rpdillon

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by rpdillon 2mo ago
This is in tension with Sony vs. Betamax, which held that time shifting is fair use, but that also requires format-shifting (broadcast to recorded media).
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
This is precisely correct. The logic being applied rarely extends to second-order effects.
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
No, it's more like a basic case where you put five minutes into it and if you can't get there in that time frame, then you ask someone. But I am asking for the five minutes of work.
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
> Distributing unauthorized is a federal crime Not true. Copyright infringement is a civil infraction, but can escalate to a criminal infraction at high enough scale, but that's a judgment call. Aaron Swartz was the victim of a wit
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
> A tax on any advertising appearing alongside text information Interesting. Are you imagining classified ads would be impacted? What does "alongside" mean, in this context? It would be easy for Google, Facebook, and Instagram
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
These are software engineers asking questions about the code they wrote. They're able to figure it out.
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
> it's objective is to make it harder for AI companies to get such data, if it wastes their time, it's a win. That's only one half of the equation, though, isn't it? What if it makes it harder for legitimate users as
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
"Prioritize making peaceful relationships" is entirely unhelpful along the lines of saying "Do the work". The way you're writing so dismissively of other people's analysis of this topic demands that you provide
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
Yeah, the way it's being discussed, it does seem like the law is trying to impose those four restrictions. But that seems like compelled speech...I know too little about Australian law, but that seems like a bad precedent, in the sense
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
The law says that they have to compensate the news organizations when links to those news articles are shared on their platform. They are completely in compliance with the law because they're preventing those links from being shared on
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
No, both sections a and b of part 3 of GPLv2 specify it should be machine readable. Would be interesting to see the court case where they argued the printed sheets machine need a bulb because of OCR!
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
People are lazy as hell, and I've noticed it's getting worse. My old team called this "remote brain execution" (because we work with Bazel and they have something called RBE) where folks would just drop questions in Slac
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
The headliner is the 4x efficiency increase from 2024-2026. The HN headline comes from a section discussing 2030 projections: > What Efficiency Gains are Expected? Based on a representative AI training workload, AMD projected rack-scale
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
There's a real problem with governments that invade other countries and attack civilians, and we're in a particularly hot time right now. That gives many current examples, though: should Ukraine prioritize manufacturing water pump
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
I would protect his freedom to do just that as well, but I don't agree with it.
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
Not a likely scenario, FWIW: https://www.military.com/history/5-reasons-why-geography-ame... I would expect any invading forces would need to be surveilled by planes or satellites, or perhaps drones, since they would i
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
> while the only thing that matters is you understand the mechanism and you therefore know how to apply it. it doesn't matter if you know the name, unless you want to Google it. but now with AI you can still find it. so take it easy
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
The trend is crystal clear: not just more people, but more automation. https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
A strawman is different than an analogy. But this discussion is quite tired. Thanks for your insights.
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
> In the general case, if you enter into a contract and pay for a service, then don't receive that service, you're entitled to sue the service provider for your losses. You can sue anyone for anything. But when a service provid
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
That's not the proposal, and is utter fantasy. I'm engaging a hypothetical here -- none of what's being discussed is even close to reality, in the sense that it won't be implemented. There will be new datacenters, some
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
You're assuming a bubble. I get it. But do you really think we have more datacenters now, or even an equal number, to what we'll have in the future? It's like power consumption: it's going to scale, so we need to control
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
I think you're vastly under-estimating the extent to which power grids, water systems, and global supply chains and manufacturing rely heavily on datacenters. The Trump administration pulled a bunch of ocean sensors, whose data was agg
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
It's not about being uneasy. I've had six jobs in my career that are all over the lot with respect to software engineering. How to work with specific influential personalities like the C-suite, picking up and gaining some expertis
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
> enables and incentivizes job hopping I've often felt that I'm not very good at a particular company until I've been there 4 years... then I can really do good work. I wonder if there is any downside for society to incent
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
Unlikely. I'm not sure where HN is hosted, but I think it's a bare metal server in a colo, not a data center. The childish behavior is disagreeing with how datacenters are being deployed and reducing that to "more is bad&qu
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
There's something to what I wrote, but I'm realizing I don't understand it as well as I thought. As for what moderate is: I can absolutely believe it'cultural. I was intending to post from a US/EU perspective, as th
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
My doctor indicated it was more of a risk for me because my liver worked quickly, but your mention of acetyldehyde I know to be correct. I need to better understand this, thanks for the correction.
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What else might happen?
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by rpdillon 2mo ago
It works very differently for different people, I think. Many people metabolize the alcohol more slowly, and get less of a "hit" from drinking, which makes them less susceptible to addiction. Others, like me, metabolize it very fa

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