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391.
by eru 2mo ago
Seems like a non-sequitur.
392.
by eru 2mo ago
C has homoiconicity: you can represent C source code as C strings.
393.
by eru 2mo ago
You can ask Claude to write you some.
394.
by eru 2mo ago
Import tariffs and export tariffs have approximately equal influence on your economy. That's known as Lerner Symmetry. (A very narrow version of this can be proven in a mathematical sense, but the empirical effect is broader.) For bi
395.
by eru 2mo ago
Details depend. And setting up negligence and being willfully ignorant is often not something the courts see as a defense.
396.
by eru 2mo ago
Unilaterally not hitting you head against the wall is bad, because you remove the incentive for the other side to stop hitting their head against a wall? > while reaping the benefits of access to your market. Huh, what? Trade is a win-w
397.
by eru 2mo ago
No, not good for Canada. Free trade is optimal, even if its unilateral. The EU should abolish their tariffs and let the clowns in the US do whatever they feel like.
398.
by eru 2mo ago
No, not good for Canada. Free trade is optimal, even if its unilateral. Canada should abolish their tariffs and let the clowns in the US do whatever they feel like.
399.
by eru 2mo ago
If you actually have a virgin phone, there's no data on Amazon to subpoena.
400.
by eru 2mo ago
I've had a look at the thread you linked, and I can't see how you get that impression from it. The most I can see is you making a silly American-centric remark, and people gently correcting you that there are other places on earth
401.
by eru 2mo ago
> and during that time quietly erase the user's actual data. You only need to delete the necessary key. The 'actual' data should just look like random bits.
402.
by eru 2mo ago
For your virgin phone scenario: in practice they'll probably reverse burden of proof and call it a day.
403.
by eru 2mo ago
Keeping a vicious dog doesn't have to lead to a crime either, but that doesn't mean you are not responsible, if something happens.
404.
by eru 2mo ago
The article links to "You can just choose how many bugs you want now" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/16/you-can-just-choose-how-m... So going on a tangent: an additional mechanism you have that bec
405.
by eru 2mo ago
I'm not sure: if you know that LLMs are prone to crime, using them and not checking in enough to trigger 'knowingly' might be gross negligence?
406.
by eru 2mo ago
Roads with cars on it do result in random deaths. The preventative measures only prevent deaths that the road itself caused.
407.
by eru 2mo ago
It's two different ways to see the same thing. Basically, almost everything is immutable in git, apart from tags and branches: these are mutable pointers to immutable commits.
408.
by eru 2mo ago
Whenever you build a highway or a bridge or a power plant, your engineers have to put a money value on human life, or at least the worth of a statistical human life. Just to make ordinary engineering decisions. And refusing to do this exer
409.
by eru 2mo ago
I thought the Borg wanted to get better and better? Leaving the species essentially intact, and absorbing a few members every so often gives you much more material to work with than a one time infusion: they are still evolving and changing
410.
by eru 2mo ago
You hit diminishing returns pretty quickly. And LLM training only bothers with a single copy of each book; they don't even need to destroy the documents. (Eg they didn't destroy the American declaration of independence to train
411.
by eru 2mo ago
In Git the deltas (or diffs) are derived data. They aren't central to what Git is. Natively and conceptually, Git works with repository snapshots.
412.
by eru 2mo ago
You don't even need to fork it: git has something like a plugin system for exactly this use-cases. (I'm not exactly sure what their terminology is. But they thought about this use-case before.)
413.
by eru 2mo ago
Funnily enough, git doesn't actually allow you to 'change' any history. It allows you to make new history, and the old history might get garbage collected eventually.
414.
by eru 2mo ago
We also have D and Zig and Rust. Or even OCaml or Forth, depending on what you see as essentially about C.
415.
by eru 2mo ago
Also remember the guys who made Commander Keen.
416.
by eru 2mo ago
Well, if people don't enter into these contracts anyway, why do we need to protect them?
417.
by eru 2mo ago
You are giving me too much credit: it's made up evidence. It's an illustration that rarity doesn't equal value, and doesn't depend on whether I actually own a wastebook or ten.
418.
by eru 2mo ago
Sorry, could you please elaborate. No one is forced to buy a Bose product, and there are plenty of competitors. I can see why companies would try to sell you a product that breaks, sure. But competitors can point out that their product do
419.
by eru 2mo ago
Yes, exactly. Consenting adults can use contracts and agreements to restrict their later choices. Eg a farmer and a super market can contract today to trade potatoes next year. Strictly speaking, entering that contract takes away a choice i
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by eru 2mo ago
The alternative for many of these un(der)appreciated books is that they will get unceremoniously dumped in the future anyway. The publishing industry and libraries etc dispose off lots and lots of books. So at least with the AI companies t

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