually top notch. W
46.
by cedilla 9mo ago
Is this a new thing or do you think that most professors were always unable to do their job? Why do you think you are an exception? I don't believe that your argument is more than an ad-hoc value judgment lacking justification. And it&
47.
by cedilla 9mo ago
I assume that TVs have bad sound because better speakers just don't fit into their form factor.
48.
by cedilla 9mo ago
Well, when fascists are in power, paper won't help anyone. But at this point, as a European I enjoy enumerated human and civil rights from multiple constitutions and several international treaties, which are directly enforceable by cou
49.
by cedilla 9mo ago
Deutsche Bahn ist anything but wasteful, it's underfunded to the tune of tens of billions per year. Cleaning out trees more up to ten meters away from railways was seen as to expensive, now 6m tall trees fall in them all the time durin
50.
by cedilla 10mo ago
I'll never understand the amount of vitriol Wikipedia volunteers must receive. Why is the deletion (or even deletion proposal) regarded as such a heinous act that people feel the need to attack and bully others? I find this kind of be
51.
by cedilla 10mo ago
I completely agree. I struggle to think of any legitimate business that would allow only gift cards. Maybe some privacy oriented VPN providers? In any case, I think this is almost a willful misunderstanding. Not only does it attack the stra
52.
by cedilla 10mo ago
More forget than fire. The longer certificates were valid the more often we'd have breakage due to admins forgetting renewal, or how do install the new certificates. It was a daily occurrence, often with hours or days of downtime. Toda
53.
by cedilla 10mo ago
I don't think anyone made the claim that requiring identification while providing German phone numbers would do anything about abuse from Russian botnets or abuse from non-German phone numbers.
54.
by cedilla 10mo ago
For some reason, many people think that gifting money is gauche, but gift cards are somehow okay.
55.
by cedilla 10mo ago
What incompatible versions of pythons do you mean? I'm entirely unaware of any forks, and the youngest version I have to supply at the moment is 3.9, which is over 5 years old and available in all supported platforms.
56.
by cedilla 10mo ago
People were happy because they only needed one subscription and one app. Buying Warner Bros won't bring that back. If anything, it makes it less likely.
57.
by cedilla 10mo ago
Ehh. Everything you need to consider is really not that much when it comes to most typical consumer 3d printing projects. Mostly because they are usually about stuff like "fixing a broken tashcan". The engineers who made that bull
58.
by cedilla 10mo ago
Uber was founded half a decade after the dot com bubble.
59.
by cedilla 10mo ago
That's true of course, but the book series wouldn't have become a cultural phenomenon that makes billions. Unlike, for probably the only example, Harry Potter, which was already a cultural phenomenon when the first film was announ
60.
by cedilla 10mo ago
I don't understand why anyone would think that this kind of snark and condescension is furthering the discussion in any way. A good thing for us all to keep in mind: we don't /have to/ share all our thoughts.

More ›