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by otterley 7mo ago
Those were not his ideas. Before Git, the Linux kernel team was using BitKeeper for DVCS (and other DVCS implementations like Perforce existed as well). Git was created as a BitKeeper replacement after a fight erupted between Andrew Tridgel
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by otterley 7mo ago
I think that's a reasonable way to interpret the court's order, but unfortunately the judge didn't really articulate the consequences of training on pirated copies "not fair use" as clearly as I would have liked. Do
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by otterley 7mo ago
It did not say that. See Judge Alsup's order ( https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnvwbgqlzpw/... ), pp. 29-30, Section IV(B)(ii) ("The Pirated Library Copies"). "[T]he test req
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by otterley 7mo ago
Might the conclusions be correct even if some of the facts are not? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And, "approximately correct" is still sometimes valuable.
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by otterley 7mo ago
I think the court dropped the ball here. On the one hand, I think they were right that using existing works--copyrighted or otherwise--to train a model was transformable fair use. On the other hand, Anthropic and others trained their models
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by otterley 7mo ago
Nothing today; but in a democracy, we have the power to make it possible, if people vote the right way.
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by otterley 7mo ago
The '90s was a bit too soon for that. Most people using the Internet then were still on dialup, to the extent they were connected at all. There weren't that many DDoSes yet. Even the Trin00 DDoS in 1999 only involved 114 machines.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Via which front end? It can’t be the NFS one.
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by otterley 7mo ago
The unit of granularity for a CoW filesystem is a block, which is typically 4kB or smaller. The unit of granularity for S3 is the entire object or 5MB (minimum multipart upload size), whichever is smaller. The difference can be immense.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Did you need to make this blog post 20 pages long and have AI write it? Especially in such dramatic style? Remember the golden rule: if you can't be bothered to write it yourself, why should your audience be bothered to read it ourselv
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by otterley 7mo ago
Sounds like it affects every open TCP connection, not just OpenClaw. (It's pretty rare for a TCP connection to live that long, though.)
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by otterley 7mo ago
That's a different question than the one you asked. Are you saying LLMs are generating invalid LISP due to paren mismatching?
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by otterley 7mo ago
Don’t ask the LLM to do that directly: ask it to write a program to answer the question, then have it run the program. It works much better that way.
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by otterley 7mo ago
> The display of [a man page] is performed by the program defined in the MANPAGER or PAGER environment variable, or by a default program, usually less(1). A man page source isn't a binary format, so your statement that they're
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by otterley 7mo ago
Let's assume they don't.
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by otterley 7mo ago
(Output / input), both of which are usually measured in money. If you can measure both of those things--and you have bigger problems if your finance department can't--it logically follows that you can measure productivity.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Are they also measuring productivity? Measuring only token costs is like looking only at grocery spend but not the full receipt: you don’t know whether you fed your family for a week or for only a day.
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by otterley 7mo ago
How much would it have cost a human to do the same work? The question isn’t how much tokens cost; the question is how much money is saved by using AI to do it.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Because, like UNIX/Linux itself, worse is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better - and perfect is the enemy of "good enough." We want to encourage people to produce written output with min
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by otterley 7mo ago
> If you're not willing to invest in something as core as your code or service works. What are you even doing? I think Microsoft is collecting rents. :)
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by otterley 7mo ago
I don't think so. Even before Microsoft acquired GitHub, you could have as many private repos as you wanted, but you couldn't have more than 3 collaborators. This change happened back in 2019: https://github.blog/n
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by otterley 7mo ago
My mistake - it was the configuration setting that did it. Nevertheless, you can control many other aspects of its behavior by tuning the CLAUDE.md prompt.
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by otterley 7mo ago
You're asking a lot of very good and thoughtful questions, but none are directly related to the immediate issue, which is "do I have to credit the AI model?". To begin to answer your questions, I would suggest you study the C
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by otterley 7mo ago
> If you started the y-axis at zero, you wouldn't see much of anything. That's... kind of my point. As a reliability engineer, I'm disappointed in GitHub's 99.5% availability periods, especially as they impact paying
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by otterley 7mo ago
I'm not a GitHub apologist, but that graph isn't at scale, at all. It's massively zoomed in, with a lower band of 99.5%. It makes it look far worse than it is.
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by otterley 7mo ago
As an attorney, I know copyright law. (This is not legal advice.) There's nothing about copyright law that says you have to credit an AI coding agent for contributing to your work. The person receiving the code has to perform their due
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by otterley 7mo ago
That's the thing. As someone evaluating pull requests, should you trust the code based on its provenance, or should you trust it based on its content? Automated testing can validate code, but it can't validate people. ISTM the mos
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by otterley 7mo ago
Out of curiosity, given two code submissions that are completely identical—one written solely by a human and one assisted by AI—why should its provenance make any difference to you? Is it like fine art, where it’s important that Picasso’s h
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by otterley 7mo ago
That’s ultimately the right answer, isn’t it? Bad code is bad code, whether a human wrote it all, or whether an agent assisted in the endeavor.
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by otterley 7mo ago
I would have expected people (maybe a small minority, but that includes myself) to have already instructed Claude to do this. It’s a trivial instruction to add to your CLAUDE.md file.

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