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by rectang 2mo ago
Yes, writing by hand is an experience that offers unique benefits. The physical act helps to consolidate and integrate knowledge — improving recollection is one benefit, although I'd emphasize improving intuition as more valuable. The
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by rectang 2mo ago
"Write by hand and mark up your books" is excellent advice... that I no longer follow. Marking up books didn't come naturally to me, but I did it for a while. Paper books are just decaying bundles of plant fiber — and the ide
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by rectang 3mo ago
A while ago I participated in security design for an open source foundation. (Security is not a specialty of mine, but I aspire to be competent enough for my role as a developer working in web dev and open source.) We attempted to design
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by rectang 3mo ago
So I went down the rabbit hole of the meaning of "champ", thinking it might mean something esoteric in the context of "champing at the bit" like "speaking the first line of the skit". But no, "champ"
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by rectang 3mo ago
It's not the same, but I still remember the first time I was served genmai cha (roasted rice tea) at a sushi restaurant. I loved it and inquired, the server was kind enough to show me the actual tea bag — it was Yamamotoyama. Availab
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by rectang 3mo ago
lol wut “corporate”? I don’t get the rest of your post either.
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by rectang 3mo ago
While it will take a while to review the subtleties of this license, I appreciate that out of the gate they are marketing it as "Source Available" rather than picking a stupid fight by calling it "Open Source".
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by rectang 3mo ago
Voter suppression strategy depends on statistical degradation of enfranchisement. There is a small group for whom it is literally impossible to obtain supporting documentation — this is the group that you're focusing on, but to my mind
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by rectang 3mo ago
Should voter ID requirements (a la "SAVE America" act or similar) become law, constitutional prohibitions on poll taxes will lead towards every citizen getting an ID at no charge.
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by rectang 3mo ago
The goal should be to run up the score of the popular vote as much as possible even in the face of anti-democratic shenanigans like gerrymandering or statistical voter suppression, e.g. how the SAVE act would make it harder for women (who l
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by rectang 3mo ago
Making it hard for politically inconvenient humans to vote is more straightforward than granting AI agents the right to vote.
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by rectang 3mo ago
To secure network effects for themselves. This is one of the reasons the ASF was founded. https://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html > We realize that it is often seen as an economic advantage for one company to "
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by rectang 3mo ago
Output is a separate issue from training . Courts will never decide that a identical copy spit out by an LLM is non-infringing simply because it went through an LLM stage. Copyright laundering is wishful thinking by tech folks.
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by rectang 3mo ago
License the training corpus and encourage copyright suits against outputs from models trained on unlicensed corpora.
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by rectang 3mo ago
More likely it will be taken as a plan for "how to win at any cost and then humanize yourself later".
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by rectang 4mo ago
> AI is finding vulnerabilities in all kinds of software written by humans. I'm aware — I've used LLMs to find vulnerabilities, myself. But it doesn't follow that because AI can find them that AI can find the optimal fi
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by rectang 4mo ago
"Make my web app secure."
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by rectang 4mo ago
Even if the specific image being infringed were not in the corpus, it's possible that a court would return a judgment of copyright infringement. Consider the case where someone deliberately prompts the AI to build a facsimile image and
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by rectang 4mo ago
As much as I like the Apple Passwords app, one of its downsides is that if I have my TOTP app on my iPhone, both passwords and TOTP live on the same device. So for many services I use Bitwarden for passwords.
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by rectang 4mo ago
Here is the relevant quote from _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_[1], which was given the name _Linus's Law_[2] in honor of Linus Torvalds: > Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr&#
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by rectang 4mo ago
> Client says "access denied" > Server says "here's everything" hahahaha > Hire me (just kidding... unless?) FIFA is a legendarily awful organization. In my weaker moments reading your piece I though
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by rectang 4mo ago
RCV completely solves the “spoiler candidate” problem, which is a huge issue limiting choice and innovation in the two-party-dominated US. Approval Voting remains susceptible to spoilers. In the US there are already people who complain tha
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by rectang 4mo ago
Ranked Choice Voting makes it easier to vote for “less bad” candidates. RCV also tends to work against polarization, since it rewards candidates who are at least acceptable to a broad swath of the electorate. It may not be the “answer” for
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by rectang 4mo ago
Does anybody run a local agent on a Mac using an outboard GPU?
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by rectang 4mo ago
Yes, and that demonstrates that developers are not immune. And so, developers who suspect they're being asked to do something illegal (but aren't sure) are going to act as sticklers who irritate enterprise architects until you ta
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by rectang 4mo ago
But here we're talking about developers being asked to implement decisions which they don't understand to be compliant. Engineers are not shielded by their implementer role if they participate in illegal activity. James Robert Li
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by rectang 4mo ago
I am skeptical that developers who implement a non-compliant solution that gets a company in trouble get off scot-free. If the company you work for actually had such a no-fault culture, I doubt you'd be criticizing programmers so aggre
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by rectang 4mo ago
In your world, do subordinates ever get scapegoated for bending the rules at a boss's behest?
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by rectang 4mo ago
Eventually there will be successful copyright lawsuits for derivative images produced by LLMs. Copyright laundering is an illusion.
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by rectang 4mo ago
There are lots of sites that provide images that somebody has claimed are public domain. But for significant use, you what you really need is provenance documentation. These folks seem to be more up-front about the issue than many sites I’v

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