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by rcxdude 2mo ago
The issue is there's far more pages than could reasonably be stored: cgit is an old-school server-side renderer and there's a combinatorial explosion of possible pages it could render. The article calculates there's about a q
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
That's an opinion from the US copyright office, not a law or a decision made in court. I think it remains to be seen to what extent using generative AI affects the practical application of copyright in larger projects: the office holds
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
In the UK you do have certain 'moral rights' with respect to a piece of writing you've made, and one of them is essentially a right to anonymity/pseudonymity for that work. Somewhat notably JK Rowling won a case about it
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
Packages are code, in large part, and they probably represent the main value and work product of a distribution (though a lot of automation already exists for this). I would not be surprised if an LLM could manage most of the day-to-day eff
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
I would say it's a mixed bag. On the one hand, yes, you can experiment with big changes much more easily, but on the other hand, you can have cruft build up in a big way if you're not actively looking for it and trying to cut it b
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
it's not a relational database, but those aren't the only kind.
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
The ePrivacy directive basically defines it as 'any data your site gives to the user's terminal that the terminal then passes back to your site'. Request tokens in the URL would qualify, but notably storing something in local
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
Silicon fabs are definitely up there for 'regular use of scary chemicals'.
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
What solar and wind have made irrelevant is the assumption that constant supply of the baseload is an addressable market for a power plant. That only works if the supply is the cheapest on the market (something nuclear has even historically
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
It works better on a geographically spread-out grid, and the data centers are running into the same limit that renewable plants are, which is that the grid is struggling to keep up (in large part, in many places, due to a history of underin
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
And hubs like that wouldn't work with 1G anyway. (Apparently theoretically some versions of gigabit ethernet could work with hubs but it's not clear any were ever made)
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
I dunno, I think it's mainly because people don't like them, and that's mainly about the first point and the general perception of inequality in the economy. It's a bit hard to argue against that, regardless of how stron
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
It's a shrinking area: You can get GPS, accelerometer, etc inputs from a web app nowadays. From my own experience the main areas that are tricky are related to automatically finding and connecting to devices: you can do bluetooth at le
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
I don't disagree with the goal, I'm just saying that having more copyright owners in a given work is likely to make the licensing more complicated and opaque, not less.
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
No-one likes them, but they're pretty hard to replace if only due to network effects.
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
This reasoning is largely centered around the runway being finite. You obviously can't have costs so high you are making a huge loss, but also there's little value in improving margins past profitability until you actually have a
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
It's not an obvious legal argument that it is not a derivative work of the compiled code or the original source code that produced that. Clean room reverse engineering is meant to give you a strong argument for that, and while it'
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
Would you still allow transfer of copyrights? Otherwise 1) would really make things more difficult in this case, because you're gonna need to deal with far more people (and potentially far more complicated contracts to try to work arou
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
Purely descriptively, this seems to be how a lot of people use the word in this context. 'Intelligent' gets the same treatment in a lot of cases as well. (OK, more charitably, these concepts are often murkily defined, but people r
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
Hmmm, there are definitely people saying "Wikipedia has enough now". They have enough cash to keep the site going for a long time, but they still beg for donations. Firefox is similar, people complain about Mozilla's side pro
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
I suspect your sample is a bit skewed, then. I see a fair bit more diversity of genAI use amongst technical and non-technical people I know.
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
There do seem to be pretty wildly varying views on how heavily it is used and what value it is providing. I see a lot of people getting a lot of value from it, and some people avoiding it like the plague. I think it's getting to be a m
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
The last option considers the environmental impact alone to be worth a total ban. The vote is essentially a list of different takes on the issue and it's obvious different people have different concerns about it.
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
With the ball in the gravitational field the state of the system is entirely captured by the ball's position and velocity. With hysteresis there is some extra state in the system that also affects the behaviour. The general pattern you
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
The comparison to padlocks and bolt cutters is not relevant, they are quite different shapes of problems. A certificate that is weak enough that it should not be trusted in any case where it matters is actively harmful, not just mildly le
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
What percentage of users are malicious, do you think? To me the issue is precisely what the product is trying to solve: propaganda using faked footage passed off as real, which generally has no real difficulty with resources available to bo
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
I feel like it's the kind of thing you might wind up caring about if you're micro-optimizing your python, but in my experience that's a losing game and you're better served rewriting it in another language than bothering
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
I mean, it's kind of both: objects have gravity, which attract them together, which creates more gravity and larger objects. Stars are what happens when the rest of physics disagrees with this (and black holes are when gravity wins any
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
With web applications it's not particularly unusual, because the whole system stack can be quite heterogeneous. If one part of the system is doing authentication and the other part is actually doing the action then it can be a real pro
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by rcxdude 2mo ago
It is harder to offer fulfilment as a service, but there are companies that will give you a registered agent in all the relevant countries and help you with the paperwork. It does still look like it's quite expensive though.

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