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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
"Microsoft's GitHub is hosting the leaked source code (which probably got sucked into Copilot and every other AI under the sun as a result)." "However, I don't think copyright lawyers will care. «They're also
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
The article mentions this: "In January 2006, concerns grew about contributors having access to leaked Windows source code and possibly using this leaked source code in their contributions. In response, Steven Edwards strengthened the
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
"And in the case of ReactOS, the secondary «whole system» goal is also irrelevant now because dozens of modern Linux distributions provide a better desktop experience than Windows 2000. Hell, Haiku is a better desktop experience.&quot
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
"Assuming a ReactOS developer used Microsoft / Github Copilot to work on this codebase" No need to assume. It's a certainty: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/8516 "if Micros
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
Past certain level, it seemingly was cutting edge stuff, and has been mentioned as such in comics like this: https://xkcd.com/619/
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
Well, it's not Claude, it's GitHub Copilot (which happens to be owned by none other than... guess who): https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/8516 But, if any such model got fed with leaked code,
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
"it probably scrapped the multiple git repository of Windows leaked source code. In which case it would ABSOLUTELY undermine the project's ability to say it's a clean room implementation" If an LLM model has been fed l
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
"ReactOS should be seen as something more like GNU Hurd. An exercise in kernel development and reverse engineering, a project that clearly requires a high level of technical skill, but long past the window of opportunity for actual ad
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
Besides what you said, it is also in landlords' interest to maintain (but admittedly with as little cost/involvement as possible) the perception that the real estate goods they're renting are (quality wise) reasonable options
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by userulluipeste 9mo ago
What often happens next is, another party comes up in the middle to manage the interaction between both of you (with the proper bump in the ask price), because there's not only so many decision makers looking for neat presentations and
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by userulluipeste 10mo ago
"It is just about hiding the reality creating vague feeling that people can control things. Even if they cant." Still, people have agency. If one doesn't see it like that in relation to their material stance then there must
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by userulluipeste 10mo ago
I wonder if anyone will include the "prompt engineer" in their CV/Resume. Otherwise, if one of the future employers decides to crosscheck a title that's anything different than what your current employer wants to call yo
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by userulluipeste 11mo ago
Becoming an entrepreneur happens most of the times merely for advancing one's personal financial success. But, another side of it, which doesn't usually get attention, is that you become a beneficial factor for the society at larg
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by userulluipeste 11mo ago
"But if they hadn't, I would have a place to sleep and eat." Forgive me for asking, but (if it's acceptable to reduce it to that) isn't joining the army or something gets one covered? The army service would come w
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by userulluipeste 11mo ago
EU countries also have very high tax rates, which feels like the community is the primary beneficiary of your business, not you the entrepreneur. This alone severely reduces the financial incentive of starting a business. There's also
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by userulluipeste 11mo ago
It is also that, at 12 years of age, that kid may have had enough of harsh life lessons already, like when he was promised something instead of being rewarded on the spot and later it turned out he was just being tricked. I imagine that som
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by userulluipeste 11mo ago
I'd love to share your expressed hope of billionaires' beneficial impact on society, but alas, the behavior that I see in nowadays' crop leaves much to be desired. To be a bit more clear, I don't necessarily see the ince
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by userulluipeste 1y ago
"I'd really like to see examinations of why feudalism seems to be the both the most efficient and most stable social structure in history." It's the game theory playing on individuals' personal interests. The feud
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by userulluipeste 1y ago
If the underlying stored heat leaks to the surface then it may indeed melt the snow and you'll have "snow-free" parking, but that won't be the end of the story, as all that resulted water will most likely turn your parki
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by userulluipeste 1y ago
"We work to extend terrestrial networking into solar system space..." Minor nitpick: it's the Solar System - i.e. capitalized (since it's a proper name). The Solar System is the planetary system that we reside in, the
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by userulluipeste 1y ago
Cyril and Methodius were in fact Greek Christians, baptized as Constantine and Michael. They only later adopted monk names that they are ultimately remembered as. Now, considering that the Byzantines (or "Eastern Romans") were in
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by userulluipeste 1y ago
It has everything to do with the available means that we have, for now. For the record though, we haven't yet been able to spot planets in other galaxies, just in our own Milky Way. The spotted ones just happened to be there when we
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by userulluipeste 2y ago
«I have seen people without a pot to piss in, treat others -even complete strangers- with respect, love, caring, and patience, and folks with a lot of money, treat others most barbarously; especially when they consider those "others,&
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by userulluipeste 2y ago
"Sergiu exuberantly offers up shot glasses of mulberry vodka, pine-needle vodka, strawberry vodka, “medicine” vodka, “78 per cent proof” vodka" Although Moldova has vodka-drinking Slavs in it, the beverages described are not vod
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by userulluipeste 2y ago
Well, you see, it's for the cases where not every car is going as fast as they are allowed.
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by userulluipeste 2y ago
Latitude-wise, Torres de Paine is comparable to northern Belgium than it is to Norway. Even Ushoaia, the southernmost major city in Americas, looks more like Belfast in the UK, or Gdansk in Poland, which are both into way more nicer climate
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by userulluipeste 2y ago
"A few hundred years will be indistinguishable from a single human lifetime to those future geologists." On what do you base this claim? Before humans, not much happened around and the sediment layers were thin. The amount of en
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by userulluipeste 2y ago
"At the current level of O2 in the air I don't believe that flying insects can grow as large as even a hummingbird" This got me curious. At a quick search, I found out that there in fact is at least a species of flying inse
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
"One of other the victims later testified that his investment account felt «one or two million light»" You left the best part out: "...but could not trace the money and decided he was mistaken." JFC!
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
But... if the price goes up, isn't this going to attract people to that domain of skills? For skills to vanish, there has to be more factors at play, like restrictions to dissemination of knowledge, no?

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