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by wat10000 6mo ago
The best interview questions spawn discussions. This is a pretty good one for that. We could dive into what makes it UB, why a particular compiler might do it a certain way, what results we'd likely see from other compilers, and why th
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by wat10000 6mo ago
What can I say but: people continue to baffle me. Edit: actually I do have one other thing to say. It's quite a coincidence that the conditions you laid out happen to be those that were met in the US right about the time that book came
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by wat10000 6mo ago
You're ignoring costs. If your microwave costs $100, then you're saying it's often ten cents to fix it. It is entirely possible that the bad component costs ten cents. But the cost of the repair is only ten cents if your time
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Who determines what's "sufficiently democratic"? Do most moral philosophers really believe that being one vote out of many thousands to choose one representative to send to a legislative body of dozens is sufficiently democra
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by wat10000 6mo ago
You can analyze it much like you'd analyze a password. If you construct a password from four words taken from a list of 1024 words, that's 40 bits of entropy. On average, a brute force attacker would have to try 2^39 (half the pos
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I didn't say you said cheating is fine. But you are defending it by minimizing its consequences. No, I don't see any moral value in following the law. Following the law can be and often is morally good by coincidence because the
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Orca is a fork of Bambu Studio anyway so it's just merging something across forks. It's not like he put it into some unrelated piece of software. Again, abuse is different from violation. I agree that they're not violating th
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by wat10000 6mo ago
> it's immoral to disobey any law or regulation passed by a democratically elected government if these is no other conflicting moral principle. I have to say, this is not the sort of attitude I expected to find on this site. Especia
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I guess this really comes down to differences in morality. I think cheating is pretty serious. It qualifies as self-harm, and it harms your classmates by devaluing their eventual degree. Jaywalking and minor speeding are not even immoral
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by wat10000 6mo ago
It's not a mistake if they do it routinely. I could buy the argument if the friend had a moment of weakness, regretted it, won't do it again, and please don't report it. They've learned their lesson, that's enough.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I'm quite confident that people admitted to institutions for suicidal thoughts are much more prone to suicide. But it doesn't actually matter to my point. It's a very reasonable hypothesis, true or not. It needs to be address
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The "spoof" as you call it is literally just using their unmodified code. You make it sound like he went in and deliberately changed it so that it would connect. He did not. That part of the code was left unchanged from Bambu&#x27
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The AGPL does not just say he has to have access to the modified software. It also says he has to be granted permission to redistribute it, or derived works, under the same terms. He redistributed a derived work under the same terms and got
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Why would I write a parser that almost-but-not-quite matches the compiler's own parser, when I could just use the compiler's parser directly? I don't want to write a parser, and I especially don't want to debug weird cor
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by wat10000 6mo ago
"Abusing" is not synonymous with "violating." If we sign a contract that says you're allowed to park in my driveway in exchange for $10, then I threaten to sue you for parking in my driveway, technically I'm no
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by wat10000 6mo ago
"飞机" and "airplane" aren't fundamentally different in terms of how they're represented to a computer. Especially for an LLM, where tokenization likely turns each of those into a single token.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I disagree. They’re redistributing software under the AGPL while trying to prevent others from using the same freedoms they’ve been granted by the license.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Are they accounting for the fact that people who are admitted with suicidal thoughts will tend to be those much more prone to suicide in the first place? It seems obvious, but it doesn't sound like they are. People who come home from t
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by wat10000 6mo ago
An 11% drop isn't "something works for somebody," it's "it works for a lot of people, substantially more people than it harms, making for a clear net gain." In individual with odd habits is a completely differe
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Virginia cities are independent, not within counties. And there's both a Fairfax City and Fairfax County. Making things even more confusing, the county seat is Fairfax City despite the city not being part of the county. The county has
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by wat10000 6mo ago
They threatened legal action against the author of a fork of their AGPL'd software merely for distributing said fork.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Wat. Almost all Americans either pay someone to deal with their waste or are dependents of someone who pays on their behalf. Do you think we're all burning our trash in barrels or dumping it in the local river or something?
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by wat10000 6mo ago
If repairing usually cost 0.1% then everyone would do it. The reason almost nobody in first-world countries is getting their microwave repaired is because it often costs more than buying a new one. This is because the new unit is manufactur
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by wat10000 6mo ago
There was more than one court involved. He was convicted. Then he appealed and the appeals court vacated the conviction. So from one perspective, "the law" as a whole decided that he wasn't guilty. From another perspective, h
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Life got easier once I realized that being contrarian meant you were just as much controlled by other people as being conformist.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
weev got convicted for something pretty similar to this. His conviction was vacated, but he did spend time in prison for unauthorized access to an AT&T server that only required a specific user agent and a guessable numeric device ID nu
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by wat10000 6mo ago
And it only shifts civil liability. The officer is still (according to the law if not actual practice) criminally culpable for illegal acts they perform.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
My point is that qualified immunity is not the problem. In your example, the cop should be prosecuted. Qualified immunity doesn't cover criminal prosecution, and a lack of prosecution has nothing to do with qualified immunity. Being ab
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Normal people are prosecuted for theft when they steal things like that. Qualified immunity doesn't cover that. This officer probably won't be prosecuted, but it's nothing to do with qualified immunity.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
"People are clearly not going to stop drinking and driving" is such a strange statement to make in defense of DUI stops. Doesn't that imply that DUI stops don't help matters? At any rate, the solution is to fire all of t

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