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by tpmoney 1y ago
The “farce” of treating a corporation as a legal individual is the reason you can have this case in the first place. Otherwise the authors would have had to discover and individually sue each specific individual in the company for each spec
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by tpmoney 1y ago
They might say that, but it doesn’t mean it has the force of law behind it. Copyright does not cover and has never covered facts. So as much as the NFL might wish you can’t tell people what the final score of the game is, or describe the ev
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Copyright doesn’t cover facts and methods. It specifically covers creative expressions. That’s why patents are different from copyright. If you read some woodworking books and then write your own online tutorial about building a chair using
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I doubt the purpose here is so much to prevent someone from intentionally side stepping the block. It's more likely here to avoid the sort of headlines you would expect to see if someone was suggested "I wish ${politician} would d
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Post WW2, we had gradually managed to build a less violent society This feels like a whitewashing of a lot of post WWII history. That “less violent society” included the Korean and Vietnam wars, multiple assassinations, civil rights ri
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by tpmoney 1y ago
On the other hand, LLMs actually can help with a lot of these “human aspect” problems, which to my mind boils down mostly to transferring information between humans is hard. The focus on just the writing code aspect skips over that some of
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Because until you're caught, crime pays. That wouldn't be the same with AI cheating. If the AI didn't work, your cheating wouldn't pay off even if you don't get caught because you're still failing the assignmen
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by tpmoney 1y ago
This was definitely the way Apple (used to) teach their employees. The 3 big “rules” were 1) No upsell pressure. We all got a flat hourly wage, so whether you bought the 5k computer or the 1k computer, we earned the same money. So focus on
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Assuming it wasn’t just following up in case you really did need some help now, probably a “loss prevention” technique. Retail folks are almost never going to accuse someone of stealing and “following around a hovering” behavior is discoura
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Even decentralized protocols trend towards centralization at scale. You might not need to use Gmail to do SMTP, but if you want your SMTP sent mail to reach a wide audience smoothly, you’re probably going to wind up buying SMTP forwarding f
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I think the closest I’ve encountered is the Objective C frameworks Apple used to use. Customizing the behaviors of default library components was almost exclusively done with delegates and protocol implementation rather than subclassing.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I don’t think anyone* doesn’t think these things don’t have practical limitations. It’s more that a lot of the negative stories and results seem to have a “I asked a random stranger on the internet to balance my check book and got money sto
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Miyazaki's art is Miyazaki's. If another artist were to come along and imitate his style, especially after he is gone, that is still not Miyazaki. That is whomever's that is's style and it's disrespectful of bo
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I’ll take a shot. Even the worst accounts of the events between him and the various other members over the years seem to me to demonstrate that he was the most involved in keeping the “Beach Boys” (in whatever form) alive and relevant. My r
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> This doesn’t even make sense. LLMs hallucinate things beyond simple programming language constructs. I commonly deal with allusions to functions or library methods that would be great if they existed, but the LLM made it up on the spot
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by tpmoney 1y ago
How does anyone self learning know they're learning the "right things and the best way to do things"? By putting the stuff they've learned into practice and putting it up against the real world. How many Rust tutorials a
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by tpmoney 1y ago
>There’s an implication that the LLM did something that was eluding people for months, but when you read more closely they don’t actually say they were working on the problem for months. Just that they were complaining about it for month
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> You've had an issue for months and the logs were somehow so arcane, so dense, so unparseable, no one spotted these "metadata corruption issues?" I'm not going to accuse anyone of blatant fabrication, but this is ver
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Depending on your definition of "large-scale production" Prusa famously 3d prints a number of components in their production 3d printers.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> I can tell you that we’re already seeing a glut of security issues being explained by devs as “I asked copilot if it was secure and it said it was fine so I committed it”. And as with Google and Stack Overflow before, the Sr Devs will
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Have we got all the low hanging fruit, or have we moved the floor up and new fruits are low hanging. How much better life is now depends on what you want to measure. For example, even with vastly more cars on the road road, our air quality
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by tpmoney 1y ago
And detractors say AI doesn’t draw the thing for you either. “Soulless”, “without human touch”, “tab-completion slot machine”, “slop”, “hallucinations” etc. Seems like they’re more comparable to a Wacom or 3d render/modeling program th
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Humans don't listen to one another and nod unthinkingly. They criticize and validate relentlessly. Friends aren't mistaken for oracles. We have learned to not trust one another, except when one is speaking from deep experienc
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by tpmoney 1y ago
It doesn't take much for that to become "TIL Waffle House's owners are so greedy they force their employees to work even during a natural disaster when other businesses are closed". No it's pretty obvious why Waffle
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> The actual belief is that they are somehow more pleasant than my own home. Is it? Or is the belief something more like “there are real benefits that accrue from putting people that work together into the same physical meatspace locatio
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Sure, but it doesn’t mean it also must be the primary driver of your life or be brought into all things. “Everything is political” has to be one of the worst ideas to infect modern culture. Not because politics doesn’t touch everything on s
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> - ditch the fruit phone, get a device which is supported by LineageOS. Alternatively, you could use the parental controls built into that "fruit phone" to do all your recommended blocking without the hassle of setting up your
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Is “Settings -> iCloud -> Advanced Data Protection” really the “moral equivalent of the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the leopard”? Where else would you put it?
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Ok, but if you're going to proofread ChatGPT's output and edit it and massage it until you get something that isn't obviously the output of the LLM, how is that different from taking your buddy's homework and changing en
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Do you actually think that an LLM can take, say, a Harry Potter book as an input, and give it a grade in such a way that everybody will always agree on? No, but I also don't think a human can do that either. Subjective things are

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