greiskul

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by greiskul 1mo ago
Copyright is not a natural right. So in your ancap ideal, producers are not getting anything, why would I sign a contract with them if I can just copy it?
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by greiskul 3mo ago
Yup, some of my first contributions when I was a teenager, was to an open source project where I was able to find a couple of bugs, and implement a hacky solution that I shared with the team on the forum. My code was absolutely awful, but b
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by greiskul 3mo ago
Thats the thing with giant PRs. They never really needed to be reviewed anyway. In cultures with strong review culture I have worked at, if you send me a thousand line PR and ask me to review it, I will look at the giant blob of text, and i
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by greiskul 3mo ago
> the person who said this has the coding skills of a Claude Opus 4.5 or whenever the frontier was when they flipped It's not about just skill. It's a matter of skill, time, and how critical the software you are writing is. The
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by greiskul 3mo ago
Yup. If you are bilingual, you quickly realize how some translations are very bad. How some translations are very good. And how hard it is to translate. With dry, simple text, it might be easy. But when it involves art? Some jokes don'
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by greiskul 3mo ago
It is possible it is just time. Modern humans are considered to have existed for 300k~ years. Civilizations are about 6k years old. So who knows. Maybe if you gave them an extra 10k years, they would have achived "civilization". I
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by greiskul 4mo ago
Or maybe 100 years from now, your toaster will be powerful enough to run the game. To me this is about both preserving the access to what consumers purchased, but also future preservation of art. Copyright is not a natural right. It is a mo
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by greiskul 4mo ago
From all their desperation in making sure api keys are not used in contexts where they are not supposed to, I would say that they actually appear to have services where their profit is negative, if a customer is actually using their api to
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by greiskul 4mo ago
Commentary and criticism are by law protected as fair use. Why would revenue share be done "ideally"? News reporting is also covered under fair use, do you expect news organizations to pay for reporting on movies? Ideally fair use
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by greiskul 4mo ago
Can't answer for others, but I look at this law from the viewpoint of foreign workers, cause I am a foreigner worker. In Canada. Decided to absolutely never immigrate to the US due to the US blatant rise in xenophobia. And the US has p
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by greiskul 4mo ago
And even if you do end up writing an unsafe block, that should be a massive flag that the code in said block should deserve extra comments on why it is safe, and extra unit tests on verifying that it does not blow up. How do you know the un
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by greiskul 4mo ago
> you can never have too many sources of entropy This is so true. And the beauty is that with algorithms, we don't even need to know much about the entropy to be able to extract it. There is the Von Neumann method of generating an u
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by greiskul 6mo ago
As someone once said it best, Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
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by greiskul 6mo ago
And the people attacked in the weird scene are people that tended to just be dissappeared by police. Gay men. Prostitutes.
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by greiskul 6mo ago
The leg is used both as a urban legend that was told at the region at the time, but also as a metaphor. The surrealist scene where it shows the leg brutally attacking people at night: all the people attacked are prostitutes, gays, etc. Peop
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by greiskul 6mo ago
Absolutely. For more progressive democrat voters already been harbouring bad feelings around the legitimacy of the establishment candidate from previous elections. The two party system already loses a ton of the feeling of choice and partic
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by greiskul 7mo ago
> whether thinking requires exceeding the Turing computable I've never seen any evidence that thinking requires such a thing. And honestly I think theoretical computational classes are irrelevant to analysing what AI can or cannot d
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by greiskul 7mo ago
Does JSON have support for protocol versioning?
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by greiskul 7mo ago
This used to be true, but now I don't think it is anymore. Modern frameworks and modern screen readers have no issue with acessibility. Some survey from WebAIM found that 99.3% of screen reader users have JavaScript enabled. So... are
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by greiskul 8mo ago
But is Google buying those GPU chips for their own use, or to have them on their data centers for their cloud customers?
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by greiskul 8mo ago
It's not about power users. It's about regular users and the patterns they have learned. The mobile ecosystem was built in a way to funnel all users into apps. That's the experience that is optimized for use, that's the
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by greiskul 8mo ago
Are there links to samples of the games? Couldn't find it in the github repo, but also might just not know where they are.
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by greiskul 8mo ago
Just brainstorming. Human beings have trouble writing json, cause it is too annoying. Too strict. In my experience, for humans writing typescript is a lot better than writing json directly, even when the file is just a json object. It allow
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by greiskul 8mo ago
In Ruby, I assume this is done by monkey patching, so yes, it would have all the issues you mention and fear. In more modern languages like Kotlin, there is a notion of extension methods and properties, where you would be able to write a li
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by greiskul 9mo ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=safari+is+the+new+ie Just read the summary that Gemini provides for a good quick understanding, and follow up the multiple articles about it. Then please don't come back and say that the
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by greiskul 9mo ago
It is literally done for strategic reasons to put a stranglehold on innovations on the web, so that there is no risk of web app technology developing to a point to threaten the dominance of native apps and the app store. Anybody that thinks
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by greiskul 9mo ago
So when a review channel goes and does lengthy and honest reviews of multiple brands of hardware, a consumer uses this resources to figure out what exactly they want to buy, clicks on the reviewers affiliate link to purchase, oh, thank good
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by greiskul 10mo ago
The @ operator of php. In languages like Java, to silently catch all exceptions and do nothing with them requires at least some boiler plate. PHP has an operator for something you should never do in a sane codebase. You know that python wan
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by greiskul 11mo ago
The reason Microsoft held the web back is because it saw it has a potential threat to it's dominance as the main platform for applications. And if you are actually concerned about the future of the web, instead of it's past, I wou
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by greiskul 11mo ago
And it's also kind of hard to restrict shoplifting, people can just take products and hide it in their clothes. Doesn't mean that as a society we can't do anything, we can make it clear through regulation what is legal or not

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