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901.
by michaelt 1y ago
The explanation seemed pretty obvious to me: They set up a nonprofit to deliver an AI that was Open. Then things went unexpectedly well, people were valuing them at billions of dollars, and they suddenly decided they weren't open any m
902.
by michaelt 1y ago
Because the appliance... was not an iphone?
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I really don't see why taking pictures would ruin an experience, unless you go _wildly_ overboard to prioritize the picture. Some people learned this lesson in the days of clunky, fragile, expensive cameras. If you were carting
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by michaelt 1y ago
A few decades ago, the Republican party had one foot in the anti-intellectual camp, but only one. They were the party of young-earth creationists, religious pro-lifers, climate-deniers and gun-lovers - but also of educated fiscally conserva
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by michaelt 2y ago
It might not have paid back the initial investment, but the company isn't bankrupt, and you've heard of it. By the standards of people who invest in 100 start-ups at once, that's success.
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by michaelt 2y ago
No, I have no first-hand evidence that they are. It's possible they're 100% remote with no receptionists or cleaners. Even if they have offices, a surprising number of highly remunerated jobs involve pushing a mop from time to tim
907.
by michaelt 2y ago
> the problem is the definition of Open Source is controlled by the Open Source Initiative, which has been captured by the hyperscalers I'm not sure this is true. The OSI's definition of open source doesn't seem to have
908.
by michaelt 2y ago
> One of the more incredible (and disturbingly frequent) objections I have heard is: "But is that what you’ll pay support folks?" I continue to find this question offensive, but I no longer find it surprising: the specific dis
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by michaelt 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/23berry.html For a High-Tech President, a Hard-Fought E-Victory For more than two months, Mr. Obama has been waging a vigorous battle with his handler
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by michaelt 2y ago
The iPhone was undoubtedly the deciding factor, I agree - but interestingly Netflix used to rely on Silverlight for DRM [1] until Google introduced video DRM to Chrome in ~2013 [2]. iPhone netflix users had to use an app. [1] https:/&
911.
by michaelt 2y ago
Back in 1997, most developers would show a 'splash screen' as their application loaded, because of course it takes time for applications to load.
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by michaelt 2y ago
> the source code (ie training process / data) isn’t available The training data is all scraped from the internet, ebooks from libgen, papers from Sci-Hub, and suchlike. They don't have the right to redistribute it.
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by michaelt 2y ago
As I understand things, in the US it’s very common to list things like sales tax separately, yes.
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by michaelt 2y ago
If the public face of autism is someone who needs no support or accommodations and is in fact very successful - people will understandably be confused when someone with the same diagnosis needs substantial support.
915.
by michaelt 2y ago
The friends who would throw down for you in a fight at age 19 when you reach age 40, will have families to look after and a lot more to lose than they used to have, like a nice house and a good job or they'll be at the far end of a sky
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by michaelt 2y ago
The reason people keep working on human-like hands for robots is: The world is absolutely full of things adapted to be operated with human hands. Handling heavy boxes? Baking a cake? Operating a circular saw? Assembling a PC? Performing sur
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by michaelt 2y ago
Then the users start using cloud webapps to do everything. I can't install a PDF-to-excel converter, so I'll use this online service to do it. At first glance that might seem a poor move for corporate information security. But cru
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by michaelt 2y ago
Sort of yes, sort of no. For example, imagine an American tourist visiting the UK drives dangerously and kills a motorcyclist, then escapes to the US before being caught. A UK criminal court can order jail and a driving ban, but has no way
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by michaelt 2y ago
> I'm having trouble understanding why you would want to do this. You would be amazed at how much time CAD users spend using Propriety CAD Package A to redraw things from PDFs generated by Propriety CAD Package B
920.
by michaelt 2y ago
> You would still have an audit log of the deletion of that email record by the superuser, even if the content is deleted. If needing things wiped from the audit logs happens often, you might indeed have an audited interface for wiping
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by michaelt 2y ago
Sometimes, depending on the situation. My company retains all e-mails for at least 5 years, for audit purposes. But if some troublemaker were to e-mail child porn to an employee, we'd need to remove that from the audit records, because
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by michaelt 2y ago
Internet Archive has a bunch of scanned magazines from the period - such as https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-june-1996-image... and as you say, $1000 was on the low end. It's a real blast from the past
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by michaelt 2y ago
IDK, $1000 is brand-new-flagship-phone territory (albeit for the bottom storage tier). I'd wager most people aren't buying flagship models brand new.
924.
by michaelt 2y ago
When you're operating your robot around humans, you want to be very confident it won't injure anyone. It'd be pretty bad if a bug in your code meant instead of putting the cast iron frying pan in the dishwasher, it sent it fl
925.
by michaelt 2y ago
Honestly they got into the NAS business when cloud offerings were different, and many Internet connections were a lot slower. Synology’s market is the intersection of: People who have lots of pirated media, who want generous storage with to
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by michaelt 2y ago
Correct - it'll accept "999.999.999.000.999." but it'll reject "127.0.0.1"
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by michaelt 2y ago
> e.g. This pattern ([0-9][0-9]?[0-9]][.])+ matches one, two or three digits followed by a . and also matches repeated patterns of this. This wold match an IP address (albeit not strictly). I love regular expressions but one thing I&#x
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by michaelt 2y ago
If you're smart enough to design and build a LIDAR, you're smart enough to make $200,000 a year working for the big adtech companies. You'd need an enormous hobbyist robotics market to be able to sustain a business making and
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by michaelt 2y ago
Apparently hacking is something the denizens of Hacker News disapprove of these days?
930.
by michaelt 2y ago
> Adults can be prosecuted for helping minors circumvent the checks. If you skip the need for privacy protection and just retain a copy of the photo ID used to verify the account? Then sure. But if age is validated in a way that preser

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