cmiles74

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by cmiles74 2y ago
It has never been argued that copyright law should apply to information the people learn, whether that be from reading books or newspapers, watching television or appreciating art like paintings or photographs. Unlike a person, an large lan
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I don't think this question really makes any sense... In my opinion, it's kind of mish-mashing several things together. "Can you elaborate on how it's not comparable?" The process of individual people interacting wi
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I don't see how this is a double standard. Comparing a person interacting with their culture is not comparable in any way. IMHO, it's kind of a wacky argument to make.
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I've wondered what might happen if IBM lowered costs on this hardware... If they offered a compelling deal, it's conceivable a startup might choose them over Linux. As it stands now, I find it near impossible to imagine any organi
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"...they need no corporate campuses, office space..." This is a big downside of AI, IMHO. Those offices need to be filled! ;-)
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I helped setup the computers at JavaNet here in Northampton, MA; I believe that was in 1995. At that time they were also a local dial-up provider, their cafe definitely a coffee shop and was also quite cozy. https://web.archive.o
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The violation of rights isn't great, the article also mentions seizing cash which may be just as bad or worse in some cases. One person cited in the article was traveling to purchase a truck and the deal fell through ($30k), an elderly
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Maybe the saddest thing is how much the videos look like the demo on the Caledo website. It's just as weird, with one anchor doing a weird giggle that is abruptly cut short. The lip-syncing is equally iffy. I have to wonder, "who
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This feels like hyperbole to me. People can reasonably expect Wikipedia to have factual data even though it sometimes contains inaccuracies. Likewise if people are using ChatGPT for search it should be somewhat reliable. If I'm asking
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Health insurance in the US is a large, complicated mess. OTOH, hospitals and healthcare providers are also a large, complicated mess. In my opinion they are somewhat codependent and, in many cases, fighting for the same dollars. That is, I
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The argument here is that the US will have worse health outcomes than another country because the people are less healthy. Cost of care doesn't factor into this argument.
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I have to disagree that 4GL languages being aimed at the big iron, mainframe world. After browsing the Wikipedia page, there seems to be some confusion around what a 4GL would actually be... For instance, RPG is lumped into this category de
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Copying text out of the PDF from my phone is not fun! The gist is that since the CDL isn't okay then they don't really need to deal with NEL as it's predicated on the legality of the CDL (pages 15-16). The NEL gets a couple o
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This is kind of a stretch, the Internet Archives book lending program under the CDL was not like a free Amazon. Reading software is limited and not great. Check out their website for details. https://help.archive.org/help&#x
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This particular ruling deals with the CDL.
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The pandemic lending is a different thing, it's not "CDL".
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They aren't lending the physical book and the digital book simultaneously; there's only ever one "book" lent. To my mind this is materially different from sites like Anna's Archive.
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Still, under the CDL it is only one book, one person. This is significantly different from a site like Anna's Archive.
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How was the CDL hurting working authors? A library bought the book, paying the publisher and the author. The IA scanned the book for digital lending, this digital copy could only be checked out by one person and only when the physical book
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It was crazy for Amazon to name their hosted search product Elasticsearch! At that time, Amazon clearly felt the name had some value. I agree that this is probably not the picture of the huge win they are painting. Still, it must have been
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In my opinion there are many tools and products in this space and they all seem somewhat confused in their target audience (is it marketed to management, analysts producing reports or developers supporting the analysts?) The boundaries betw
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The most praise I've ever received for my documentation was from the developers forced to read it after I moved on to a position with another company. It's a little unfortunate I didn't hear more about it as I was writing it,
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Vonnegut said a couple of things struck a chord with me: "Novelists are famous as being lousy mates, whether males or females, and one reason is that they have to concentrate all the time or they’ll lose the thread of the novel. It’s a
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The phrase "small group of people" is doing a lot of work, I think. We had the largest technology/media companies in the country making similar changes.
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I believe a "default deny" policy for security infrastructure around workstations is a good idea. When some new tool that uses a new port or whatever comes into use, the hassle of getting IT to change the security profile is far l
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It's low-tech, but I've been using notebooks (not too thick, stapled usually). I write a header for each day when I start and then a line or two as I work on tasks and I try to note each time I switch tasks. I keep the notebooks b
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This article makes a compelling case that GitHub Copilot isn't infringing on our copyright but that doesn't change the fact that it's infringing on something . A US corporation is slurping up as much open source code as they
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Not the OP but I tried hard, looking for an easy pair programming solution. Worked decently a couple of times and inexplicably failed most of the time.
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A short introduction to the Medley Interlisp environment. I've been interested in Medley and finally had some time to get the basics working.
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Getting Started with Medley Interlisp(nervestaple.com)
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