wareya

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by wareya 7mo ago
It's worrying, but it's consistent with how copyright law is currently written. Laws haven't caught up with what technology is currently capable of yet. The discussion should be whether, and if so how, our laws should be twea
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by wareya 7mo ago
> I don't believe this, and I doubt that the sense of copying in copyright law is so literal. It is actually that literal, really. > For instance, if I generated the exact text of a novel by looking for hash collisions, This is a
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by wareya 7mo ago
It sounds to me like you're responding to a different argument than they're actually making and reading intent into it that isn't written into it.
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by wareya 7mo ago
That's the "but their case would still fail if the second author could show that their work was independent, no matter how improbable" part of the post you're responding to.
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by wareya 7mo ago
This actually isn't what legal precedent currently says. The precedent is currently looking at actual output, not models being tainted. If you think this is morally wrong, look into getting the laws changed (serious).
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by wareya 7mo ago
> If you had a hermetically sealed code base that just happened to coincide line for line with the codebase for GCC, it would still be a copy. If you somehow actually randomly produce the same code without a reference, it's not a co
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by wareya 9y ago
Creole is a scientific term, not a casual one. Creoles evolve from pidgins. English was never a pidgin, and it has a very clear history. No useful interpretation of the word "creole", formally defined or not, is broad enough to ac
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by wareya 10y ago
By "continuous physics", it doesn't mean the "objects don't go through walls" thing (that's easy), it means that it actually finds the times that interactions happen. Box2d isn't able to use that in a
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by wareya 10y ago
I covered integration error in my first post here, point 3. The thing I was calling Box2D out for is the fact that it doesn't use a hacky way of rectifying collisions. It seeks out the point in time that they occur. >It does not gua
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by wareya 10y ago
>I don't know why you keep saying this. Because it's true. The same operation on the same data may give different results on different CPUs, even if you're operating at the machine code level (no implementation-specific op
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by wareya 10y ago
Online games avoid that problem by having an authoritative networking architecture, not by avoiding minor deviations in CPU behavior between players. Games that use synchronized lockstep that use floating point math always desync, because f
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by wareya 10y ago
First, even at a constant framerate, different players will have different experiences with the game due to different amounts of latency in their peripherals, weird CPU bugs, very very minor floating point behavior deviations, etc. The impo
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by wareya 12y ago
The whole point of robots.txt is that there are pages which people may hit that bots can't. What are you on?
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by wareya 12y ago
Robots.txt is different. Without it, bots have no way of knowing whether to get any other data from the site. You would need "bots allowed" information in the HTTP handshake itself to prevent bots from accidentally hitting pages