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by ghoward 5y ago
All of that completely ignores the fact that a court just basically said that a machine cannot invent, which is a small step away from saying a machine cannot copyright, which would mean that Copilot is not transformative. The copyright cas
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by ghoward 5y ago
> The fast inverse square root algorithm referenced here didn't originate from Quake Where did it come from then? And what license did the original have? > and is in hundreds of repositories - many with permissive licenses like W
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have many thoughts about Copilot, but here are two. First, as much as I don't like the idea of Copilot, it seems to be good for boilerplate code. However, the fact that boilerplate code exists is not because of some natural limitatio
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by ghoward 5y ago
It is. Machines are running algorithms, which, by definition, are not creative. Of course, people may argue that people are not creative, but considering that for a recent court case, it was decided that AI cannot be an inventor, it does
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by ghoward 5y ago
I don't blame you. I personally think that helicopters are inherently dangerous. The only reason I feel comfortable is because, until I will be able to handle one myself, I am flying with instructors who I trust completely.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I am aware of wire cutters on helicopters, and yes, wire strike prevention with cutters would be useful, but that only solves one problem. You are correct that a lot can be automated, but if there is anything that cannot be, humans have t
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by ghoward 5y ago
Wannabe pilot here (15 hours in R22's). What do you fly?
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have 15 hours as a trainee helicopter pilot (non-solo). The key quote is this: "You still need someone with training in communications protocols, what speed and elevation to fly and where the system is unsafe to operate ." Flyi
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by ghoward 5y ago
> It might stifle free speech but in my book it does not stifle democracy, and reducing the latter to the former is a mistake. Curious: how do you have democracy without free speech? To me, it seems that free speech is a prerequisite for
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by ghoward 5y ago
Ah, complaining about downvotes when the person debating you cannot even downvote the comment. And now I know you are arguing in bad faith when you give me a label that you know does not apply. No, I don't deserve respect, but I neve
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by ghoward 5y ago
> The crux here was your intention, and willingness, also you don’t even get to live your “because I say so” tendencies, because, as you wrote previously, it’s not being done in a repressive Puritan country anyway. Again, you are accusin
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by ghoward 5y ago
Or (if he did it with floats), tested it with all 4 billion floats. [1] [1]: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not going topless at beaches is a social contract that is followed. But if you want my real opinion, society is subverted by allowing indecency like that.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have been a Linux-only user on the desktop since 2011. I've been thinking of jumping ship to FreeBSD for better ZFS support and a more cohesive experience, but I'm still on Linux for now. But I do try to make my software portabl
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by ghoward 5y ago
For a rough estimation, you can use my bc at [1] which uses goto extensively for safe and effective use of setjmp() and longjmp(), while having no memory leaks (to my knowledge). When going through the code, though, be aware that some goto&
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by ghoward 5y ago
The battery and port is a fair point. Thank you.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Thank you! I have more questions if you don't mind. Is the experience alright? Are there any gotchas that I would need to know?
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by ghoward 5y ago
Mini Ask HN: The comments here seem to say that PinePhone and friends are not ready to be daily drivers or even occasional drivers. I think that's fine. However, I do want to support these people and their work. I also need an ARM mach
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by ghoward 5y ago
There's plenty of evidence from history that if a group is censored, it is persecuted thereafter. The evidence does not need to be from now .
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by ghoward 5y ago
The slippery slope argument is not a fallacy if there's evidence for it, and in the case of censorship, there is.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I like his idea, but it sounds a little hypocritical coming from someone who advocated a change that broke many distros builds of the Python cryptography package. Personally, I think he spent his "backwards-incompatibility budget&quo
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by ghoward 5y ago
You're not wrong. This is why I use Ungoogled Chromium and build it myself.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Avoiding things like this is the reason I don't have any Code of Conduct for my public FOSS projects. [1] The flip side of that is that people need to trust my vision for culture [2] and trust me to do the right thing to build that c
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by ghoward 5y ago
Thank you. And after reading your response, I might give up on at least one of those ideas.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I addressed these arguments. I think that if you don't have access to the source, it's a security problem. That includes not having access to the source because of security clearances. As far as I am concerned, your superiors in t
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by ghoward 5y ago
Author here. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I'll fix it.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Author here. I'm curious: did you read to the end of the post where I lay out ideas about how to get the benefits of both in one?
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by ghoward 5y ago
I understand where you are coming from. That's actually why I gave my ideas to get the best from both types of linking.
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Either way, "considered harmful" is a tired and unoriginal cliché. Using it twice in one title is just stonkingly uncreative. > I agree with most of the article but the title sucks! You are correct. I don't claim to b
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by ghoward 5y ago
I don't want Copilot to use them. Sorry; should have said that.

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