necovek

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by necovek 6mo ago
I tend to disagree to a point: their laptops have great internals but are terrible from a usage perspective — I like to imagine their system board in a Thinkpad X1 Carbon chassis with native Linux! But HW is at least improving (eg. they add
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by necovek 6mo ago
Your baseline T correlates with your ability to add and maintain muscle mass, not just your motivation to get into conflict.
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by necovek 6mo ago
Cramming and thus not keeping almost any of it in long-term memory or operational knowledge.
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by necovek 6mo ago
I am surprised we consider TSMC like a natural resource: isn't it really a combination of know-how and build-out according to that know-how? If smarts leave the country, perhaps this moves with them. The risk with China taking over Tai
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by necovek 6mo ago
Worse ability to fend off competition too?
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by necovek 6mo ago
One health-check I used to anchor that type of feeling is if both parents feel the same way? But I really felt it because my kid was a lousy eater, slept little (I believe those are related), and you ended up with continuous lack of sleep
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by necovek 6mo ago
They are not: if they never travel to Afghanistan or Ethiopia, they will not be subject to their laws. Laws change even in the same region, so it is also temporal. And one can work to change the laws too. But it does not make sense, you hav
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by necovek 6mo ago
I haven't played much with LLMs for decompilation, but I wonder how viable is using LLMs on binaries to port software to a different language (in combination with source code when available, but binaries might need fewer tokens).
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by necovek 6mo ago
This should be a mentality of every company building products :)
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by necovek 6mo ago
While I agree we are re-learning lessons from ages ago and reinventing the same tech, I believe the problem comes from the desire to manage the same data with different software. On desktops, imagine your photo library that you might view w
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by necovek 6mo ago
This is not like adding one bit of randomness to improve security: this was a model system which required 32 steps to break in if I understood correctly. It is not that one would design a system in this manner because you'd never desig
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by necovek 6mo ago
By definition, illegal copies of games don't have DRM protection. I'm not sure what you mean by this. A game can have DRM restrictions or not when published. I am referring to games that never had DRM restrictions but which you o
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by necovek 6mo ago
1. A copyright owner can test this easily by offering a discount. 2. Because they are getting significantly bigger value out of it. Because they know ahead of time they want more of this type of content to be produced. Because they have mor
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by necovek 6mo ago
We aren't saying anything you are implying. You've started with a retort to a point that some who would never pay for some copyrighted work are not a loss to copyright owner if they illegally use their work. You've since expa
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by necovek 6mo ago
You missed my argument: sw engineers are largely being paid for the labour we put in, and I am saying that we still would be paid for the same labour even if someone did legally (open source) or illegally have access to the software we buil
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by necovek 6mo ago
It is not the same until you test the effect of illegal copies of games not having any DRM protection at all (easy to copy/use illegally) on sales. Specifically, the conditions this was tested under were always-DRM, always-Denuvo, crac
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by necovek 6mo ago
I've spent the bulk of my career being paid to write software that was published under open source licenses. I was paid to write exactly the software the business needed to be built, with software being the tool for the business to pr
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by necovek 6mo ago
They wrote them out. And digital media is similarly fungible, and media companies owning copyright can produce a single copy at insignificant cost — and illegal copies are usually produced at no cost to them too. If you would rather not con
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by necovek 6mo ago
I strongly believe the fact that media companies struggle to accept payments worldwide and region-lock their content when you do pay is why their services ultimately suck for customers. Eg. for my HBO GO subscription provided by my cable
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by necovek 6mo ago
It seems hard to take that interpretation at face value (20% seems to be an effect of a week 1 crack post-release with total revenue lost estimated at 25%; week 3 crack has estimated total losses at ~12%, and week 7 crack at less than 5% of
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by necovek 6mo ago
I'd happily pay for DRM-free content, but it's rarely available in digital form in smaller markets like non-EU European country of Serbia: the only alternative is to look for BR or DVD or CD copies and then rip them myself, which
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by necovek 6mo ago
I was referring to the claim that "Flock's cameras collect more data than is provided to police agencies" — that suggests that there is data not "owned" by the customers, which implies it's Flock's data, t
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by necovek 6mo ago
You seem to be right, thanks for the correction! If https://legalclarity.org/can-you-post-someones-picture-witho... is to be trusted though, at least you get protection from your likeness being used for commercial purposes,
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by necovek 6mo ago
Yes, mutation testing and similar techniques like fuzzing can help with it, but sometimes you want to be more deterministic: there are usually a lot of hidden side effects that are not obvious, and probably a source of majority of software
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by necovek 6mo ago
This was an attempt to extend jokes and not ask for explanation: there are a number of normal forms, and people usually talk about "normalization" without being specific thus conflating all of them; out of 7 UUID versions, only 2
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by necovek 6mo ago
Personal information usually does include photos of someone in public without their consent: exceptions usually hold for taking photos of people where it is in the public interest to be able to show them or impractical to get consent. This
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by necovek 6mo ago
I believe you are still the owner of that data, but if you are holding someone's PII — which time of passage, car model and license plates can be argued to be especially with a fixed location — according to privacy regulations, they ca
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by necovek 6mo ago
That makes them a data broker in my reading, and at least in California, Data Broker legislation should apply. CA Data Broker registry gives me access denied, but that could be because I am outside US.
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by necovek 6mo ago
This answer is relevant: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#collapse6d In short, Flock is a "service provider" and not the entity doing the recording. Perhaps you can make a case that they are a "data broke
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by necovek 6mo ago
I like to differentiate between coverage by lines and semantic coverage: sometimes you need to exercise a single line multiple times to get full semantic coverage, and better semantic coverage usually beats larger line coverage for detectin

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