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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
Taking Switch as an example, I can buy digital games at Walmart or Amazon. For instance, Amazon might have a sale where their price for a given digital game is ~10% lower than Nintendo's eShop.
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
Okay so if I understand this correctly they want Sony to compensate (Dutch) customers because Sony no longer sells digital download codes/game keys to third-parties? If they started doing that, would they still have a case? For example
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NOVC: Venture Capital Free(novc.fyi)
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
Of course, I signed many such agreements. I've also turned down a ton of "gifts" such as these. But oftentimes they are not clearly gifts or bribes. For example, inviting you or your team out for dinner and drinks can be harm
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
You've clearly never purchased enterprise software at scale before. Oracle doesn't do anything that everyone else isn't already doing. Dinners, drinks, bottles of scotch, tickets to baseball and football games, plane tickets
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
I agree with the concept but the name is terrible. "Core team" gives one the impression that this is the most important team to the project. It's not! It could be called the "governance facilitator" team or admins o
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
They could simply spend a few months and a few million tokens and get their own port, no? I doubt even 30000x faster would prompt a policy change.
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
Here we go again. AGPL is untested in courts. There is no definitive definition of what could be considered within the blast radius such that it would require AGPL licensing. There's a reason AGPL is banned at Google and most sane comp
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
This is correct, the Earth is effectively a ball of water, and would get blended/smeared/sheared like if you toss water across a yard out of a cup.
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
This matches my perception of a ton of recent Cloudflare blog posts. I literally have no idea who they are targeting. It almost feels like they're targeting themselves.
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
Your math is a bit funny if you're assuming the 1/0.5/98.5 ratios: you doubled input and output tokens but not cached. If you double cached tokens to match your original ratio it works out to around $1.11, and if you 10x the
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by xyzzy_plugh 2mo ago
His book The Cuckoo's Egg is great! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
You're free to just step through the assembly manually. You might need some paper and a pen.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Correct, it's the counterpart to SAST.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
If the resulting image contains copyrighted content, such as a snippet of photoshop's proprietary code, then it most certainly might be infringing. It's not as simple as your reductive analogy. It's for a court to decide.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
I'm referring to C4D. If you used it after Blender, then you probably used the newer C4D UI.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
You probably used the newer UI which is almost nothing like the old, pre-Blender UI. The newer UI sucks.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
No. C4D was magic and very intuitive. The UI was very good and made it easy to safely explore without causing damage. I don't remember the last time I used a software package as smooth and clean and tidy as C4D.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
I'm saying that. But they're falling further behind day by day. Gemini 3.5 Pro is allegedly months behind. If they can't keep up they're going to be left in the dust.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
I agree with you for the most part. However they have been raising a lot of cash, and to do so they took on a ton of debt. It's a totally reasonable investment as long as they are within shooting distance of the market leaders, but the
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
I think this is confusing Planetscale's primary objective: to make it incredibly easy and efficient to scale a database up and out. There's no mention of sharding whatsoever. Without that this has very little to do with Planetscal
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Give it time.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
They should not have called it a Corolla at all. It's nothing like a Corolla.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Tell me you live in the Bay Area without telling me you live in the Bay Area. Do you have a lift in your garage?
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Have you tried asking them for a copy of such a report? Or is your plan to just continue complaining until they make one public? The finding in TFA was the result of a security audit.
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
> we don't trust Tailscale. Just look at the thousands of unresolved Github issues, many of which are actually quite important/useful but have been ignored for months and years. This is a poor measure of quality. I've spen
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Somewhat off topic but every time I've experienced this sort of thing it was management's fault. If an engineer needs to pull an all nighter and hand off a pile of garbage then someone in management fucked up. If they can't s
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Prose fingerprinting is indeed worrisome, but it's a solvable problem once you are aware it exists. For example, if you contribute here anonymously, but don't contribute elsewhere, there is no corpus that can produce an accurate m
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
Why do you need one?
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by xyzzy_plugh 3mo ago
I have no idea what the wiki says but this is a wild take. It's a lie through and through, but Don is so smooth he convinced you in addition to himself. Time for a rewatch I suppose.

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