gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Because once you make information available to the general public, you have no way to control what the general public does with that information. (This is the reason why DRM failed.) (In general, my proposal is more in context with things l
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
One of the critical flaws in the article is that the first chart only looks back 5 years, and the second only looks back 10. The boom-bust recession cycle is roughly every 10 years. You can't say that AI is impacting hiring when yo
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Makes me want to print one with a giant red nose and dress my dog up as Rudolph
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Mandatory licensing is a "no". I should not be required to license my material to anyone. I do not want my works of photography, fiction, or software development to be mandatorily licensed to someone who could then take it an
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
See if the scheme that BMG / Columbia house still works. (Apparently they would send a check to the rightsholder, and if they cashed it, it was considered payment.) (But don't quote me, I'm not an expert.)
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> I would contend that this suggestion puts too much faith in governments Copyright only works if you have faith in your government to create and enforce laws. Otherwise, if you don't have faith in your government, you have bigger p
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
That's a good question. IMO: 1: The formula dictates what you pay. 2: The money goes into a government-controlled escrow account. At that point, the rights holder has a reasonable amount of time (years) to claim the money. Otherwise, i
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I think we should mix in some compulsory licensing: IE, the copyright holder has exclusive rights for a period of time, and then afterwards there is a formula that's used to allow anyone to re-publish. It will help handle abandonware w
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Of course they do, their bias is to keep all the cards in their favor. Our (the consumer's) bias is to shorten copyright. Remember, ultimately it is the consumer who pays the creator; thus the consumer has a vested interest in negotiat
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Well, that was over 20 years ago. I thought the movie was okay, I didn't hate it or didn't love it. I'm surprised people are still talking about it today.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Many languages have ways to call into old code. C++ allows calling C; so does Objective C.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I never thought Gladiator was a historically accurate movie. How could I expect that when I went into the theater to be entertained for 1-2 hours? I think if someone wants to know more about ancient Rome, it's on them to spend the ti
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Library vendors must have the courage to create a new generation of libraries—libraries that consistently use concepts, typelists, ranges, and compile‑time mechanisms. Compiler vendors, in turn, are responsible for continuing this deve
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I suggest seeing how Revology was able to proceed. (They make reproductions of 1967 and 1968 Mustangs) https://revologycars.com/
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I'm hitting the same problem, getting stuck on simple things in FreeCAD mostly because I'm a novice and don't have hours and hours to watch videos and learn. What ended up working for you?
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
This implies that you can preview in VS Code: https://docs.microcad.xyz/tutorials/book/lego_brick/preparat... I'm not sure if it's on par with what you want, though.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Why is quick share buried in the settings menu, instead of being an app? Especially when receiving a file, it makes no sense to start by going into settings.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> It's unclear to me what the author thinks OOP is, and what he thinks we are replacing it with. The author is complaining about bloat. The thing is, in this case, the bloat has highly tangible costs: Spreading an application across
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Every call across components acrues failure modes, requires a slow march through (de)serialisation libraries, a long trek through the kernel’s scheduler. A TLB cache invalidation here, a socket poll there. Perhaps a sneaky HTTP request
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Oh gosh I clicked "Enter the tarpit". I hope I didn't blacklist my IP or something. Silly link, though. I highly suggest going back and clicking on the link.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Honestly, if mine didn't fall apart after reasonable use, I'd probably still be an Xperia user today.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Are you joking? (Or otherwise trying to prove my point?) > The tapes were more compact and used less storage space. That generally is considered the "death nail" of the format. People generally chose VHS because they could reco
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
This just reminds me of the people who whine about Betamax (or CCS) being better. FWIW: Technology Connections did a teardown of why Betamax wasn't better than VHS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJs8-I9WtA&list=
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> I picked up an Xperia I had an Xperia for awhile. I liked it while it was new, but after a year the back started peeling off. Pretty lousy for a phone that was supposed to be waterproof. At that point I realized that the Japanese c
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Copilot in Visual Studio is so hit or miss that frequently it's not worth using. Today I asked it to add a constant as an argument to every call to a specific method in a unit test. The result was pure slop: The prompts leaked out into
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> if your core business function depends on some capability, you should own it I fear this is easy to misconstrue. For example, I was at a company that, as I learned how everything worked, realized that we were spending $20k / month
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> What if we had a startup that virtualizes a layer on top of these such that we AWS has an outage, you lose 1/3rd of your operating capacity, when Azure has an outage you lose 1/3rd of your operating capacity. And then when yo
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> 1/4 What type of community is best for launching a new idea? Is Hacker News this kind of community? (Still working my way through the article, so apologies if this is mentioned later in the article.)
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Perl died because the other languages are better. IMO, Perl was a quick solution to a need; but it has since been eclipsed by modern languages. I was in college 1999-2003, I did PHP in an internship, and then later did some Perl in one of m
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
For me, Awk is this awesome tool for quick and dirty 1-3 line scripts to transform textual information. I hardly use it, but when I do, it serves its purpose well. It's also relatively easy to read and understand. I remember learning m

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