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by ethin 2mo ago
And if you believe that blocking bots is bad, then by all means provide a better alternative that doesn't increase costs for sysadmins. If you believe that the website should just be improved, then by all means feel free to provide ins
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by ethin 2mo ago
Sure, but I would be incredibly shocked if the courts overturned these conclusions. These kinds of determinations are within the remit of the USCO, so a court does not need to come out and say it if the USCO has already done so. Obviously,
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by ethin 2mo ago
This is not necessarily true. While no court has explicitly come out and said that copyright does not apply to AI-generated works of authorship, the US copyright office has[0]: > Based on an analysis of copyright law and policy, informed
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by ethin 2mo ago
> Let's take world leaders as an example. Suppose one starts making up everything they say on the spot, never researches or cares about facts, and just says things people like. Uh... Don't they already do this?
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by ethin 2mo ago
For me it's the opposite: I don't have $200 plus to throw at Anthropic every Month, and when I do get to use Fable it rips through my usage credits like there's absolutely no tomorrow. Of course, the hilarious thing to me is
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by ethin 2mo ago
I mean. This is what happens with vibe-coded projects. When there's no actual software engineering going on, I wouldn't expect anything better than this.
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by ethin 2mo ago
I don't use Claude code, just Claude web, and I get this all the time. Or (since I have it push me to actually think) it will ask me some question in our back-and-forth, and then right after it'll provide the answer. As a "hi
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by ethin 2mo ago
I would look at osxcross[0] if you haven't looked into it already. It can at least do the "build stuff targeting macos" part (well, relatively speaking). Swift support kinda breaks down, unfortunately, and actually getting it
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by ethin 2mo ago
> The deterministic script is probably overly complex and hard to read, maybe supports ten billion platform combinations. Uh sorry what? Can you point to a PKGBUILD that is indeed this complex?
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by ethin 2mo ago
I did also say optimize as well as. As in: your compiler needs to be genuinely better than GCC to compete with it. Good Windows support is a start, but you have yet to reach architecture equality of what GCC provides (which is fair I suppos
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by ethin 2mo ago
Prove it and that your compiler is fully C compliant and can handle all possible inputs GCC can accept (and optimize as well as GCC), then we'll talk. Only then will your compiler risk leaving GCC behind.
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by ethin 2mo ago
To be clear, that case did not decide copyrightability of APIs, just fair use in Google's specific circumstances. I wish the court had ruled that APIs themselves could not be copyrightable (after all, they are declarations of something
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by ethin 2mo ago
Yep, same for those LLM creators who get all pissy when you provide (constructive) criticism about what they've outputted (or ask reasonable questions like if the person is doing actual tests) and they get all offended and call you ung
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by ethin 2mo ago
Agreed. And DuckDB certainly has a very nice API. But I wouldn't use it for a general dataset (think document storage).
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by ethin 2mo ago
Sure, but this is what I'm getting at. :) SQLite is a general-purpose engine that is absolutely amazing at what it does and where it's used (and in many cases even where it isn't appropriate). But TFA was about comparing the
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by ethin 2mo ago
Yes? They certainly act like they are...
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by ethin 2mo ago
How are these two DB engines even comparable other than at the edges? They handle two completely separate workload types: one is more a general-purpose DB engine and the other is specifically for columnar datasets, analytics and the like --
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by ethin 2mo ago
No, because AI safety standards are, I think, context-specific. We could for example say that "no development of nuclear weapons" should be one, but then you need all of these exceptions for genuine research. You can't encode
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by ethin 2mo ago
Agreed, I'd prefer it stick around for the long-term because I use it when creating temporary venvs to screw around with things that I'm not certain about committing to in my actual projects for example. I guess I could do that wi
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by ethin 2mo ago
Might get downvoted but was thinking this exact thing when reading this debate. Rustations have this very bad habit (IMO) of pushing the "my language is better than yours" to an extreme that I haven't seen elsewhere (but I do
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by ethin 2mo ago
Not to mention: what are the "safety" standards we should enforce? And how should those standards even be enforced?
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by ethin 2mo ago
Is that not what the courts are for? I imagine that if a court had to enforce a requirement like this, knowledge would generally be the best kind of proof. If you know what the contract said (or even it's terms in general) that would b
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by ethin 2mo ago
IMO any contract, waver, etc., shouldn't be legally enforceable unless the signatory has actually read it. It's always seemed to me to be one hell of a pathway of abuse (in a way) to just be able to bind someone to be legally requ
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by ethin 2mo ago
In the United States
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by ethin 2mo ago
Yep why not both?
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by ethin 2mo ago
And if you don't think the Republican's will use this distrust to their advantage, well, I have a bridge to sell you. It's a very common tactic by them: create a problem that never existed, then wine about said problem.
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by ethin 3mo ago
Really? I didn't know ISP-provided modems could even do that, I assumed they were like routers and isolated to the local network and what the ISP gives them access to. I just wish they would give me more than "well it's for s
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by ethin 3mo ago
Because a crime was committed, and a pretty serious one at that? If I blow up your house or steel $100000 from you and we both resolve our differences out of band, should I just be allowed to go about my day like I never did anything, or sh
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by ethin 3mo ago
Nobody is saying the models are incapable of what was claimed.
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by ethin 3mo ago
My ISP won't give me the router credentials because they claim that that would somehow risk their network interconnectivity or something. I have no idea how this makes any sense since a router (shouldn't) give me that level of acc

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