ye-olde-sysrq

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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I amend my wondering to the prepend the GPL thing with "I wonder how long it will take disney et al to make it illegal to train AI with their stuff" which then opens that door to the GPL
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I wonder if the GPLv4 will be coming out soon with an anti-AI-training clause (unless your output model and its outputs are also GPLv4, of course).
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I think devs are often prone to misjudging that though. Especially when there's a power imbalance. A senior or staff engineer talking to a junior or mid-level ALWAYS needs to be cognizant of the effect your actions and words have on ot
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I know you're being glib but I assume the reason we didn't do any more Blackbirds is because normal satellite imagery got good enough that it didn't make as much sense to keep building these crazy things. Does anyone remember
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
IMO all of this is too brusque. "Hey - <problem> is causing <symptom>. I think you have context on this - can you drive <solution>?" We're people. The nuance, tone, and empathy of what we say matters. I know
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
The dose makes the poison. Do you remember when digital ocean (or someone similar) did that promotion thing for opening PRs/contributing to open source projects? It was a nightmare for maintainers because they were inundated with outri
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I've been using ubuntu server for I don't even know how long, but am going to be moving all my stuff to debian when I rebuild my hardware here soon. I should've done it a long time ago but until recently Ubuntu has been &quot
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I think a lot of it is also just a general amount of fear for (from the companys perspective) no benefit. There's a lot of fear that if the code is visible, you could be sued for its contents or it could be otherwise used against you i
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Then of course that's better! But still not good enough. If I fix a bug or desire some new functionality and implement it for myself, am I free if I cannot legally share it with my neighbors? Certainly not. Also depending on exactly ho
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I really appreciate GNU keeping their ground. We need them to keep the Overton window correctly framed. Nonfree drivers are not OK. Nonfree BIOS/EFI programs are not OK. Nonfree kernel blobs are not OK. We may use them out of necessity
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
This was my main gripe with bazel. It's the worst build tool for any individual language but the best (only?) that can do all of them. Other big complaints were: - big CPU hog - bad IDE integration (esp scala/java for intelliJ)
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
It's worth noting that since we've been in a near-zero interest rate environment for a long time, servicing $80k of debt was comparatively very easy, especially when car makers dealers were desperate to keep selling more and more
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I more view it as us recognizing that there's more to "a system" than a binary. Kubernetes is this concept taken to its conclusion (since it defines everything in code, literally everything). But docker is often a super conve
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
also fwiw, while xml is kind of not very pretty, for most dependencies, you literally google "mydependency maven", click the first link, click the version you want, then literally just copy/paste the XML into your pom.xml. Is
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I don't really believe that you can separate the language from how it's used. I blame Java when people write code that beats the crap out of the GC because Java both makes it easy (especially with streams sometimes) and also is fl
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
For sure. I do speak of Java mainly from what I've seen in the past, say, decade. Where it does seem like we've mostly learned our collective lesson there.
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
My first exposure to programming, the AP CS exam (and its accompanying course), was in java. My first hobby foray into programming (Minecraft) was Java. So, I'm heavily biased here by my familiarity. However, in the years since, I&#x27
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I agree with almost all of what you said. There's basically nobody who's made money selling VR hardware, 99% of VR games are extraordinarily primitive, motion sickness is a major barrier to making more diverse kinds of games, the
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I'm a layman but the gist afaict is: These models don't understand relationships between objects in a scene, especially between distant objects. So they can't do hands for the same reason they can't get legs on a table r
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Have we thrived, though? If we're talking about monkey brains and evolution, we need to keep in mind that all of the stuff we're talking about is even only a tiny fraction of the time that humans have been anatomically modern (300
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Sure but how many of those were ~guaranteed to only abort the pregnancy and not also kill or maim the woman? I know there's lots of things you can do to cause an abortion throughout history, but as far as I know they mostly did it by p
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
For most of the last 6000 years we've been significantly constrained by medical technology. The philosophy has little room to develop when abortions are basically impossible to safely carry out, we have essentially no visibility into w
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I don't think Disney can quite be put in the same breath. (disclaimer: shareholder, though not in any grandiose quantities) I always imagine Disney as basically 3 apparatuses: 1. A squeaky-clean princess printing machine that reliably
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I think the biggest wins from covid will just be that we did a massive 3-year WFH experiment and overall it went just fine. Great, even, if you account for the fact that it wasn't just a WFH test in isolation, it was accompanied by a g
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I think there's a lot to be said for habits swaying it but I think "biological" night-owl-ism is definitely a thing. I've always been a night owl. The most in-tune I've ever felt with my biological clock is when, on
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
"I really don't see how anyone choses nodejs/deno to anything." This is going to sound mean but I don't really know how to phrase it more nicely. People building backends in js/ts are doing so because either th
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
worth noting that 2 children is below replacement rate, so someone needs to be having 3 kids too. which is becoming increasingly uncommon especially because of how many things change between 2 and 3 kids. (Notably: 2 carseats fit in ~any
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Interesting. So it's at least possible! That's good to know.
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I really feel the author's pain. Apple is so developer-hostile that it's a wonder they have anyone developing for them at all. Maybe my bones are just too linux, but the AUDACITY of requiring that you pay money just to even get a
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Do PWAs have access to system things like being able to do background uploads and send system notifications?

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