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by munchler 2y ago
The move to a subscription model is where I started to lose the thread, and it’s gotten worse from there. I understand OneDrive as Microsoft’s version of Dropbox, but the more it’s integrated into Windows/Office, the more confusion it
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by munchler 2y ago
Yes, and I was already struggling to understand what Microsoft 365 actually meant. Adding AI and renaming it all to Copilot is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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by munchler 2y ago
My problem with this isn't the price increase. It's the blurring of what used to be a clearly understandable suite of products (e.g. Office) and services (e.g. OneDrive) into a soup of weird AI and cloud stuff that all goes under
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by munchler 2y ago
If you really care about multi-threading, mutating array elements is going to be much buggier than using an immutable data structure.
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by munchler 2y ago
> My main gripe with immutability is that making updated data requires building a full copy of the data again with the changes. That is not true in general. There are plenty of data structures that can be updated without forcing a full c
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by munchler 2y ago
Has there been any large business more decimated by the rise of LLM's than SO? Traffic in the tags I follow there dropped off a cliff pretty much the same day that ChatGPT was first released.
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by munchler 2y ago
Learning too much about Linux puts you on a list? That can't be a thing. Isn't Linux itself entirely a civilian project?
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by munchler 2y ago
(2020)
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by munchler 2y ago
Probably the latter, if viewed narrowly, but the whole point is to preserve democracy in the end. This ban is the lesser of two evils. Is chemotherapy not unhealthy now because of cancer, or is it unhealthy but that’s OK because of cancer
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by munchler 2y ago
> The United States’ foreign foes easily can steal, scrape, or buy Americans’ data by countless other means. True, but that's not the point. > Shutting down communications platforms or forcing their reorganization based on concer
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by munchler 2y ago
It required specific legislation to ban TikTok. I would say that's pretty extraordinary. I think even the EFF should admit that allowing the Chinese government to control a major American social media app is an unacceptable security ri
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by munchler 2y ago
Me too, and I used to be proud of my handwriting back in the 90's. Definitely a loss in self-expression.
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by munchler 2y ago
Old PL/I programmer here. I’m still trying to forget BCD’s from the 80’s!
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by munchler 2y ago
Pot-two-os?
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by munchler 2y ago
I can see this both ways. For the sake of argument, please explain why using IP to train an AI is evil, but using the same IP to train a human is good. Note that humans use someone else's IP to get rich all the time. E.g. Doctors readi
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by munchler 2y ago
Sure, but that's a different claim and a different argument.
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by munchler 2y ago
Copyright doesn't prevent anyone from "using" a person's work. You can use copyrighted material all day long without a license or penalty. In particular, anyone is allowed to learn from copyrighted material by reading, h
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by munchler 2y ago
Congrats on stealing someone’s software so you could steal someone else’s data!
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by munchler 2y ago
Yes, using conjunctions to compose small sentences into larger ones is a form of recursive nesting. For example: "[He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream] and [he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a
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by munchler 2y ago
> Kids should be nudged towards working fruitful careers beneficial to society. It’s all about incentives. I think we should nudge society towards rewarding kids who choose fruitful careers.
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by munchler 2y ago
Again, please be aware that the video does not show the entire intersection.
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by munchler 2y ago
Using stop lights to control this sort of high-traffic intersection is totally normal in the US. Stop signs are typically used for lower-traffic intersections. Subjectively speaking, I think drivers are more likely to obey a red light than
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by munchler 2y ago
That's false. The stop line for cars is out of frame in the video, and the driver has already passed it by the time the light turns red. You can get a better view of what the intersection actually looks like here: https://ma
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by munchler 2y ago
> I captured two drivers ripping through red lights in that short span Video actually shows two cars entering the intersection on yellow lights, which is legal. The rest of the article seems similarly exaggerated. ---- Edit: For those wh
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by munchler 2y ago
Sybase SQL Server hasn't been a thing for at least a decade. The Microsoft fork happened more than 30 years ago.
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by munchler 2y ago
There are many examples of an entrenched incumbent being displaced by a new killer app. All it takes is the right new features and perhaps a path from the old to the new.
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by munchler 2y ago
What is it about PHP that makes this low-resource scenario possible?
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by munchler 2y ago
I think you might be right that it was pulled before it was available to the general public. I never saw it in the wild.
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by munchler 2y ago
Ah, interesting. I didn't know that.
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by munchler 2y ago
Clippy the Office Assistant. Similar idea to Bob, but more irritating. Also, The Microsoft Network. This was a competitor to AOL that came out just as the WWW was exploding. It gave us the "MSN" abbreviation that we still see toda

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