clankyclanker

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by clankyclanker 1y ago
Does anybody have insider details on how HP killed the Memrister? I'd be fascinated to read that, too.
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by clankyclanker 2y ago
That's why (A)GPL is so handy, it discourages value-extraction. As cwebber says: https://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/
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by clankyclanker 2y ago
Let me introduce you to the "germ theory" of disease. It makes more accurate predictions about the world than other disease theories! https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/08/history-pas...
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by clankyclanker 2y ago
That seems optimistic. I would instead expect that those VIPs would be added to a table of folks who don't get tickets, codifying the current semi-formal process.
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by clankyclanker 2y ago
…but, like drowning, plane crashes aren’t infectious. There might be something to your analogy if a crash in Boise caused everyone in town to come down with a plane to the head, but that’s not how that works so it’s kind of apples to orange
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
So, PBS Space Time did a video on this “fine tuned universe” theory and it, like all of their videos, is great. The concept seems to be that in an unbalanced universe, life couldn’t form, and we’d be incapable of having this conversation. S
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
* Representative
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Then you file a complaint with your favorite reordenarías because somebody skirted the GDPR?
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Isn’t that usually called extortion?
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Agreed, I only picked up reading again after finding Libby. (A short story about how cheating the user with exorbitant prices results in the exit of your audience.)
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
I don’t think that’s quite the takedown of the gp you might it is; copyright doesn’t really ensure any of those things. It looks like think you’re conflating a few things here, particularly attribution and profit. I don’t think copyright gu
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
...Not in practice? The US has had laws in the books regulating gun ownership for almost a century. https://time.com/5169210/us-gun-control-laws-history-timelin...
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
pdftk?
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
(If that's the case I'm thinking of) it was actually documented as a challenge to export restrictions, mocking them was merely a pleasant byproduct. The EFF's legal challenge was essentially that if crypto is a munition, then
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
I'm around there and am interested in adding new trees to my yard. If you're serious, drop me an email.
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like it doesn’t break theory, but it’s a potentially useful product instead, and folks are disappointed.
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Sadly, there’s no “am I dominating the conversation?” multiplier. That’s the sort of thing I wild have lived to have in a hackerspace’s monthly meeting.
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Or, more pithily, always ask "how can you disprove it?" - If you can't, it isn't science and can't be treated as such.
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Yeah, confirmed, it's the shadow in dark-mode.
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
I agree with some of them, but why is the font blurry? My poor eyes. Replace show-trailing-whitespace with automatically-deleting-whitespace, though. (defun x/delete-whitespace () (unless (or (string= major-mode 'diff-mod
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
> we have a nebulous understanding what the equilibrium price would be on a free market. I can’t imagine a free market existing in the US without PS5-style-resellers immediately buying out the entire supply and jacking up the price for d
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
That’s the thing: the GPL isn’t there for you, the developer. The GPL exists to ensure freedoms for the user and it does this by requiring responsibilities of the developer. This creates an interesting and important second-order effect that
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
I never knew there was a “sleigh” in “dogsled,” I’ve only ever heard “sled,” like “slid” or “skid.”
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
About a dozen years ago, folks estimated that G made about $100M/day from AdWords. That number has probably kept pace with inflation, but even if it hasn’t, they’re committing at most about a fifth of day’s income, per year, or 1&#x2
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
The speed that caffeine starts hitting your body depends very strongly on how full you are when you consume it and how much food/water you’ve already had throughout the day. The timing after a meal will be very different than an empty
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Are you sure? https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft... The Azure-State-Department breach had nearly a half dozen contributing bugs...
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Nowhere does acknowledging and permitting the use require a C&D. A simple “we see you and this is fine” letter would’ve also met the policing requirement. The C&D is only required when you want to shut folks up and get the lawyers t
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
That’s what Google used to do (though not for BGP), back in their engineering days. That’s what gave us AFL.
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
Nope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35483823
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by clankyclanker 3y ago
This is precisely the case where ChatGPT (or any LLM) will have trouble that a layperson would have trouble validating: Toki Pona has a limited document corpus and requires contextual interpretation obvious to experts. In short, expect h

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