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by rswail 7mo ago
Charles Eames said that "design depends largely on constraints". If you know in advance, then one of the constraints on the design of that function is that it's on the critical path and that it has to meet the specification.
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by rswail 7mo ago
I rounded down to the nearest half-century :) I hope to live through to 2050, just to see what's going to happen.
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by rswail 7mo ago
I'm very impressed that was written by an LLM. Does that make the OP an "authoring mechanic"? Or an "AI editor"? Douglas Adams had it right, the problem is not that the answer was useless, it was that people didn&#x
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by rswail 7mo ago
One of CS's heroes lauding another. I feel I know both author and subject better for reading this. We are all very lucky to have lived through the foundation of a new science and new engineering over the last 50 years.
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by rswail 7mo ago
This is awesome for local development of AWS service based software, allowing developers to develop without having to enable AWS access, or handle them stepping on each other's toes with S3 bucket names, or Dynamo table names, IAM role
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by rswail 7mo ago
I got airpods (Pro v2) and got the squishy memory foam tips from a 3rd party that are a) comfortable, and b) actually stay in my ears. I hate normal headphones because they make my ears get sweaty and are heavy and uncomfortable.
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by rswail 7mo ago
I told my (now 88) father that if he bought another desktop PC he was on his own. Tough love works. He loves his 24" iMac, it just works and I can fix things remotely if necessary (it hasn't been).
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by rswail 7mo ago
> Decent package manager, brew is awful compared to apt. Use Macports. Installs itself properly out of the way in /opt. Works with the Apple frameworks (eg Python), allows multiple versions of software to be installed in parallel (u
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by rswail 7mo ago
Looks like an awesome launch. Given all the privacy breaches already in this space, what auditing are you planning to ensure that PII is not held anywhere in the stack after KYC/AML/ID confirmation? This goes beyond ISO27K/
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by rswail 7mo ago
lol, ask the software industry whether or not their "past the point of caring" about the licenses on their software. Whether it's an OSS license or a commercial license, both are dependent on copyright as the underlying IP Ri
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by rswail 7mo ago
I started on the MICOM (Microcomputer Club of Melbourne) BBS that was started and run by Peter Jetson around 1983/84, initially with a single phone line. It was home grown software, but eventually became part of Fidonet. I found an old
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by rswail 7mo ago
It is not clear that copyright continues on the LLM output, that is, the output is not necessarily a derivative work. So "copyleft" doesn't work on any of the output. Therefore no GPL applies.
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by rswail 7mo ago
I think you need to read the report from the US Copyright office that specifically says that it's *not* (c) copyright of the operator. It doesn't matter if the "change this variable name" instruction ends up with the sam
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by rswail 7mo ago
Except the GPL is dependent on the author having copyright over the original software but the output of an LLM may not be covered by copyright as a derivative work. That breaks "copyleft" entirely.
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by rswail 7mo ago
The entire basis of the OSS is licensing. Licensing is dependent on IPR, primarily copyright. It is very unclear whether the output of an AI tool is subject to copyright. So if someone uses AI to refactor some code, that refactored code i
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by rswail 8mo ago
Depends which airline and which plane. Airbus 350 and Boeing 777 have much better air, higher pressure than older planes.
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by rswail 8mo ago
What I noticed was that when I was at dinner tonight with my young twenties down to 14 nieces and nephews, every one of them knew what the Macbook Neo was, including the colors. There was a big argument about iPad w/Pencil vs laptop, b
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by rswail 8mo ago
> (Of course, PG writing an essay about being too smart for fancy watches - while knowing a lot about them - is its own signaling game, just aimed at a different audience) He was aiming at people like the people commenting on this thread
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by rswail 8mo ago
Many countries have avoided the complete brand/chain-ification of the US market. Cafes and coffee places are still great, Starbucks did for them what McDonalds did for food. They're a known standard of quality. It might be low, bu
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by rswail 8mo ago
Agreed, but the right to compensation is derived from the right of licensing something you author. The courts have ruled that something machine generated does not have a human author, so therefore it is not subject to copyright, in the US.
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by rswail 8mo ago
Because the authors of the original content deserve recompense for their work. That's what the whole copyright and patent regimes are designed to achieve. It's to encourage the creation of knowledge. US Constitution, Article I, se
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by rswail 8mo ago
RCS compatibility with iMessages relies on the telcos to implement it, particularly for group chats. iMessages work using SMS 1-to-1, but group chats require the telcos to enable RCS instead of SMS. Of the 3 telco network operators in Austr
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by rswail 8mo ago
It's also dependent on the telco supporting it. Australian telcos don't.
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by rswail 8mo ago
Can the output of the service be licensed? A bit like the AGPL, you're licensed to use/reuse/derive new works. So if it's distributed outside of the license, that's subject to contractual penalties? I guess that&#x2
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by rswail 8mo ago
It's called a co-op.
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by rswail 8mo ago
It provides a facility that FedNow and Zelle will replace. It's a US specific solution for instant settlement payment rails that other nations have had for a while. FedNow is the underlying infra, Zelle will end up being the consumer b
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by rswail 8mo ago
What makes you think corporate hierarchies and processes won't infect their use of AI so that you won't be able to "go rogue" and you'll be held up by AI reviews, not humans. Oh and the opposite when you are one of
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by rswail 8mo ago
It's a US only problem. Everywhere else has instant settlement payment rails available for yonks. And FedNow removes the need for Zelle or CashApp, assuming the banks offer it. Of course, a regulator working for the consumers might man
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by rswail 8mo ago
Afterpay (and the other Buy Now Pay Later competitors like Klarna) are potential financial arrangement facilitators for their customers. Sure the BNPL model uses effectively invoice factoring with high interest penalties but they do have a
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by rswail 8mo ago
Why is it public domain because it's LLM-generated?

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