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by fhd2 10mo ago
That would be interesting. I don't believe getting 100% the same bytes every time a derivative work is created in the same way is legally relevant. Take filters applied to copyright protected photos - might not be the exact same bytes
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by fhd2 10mo ago
In my experience, "font" is the colloquial term referring to either. Programmers get to demand precision, for journalists it's a bit tougher. The de facto meaning of terms does, unfortunately, evolve in sometimes arbitrary wa
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by fhd2 10mo ago
That would be considered a derivative work of the C code, therefore copyright protected, I believe. Can you replay all of your prompts exactly the way you wrote them and get the same behaviour out of the LLM generated code? In that case, th
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by fhd2 10mo ago
It would be if demand was limited. Let's assume the people already have enough food, and the population is not growing - that was my premise. Through innovation, one farmer can grow more than all the others. Since there already was eno
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Google, Meta and Microsoft would have to compete on demand, i.e. users of the chat product. Not saying they won't manage, but I don't think the competition is about ad tech infrastructure as much as it is about eyeballs.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Agreed. If you "create demand", it usually just means people are spending on the thing you provide, and consequently less on something else. Ultimately it goes back to a few basic needs, something like Maslow's hierarchy of n
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Fascinating, from skimming that, it does indeed appear that it would be within the GNU philosophy to distribute source code solely in exchange for payment. Doesn't cover a case where the source code is _already_ distributed though, the
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Agreed, "free" is too broad. I was responding to parent's question though: "Can you call it open source if you need a subscription license to run / edit the code?" I'd say no. If you have the code in front
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by fhd2 11mo ago
What's wrong with Minecraft? I'm not exactly a Microsoft fan, but am pretty impressed with how little control they have so far exerted over Java Edition, they even made modding easier recently by removing obfuscation. You can run
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by fhd2 11mo ago
It really does, by any definition I've ever heard. I suppose the authoritative one would be [1]. A common "trick" for commercial open source software is to use a copyleft license, which restricts redistribution as part of com
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Their emotional maturity is off the charts, rather impressive.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Fully agree, luckily I don't maintain projects on GitHub anymore, but it used to be challenging long before LLMs. I had one fairly questionable contribution from someone who asked me to please merge it because their professor tasked th
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Well, I'd argue they created a straight jacket. That prevents a number of self harm tactics. It also makes a lot of easy things pretty hard to do.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
> Sounds like C. Data hiding is just one of the concepts of OOP. Polymorphism is another one. How that's implemented is another question. You can do OOP in plain C, several libraries kinda did that, like GTK. Other languages tried t
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Exactly, and to my knowledge the receiving party needs to pay profit tax on them. It's called a donation, but technically more of a pay-what-you-want model. Several businesses do that.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
If you live in the west, 47.5% even. But that's income tax, whether that applies here depends on how it's structured.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
If the LLM hype doesn't cool down fast, we're probably looking at another AI winter. Appears to me like he's just trying to ensure he'll have funding for chasing the global maximum going forward.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
> Regardless, the keyboard vs mouse thing always struck me as one of the many dumb flamewars that tech people engage in. Certainly. I wouldn't argue that text editing speed is a relevant bottleneck in software development, actually.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
Completely agree. At the same time, I'd wager a good chunk of developers isn't really in it for a love of computers and tinkering. Not a bad thing per se, just my observation.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
For me, the power of Emacs is mainly that I can do everything with the keyboard, which is not only much faster, but also - to me - much more enjoyable than going through visual menus with the mouse. For someone not good with the keyboard, i
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by fhd2 11mo ago
You'd think that, but from what I've seen, some people come up with pretty nasty self hosting setups. All the way from "just manually set it all up via SSH last year" to Kubernetes. Of course, people can and also definit
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by fhd2 11mo ago
My pet peeves are: 1. For small stuff, AWS et al aren't that much more expensive than Hetzner, mostly in the same ballpark, maybe 2x in my experience. 2. What's easy to underestimate for _developers_ is that your self hosted setup
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by fhd2 11mo ago
If you have an activity where you get to _think_ for hours about what you're gonna do, you can really do a lot in 15 minutes.
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by fhd2 11mo ago
I'd say you have three options: 1. Reject it on the grounds of being too large to meaningfully review. Whether they used AI or not, this is effectively asking them to start over in an iterative process where you review every version of
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by fhd2 1y ago
Oh you're gonna learn how things work, if you stick around long enough. The decision you get to make is whether you'll learn one thing at a time while you're building, or everything all at once under pressure at 2am.
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by fhd2 1y ago
I feel in this context, refactoring has lost its meaning a bit. Sure, it's often used analogous to changes that don't affect semantics. But originally, the idea was that you make a quick change to solve the problem / test the
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by fhd2 1y ago
Yeah, if the API design prevents this, parsing HTML is about as hard. But I've seen a lot of cases where a single request will get you _all_ the data you could ever want, a lot of it not even rendered on the frontend, no need to deal w
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by fhd2 1y ago
Withdrawal symptoms :P The buyer decides whether their problem is a good one to have and whether the solution is adequate. Even when it's, objectively, not.
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by fhd2 1y ago
For the consistency/security rules, I meant that any API accessible in the browser is also publicly accessible to anyone. Quite a lot easier to e.g. syphon data out of a system than if they just did SSR. So if you want to avoid that, y
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by fhd2 1y ago
I like that too, in theory. We used to call that "rich client". Basically UIs that had full database access. And there begin the problems. Do you really want to expose a full CRUD API, or are there consistency/security rules

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