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by duskwuff 4mo ago
And even that pales in comparison to their estimate of a $22.7T (T!) market for their AI "enterprise applications". As a point of reference, the GDP of the United States is roughly $30T.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> I imagine Japan or Korea, countries with less superstition around nuclear reactors-- Public opinion on nuclear power in Japan is not great, particularly after Fukushima. They just don't have a lot of other good options - as it is,
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
For essentially the same reason that Rosetta 2 can't be used to run Windows - they're userspace JIT translators, not system-level emulators. The Classic Environment was, for all intents and purposes, an entire virtualized PowerPC
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
I think you may have misunderstood the situation I'm outlining: 1. Developer A writes some software. 2. Developer B licenses that software from Developer A, under the terms that (for instance) it only be used internally by Developer B
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> They had the classic environment. They could have kept that going. Not for long. The Classic environment depended on the system having a PowerPC CPU - it would not have run on Intel systems. (Rosetta translation would not have been app
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
I don't think it's reasonable for a law to dictate how software must be developed. If a developer wants to create some software by taking some licensed code and modifying it, that's their prerogative - it seems rather overrea
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> The server binaries will almost always include other proprietary information that the studio will not want to release. Or even information that they are contractually forbidden from releasing. A typical scenario would be a game devel
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Personally, I'm all for it. It's been an incredibly effective way of urging developers to support newer Unicode standards.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
I don't know about SOTA, but Sight Engine (sightengine.com) has AI image detection which seems pretty solid. It can even identify specific image generators.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Don't forget the exceptionally long interview cycles. I've heard some stories of candidates getting strung along for 6+ months to eventually get rejected.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Oh, no, it's sillier than that. They do still support Linux... but only if you give them money.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> This is a failure on PayPal’s email template that the freeform text field appears just as legit as other items. This is a somewhat common pattern in scams - abusing freeform text fields in emails or other messages to give the impressio
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
The essay was largely accurate when it was written in 2012. We are living in the grim dark far future of the year 2026, and PHP has now addressed many of the issues it raised.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> Perl's hashes are a complete mystery to me still They're unordered mappings from strings to arbitrary values ("scalars" in Perl jargon). In this sense they're just like an object in JavaScript. Where this gets
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
"We would never have created the Torment Nexus if you pesky authors hadn't written so many stories about how we absolutely, positively should not create it."
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Using the RISC-V architecture doesn't imply fully open hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of RISC-V SoCs require firmware blobs for memory bringup and/or GPU.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
The source is available [1]. The problem is that it's an unmerged fork of the 6.6 kernel. [1]: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Unfortunately, this is an effectively unrelated project.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Monster Jobs and Monster Cable came into conflict over the .monster TLD. (It went to the job board, but they abandoned the TLD a few years later, as both the company and brand TLDs went into a decline.) https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Anesthesia appears to be a fairly broad effect - anaesthetics work on plants, for example [1], even though they lack any neural tissue whatsoever. It would be extremely surprising if those effects were also targeted enough to halt only some
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Currently, there is not. OpenAI has promised "public verification tooling" down the line, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> "Random sample of Internet links" is going to include a lot of absolute garbage. It's also likely to include a lot of non-content links, e.g. links to index and navigation pages, interstitials, search results, user profi
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> accessibility has a dedicated, earlier press release IIRC, it's timed to land around Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 21). https://accessibility.day/
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
"8K" KVMs are available on Amazon for under $100; they'll handle 4K@144 no problem.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> One wonders on what grounds? Invent a time machine; send a lawyer back to file a new lawsuit within the statute of limitations.
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
MIT researchers discovered the truth years ago: tin foil hats may actually increase exposure to RF in some bands. https://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csa...
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
Not to mention Zenodo, Academia.edu, etc .
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
It only works for thru-hole parts and the special wire-wrap sockets you needed to do it properly got expensive (and are no longer in production).
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> No, that wouldn't happen. Lots of people don't have email through Google, for one. Based on some data I collected around five years ago, roughly 80% of US customers used GMail for personal email. It was overwhelmingly the mos
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by duskwuff 5mo ago
> Ideally you'd hope that they would allow third party takedowns. But the ability to do third party takedowns provides a target for the exact attackers that their business is trying to protect against. I don't think that argume

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