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Everything Made by an AI Is in the Public Domain (2023)(pluralistic.net)
4 points by cpeterso 2y ago|0 comments
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Why training AI can't be IP theft(blog.giovanh.com)
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Rethinking Extension Data Consent: Clarity, Consistency, and Control(blog.mozilla.org)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> It doesn’t raise prices of domestic goods and actually increases demand for domestic goods. But domestic producers will surely increase their prices to match their foreign competitors’ tariffed prices.
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by cpeterso 2y ago
An amusing demonstration of a reverse Turing test built in Unity 3D with different LLMs posing as famous leaders from history on a passenger train, trying to identify the human among them: https://youtu.be/MxTWLm9vT_o
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by cpeterso 2y ago
And it was trained on the previous announcements.
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A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'(pewresearch.org)
192 points by cpeterso 2y ago|99 comments
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by cpeterso 2y ago
btw, SWF stands for "Shockwave Flash". Macromedia was trying to capitalize on the brand recognition of Shockwave when marketing Flash.
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Open Bar for Beta Testers, Drunk User Testing(newyorker.com)
3 points by cpeterso 2y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Enter "Drunk User Testing". Host a happy hour event and give some buzzed users some scenarios to test. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/an-open-bar-fo... https://uxpamag
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by cpeterso 2y ago
You can see one of these multiplane cameras on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco.
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Nathan Myhrvold said “Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.”
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New nonprofit wants to be a sustainable landing spot for local news outlets(niemanlab.org)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Psychonaut Josie Kins publishes YouTube videos with comparisons and visualizations of various psychedelic experiences: https://youtube.com/@josikinz
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Arc is in maintenance mode as The Browser Company focuses on building a new browser: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company...
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by cpeterso 2y ago
A minor ChatGPT feature I miss with Claude is temporary chats. I use ChatGPT for a lot of random one-off questions and don’t want them filling up my chat history with so many conversations.
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> Failed projects spent a great portion on writing code. Perhaps because the project requirements were not known or kept changing? I'm reminded of the quip about "Why spend an hour in a meeting when you can spend weeks writing
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by cpeterso 2y ago
What is "expect style"? Like Expect scripts in the Tcl scripting language?
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Marianne Bellotti’s “Burn It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)” is another good book about working with legacy systems, though its focus is more about managing system evolution and modernization than sp
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Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump(cnn.com)
5 points by cpeterso 2y ago|2 comments
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Did no one at Google read this blog post on an iPhone before publishing?
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The company spending millions to build an underwater human settlement(popsci.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> seed your RNG with "random" values like the current time Good point. srand(time(NULL)) is a common, yet nondeterministic, seed. The caller clearly doesn't expect rand() to generate a particular sequence of numbers, so sr
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> Unitedstatesians Frank Lloyd Wright tried to popularize the name "Usonia" for the United States of North (Independent) America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia
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by cpeterso 2y ago
btw, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all froze their User-Agent strings at “Mac OS X 10.15” after running into web compatibility problems reporting “Mac OS X 11.0”. Some websites’ User-Agent parsers assumed there would never be an 11.0 version
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> There's one screen that loads up 40,000 rows (crazy you say?) worth of data that performs fine on Chrome and is laggy on Firefox Firefox's performance engineers are eager for bug reports! You can record a performance profile
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Aggressive ad blockers are often the cause of many “site doesn’t work in Firefox” issues. When the Firefox user then loads the site in Chrome, it works because the user doesn’t have an ad blocker installed in Chrome (because they don’t typi
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by cpeterso 2y ago
The Firefox team’s code review guidelines recommend: > Aim for a response within 1 business day. This need not be a full review, but could be a comment setting expectations about when you’ll be able to review the patch, pointing to othe
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Looks like there was a 2019 follow-up, "Large-Scale C++: Process and Architecture, Volume 1" , with two more volumes planned: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201717069/
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The section about language support for modular monoliths reminds me of John Lakos's "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" , which focuses on the physical design/layout of large C++ projects to enforce interfaces and reduce

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