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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Reading through the post, it was clear that the author wasn't very familiar with Emacs. I'm a huge fan of the undo model of Emacs, especially with tools like undo-tree (although cycling through with M-y is basically as good for my
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Totally in the same boat, passkeys seem to massively increase the risk that I will lose access to my data.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
My project for the past few years is called AppDeck, collection of self-contained HTML files that know how to save themselves back to the AppDeck server, which is just WebDAV. AI has been enormously helpful in building out a suite of apps t
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
You're confused about what was actually illegal and what the industry wanted you to believe was illegal. They didn't want to take anybody to court for actually ripping a CD because they didn't want to lose and have the preced
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I like paying to invest in a new sustainable ecosystem. Using SERP API doesn't feel like that to me. See Brave for a counterexample.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
They're still ultimately scraping other engines pages to get the results though. The last time this was discussed an engineer on their team told me that they were building their own index internally, but I couldn't get any additio
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
That's actually pretty cool. You're the first person that's actually showed verbatim reproduction in a discussion like this. I wonder how many people are asking their LLMs to reproduce copyrighted works rather than buying a c
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
LLMs are just tools wielded by humans. There's always a human behind whatever is done.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
This is not backed up by any evidence. Ripping CDs was never illegal. The DMCA made the circumvention of an effective copyright protection mechanism illegal, which made ripping DVDs and Blu-rays a crime. But that's separate from copyri
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Nope, that's a little bit of sloppy writing on the part of Ars. I am not a lawyer, but I'll be happy to discuss the technicalities with anybody here. I'm fairly passionate about the technicalities of copyright.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
You're mistaken. The transformativeness of the use is independent of the destruction of the books. The destruction of the books allowed them to argue that they had not duplicated them, and was instrumental in the argument supporting th
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I was reading The Souls of Black Folk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk ) written in 1903, so about 38 years after the end of the Civil War. And the opening essays talk about the incredible climb th
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
The HN crowd is generally skeptical, but "shallow dismissals", which are specifically called out in the guidelines, are still extremely common. These dismissals are not as clever as they tend to seem to those skimming the comments
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
You think if he gave you the "prompt" you'd be able to produce that book? Heck, I should put money on this. Start a competition: I give folks a prompt, and tell them to write a book about a subject with AI. I'm the sole
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
That's worth discussing, but you recommended a repeal.
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Yes, I believe Senator Slotkin was recommending that we remove the cap on Social Security so that folks making more than $180,000 continue to pay Social Security tax on the income above that amount.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
When I worked on recommendation systems 15 years ago, I learned about the "banana problem", where bananas are so commonly purchased, they tend to be the top recommendation regardless of other foods in your cart. The solution, of c
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Exactly this. The date has been very consistent for many years, and the math checks out. 2033 unless something significant changes.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
This is fantasy. There's nowhere for the money to come from. They're going to raise the age, reduce benefits.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Not OP, but I tend to use Kimi 2.6/7 more than other models, works great with omp.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Indeed. Power management alone is a massive research area with never-ending complexity across a bunch of domains. And nailing the ecosystem correctly is very hard (both devices and software). Security is another bottomless pit of research a
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
...and that can be changed at-will.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Section 230 is very important for all website operators. It doesn't just protect big companies. If you repeal it, now you're making every blog owner responsible for whatever some idiot says in the comments section.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
It was an emoji solution for Emacs that only worked on Mac. RMS basically said: "If the point is to promote Free Software, we do ourselves a disservice by making our Free Software work better on a proprietary system than a Free system.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
> Real people think in concepts and experiences instead of words. I learned about this opinion recently. It's interesting to me, because I very much think through words. I have an internal monologue that is running most of the time,
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I didn't use Claude for a long time, but my coworkers did, so I got infected through a side channel: I ended up reading their vibed docs, noticed "load-bearing", kind of liked it, and started using it in conversation, until I
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I'm a "FOSS person" and spend a fair amount on apps that behave well. Just bought Brave Origin for $60 on Sunday, as an example. I've been in the room when companies talk about web vs. app. It's always a business d
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
It blocks the cookies and the banner. Ideal solution.
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This is exactly what I've been observing as well. As soon as the App Store became a cash cow, the incentive to support non-commercial development went away. It's now a place constructed by a giant company, for giant companies.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I don't find this argument compelling because you're selectively applying logic. Okay, so you don't like AWS or Google. Fine. What about the thousands of other hosting companies that use Linux, Apache, Nginx, PHP, Ruby, Pytho

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