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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
If I spend little more than a second framing a picture with my camera, which is less than the time and effort that it would take me to type in a prompt for an AI, does that mean I haven't put in enough effort to have a copyright for my
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
I patched a Python Paramiko method to log all data immediately when it came over the wire for an automation library that ran a lot of our automated testing. It's hard to overstate how helpful this was when data seem to be missing. On
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
If the original artist/content creators retain the copyright for their images, how does Getty have the legal ability to accuse someone of intellectual property theft when they (Getty) do not own the intellectual property themselves but
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
They may not be in the majority, but there are some dissenting opinions within academia. https://www.centuries.co.uk/
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
Here's a better, more researched take that shows that the perceived advantage is more misunderstandings and misplaced media hype than an advantage. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ckrpVT5jS5Q
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
I've come to learn that homeschooling is illegal in some European countries. That may be a big reason why. E.g. Germany https://amp.dw.com/en/european-court-rules-against-german-ho...
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
China and India cannot make up for the loss of the European markets, at least not for many years to come. The gas and oil pipelines can't be moved to pipe the other way. Technological independence is easy to say and incredibly hard to
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by wisemanwillhear 4y ago
> A drawn out conflict favors Russia... There's a strong argument that "the West" is supporting Ukraine to such an extent that Russia is at the disadvantage in the long game. The Price of War - Can Russia Afford a Long Con
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
I keep an install of jEdit just for the HyperSearch feature. The feature that got me hooked on jEdit many years ago was the ability to define custom syntax highlighting for our custom mini-languages with powerful directives that other highl
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
> Walmart is getting better, but still way behind on the web front. They'll show you things in stock, then tell you it's out of stock upon checkout. Go back to product page, shows in stock again. 2 weeks ago I added a Logitech
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
> The United States' belief that its laws apply to everyone in the world is one of the most insidious ideas of our modern world. That's not a modern thing. Countries with power use that power to get what they want, whether thro
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
I can't disagree with that. We must all make wise decisions with endless competing "priorities" and limited time. As someone who is on the other side and believes in the value of continuously growing one's skills, I wan
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
While Git is not without it's complexities, but as a developer who must use it with teams anyways, I find there are very simple workflows with almost no cognitive load that I'm able to use for my personal projects. Not only does
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
> Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades. When Coca-Cola runs a polar bear ad at Christmastime they don't do it to increase sales of Coke that week, nor should it be measured that way. Curiou
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
I grew up on a Color Computer 2 (Coco 2) (Exact same specs as the Coco 1 but reduced number of chips, making it cheaper I understand). Learning to program on it as early as 7 years old got me hooked on software development. Later someone
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
A pointer I've learned when dealing with suspended cards that I want to keep is to take the time to come up with a mnemonic and add it to the answer, even if it's a little hokey. It took me a little practice to get the hang of co
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
Depending on how you setup networking for a docker container, you may see a notable network performance hit. Also, I've seen frustrating issues with the default docker bridge network that didn't play well with other services on o
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by wisemanwillhear 5y ago
I've always thought this statement from Martin Fowler was right on target. > Boiled down this means that if the business process you are supporting is part of your competitive advantage you should build custom software, if not you s
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
> The “science” that politicians have claimed to follow rarely resembles the centuries-old process of making informed guesses, testing hypotheses, assembling data, and asking new questions in an effort to teeter toward the truth. Speakin
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
I was in an organization of 50-100 engineers and we tried several similar systems, but they turned out to be little more than "FAQs" where half the questions were "fake" questions that were preemptively "asked"
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
> But there is something else entirely that’s keeping you inside Facebook and Twitter like a crackhead inside a drugstore – immediate feedback. Sadly, this same thing, is also the reason you abandon your long-term projects. Perhaps it&#x
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
> A code audit carried out by FTI Consulting was said to have revealed no causes for concern, with DJI posting the exec summary (but not the full audit) on its website as a PDF. It had access to 20 million lines of source code, according
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
> If I remember correctly, I think their agreements already forbid retails from adding the fee on top of the retail price. That's what I thought, but someone posted something recently which may indicate that this is no longer true.
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
Interesting to hear another story of someone finding space in a crowded market segment. > I was working for a company a couple of years ago and we needed a tool to do retrospectives and the existing solutions we found were not designed w
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
Perhaps this is just to drive up the price lest a competitor get a profitable, cash generating business for cheap.
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
Curious, has the President really tried that hard? I can't imagine that he would fail if he made a clean break from Twitter when switching. Love him or hate him, he in a position to command endless press through whichever platform he
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
I struggle with some of the points here, but one thing is for certain. Any business app that does not support both Android and IOS is unlikely to gain strong market share as Android and IOS together have a duopoly. The point that IOS do
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
Didn't the feds hack a lot of Tor exit nodes some years back? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/law-e... What's to stop them from doing that today or simply running their own?
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
I'm often struck with how poorly though through most decisions tend to be. Even detail oriented tech people can be rash and short sighted. Perhaps he was a lone hacker whose surprise success was like money burning a hole in his pocket.
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by wisemanwillhear 6y ago
> Eventually the costs become too great to ignore, and companies must upgrade their systems. But that is the moment of maximum danger, for the new software must do everything that the half-understood old one does, and more. It is, to rep

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