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by not2b 2y ago
I got it too; it's real. Using the "Web" view gives the correct result on top, the AI overview looks like it picked 1789 as the starting point.
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by not2b 2y ago
Yes, parody's fine when it's clearly parody. But if you try to pretend that Trump or Obama (rather than an impersonator) is endorsing a product, you're in trouble.
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by not2b 2y ago
Good voice actors can do a whole range of voices, including imitating many different people. The cases where someone got in trouble are where there's misrepresentation. If it goes to court, there's discovery, and if the OpenAI peo
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by not2b 2y ago
The answer, based on two different court precedents (Bette Midler, Tom Waits), is that the company can't do that. Companies cannot hire soundalike people to advertise their products after the person with a distinctive voice they really
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by not2b 2y ago
Not to mention that it matches up pretty much exactly with the Bette Midler and Tom Waits cases, where courts ruled against companies using soundalikes after the person they really wanted turned them down. Doesn't matter if they hired
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by not2b 2y ago
A less aggressive approach would be to file an issue and let the maintainer correct the license issue.
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by not2b 2y ago
That may not suffice. My wife has a hyphen in her legal name, and even today, many companies' systems cannot deal with such a thing, or, worse, store it with the hyphen in one place and drop it in another, resulting in strange errors.
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by not2b 2y ago
It's a racket. It might not be as common today, but I remember when there were lots of people whose career was based on their SAP expertise, and the reason they got hired was that no one else could deal with that crap if anything went
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by not2b 2y ago
Antitrust actions in the US and EU may force Google to cut off those payments (to Mozilla and Apple), and if that happens, Firefox needs to survive somehow.
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by not2b 2y ago
Occam's razor. AGI isn't necessary to explain the observed behavior; a model that has no concept of truth or falsehood, but is just optimized to achieve goals will engage in this kind of behavior. If someone with the needed resour
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by not2b 2y ago
#3 of a vast number: I don't pay attention to what Apple does, choose not to own any Apple products even though I do respect their technology, particularly Apple Silicon; would not have been aware of a launch of a new iPad if it weren&
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by not2b 2y ago
Even the most successful companies have had more than one expensive misfire. As long as things that work make more money than the things that don't work lose money, you're doing OK. A large and well-off company can afford to act l
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by not2b 2y ago
I remember a company meeting where a series of employee recognition awards were given out, and the story for about four awards in a row was an employee who spent nights and weekends heroically fixing a giant mess, at least enough to make a
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by not2b 2y ago
filter and reduce have been in JS for more than a decade now.
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by not2b 2y ago
You'll hear this kind of thing from VCs, but VCs are used to investing in a number of bets that they expect to fail, but profit from the winners. The VC here seems to be criticizing Google for doing the same thing internally ("The
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by not2b 2y ago
There is a specified common C++ ABI that gcc, clang, Intel's proprietary compiler, and others use. It was originally developed for the Itanium processor but is now used by gcc and clang for everything. See https://itanium-cx
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by not2b 2y ago
The phrase should be read as "oversimplified Econ". If it were just about the money supply, increasing interest rates, which reduces money supply by suppressing loans, as well as the end to the money handouts during the shutdown,
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by not2b 2y ago
I was thinking that something like this could be useful for discovery in legal cases, where a company might give up a gigabyte or more of allegedly relevant material in response to recovery demands and the opposing side has to plow through
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by not2b 2y ago
It might be interesting to see how much expansion could be obtained with Rust. The diagnostics can be verbose, and perhaps there's some kind of self-reference that could produce a similar blowup, though I'm not familiar enough wit
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by not2b 2y ago
Missing one of my favorites, scalar replacement of aggregates, which is done very early in the LLVM flow.
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by not2b 2y ago
My diabetic wife has long been horrified at the dietary recommendations coming from the ADA, they are worse than useless. I don't blame the whistleblower for settling but it's a shame those people won't take consequences for
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by not2b 2y ago
Malicious compliance in action: make things worse and blame the regulations.
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by not2b 2y ago
An attack like XZ wouldn't just harm the US. A prosecution wouldn't have to be "at the behest of the US government". Kim Dotcom could pretend that his business was legit (just a file sharing service) so he could drag out
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by not2b 2y ago
Liability isn't going to work as a way of handling malicious attacks. If the culprit is caught, and lives in a place with a reasonable government, prosecution would be a better way to address it, because if it is an individual they are
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by not2b 2y ago
A US nonprofit allows Americans to donate tax-free, but Mastodon is still a German company, now with a different tax status. Quite a few European NGOs have a US nonprofit. The nonprofit does not manage the company.
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by not2b 2y ago
Doing a design for this (specifically, design a microcoded, pipelined RISC processor, from the bottom up, with nothing but NAND gates) was the main problem on the Computer Hardware quals exam at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s. We didn'
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by not2b 2y ago
As others have pointed out, the coincidence is temporary. It used to be that the moon's apparent size was significantly larger than the sun's, so you could get a total eclipse but you wouldn't see a full corona ring, when the
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by not2b 2y ago
If they can develop any evidence at all (perhaps from a whistleblower, perhaps from some characteristic unique to their model), they can sue and then there's they get to do "discovery", which would force the sued party to rev
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by not2b 2y ago
Everything that is hidden when large numbers of posts are displayed appears when a single post is focused on. Raw Mastodon will show a hundred different notifications for the same post. Phanpy groups them. If this goes against "the ori
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by not2b 2y ago
I use Phanpy. It is well designed.

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