davidron

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by davidron 11d ago
I believe you are responding to somebody commenting on the legal restrictions rather than the technical ones. It appears that you may have hallucinated the word "technical" in your response.
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by davidron 1mo ago
I have a gemini gem that recompresses the expansion that AI causes. It seems to have worked great on this article! https://share.gemini.google/WxEi6Satj7mY Happy to share the gem with anybody who's interested in readin
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by davidron 4mo ago
So true. I think you missed flash. And arguably, to the author's point, JavaScript in browser (not wasm).
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by davidron 5mo ago
Totally. Remember slashdot in the 1990s used to house a dynamic page on a handful of servers with horsepower dwarfed by a Nintendo Switch that had a user base capable of bringing major properties down.
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by davidron 5mo ago
I work at a 20-year-old mid-sized SaaS company. As long as the company has been around, product managers have longed for more engineers and strategies for engineers to ship features faster. As of around February, those same product managers
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by davidron 6mo ago
It's perfectly legal to train a human on copyrighted work and I think, depending on the country, it's not settled that training ai on the same data is illegal.
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by davidron 7mo ago
American here. My experience is that the US dollar seems to be accepted in tons of stores in countries all over in the Americas Europe and Asia. Trade is trade it seems.
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by davidron 7mo ago
As a regular human who plays games and doesn't know about chip architectures, one woud probably lump the wii and the switch closer together than the game cube based on the modes in which one can interact with the systems. Wii is a game
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by davidron 10mo ago
The bottleneck of most applications is acquiring enough users to hit a technical bottleneck.
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by davidron 1y ago
Or non native English speaker who pronounces "may" the same as "might" and didn't realize the difference? It is maybe not coincidental that "may" and "might" mean nearly the same thing which bols
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by davidron 1y ago
For those that haven't read the article yet, scroll down to the flame graph and start reading unit it starts talking about back porting the fix. Then stop.
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by davidron 1y ago
Isn't there a carve out in copyright law for fair use related to educational use?
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by davidron 1y ago
I bet Microsoft would do something similar. If Microsoft entered an agreement with another company, Apple for instance, to build a version of word for the Mac, a fork, and part of the license has a requirement to attribute in the help file
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by davidron 2y ago
Handspring Trio had a web browser by (before?) 2003 with a touchscreen. I loved mine!
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by davidron 2y ago
This is EXACTLY what I remember people saying about Cell Phones and PDAs when they were popular in the 90s (people can't remember phone numbers any more), Google when it was first unleashed (people won't know how to use card catal
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by davidron 2y ago
The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associated with id_8z6748dxzh and combine it with your shopping histo
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by davidron 2y ago
... If incentives were properly aligned to make this the correct strategy, then this is probably what McDonald's would do. Unfortunately not. https://www.today.com/food/trends/why-is-mcdonalds-ice-cream...
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by davidron 3y ago
Education is a patch. It's very hard to install though.
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by davidron 3y ago
You monster.
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by davidron 7y ago
For those that remember Google Notebook, this is also what Evernote did 10 years ago. It's why I've been using Evernote for 10 years and why I'll never use Google Keep. https://www.cnet.com/news/evernotes
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by davidron 10y ago
The composition of the result of the original hash function and the result of that validation function can be taken together to be some larger function. Call that an uberhash. Such an uberhash is created by putting some number of bits in a
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by davidron 10y ago
I've had an Orbi for some time now. What sold me was that it doesn't actually create a mesh network. Instead, it sets up a 1.7 gigabit wireless backhaul connection completely separate from the frequencies used by the client device
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by davidron 10y ago
>If that's true why do I see so many developers using Macs? There are lots of developers who use Apple hardware with linux. Even Linus (at least as of 2012)! http://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus
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by davidron 10y ago
So long as one executor is executing the recipe/procedure/etc it makes sense to simplify directions to make them appear synchronous. When I turn my computer on and wait for it to start, I don't literally freeze up and stop b
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by davidron 10y ago
Syncthing doesn't reconcile differences. Instead a copy of the file is created. Syncthing does recognize conflicts. When a file has been modified on two devices simultaneously, one of the files will be renamed to <filename>.
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by davidron 10y ago
Did Google? Google is very much a polyglot orginization. https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-languages-does-Googl... As for Android, Google Purchased Android Inc in 2005, and I'm pretty sure the decision to use Ja
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by davidron 10y ago
... And much of the rest of the code written these days: https://github.com/blog/2047-language-trends-on-github If we're talking about the JVM, we must also include Clojure, Scala, Groovy, and any other JVM langua
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by davidron 10y ago
This article is basically a corollary of the Robustness Principal, "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". In this case we're accepting certain dependencies from others and we SHOULD be li
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by davidron 10y ago
The whole postmortem focuses on a regular expression bug and how that bug was fixes and completely ignores the fact that if the home page becomes unavailable, the load balancer logic will shut down the entire site.