ghoward

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by ghoward 4y ago
My code is not on GitHub. If it's there, then someone copied it, and GitHub has no right to claim an extra license to that code.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Coming from an actual, though unpublished, writer: you are right.
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by ghoward 4y ago
And my advice is to read and live! One of the reasons Roald Dahl was such a great writer is his life experiences. Read his books Boy and Solo .
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by ghoward 4y ago
The sheer scale is what makes it worse. Because you are right: a few, and a small time artist can fight. Hundreds and thousands of copies, or millions , and even Disney struggles. That's why Disney would go after the model itself; i
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by ghoward 4y ago
I explained more in my comment at [1]. The big difference is that cars were a tool that helped regular people by being a force multiplier. Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are not force multipliers in the same way. Sure, you may now produce imag
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by ghoward 4y ago
Because they centralize control, as I said in [1]. Put another way, AI's are tools that give more power to already powerful entities. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227303
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by ghoward 4y ago
> Are you sure? Yes, I'm sure. > I'm not familiar with the exact data set they used for SD and whether or not Disney art was included, but my understanding is that their claim to legality comes from arguing that the use of i
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by ghoward 4y ago
> I'm not sure sure that originality is that different between a human and a neural network. That is to say that what a human artist is doing has always involved a lot of mixing of existing creations. I disagree, but this is a debat
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by ghoward 4y ago
SD is better than the other two, but it will still centralize control. I imagine that Disney would take issue with SD if material that Disney owned the copyright to was used in SD. They would sue. SD would have to be taken off the market. T
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by ghoward 4y ago
Search engines don't sell the information of others; they sell certain metadata of that information, namely, the location of that information.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Do you know what's different about the photograph or the recording? They are still their own separate works! If a painter paints a person for commission, and then that person also commissions a photographer to take a picture of them,
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by ghoward 4y ago
I am a programmer who has written extensively on my blog and HN against Copilot. I am also not a hypocrite; I do not like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion either. As a sibling comment implies, these AI tools give more power to people who control
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by ghoward 4y ago
I agree with you. I block JavaScript on my own site just to make sure.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Thank you very much! It's so nice to hear people enjoy it. :)
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by ghoward 4y ago
Maybe you can change Meta+C to start the terminal with bc already running? ;-) Disclaimer: bc implementer. I'm biased. I use bc for all of my calculation. And Mac doesn't have my bc.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I believe you. However, I'm not sure how opening up my build system a little more the D would open the floodgates of people evading the sandbox.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I think you meant to reply to me, not Walter Bright. And yes, this is a trillion dollar problem. I may be just some bloke with an idea, trying to make it happen. However, I have the free time to try, so why not?
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by ghoward 4y ago
That seems true. However, I think that if an interpreter does the execution, the interpreter can check every "instruction" that is executed. If every instruction is checked, how could that be evaded? Honest question because I can&
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by ghoward 4y ago
Not GP. I agree with this, but there may still be times when it is needed. I'm working on a system where users can run a build in an interpreter that kills the build if it tries to do anything they don't allow. An important and tr
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by ghoward 4y ago
I have, for more than two years, and my remote backup has been an encrypted ZFS for a year and a half. [1] The scripts in that post are a little outdated, so if you would like to see updated ones, contact me [2]. The end result is a setup t
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by ghoward 4y ago
I stand corrected.
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by ghoward 4y ago
IIRC, OpenZFS is the ZFS in Illumos. It's just not the ZFS in Oracle's Solaris. OpenZFS was created as a way to combine development of all the versions of ZFS across Linux, FreeBSD, Illumos, and others. If you're using a
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by ghoward 4y ago
Thank you for your confidence! I agree with everything you have said, but I think it won't matter, for three reasons: 1) The switch to structured programming still happened, even with the performance hit. The advantages were so large
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by ghoward 4y ago
I agree with this, but I phrase it differently. I refer to eliminating technical debt relative to the change before making the change. More details in [1], where I explain my software development process. [1]: https://news.ycom
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by ghoward 4y ago
"Notes on Structured Concurrency, or: Go Statement Considered Harmful" [1] by Nathaniel J. Smith. I believe that structured concurrency will (slowly) cause a massive paradigm shift with regards to concurrency in the same way tha
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by ghoward 4y ago
Smaller Trusted Computing Base (TCB). Easier to audit and if necessary, prove correct. I want better security in computing more than I want performance.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I think this applies to more than just apps too; it would apply to software in general. "Update or perish" is a bad model for software. https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/finishing-software/
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by ghoward 4y ago
Author here with an update. The hang on shutdown turned out to be because I kept a USB thumb drive plugged in.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I diagnosed the issue with the shutdown. It was because I kept a USB thumb drive plugged in when I tried to shut down.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Seriously? Anyway, the process that was taking so much CPU was Windows Explorer. I'm pretty sure that is a Microsoft problem, especially since the computer just was booted up.

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