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by humanistbot 3y ago
All software and copyright licenses are ideological documents. You don't see the ideology in BSD and MIT because it is your preferred ideology.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
They don't want to comply with the GDPR or other EU laws.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Over a two year period in the US, there were over 600 cases where police officers and civilians with access to law enforcement databases violated internal policies and safeguards to access private data about "romantic partners, busines
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by humanistbot 3y ago
I'm an American and the best I could answer for that is "on the baseball field." I know it is a baseball position. Many other countries play baseball too. (Looked it up, oh I remember now, but wouldn't have been able to
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by humanistbot 3y ago
The Kia Soul and other Kia models can be hotwired in 30 seconds by popping off a plastic panel housing the ignition, inserting something with the dimensions of a USB A male plug, and turning it like a key. It is a huge trend on TikTok for t
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by humanistbot 3y ago
The pi4 is powerful enough to drive multiple 4k displays while doing face detection from a camera.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Mostly agreed, but "sitting idle most of the time" isn't quite the right metric. The question is if it can handle the peak loads. And a pi zero can run pihole and a rain gauge. I don't plan to upgrade my rpi4 running hom
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Let's get the actual numbers in this discussion: > Someone making $85,000 a year would pay an extra $170. A worker making $200,000 would see an increase of roughly $822 next year.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> But who wants to listen to a computer copy of someone else's voice? No one. I think you underestimate the cultural desire and pressure for a perfect presentation of one's self. It started out with mass marketing, where every
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Salesforce uses the same lean product development concepts that we espouse here. They test messages and products and then make R&D investment based on real customer demand. The crucial difference is being honest to your customers t
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Everything in archives pre-2021 is still untainted. All major social media, Q&A, code repos, and archive.org are timestamped. It taints future collection of training data, but not existing collection of training data.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
If you're not interested in random and creative acts of programming, I think you're on the wrong discussion site. This is for fun. It takes todays headlines and rewrites them. Like I could tell that the "The Mars State Fair S
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Can you please explain why? I care about privacy and security, and this trend seems like we're going backwards. If something needs network access, web apps make sense. But I liked offline tools better when we called them "programs
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Your reply shows that you've never had to do this yourself. It's a lot more complicated than that.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
So this is some kind of attempt to make a Drake Equation [1] for AGI? That's more useful as a thought experiment than something claimed with scientific precision. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Generally teenage parents won't have very high income, but in the UK this wouldn't be an issue. One of the primary reasons women in my family have kids young is for the financial security. Here in the UK having kids is one of
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by humanistbot 3y ago
My interpretation is that it gives a false sense of how difficult it actually is to raise a baby. First, they only had the students care for the simulated baby for five days, and 'childcare' was provided for free during their scho
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Their methodology/protocol paper for the study is open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987778/ tl;dr: Students at schools in both the control and intervention groups took the standa
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by humanistbot 3y ago
No thank you. That's not a unique benefit of the patent system, that's a minor ancillary benefit that has already been replicated elsewhere. The patent office doesn't have a patent on historical records of so-called invention
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Arlington is to DC as Oakland is to SF: they're not interchangeable, but they've become substitutable for many in the region.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> 1) I am a niche small business - how do I let people know that I exist? 2) I run a website and would like to monetize it - how can I get paid for the content that I produce? You don't have a right to violate my privacy in exchange
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by humanistbot 3y ago
As someone whose first language was BASIC, which led me down a path that eventually culminated in a CS Ph.D, I have also not been a fan of that quote. It implies that Dijkstra was a terrible educator who could only truly teach blank minds.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
What's the best open source software stack that can turn a bunch of internet-connected devices (like Pis) with audio devices into a single home audio device available via Chromecast / Miracast / DLNA?
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by humanistbot 3y ago
From sentence one of the post, it clearly states that they are VC funders who are doing this for a round of startups they just funded, and they're looking for others to be a part of it.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Won’t see that in todays media. That’s the generation I grew up in. Oh come off it. Sex still sells. Sexualized ads are still around, and they're always controversial. They were controversial in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and they&#x2
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by humanistbot 3y ago
This reads like the author has just taken their first intro to political philosophy class.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
If King Arthur actually existed in the 5th-7th century (the tales are from the 9th-12th century) you wouldn't be able to understand him at all. You probably wouldn't even be able to understand the Old English of the 12th century t
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by humanistbot 3y ago
The moment I read the headline, I was expecting to find a bunch of low-effort comments that don't engage with the article, which actually speaks directly to this issue. Congrats. Yes, all psychics can be seen as committing a kind of fr
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by humanistbot 3y ago
You cite LTL / J&J like they got away with it. It's currently being litigated in multiple courts, it could go either way: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-06-27/...
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by humanistbot 3y ago
If AI can replicate linguistic patterns in a way that is undetectable for both humans and models, then it seems even easier for a ML model to emulate a natural typing style, rhythm, and cadence in a way that is undetectable for both humans

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