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by thayne 3mo ago
As used in common speech, whistleblowing also applies to exposing unethical or dangerous behavior, even if it is technically legal. > Anyone who has worked in tech for any amount of time has signed an NDA. Just because something is ubiqu
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by thayne 3mo ago
> DRM keys that need to be renewed The solution to this is to not have DRM
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by thayne 3mo ago
> A Blu-ray disc, game cartridge, or printed book generally cannot be removed from a shelf by a remote policy change. It may not be able to be removed from a shelf, but if it is protected by DRM they can still remotely revoke your abilit
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by thayne 3mo ago
> Only companies approved by the government will get access. There is no process for individual users to get access to the new model. That sounds like more than just export control. This means that big company A that the president has a
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by thayne 3mo ago
And the regulated may even publicly complain about the regulations, to increase the illusion that it isn't regulatory capture.
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by thayne 3mo ago
You might be able to argue that using an AI trained on open source or source available code is not a clean room implementation. IANAL.
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by thayne 3mo ago
Oh they are very aware of the threat. But their weapon of choice is the legal system and regulatory capture, not improving their product.
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by thayne 3mo ago
> Repackaging the same work multiple times is considered “self-plagiarism” and frowned upon today In other words, publishers want a monopoly on what they publish and take the copy rights away from the actual authors.
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by thayne 3mo ago
And automated spam filters are a poor solution. Even after a couple decades the best ones still have both false positives and false negatives at a higher rate than I would like.
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by thayne 3mo ago
Most open source projects want outside contributions... as long as they are decent quality. The problem is how do you block the AI slop spam without also blocking high quality contributions.
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by thayne 3mo ago
And the fact that this article doesn't acknowledge that irony diminishes my respect for it.
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by thayne 3mo ago
No. Node.js uses package.json as well
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by thayne 3mo ago
There are also plenty of projects that do. PostgreSQL is good enough for most projects. But it isn't enough for every project.
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by thayne 3mo ago
> Customer expectations are increasing and evolving faster than ever before Wouldn't that suggest you need those workers more?
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by thayne 4mo ago
I am not objecting to solar panels. I'm saying using solar powered energy produces more waste heat than not using that energy at all.
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by thayne 4mo ago
Yes, but it still generates some heat. 300% means the ratio of the heat energy transfered to the energy consumed is 3. Perfect efficiency would be infinite COP.
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by thayne 4mo ago
Right. I'm saying this state of affairs is unacceptable for the dominant digital messaging system in 2026.
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by thayne 4mo ago
It isn't as effective, but air to water can be bidirectional. Probably good enough for a couple of times a year or so when there is a heat wave.
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by thayne 4mo ago
Solar panels work by taking "high grade" energy from sunshine, doing some useful work with it, and increasing entropy by producing heat. That heat does radiate energy away at infrared wavelengths, but then greenhouse gases come in
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by thayne 4mo ago
Over the scale of an entire city, it might be negligable, I don't know, I haven't done the math. My guess would be it is measurable, but not a lot, probably less than a degree. But the GP said "no it doesn't" increa
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by thayne 4mo ago
> An air conditioner powered by solar energy (or anything solar powered) ends up releasing the exact same amount of "excess" heat as the sunlight would have if it hadn't been absorbed by the panels. Sure. But solar panels
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by thayne 4mo ago
Except we have an lot of greenhouse gases that are really good at reflecting that infrared back down to earth.
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by thayne 4mo ago
The process of moving heat from your house outside also creates excess heat, because no AC system is completely efficient (and it can't be because of the second law of thermodynamics).
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by thayne 4mo ago
The way AC works is by transferring heat from one place (inside) to somewhere else (outside), and it takes energy to do this which produces even more heat, which is generally in the outside part of the AC system. This isn't something y
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by thayne 4mo ago
It seems like a bidirectional heat pump would be a good solution, since the same device can be used to heat the building when it's cold. And a lot of europe (including the mentioned UK and Greece) don't often get cold enough that
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by thayne 4mo ago
It is long since time we made email secure. Or replaced it with something else that would allow us to send messages to people securely (in a decentralized way). Having to log in to a half-maintained, slow web portal with terrible UI that is
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by thayne 4mo ago
Indeed. We really either need email to get decent, user-friendly encryption and verification, or replace email with a new, ubiquitous, decentralized, system that has first class support for encryption. I have a laundry list of other issues
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by thayne 4mo ago
> "It's hard!" So? "It's complicated" So? So it will take valuable developer time that might be better utilized to work on something else. And even if they do rename it, there isn't any guarantee that t
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by thayne 4mo ago
That only works if you are only using Github as a place to store your code. I'm not the OP, and maybe their situation is different, but I want to continue getting sincere human PRs and issue reports on my projects, but want to reduce o
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by thayne 4mo ago
That is probably why it is in there, and probably how it would be used in practice. But these types of documents are almost written to be as broad and ask you to give up as many rights as possible.

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