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by gspr 4mo ago
> No, but they often involve reverse engineering the binary pretty heavily. … and those often end up in legally dubious situations.
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by gspr 4mo ago
Well exactly! I'm well aware of situations of potentially upending changes where the rich and powerful stand to gain, and the little guy's worries are ignored. This, however, is clearly a potentially upending change where also l
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by gspr 4mo ago
> The people doing the intellectual work are usually not the primary beneficiaries of IP laws. In fact it often constrains them unnecessarily. In the sense that most people doing intellectual work do that work for someone else (say, a co
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by gspr 4mo ago
How does intellectual work happen (beyond doing it for leisure) in a world without IP? In a utopian world of abundance where we could all be the independently wealthy nobles of the 18th and 19th century who did intellectual work for fun: gr
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by gspr 4mo ago
I'm terrified that this somehow seems acceptable to a large group of people. I'm baffled that other IP holders (say those who own valuable pieces of proprietary software, or music, or movies, or even the LLMs themselves) don&#x2
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by gspr 4mo ago
> Well that is already how it is done with numerous multi-decade open rewrites of closed games Serious such rewrites don't start with the code of the closed game! > I don't know how this squares with law, but Oracle v Google
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by gspr 4mo ago
I agree, and I apologize. My emotions overflowed. That being said – and with no reduction in my apology – I'm very glad to see that the comment my anger was directed at (a wild political statement without anything backing it up or anyt
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by gspr 4mo ago
Sadly I couldn't find an example at the moment. We're probably better off striking my parenthetical claim then :)
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by gspr 4mo ago
I'm happy to label myself a Rust fanboy, but > few/shallow dependencies is just flat-out wrong. There's (sadly) a big culture of sprawling, deep dependencies in the Rust community. There are of course many counterexamples
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by gspr 4mo ago
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by gspr 4mo ago
I can only speak for myself: 1) I'm incredibly allergic to hype. To me, LLMs are very technologically impressive. I don't doubt that they're useful for many things – adversarial code review (including finding exploits), refac
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by gspr 4mo ago
"Maybe" for Europe, "highly skeptical" for the US. Fine. That's far from "inevitable"!
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by gspr 4mo ago
It is absolutely not inevitable. Please don't spread this defeatism. It is absolutely possible to ban the use of these things in public.
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by gspr 4mo ago
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by gspr 4mo ago
Terrible comparison. You don't need to be good at drawing to be good at photography. You do need to be good at math to do e.g. physics (or math itself!), nomatter the tools at your disposal.
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by gspr 4mo ago
I find it terrifying that people are willing to outsource thinking. Outsourcing thinking to an entity that is opinionated about what to think is beyond crazy.
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by gspr 4mo ago
For normal use of unsafe in Rust, I completely agree, and I love the concept. But if you have a gazillion unsafe blocks written by someone (something) you don't trust to at least try to do the right thing, you're bound to have u
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by gspr 4mo ago
> - A base from which to build upon by removing unsafe blocks This is nonsense if those unsafe blocks are unsound to begin with.
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by gspr 4mo ago
Sure, as long as all the code in all those unsafe blocks is sound ! If not, the program is UB and all bets are off for every line of the codebase . I think Rust strikes a perfect balance between a safe default and, as you say, "local
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by gspr 4mo ago
> > Evaluating whether it’s actually correct and maintainable is the hard part. > But AI can also do that. Citation needed. > So, what’s the point? The point is that there haven't been broad demonstrations of your claim. &g
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by gspr 4mo ago
> I've yet to hear an argument that argues that software engineers can be replaced by AI that doesnt boil down to slop apologism, inability to detect slop or simple gaslighting. That, or extreme extrapolation from events that form a
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by gspr 4mo ago
Sure. But this is kind of vacuously true for any real world DoS scenario. It's like saying "sure, your new weapons system might wipe out 999 out of every 1000 of the enemy's forces, but what does it matter, they can just scal
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by gspr 4mo ago
The embeddability sounds very appealing. Does anyone have experience with using this somewhere one might traditionally reach for Lua?
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by gspr 4mo ago
… if he even remembered that it was his device in the first place! I don't remember what names my phone or my seldomly used "park speaker" report.
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by gspr 4mo ago
Presumably most users visit the site with more compute-capable devices than a fridge. But I do agree that it's sad that such an approach artificially worsens the internet experience for people on older/weaker devices. On the other
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by gspr 4mo ago
This makes me think we need something like https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-venhoek-tls-client-puz... sooner rather than later. It seems pretty absurd that everyone is running around with bespoke application
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by gspr 4mo ago
Why wouldn't PoW help? If it's tuned so that each device in that army takes 10 seconds instead of 10 milliseconds to make a request, have you not slowed the army down by a factor 1000?
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by gspr 4mo ago
> If it turns out they did this with full intent, there should be some _appropriate_ consequence Sure, if evidence is uncovered of the guy say telling his friends "haha, I'm gonna make them turn the plane around", I can ge
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by gspr 4mo ago
> Throw the book at him, he should have known better. What book!? The book of laws that outlaw jokes in bad taste potentially made years ago, outside the context of air travel altogether, only to be forgotten about and accidentally broug
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by gspr 4mo ago
> Awful joke. There have to be at least some consequences for the kid, like getting banned for flying United for 10 years. Take a step back. You yourself describe it as a joke. Are you really saying that the quality of the joke ("aw

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