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by slyall 3y ago
Previously: When NASA Used an RC Tiger II to Drill into Space Shuttle Tires https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228114 ( 6 days ago, 160 pts, 72 comments )
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by slyall 3y ago
Just a followup I think you (4death4) are missing the original comment that I am replying to. In that the Poster asserts that "I think there is a good amount of content that has been consumed that was neither in the public domain or pr
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by slyall 3y ago
I mean memes that use a photograph (eg a screenshot from a movie) as background with some text over it. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/who-owns-memes But if what you have asserted is true then me reading anything
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by slyall 3y ago
If the creator posts original content to reddit then perhaps. However if some random other person posts it then probably not. A screenshot or photograph taken from somewhere else would not be licensed, eg most memes. If I watch a movie and
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by slyall 3y ago
The problem is humans ingest a lot of unlicensed content. For example reading a webpage or looking at a billboard or flipping though a book in a bookstore. Not even counting watching something that was torrented. Or watched in the wrong cou
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by slyall 3y ago
> This is a colonization of humanity from the wealthiest companies and people in the world You mean Disney and the other movie studios grabbing copyright for a 100+ years and now wanting to make sure they get their cut from anything even
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by slyall 3y ago
Looks like a completely different take. If you look at his microphone it is worn higher in the first "walking" shot than in the takeoff shot. Also the walk is filmed South of the Vehicle Assembly Building looking North. Whereas th
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by slyall 3y ago
One thing this shot is sync the sound and visuals. In reality because of the slower speed of sound (around 340m/s) the noise of the rocket wouldn't be heard until the rocket was significantly above the tower. You also hear various
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by slyall 3y ago
I always got the impression it was actually quite neutral. One day the employee was gone due to an unexpected external force. Neither the employee's nor employer's fault. It is a lot less neutral to say an employee was "fired
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by slyall 3y ago
Good article on the history of Gopher: The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph...
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by slyall 3y ago
On the other hand the legit end of the business isn't that great. Newspapers charge for placement in print and then legacy.com or whoever will charge to have the information visible.
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by slyall 3y ago
Mirror: https://archive.ph/gC8Mv
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A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Humankind Ready for the Leap Minute?(nytimes.com)
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by slyall 3y ago
I used to support him for $1/month previously, I think it was a specific tier. From memory I stopped because I was adding other creators and I got the impression he was doing okay.
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by slyall 3y ago
Thanks, Pretty sure thats probably the one I was remembering (and confusing the plot elements a bit).
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by slyall 3y ago
Lots of people would do the same. I vaguely remember a short science fiction story where people got uploaded to the cloud. There were three options for your memories. The expensive one you got to keep all your memories of Copyright music, v
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by slyall 3y ago
> With sysadmins, there are fashion waves, where they keep being called different names like DevOps or SRE. I don't think the name change really originated with Sysadmins. Basically these new titles were created (with narrow definit
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by slyall 3y ago
This has happened before though. The dotcom boom ( approx 1995 - 2000 ) saw a lot of non-nerds getting into tech cause of the big bucks. The thing is many of them quit tech in the years afterwards, they didn't enjoy playing with comput
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Building Meta's Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
2 points by slyall 3y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 3y ago
These days you don't edit things on servers. The most you might do is edit a file and change a single option. You can do that in vi, vim or nano. Certainly you don't get to install you favorite editor (and version) and the .config
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by slyall 3y ago
and you are sure of this because? Seriously. The smelly office guy who says "I only need to shower once a week" is real enough to be a cliche.
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by slyall 3y ago
They both existed. The New York one is completely gone. The San Diego one still physically exists as a museum "ship".
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by slyall 3y ago
But the Long Now project seems to be dormant. I'm looking for a live project that is doing this. Or maybe we could start one.
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by slyall 3y ago
Are there actually any live projects to use technology like this to create many distributed copies of information to "survive the fall of civilisation" etc? I know the Long Now foundation has the Rosetta project but that doesn&#x2
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16 years ago, we made the first commit to what would eventually be GitHub/GitHub(nitter.net)
1 points by slyall 3y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 3y ago
A previous job was working at a supermarket's online store. Supermarket's have all sorts of weird specials eg "4 pies for $5" or "a pie and a coke for $3". We were running into problems when we had large test b
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by slyall 3y ago
Not permanent but there is a trick to make it go away for a short time. I read about it recently and it works for me. 1. Place both hands on your ears. Palms tight on the ears and fingers backwards 2. Now tap with your fingers on th
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Statement from Creative Commons: Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons(creativecommons.org)
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Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf](internetnz.nz)
90 points by slyall 3y ago|25 comments
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by slyall 3y ago
> I have simply noticed a pattern of almost everyone agreeing that AI generated art is bad and harms real artists, while simultaneously agreeing that AI generated code is great and only helps programmers. I think you mean that artists mo

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