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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> Can I just give the same permission to iTerm? Nope. We are not worthy of that power, and must re-affirm permissions every 30 days for all non-Apple software. Not sure what permission you're referring to or what your curl script is
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Why are the problems of people who don't own large houses with spare rooms they can afford to dedicate to their company for free, or living arrangements otherwise conducive to working remotely a "them" problem, but your failu
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> Humanity had no problem coordinating massive projects over IRC and mailing lists. Humanity has plenty of problems coordinating over IRC and mailing lists. That we have succeeded some of the time does not imply we would succeed all the
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
And people not wanting others to indirectly force them to subsidize their employers by devoting unpaid portions of their limited living space, utility bills and personal equipment to their work is also a "critical fight". Remote w
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> Remote work is way better than in-office work. Remote work is different than in-office. And it's better for some people and worse for others. For example, while I personally find it useful to be able to type out an example when
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
As a "half way" point, modern (21+) java brings pattern matching switch statements to the language, but you'd probably construct the F# version in Java using a sealed "marker" interface. Something like sealed
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> An image that is lossily compressed, converted to a bitstream, and encoded in DNA is very very different than the input, but if an image can be recovered that is indistinguishable or barely distinguishable from the original, I'd s
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> LLMs definitely store pretty high-fidelity representations of specific facts and procedures Specific facts and procedures are explicitly NOT protected by copyright. That's what made cloning the IBM BIOS legal. It's what makes
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Of course there is a line. And everything we know about how AI models work points to them being on the ‘wc’ side of the line
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
If it is sufficiently transformative yes it does. That’s why “information” per se is not eligible for copyright, no matter what the NFL wants you to think. No printing the entire text of a Harry Potter book in red ink is not likely to be vi
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> This is not a realistic scenario, but does seem to present the argument, that Federal law and the power to enforce it is inherently and legally superior to individual State laws? That's the current state of US law yes. That's
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
If you download GPL source code and run `wc` on its files and distribute the output of that, is that a violation of copyright and the GPL? What if you do that for every GPL program on github? What if you use python and numpy and generate a
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
And distributing an AI model trained on that text is neither distributing the work nor a modification of the work, so the GPL (or other) license terms don't apply. As it stands, the courts have found training an AI model to be a suffic
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
In light of the fact that the courts have found training an AI model to be fair use under US copyright law, it seems unlikely this condition will have any actual relevance to anyone. You're probably going to need to not publicly distri
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
One of the craziest experiences in this "post AI" world is to see how quickly a lot of people in the "information wants to be free" or "hell yes I would download a car" crowds pivoted to "stop downloading
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
I've pitched this idea before but my pie in the sky hope is to settle most of this with something like a huge rollback of copyright terms, to something like 10 or 15 years initially. You can get one doubling of that by submitting your
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> That's not legal use of the material according to most copyleft licenses. That probably doesn't matter given the current rulings that training an AI model on otherwise legally acquired material is "fair use", becaus
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> I can see why people were tempted to cut corners, especially given past tolerance… Which is one of the reasons that the pre-trump executive orders that granted leniency and amnesty at times were all terrible terrible things to do. We r
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
I did wind up replacing the USB C ports on a 4 year old computer recently because it was dodgy as hell. When i got it under the microscope it the longer bus power pin contacts (and one or two of the others) had been badly worn/squished
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
> Should we introduce stack overflow as a website you've never heard of? Yes? Obviously who you're writing for matters. I wouldn't write an article specifically targeted at and submitted to software developers and use that
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Even if “anyone who makes physical stuff” has heard of them, manufacturing jobs represent 12.8 million jobs[1] compared to 158 million non-farm jobs[2]. That’s 8% of the workforce. Let’s double that to account for people that used to work i
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Stop telling people what will or won't irritate others right off the bat. There's no better way to wrongly speak for someone else. :) More seriously, it's probably a good bet that most people haven't heard of McMaster Ca
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Replying to myself since it's too late to edit, but according to these numbers[1], it looks like this tax would hit about 52% of American households, so my "even the poorest of Americans" is a bit overwrought. And if we take
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Perhaps, but the Norway tax mentioned in the article kicks in at $174k net worth. That's a paid off house and a nearly drained 401k for even the poorest of Americans. Yes there is an exemption for part of the house, but even if it were
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
This is in part because the term "Asperger Syndrome"[1] (which has always been related to / a subtype of autism) is no longer used and is now just under the Autism label. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
I imagine that prosecutors don’t pierce the corporate veil for public companies often because “DA charges 87 year old grandmother with stake in Evil Corp in her pension fund with manslaughter, local union members brace for additional charge
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Wouldn’t you want the returns represented by your dividends to beat inflation too? Assuming you’re not investing in something for non-monetary gains, if the dividends aren’t beating inflation at least most of the time, why would you stick y
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
From that perspective, these AI tools are perfectly competent. They are programmed to take user input, run it through various LLM models and use that output to act on behalf of the user. And they are reliably doing that thing exactly as the
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
Learning to program a computer makes it clear that a computer is incompetent. How do we find out if something is in a list? Does this one match? No. Does this one match? No. Does this one match? No. And on and on. One of the biggest hurdl
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
On the other hand isn’t the driver for “enshitification” the ever present chasing of profits for the next quarter

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