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by rodgerd 2y ago
I mean sure if you want to rely on a tool where this guy will disable chunks of it because he's had a hissy fit, I guess it "won't affect you".
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by rodgerd 2y ago
The modern analogue of 4GLs would be the promise of LLMs letting you write prompts so you don't have to learn a programming language; the promise of the original 4GLs like Pearl (not to be confused with perl) and Objectstar was to let
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by rodgerd 2y ago
About a decade ago I looked into moving some COBOL components off-mainframe (either as COBOL-on-Linux or a rewrite into Java, which itself is really COBOL Mk II at this point), and your point about the operating environment is one of the ke
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by rodgerd 2y ago
My number one is fans of scumbags, or scumbags themselves, blaming autism for them doing rapes or sexual assaults. If you like the post referenced, you'd probably enjoy "The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy" by Clara Tornval
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by rodgerd 2y ago
It's better than that, OpenAI are stealing the eggs and lobbying to make egg theft legal, so long as you only steal eggs from small farmers and back yards. Because they can, by their own admission, never stay in business if they have t
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by rodgerd 2y ago
The biggest problem with making Mastodon better is exactly that: anyone who dares suggest the way it's always been has a flaw will quickly be shouted down by people telling them that they're an idiot who clearly doesn't under
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> In my opinion these are a huge miss. Oh, really? Can you share your expertise that trumps that of the people who work with them every day?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Write events in parquet format and use DuckDB for your analytics?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
If the discussion leads with the idea that we're entitled to question whether authors and editors deserve to make a living for their work, why should anyone else be immune?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Basically you're paying extra money for the murdering at this point.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Virtually all humans in the books -- and I'm aware of the fact that they're not Earth humans but a wide variety of humanoid aliens -- are kept as pets by the ships, for amusement, basically as clowns. So like current late sta
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by rodgerd 2y ago
So you do mean "I am happy to steal from living authors who would like to be paid for their work, this is my excuse du jour". Hey, how do you make a living, jampekka?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
If the centrepiece of your legal defence is "we're just like a library" it would probably help to behave like a library: for example, if you purchase five books or CDs then lend five copies at a time. The IA doesn't appe
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> the copyright cartels You mean "living authors who would like to be paid for their work", right?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
There's a reason Adam Smith's feelings about landlords are scarcely distinguishable from those of Marx.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I was looking for a clip from a trailer for a film that is available on physical media, streaming, and was in cinemas two years ago. IA had the whole film online as bluray quality rip. What's the difference between the IA and Kim Dotco
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by rodgerd 2y ago
There's a reason that Apple won't let you enable FIDO keys without having two of them to enroll.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Unfortunately the Texas courts have indicated that they will be finding the NRLB illegal in and of itself.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
The AI craze is based on wide-scale theft or misuse of data to make numbers for the investor class. Funneling customer data and proprietary information and causing data breaches will, per Schmidt, make hundreds of billions for a handful of
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by rodgerd 2y ago
That describes YouTube's path to becoming the online video monopoly.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Imagine my complete surprise that the guy in charge of Google when sex with subordinates was rampant, and who gave an exec who was sacked for sexual harassment a ninety million dollar parachute, is upset that there aren't more people i
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I hope that you aren't expecting a court with a rampant Clarence Thomas to care about anything pertaining to your rights vis-a-vis the police.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
You can buy open hardware running Linux today. Why don't you? Oh right, the mobile Linux experience is so bad only the most devoted will subject themselves to it.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Yeah, remember how great computers were in the 90s? So secure and usable. I get that a lot of nerds long for the day when "desktop computer janitor" was a well-paid job and normal people couldn't use a computer effectively fo
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Yes? Any "lets move this COBOL to something else" will, more often than not, flounder on the fact that "rewrite all this functionality" will cost massively more than "just find someone to extend what we already have
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Yeah, large scale copyright theft for profit is something that you're only allowed to do if your name is "Sam Altman".
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Similarly, the Citroen GSA actually existed: https://www.autoevolution.com/cars/citroen-gsa-1979.html#aga...
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Indeed. One of my rules of thumb is that if it requires permanent storage, k8s is the wrong place, even if it is in-theory possible to do. Dealing with that whole side of things is so error-prone.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Container orchestration is the thing I believe is "overused." It was designed to solve "hyper" scale problems, and it's being misused in far more modest use cases where VMs should prevail. As a relatively early
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Well, it was initially covert, and he stalled both the results and then the votes, both under pressure around the "clean up" he was doing.

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