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by tqwhite 2y ago
I do not read it that way at all. The Goldsmith decision mainly turns on the idea that an artist protections include that for derivative works. Warhol produced a work that does substantially the same things as Goldsmith's, ie, is a pic
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Fair use requires transformation. LLM is as transformative as it gets. If I'm on the jury, you're going to have to make new copyright law for me to convict. I am personally happy to have everyone, people and LLM alike, learn from
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Aren't you paying for me to use the site, too? Or Google? Isn't the point of paying for a web hosting service to distribute information?
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I could not disagree more. Those concepts, theories and all that knowledge is what makes it so powerful. I feel successful with AI because I know what to do (I’m older than you by a lot). I talk to younger people and they don’t know how to
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by tqwhite 2y ago
First, rote work is the kind I hate most and so having AI do it is a huge win. It’s also really good for finding bugs, albeit with guidance. It follows complicated logic like a boss. Maybe you are running into the problem I did early. I tol
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Using AI has changed everything for me and made my ambition swell. I despise looking up the details of frameworks and api’s, transmitting a change of strategy through a system, typing the usual stupid loops and processes that are the founda
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I'm a big fan of general search.
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Also, as an old person, I will tell you that 1) I got my first personal computer in 1979 and have been trying to keep my bon mots archived ever since. I have tried a million things and have learned one key lesson: It's not really worth
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I also prefer RTF. I have tried to live with markdown's limitations several times. I simply cannot. It is standard enough but I really, really wish static websites would support it. The fact that it won't creates a huge split in m
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Bob's had a long life with too much success. He really believes in himself. But, I have to say that the other guy was aggressive and bad even though I am more inclined to agree with him. He willfully misrepresented Bob's ideas. I
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by tqwhite 2y ago
No. It is not. Whomever brought it up was not helping.
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I think the question is whether you are disagreeing for pedantic reasons or are actually trying to contribute. If you are trying to contribute, you will use the phrase backward compatible as we always do: my old code will still run after th
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I have to add to my huge amusement at the particulars of this thread and deep appreciation for your nerdiness. As you can see from my other post here, I consider this question to be no question at all. Obviously all SQL engines should chang
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Douglas Crockford made a commitment that JSON would never, ever get better. He promised us that it would always suck. He is as good as his word. It has the small benefit that you never, ever have to worry about running into an old version o
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by tqwhite 2y ago
You are a monster. Being against trailing commas is like being against happiness or cute children or Cheetohs. You do not need to see the missing comma. That is what compilers are for. Also, literally the only reason anyone has a missing
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Please god. I don't believe in you but maybe someone else does and will think me a kindred spirit worthy of mercy. Let me have trailing commas. There is no reason not to. It's backward compatible, easy to implement and would make
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Seven Bucks Per Check!!! Cool idea. Too rich for my blood.
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I have never liked Wordpress. If it dies, that's ok with me. I just don't like it.
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by tqwhite 2y ago
The discussion here is painful to read. The 'neutral' discussion of product features and how Austin, TX is more liberal than the rest of Texas are grotesque. Zuckerberg says Facebook is going to be more "like X" and &quo
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I think people are overly interested in self-promotion in an interview situation. In sales training I did many years ago, there was the maxim that, whoever mentions price first, loses. The better way is to get the person to talk about thems
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by tqwhite 2y ago
My bona fides: I am old and have done it all. I will now tell you how it worked out. Like you, I am a person who can do pretty much anything. I had nothing but success. Jobs came to me. Then, at around 45, the company I worked for went down
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I am a huge BLuesky fan. I have switched my entire social experience to it. I get good engagement, mostly with seemingly decent people. I almost always can find interesting things to read. I have moderated the shit out of my feed. I rarely
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by tqwhite 2y ago
They are trying to avoid that. I hang around there pretty much. I expect premium services subscriptions will be the first try. If that works, and I think it could, that will be fine. The fact of it being a public benefit LLC makes the profi
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by tqwhite 2y ago
Would agree except for the part where they have not said anything concrete about their funding model. If you’re talking about venture money, it’s a public benefit LLC. The demands that can be made on them are limited by that.
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by tqwhite 2y ago
There are increasing numbers of new ways to generate feeds that suit your needs. I use the list functions to segregate people I follow into categories. There are a couple of built-in feeds that help discover new people. But, the best thing
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I’m hoping they turn into a Wikipedia sort of funding model. Avoid viewpoint discrimination and serve messages to everyone with lots and lots of composable moderation tools.
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I’m with you. Every same conversation is about judgment and self-aggrandizement rarely about discussing problems, finding solutions or appreciating opportunities. Bluesky is fine. It’s not perfect. It’s struggling to deal with demands for v
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I’m hoping that the problems caused by their effort to avoid viewpoint moderation will be overcome by their composable self-moderation idea. It is increasingly straightforward to control what you see (graze.social is a good example, along w
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by tqwhite 2y ago
This is absolutely true. Bluesky can become decentralized but it will take a fair amount of work. What BLuesky does do is keep the door open for competition. If you want, you can stand up a version of its entire system (all open source). Or
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by tqwhite 2y ago
I was in a discussion with someone and the instance just booted me out. No explanation. No appeal. I still had a handful of windows open to various conversations (I’m a slob) and could not find a single reason. I shopped around for another

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