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by ghoward 5y ago
GitHub has 56 million users as of September 2020 (according to Wikipedia). Let's assume that only 1 million of them use Copilot at an average of once a week. That means that every week , there will be 1000 verbatim copypaste of code
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by ghoward 5y ago
Unfortunately, just because code is open source doesn't mean that there aren't terms of use attached with it. One of the simplest and most widely used terms is attribution. This means that if Copilot does not attribute code when i
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by ghoward 5y ago
All of my open source licenses require attribution, but Copilot does not give that attribution. So while my code is open source, Copilot is still violating the open source license. Just because it's open source doesn't mean there
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by ghoward 5y ago
Once is enough because it sets a precedent. But AWS taking down Parler is an example, as is AWS taking down America's Frontline Doctors. You may not like those websites, but if it can happen to them, it can happen to anyone.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Yes, correct, but that implies that anyone who has racist thoughts but doesn't do anything with them is not a racist.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Thank you for the nuanced reply. I just want to address your opinion that everyone is racist on some level. Do you likewise believe that all men are rapists on some level? If so, then I can commend your consistency and accept your view. If
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by ghoward 5y ago
All of what you said is a fair point, and for that, you get an upvote from me. However, if we were to think of racism as a natural psychological occurrence, that doesn't eliminate the moral part. After all, the desire that men have to
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by ghoward 5y ago
IMO, saying "all whites are racist" _is_ morally contaminating whiteness because it implies that whites cannot be moral.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Can you tell me what problems logind solved? Because on my own machine, I don't have it, and I don't need it. In fact, it's a struggle to make sure it's not pulled in as a dependency of anything.
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by ghoward 5y ago
And this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068400
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not GP. The fact that it took _work_ to get GNOME to run without systemd is a bad thing in my book. Also, to claim that systemd was selected on merit without anything backing up the claim of "merit" is disingenuous; plenty of wors
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by ghoward 5y ago
> the seeds of confusion was sowed from the get go. I see what you did there...
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by ghoward 5y ago
You are one of today's lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not GP, but I think it indicates sarcasm?
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by ghoward 5y ago
If you want to learn Rust for systems programming, first learn C and write something non-trivial in it. Then run it through Valgrind [1] with your test suite. You can also try the sanitizers (AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBeha
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by ghoward 5y ago
There is no gap between "the science is settled" and "further research is necessary". Either it is settled, or research is necessary. I am not arguing that vaccines could cause autism. What I am arguing is that we do
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by ghoward 5y ago
Fair points. Regarding "formally verified," I believe the "formal" refers to the formal in formal methods, but I agree that it can be weaselly. In the case of seL4, however, I don't think it is because they are incr
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by ghoward 5y ago
You have good points, but I think you misunderstand the post in many ways. First, you do realize that there already has been an OS that has been formally verified, right? It's called seL4. There is also a C compiler that has been forma
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by ghoward 5y ago
Until it's absolutely impossible, further research is necessary. Who knows? It could be a combination of things. Perhaps vaccines are not aggravating factors by themselves; maybe you also need to combine them with, I don't know,
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by ghoward 5y ago
> To get on this list the vaccines need to have proven risks If that's true, it seems backwards. It should be that they should be on the list by default until they are proven to not have risks. But then again, every medical treatm
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by ghoward 5y ago
I agree. I just hope that such blindness doesn't affect us. I worry that it will.
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by ghoward 5y ago
What about long-term effects of the vaccines?
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by ghoward 5y ago
FUD like the fact that the vaccines have had no completed studies on their long-term effects? Or being part of a demographic that has a low risk from COVID?
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by ghoward 5y ago
We can believe the vaccine works but that the risk is too great to take it because it's so new. And for the record, I think the alternatives are also too risky.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Trying to work for someone else. It turns out that I just can't work on software that other people built. I have too strong of opinions, which could also be considered a mistake. I'm still early in my career, so I haven't mad
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by ghoward 5y ago
I think you need to read my full blog post. :)
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by ghoward 5y ago
A comment on lobste.rs summed up my feelings perfectly. https://lobste.rs/s/hpk3lu/prossimo_memory_safety_project#c_...
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by ghoward 5y ago
Should the nurses lose their license if there is an element of truth to what they are saying? For example, vaccines probably don't cause autism, but it's possible they could be an aggravating factor. Further research necessary.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I would love to see new chips that take all of the transistors used for speculation and use them for more cores. I asked electrical engineers once how many of the transistors on a chip serve speculation, and they said, "To a first appr
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by ghoward 5y ago
I don't know about you, but in my experience, getting Cargo to work has been a much bigger pain than make/meson et al.

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