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by shagie 11mo ago
> Old days: Get the O'Reilly book for that programming language. Lookup access modifiers in the index. 10 year ago: Google for a blog with an intro to the programming language. There will be a tip about what access modifiers can do.
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by shagie 11mo ago
I was attempting to mock Claude's "You are absolutely right" style of response when corrected. I have seen responses to PRs that appear to be a copy and paste of my feedback into it and a copy and paste of the response and fi
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by shagie 11mo ago
The US couldn't drop to the Berne floor... because it is a member of the WTO and restricted by TRIPS which has a floor of 50 years. Going to anything less than 50 years would entail leaving the WTO and backing out of TRIPS. That in tu
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by shagie 11mo ago
The same copyright laws apply to all things that are copyrightable regardless of medium. Anything that can be put into a fixed medium, be it print, digital recording, film. Such a proposal needs to take into consideration everything that i
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by shagie 11mo ago
If I understand this correctly, your assertion is that me selling you a print 14 years ago (or 28) would now give you (or anyone) permission to put that on T-shirts and sell them despite that I'm still making prints of that photograph
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by shagie 11mo ago
> Now I just assume they're taking my feedback and feeding it right back to the LLM. This is especially annoying when you get back a response in a PR "Yes, you're right. I have pushed the fixes you suggested." Part o
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by shagie 11mo ago
Why should I be required to license my (non-stock) photographs hanging in a gallery to someone who wants to make placemats of those images? Why should a photograph of a model (I have a model release) that I took be something I am required t
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by shagie 11mo ago
How would this impact open source? Would I be required to register every repository that I have on GitHub? Would anyone be able to license that repository for $(legislated amount) and make it into a closed source product?
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by shagie 11mo ago
> Copyright must be registered. https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04_e.htm Members shall comply with Articles 1 through 21 of the Berne Convention (1971) and the Appendix thereto. H
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by shagie 11mo ago
Which government do I need to have faith in for enforcing the copyright for a citizen of Wakanda who is infringing upon my work? The floor of copyright reform is set by TRIPS and the WTO. That's 50 years. If one wants to try to set a
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by shagie 11mo ago
As a photographer, why should I be forced to sell prints of the photographs that are hanging in a restaurant? If the limitations on copyright weren't present, why wouldn't the restaurant make copies of the photograph that I took t
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by shagie 11mo ago
Which government? Who controls the account? How do I claim it? How does this work across national boundaries? (e.g. how does someone in Wakanda license a work created by someone in the US? How does someone in the US license a work create
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by shagie 11mo ago
I'm gonna flip this around... have you tried pasting the image (and the relevant paragraph of text) and asking ChatGPT (or another LLM) to generate the alt text for the image and see what it produces? For example... https://
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by shagie 11mo ago
From a couple years ago... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/seeing-a... https://youtu.be/R2mC-NUAmMk https://youtu.be/DybczED-GKE ... and that was 10 years
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by shagie 11mo ago
This is largely a moot point unless the US wants to withdraw from TRIPS (and implicitly the WTO) and join the list of countries that don't observe it such as... Eritrea, Kiribati, North Korea, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan. https:&#x2
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by shagie 11mo ago
It was driven by privacy and on device compute. Anything you ask an Android device to do, or an Alexa device goes to their clouds to be 100% processed there. Apple tried to make a small and focused interface that could do a limited set of t
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by shagie 11mo ago
Again, you are focusing on tech workers. Not everyone on a H-1B visa is a tech worker. There is a problem with tech and how oversubscribed the H-1B visa is because of tech contracting - especially with visa dependent employers. However, t
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by shagie 11mo ago
The position of "Can we just cancel this program please?" I take to mean all of the H-1B visas. This is a position that I've often seen echoed by people who haven't considered the other positions that use this program
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by shagie 11mo ago
Not everyone wants to relocate to rural hospital areas (where they're often most in demand as a fraction of the total workers). The wages are often tied to what insurance (and medicare) can reimburse and that rate isn't necessari
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by shagie 11mo ago
Could you elaborate on how wages of native French speaking language teachers are being suppressed? Or that nurses in North Dakota are not getting jobs because the hospital is going through the process of hiring a qualified nurse under the H
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by shagie 11mo ago
Why do you want to cancel French immersion teachers? https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=french+language+immer... Or nurses? https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=registered+nurse&city... T
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by shagie 11mo ago
> ... And it's not just the ATS doing this -- oooodles of goobers who are nowhere near qualified are using AI and slamming the hiring pipelines. I'm already leaning on the personal networks because of that, ... Patrick Boyle :
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by shagie 11mo ago
> 2. You held very senior positions. I think a lot of people don't like hiring people that were more senior than them. So that CTO is being held as a negative. They are not saying "Hey I get the experience of an EM and a CTO in
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by shagie 11mo ago
Because despite being more reliable and energy efficient the other costs associated with it were higher. It is one thing to dunk 14.3m L x 12.7m D in the ocean for a 240 kW setup in the ocean. It is another to scale that up to a "ful
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by shagie 11mo ago
I understand how that goes. In 2009 I lost my job making $85k (it would now be $130k in 2025 dollars)... and I was unemployed for a little under a year. I got a job where I made $25 an hour (40h a week with time and a half overtime) as a
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by shagie 11mo ago
> ... at pay far lower than they're used to ... Is this saying something more about the relative expectation of compensation bands? New grads are unlikely to have a comparable benchmark. People who've worked in Big Tech and fin
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by shagie 11mo ago
We have them. The RAD750 for example (on the JWST and Curiosity rovers https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/08/mars_probe_cpu/ ) costs about $350k, has the architecture of a PowerPC 750 (the blue and whi
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by shagie 11mo ago
They claim it did. Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably - https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr... > Among the components crated
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by shagie 11mo ago
There is one. It is the sun synchronous dawn/dusk orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit > Special cases of the Sun-synchronous orbit are the noon/midnight orbit, where the local mean
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by shagie 11mo ago
A data center on an orbit that is only known to the operators makes it difficult to use as a data center in a meaningful way - where do you point your uplink? Spy satellites are individual craft. Proposals tossed about suggest significant

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