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by pipo234 4y ago
> Noone wants a bland, vapid, sanitary product "for everyone". Well, empirically you're wrong. Unfortunately, there's enough of a market for Marvel movies and big-ass games titles to make huge profits, even if we fe
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by pipo234 4y ago
Interesting. Copyright and "intellectual property" have always been fuzzy subjects, and the legal frameworks have always struggled to catch up with changes in society and technology. The origins of copyright are (I think) about pu
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by pipo234 4y ago
And if "no", what can you do to make sure your model isn't using C hatGPT output by accident.
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by pipo234 4y ago
So are you saying it's simply bad marketing research? Ie. if they would be able to narrow the target audience from "everyone" to a proper niche (say 18+ or teen age girls) they might succeed? That is: target a smaller market
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by pipo234 4y ago
Same here, but I'm curious what you think causes this mediocrity? I'm assuming the AAA game studios and Holywood know what they're doing, and money is definitely an objective. But why do they not succeed in telling an interes
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by pipo234 4y ago
Haven't apps always been the way to circumvent privacy features offered by the (mobile) browser? My take may be historically inaccurate, but I think Apple's app eco system is rooted in the limited capabilities of the iPhone brow
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by pipo234 4y ago
Bit of a missed opportunity to only focus on Marc Benniof and Elon Musk. I'm no fan of either and I fully agree that Salesforce and Tesla are mostly hot air. But the missed opportunity IMO is food and grocery delivery services (Deliver
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by pipo234 4y ago
Yes, but that's a poor signal. If only two users add "enough" noise to their signal, fingerprinting will only be able to proof a user added noise, but not which user did so. For a single site doing the fingerprinting. Com
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by pipo234 4y ago
But it's not just a matter of "open"/"close". It's more like signal/noise. Much of the signal is legit: source IP is needed to deliver response, screen resolution, audio/video codec support, tran
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In essence, the hardware hasn't changed a lot. There was less focus on efficiency, much more on price - computers were expensive. In the (early) 80s, memory came at a premium, most micros had no permanent storage (except audio cassette
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by pipo234 4y ago
I bought one of these 2nd hand in early nineties after being introduced to the RPN way of doing things with a Hewlett Packard 28S calculator. Had fun with this machine although it was similar in many respects to ZX81 (and supposedly Spectru
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by pipo234 4y ago
As they say: "there are languages that everyone hates, and there are those that no-one uses." ;-)
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by pipo234 4y ago
Seems targeted at CentOS7, support for which is sunset in little over a year. Smells a bit like abandonware, hoping for adoption by unpaid volunteers. Still, dumping it into FOSS community is not the worst graveyard for commercial software.
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by pipo234 4y ago
Yes. Also, this time it's a consumer grade surveillance, but the same goes for security cams in prisons or nuclear facilities: hoarding information (sensitive or not) does not translate 1:1 to increasing security. This should be ob
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Galaxy Quest?!
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by pipo234 4y ago
As a general critique on 2023 society, it's remarkable how much discourse is about AI becoming like humans, while there is little talk of how creative human roles are increasingly behaving like robots. Block buster Hollywood scripts fo
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by pipo234 4y ago
+1 on the bloat, though i would primarily blame sloppy code and cheap fast pipes. On complicated scripts taking a gigawatt to render, I would like to point out that in the good old days that was all happening too — just not in your browse
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by pipo234 4y ago
Love Lynx and not particularly fond about JS or responsive frameworks. But I do not understand what React or Angular could have contributed that would be incompatible counter to or otherwise could have hampered the semantic web — so far as
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> another $10 per person on snacks and something to drink Fair enough - Netflix doesn't charge $10 for snacks & drinks, but I don't get them either. Similarly, a glass of wine in a restaurant is "overpriced" compa
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by pipo234 4y ago
As I once heard a lawyer explain, laws, regulation, compliance are mostly like software: created by hardworking individuals to be as accurate, fair and efficient as possible. She mentioned that the primary difference compared to software de
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"Treat information as toxic waste". Best not hoard stuff that's hard to contain
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I think ultimately, the idea is some sort of freemium model where the TUI is free, but usage as a web UI is will cost extra(?)
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by pipo234 4y ago
I think "NT", here, should more accurately read "the Wintel platform". NT bringing a "modern GUI" to DOS computers (as well as some RISC systems) and intel retaking some of the high end previously lost to Sun,
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by pipo234 4y ago
I stand corrected. And agree that EU's regulation would also benefit from taking a more holistic view on pollution than my (erroneous) zealotting on CO2 alone.
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Hopefully the tax will lead to different consumption patterns. Once you stop flying the single most impactful change is stop buying stuff. Never mind energy, food, local travels. For "stuff" the majority of emissions is in product
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by pipo234 4y ago
True. But at the same time, it should also be noted that the top 16 largest ships emit as much CO2 as all cars in the world. https://www.lngtransfer.com/news/the-16-biggest-ships-produc...
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Mind you, the "array" underlying Min-Max binary heaps in this example is actually a linked list!
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by pipo234 4y ago
Agree: soothingly well versed tone of voice, but leads to "it works"-level solution at best. Enumerates a bunch of data structures, but skips heap. Puts huge mutex over the interface, then even breaks open the abstraction to expos
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by pipo234 4y ago
Nothing wrong with those indie games, but what role does Apple play here, that justifies crediting them for innovation, asking money, etc?! Isn't that like praising Amazon Web services for this great FOSS ecosystem they "innovated
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by pipo234 4y ago
No worries - if our beloved middle management is eliminated we'll just invent new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

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