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by marshray 3mo ago
Naming things using qualifiers like "large" has never aged well when transistors were involved. For example, consider the term "short wave" radio which refers to wavelengths of at least 10 meters. Today's mobile com
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by marshray 3mo ago
The idea entered our collective subconscious and is still going strong: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder... Imagine growing up in Cairo.
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by marshray 3mo ago
I'm seeing the phrases "tremendous amount of homework", "substantial amount", and "few hours". Does anyone have an actual estimated time we can discuss?
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by marshray 3mo ago
Well, it turned out the affiliate code linked as "the author's" actually belongs to the publisher anyway.
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by marshray 3mo ago
It's just that such cases come down to technical advice that applies to a specific legal environment (certain states you mention), whereas I'm personally more interested in looking at such situations from the ethics, identity, and
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by marshray 3mo ago
You went to law school and you don't see any the difference between forging someone else's signature on a document and encoding one's own authentic signature into a digital document file in the manner needed by the recipien
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by marshray 3mo ago
We're discussing a blog post about a blatantly plagiarized website, and the ethical environment and professional choices that led to its creation and continued existence. We get to do that. This isn't Reddit and we aren't &qu
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by marshray 3mo ago
But there are any number of humans who will tell you that humans are bad at multithreading the codes and all but the smallest codebases are headed for heisenbug deadlock city if you do things like they told you to in that Introduction to OO
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by marshray 3mo ago
That comment had me reaching for the skull emoji.
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by marshray 3mo ago
> My experience inflicted stupidity. We've all been there. > I find it nice that they linked to the original book. For every x earned let the original author earn many times more. > It's probably a better deal than the au
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by marshray 3mo ago
Lol! This is why they told us to properly label and provide attribution for every image :-D
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by marshray 3mo ago
Actually he survived, he just has to turn on 39 more radio transmitter towers before he can be rescued. (and thank you for Far Cry Primal)
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by marshray 3mo ago
When/where I grew up (the United States), private planes were thought of as auto-un-aliving machines for Doctors and Dentists. Boomers and older generations tended to think of them as part of rural life. E.g. farmers would sometimes pu
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by marshray 3mo ago
> He basically liked the idea of the book and used the bulk of its text as lorem ipsum in a demo for their most likely one person "digital agency" that probably has 3 clients including mom. What is your basis for this belief? D
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by marshray 3mo ago
> it’s becoming normal to just throw out “Claude says this” without doing any fact checking That would be an improvement over most people I know at this point, who casually repeat verbally or repost words they got from a chatbot without
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by marshray 3mo ago
The article is titled "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows", whereas the HN title is (currently) "Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own". So it seems reasonable to infer th
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by marshray 3mo ago
According to the article, 'Qontour' AKA 'Prompt Digital' simply took the full text of a modern copyrighted and published book and made an official-looking website out of it with affiliate links to the real book. If you a
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by marshray 3mo ago
Yes, it's absolutely a lot of work, cost, and risk to design and qualify a new rocket for human spaceflight from scratch. Especially if you've let all your institutional knowledge drift away in the meantime. I just don't thin
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by marshray 3mo ago
Look up a photo of one of the large mining trucks and compare it to the size of the blocks used in the Egyptian pyramids. Working with blocks of this size is just not a problem for modern equipment.
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by marshray 3mo ago
Obviously I was asking about the lifespan of an individual undocumented change, not the entire Apollo program prior to 1970.
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by marshray 3mo ago
How many years did these production floor changes take to engineer?
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by marshray 3mo ago
These are common false narratives pushed by "documentaries" on Netflix and cable television in the US.
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by marshray 3mo ago
For anyone interested in modern humans' ability to move material around when it is economically advantageous to do so, try a web image search for "largest open pit mines".
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by marshray 3mo ago
Can you see how far "some Apollo program last-minute production-floor manufacturing changes were not written down" is from "humans lost fundamental technology needed to land on the moon"?
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by marshray 3mo ago
Mommy, the Nix Reformationist is scaring me
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by marshray 4mo ago
Or no reason.
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by marshray 4mo ago
Spaces were amazing.
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by marshray 4mo ago
This reads as if he's really struggling not to say "Now that the applicants are desperate we can begin to interview them properly mwahahahaaaa!"
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by marshray 4mo ago
> Musk chopped an awful lot of headcount at Twitter, right, and proved it was overkill, has that panned out? Has X-Twitter released a single new feature since?
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by marshray 4mo ago
Oh the dictionary defines a word, that makes it completely different then

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