ghaff

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by ghaff 6d ago
Yep. It's easy to get into the mode of tossing everything into a big box and then you can't find anything anyway. After a tire, I tossed a lot but I find I still need to organize a lot of things down to a manageable remainder wher
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by ghaff 6d ago
Heh, never saw that. But I have had clickers etc. not work and I just have had the AV staff do stuff manually on signal and joke that "this is why you have high availability." But I think some people can't do it but that migh
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by ghaff 6d ago
There are SO many reasons why Casablanca should just have been a studio film that went through multiple directors with a bunch of unplanned casting decisions forced by existing contracts. But, of course, it didn't end up that way.
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by ghaff 6d ago
<Slightest of margins As someone who lives in a northern US state, there are so many other factors that affect winter road safety that aren't a binary above/below freezing temperature at sea level. I'm not really going to
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by ghaff 7d ago
Rehearsal is definitely real. I've certainly guilty of running through presentations mentally and then cringing here and there when I actually give them because some stuff that worked in my mind doesn't really work with an audienc
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by ghaff 7d ago
You're not going to get Steve. For which I'm genuinely sorry. But, yes, Apple has made the deliberate choice to have presenters who rehearse, rehearse, and rehearse. But many are not natural actors and will never be. You can mix t
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by ghaff 7d ago
As someone who has spoken on a lot of stages, it's hard. I do sort of agree that falling back on an obviously rehearsed (over-rehearsed?) style isn't great. Jobs wasn't that way but (mostly) but he was a real talent who could
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by ghaff 7d ago
"Just shifted by 273" To be clear, I don't have strong feelings. Obviously in a lot of science/engineering fields we use Celsius degrees a lot. But we also us Kelvin absolute scale a lot which would be ridiculous for day
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by ghaff 8d ago
I fully expect the bubble is the people in tech who have strong feelings about the goodness or badness of AI one way or another.
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by ghaff 9d ago
Yes, especially in an actual commercial context (e.g. an ad on a billboard) companies are or should be very careful. I've had panicked last minute emails from organizations where some CC photo of mine was being slated to be used. I&#x2
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by ghaff 9d ago
I don't think we're disagreeing about anything. I wasn't giving a legal opinion but lawyers, especially at large firms, are a lot more conservative about some matters than I might be for a personal project. If you have deep p
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by ghaff 9d ago
There can be issues with public domain in Europe (moral rights you can't disclaim yada-yada in some non-common law countries). And, as I distantly recall, there were some issues with CC0 related to patents. MIT-0 would probably be my c
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by ghaff 10d ago
Distributing (however defined by a given license) unmodified software that is presumably widely available to customers may be a requirement but is also a profoundly uninteresting legal requirement.
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by ghaff 10d ago
One problem is that people (mostly--we'll ignore the various edge cases) know what traditional *nix-style distribution looks like. No one knows what network interactions resolve to if someone with deep pockets and/or a grudge want
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by ghaff 10d ago
How? If they don't make (and distribute) changes.
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by ghaff 10d ago
That's one of the reasons that defining NC broke down in the latest round of CC license revisions. Sure, even in the US, define NC as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. But that doesn't mean some mom-and-pop charity you agree with. It can ea
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by ghaff 10d ago
Well, there's no guarantee that there will be sufficient market in a few years for that software development to continue unless you fork it and do so (or pay to have done) yourself.
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by ghaff 10d ago
Well, the language is clear enough. What's not clear are the implications of the language. And, honestly, the sensible default for a lot of companies is just not to go there. And big companies tend not to operate on hopes and prayers t
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by ghaff 10d ago
Yes, I haven't looked at Qiskit for a while but I played with it for a bit when I was an IBM Quantum Ambassador. I don't know all the details off the top of my head but I know there has been AI integration work with OpenShift, Ans
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by ghaff 10d ago
And I'd add that there are a ton of quantum startups out there. Maybe they are all idiots. But, if you're IBM with a large research organization that's been working on some related foundational technologies for literally deca
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by ghaff 10d ago
You're basically describing open core. It's hard to get the balance right. Give too much away for free and people won't buy your full product. Give too little away and they can't really properly evaluate it.
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by ghaff 10d ago
Not really. You're supposed to attribute the original creator. And if I did make major changes/additions I'd find some way to flag that. But you don't have a Github-style change log.
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by ghaff 10d ago
I wouldn't use an NC photo on a big company stage or in a marketing campaign. But I sort of convinced myself I wasn't being directly paid for most of the presentations that I did and do, so it was OK enough. And I don't mat
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by ghaff 10d ago
I had something similar happen with a book I wrote through a publisher. I went radio silence on him. Would have required contacting my publisher and I didn't need the hassle.
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by ghaff 10d ago
I'm not sure there's a lot of fear of GPLv3 out there. Linus just didn't want to adopt it for Linux. AGPL is a different matter because companies are unsure of the boundaries between their own proprietary code and any AGPL co
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by ghaff 10d ago
I was a bit surprised to read that there was an OSI-approved license with usage restrictions and wondered if I had missed the memo. But you seem to be correct and it's not OSI-approved and therefore is not generally considered to be an
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by ghaff 10d ago
The heat around this particular issue has cooled down a bit and I'm not sure anyone is especially happy with the state of affairs. But questions around AI have sucked a lot of the oxygen from the room for now.
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by ghaff 10d ago
Yes, I think of it more in the context of photo and video integrity, but you can certainly imagine an unscrupulous individual rewriting something and changing the meaning. Of course, I doubt a license would stop that person.
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by ghaff 10d ago
I discussed NC in my other comment. But, yes, ND is arguably counter the whole remix culture that was supposedly part of the impetus for Creative Commons in the first place. I do kind of see the logic behind prohibiting, say, a remix of a v
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by ghaff 10d ago
The problem is that not even Creative Commons was able to come up with a real definition for non-commercial when they last (I think) revised the license. Essentially it means trivial uses (a photo in a grade school assignment) or its conten

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