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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Windows 98 was at the same time but the MacOS interface has changed a lot less than Windows has. That's only because Windows had to dial things back a lot after Windows Vista. Incidentally, Vista UI was also glass-inspired. Hmm. W
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Jobs acted as an editor and sounding board. You can't just let designers (or engineers) run wild. Apple went way too far with the skeuomorphism, and Ives & co. may have over-corrected. Speaking of running wild: I'd consid
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> they managed to convince developers for their platform to stick to their guidelines rather than reinvent the wheel, making the entire computer feel more like one integrated system than a toolbox filled with differently branded tools. B
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> we are talking about books I would love for the authors of in-print books to be paid - even when it's usually not a lot. Buy books - they are cheap, or borrow them from libraries - they buy books. If you need books for not-reading
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by overfeed 8mo ago
I think this was the author misdirection, to steer people away from using the AI's (early?) contributions to unmask their identity via personal repos. Or if they actually did this, as an opsec procedure - nothing altruistic about it. I
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by overfeed 8mo ago
..and a glass cannon; they can dish it out -- through intentional negligence -- but can't take it.
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by overfeed 8mo ago
Hosting without section 230 protections is "Distributing" whatever content you've (un)wittingly downloaded that's deemed illegal.
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by overfeed 8mo ago
Musk may let it fall for a bit of a discount before rolling it up, Katamari-style, into SpaceX, and preserving his ridiculous Tesla package.
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by overfeed 8mo ago
U can't believe I didn't know this! I got curious on how they solved contributions since "public domain" means different things in different jurisdictions[0] - unlike copyright. It turns out they didn't solve it - t
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Enforce what The license. Public domain and open source are distinct, IMO, legally, and with regards to communities (or lack thereof). > Public domain software can be open source. Maybe? I can't name a single public domain proj
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> AI agents themselves can make and share projects Copyright can't be assigned yo agents. You cant have Open Source without copyright as the enforcement mechanism. Millions of AI-generated, public-domain projects with no social proo
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Not so with garbage disposal There is already a healthy trade for second-hand clothing to 3rd world countries (see pics of kids with "<Final's losing team> World Champions 2022"). The prices will be better for br
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by overfeed 8mo ago
Not say anything at all.
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> So I'm hoping that somehow people realize this and can continue contributing good human-written content (in general). AI walled-gardens break the feedback loop: authors seeing view-counts and seeing "[Solved] thank you!"
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Get a pm and 3 engineers and vibe it out Google has been stuck in exactly this loop for over a decade without going all-in on a single application. They seem to launch a new chat app every couple of years with not quite as many featur
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Reddit is filled with very vocal terminally online people. Reddit went mainstream many years ago, hence the marketing dollars spent there on astroturfing, and brands acquiring pet moderators. The posters/commenters/readers fo
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by overfeed 8mo ago
Hypothetically, isn't one of the "legal disputes" that's avoided is if the projects relicenses to a closed-source model without compensating contributors, the contributors can't sue because the copyright of the cont
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Actually, Linux reinforces my point. Not many open source projects are Linux-sized. Linux is worth billions of dollars and enabled Google and Redhat to exist, so they can give back millions, without compulsion, and in a self-interested
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> [...]to distance yourself from the slanderous ai agent. But that was the entire point of the "joke".
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood... 2 questions: is there any other kind? If there were, ate people requiring transfusion in a position to make demands to the donors (not vendors)
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> If things are accelerating (and they measurably are) the interesting question isn't whether. It's when. I can't decide if a singularitist AI fanatic who doesn't get sigmoids is ironic or stereotypical.
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by overfeed 8mo ago
Thanks to inequality, the rich[1] can already afford surrogacy, aka other people's natural wombs. Only for those who can easily afford daycare and other child-related costs would benefit from artificial wombs, the biological aspect and
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> Quite a few - and I know I am only speaking for myself - live on my different computers I use AI/agents in quite similar ways, and even rekindled multiple personal projects that had stalled. However, to borrow OPs parlance, these
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> credit cards are giving you a revolving loan, there's risk it will not be repaid, and that risk ends up reflected in processing fees Neither Visa nor MasterCard are loaning customers their money. It's the European banks that
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> I will never understand why this is so rage-inducing for people Putting my armchair psychoanalyst hat on: I think American society embeds a need to be the "winner", and are you winning if end up behind another driver who&#x27
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by overfeed 8mo ago
> white color workers need representation [...] Don't worry - it's still there under the orange makeup. jk; I think you may have misspelled "collar"
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by overfeed 9mo ago
>To prevent the violence towards them. "This morning at 8:00 am Pacific, there were 5 simultaneously assassination attempts on tech executives across the Bay Area. The victims, who are all tech executives known to us have suffered s
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> But I think a lot of you are underestimating the societal impact of roughly half a billion climate refugees. If North America and Europe enters an ice age, the preferred term would be "climate-expatriates"
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Why are NIMBY's to blame for hidden cleaning costs and hidden cameras in/near bathrooms?
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> And they will almost certainly have the biggest wrench Tech CEOs can easily outlive their usefulness once the machinery is built, and can easily find themselves labeled "terrorists" if they try to fight back with whatever fee

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