kemitchell

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by kemitchell 4mo ago
I wish Costco were accessible to basically everyone. Among some poorer people I've got to know in the SF Bay Area, having the card and confidence in the means to use it are a mark of the middle class, an aspirational thing. Membership
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by kemitchell 6mo ago
> > Access is not conditioned on approval I practice law in California. I've written terms of service that many, many people here on HN will have agreed to. I read this line and didn't know what it meant, or what it intended
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by kemitchell 6mo ago
> The first proposal I worked on was Promise.allSettled, which was fulfilling. Har har.
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by kemitchell 6mo ago
Not Invented Here's long, slow mutagenic march toward full antibiotic resistance continues apace. There is a fundamental corpo-cognitive dissonance, to boot. If "AI" is cheap enough and good enough to implement security-relev
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by kemitchell 7mo ago
States do have rules against business entity names that mislead about regulated professions. California, for example, prohibits names that suggest an entity is a "professional corporation", a particular type of entity limited to r
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by kemitchell 8mo ago
Sadly, I fully expect to see the cover price of The Economist reach twice the federal minimum wage. If the Fed goes back to cutting rates, it could be soon.
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
You may find this interesting: https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/orgoverview/languages
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
What's difficult really depends on the languages you already know. In addition to noun inflection, verb aspect, pronunciation stress, and punctuation trouble many native English speakers. That's in addition to all the simple irre
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
CRS is really underappreciated. Seeing you link that report here made me happy.
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
See https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up#b... MongoDB invested sufficient resources in drafting an update to the AGPL. That license is called the Server Side Public License. Controversy
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
My point of view is clear, but what I see is complex. Things seemed simpler back when I believed what Slashdot told me, before I'd spent twenty years getting involved and looking closer. If you're looking for a seer with a salvat
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
Watching what we charitably call this debate flare up yet again gives me an odd mix of feelings. On the one hand, seeing people I've read and listened to for years heave time, attention, and more typing onto this tire fire evokes deep
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by kemitchell 9mo ago
I've known more than a few people who likely saw Outlook, Word, or Excel open every day straight for a year. It is a bit smug. Like The Matrix rebranding itself "24/7".
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by kemitchell 11mo ago
In my experience, most people underestimate what's negotiable across the board . Especially those making enough to do most of their business with mass-market operations, like big-box stores and retail service providers, that profit b
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by kemitchell 11mo ago
Copyright under US law does not require "artistic expression". One of the requirements is called "creativity", but it's very easy to meet. The key phrase is literally "some minimal degree of creativity". T
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by kemitchell 11mo ago
Good question. They have a new Juki machine to sew these on directly, but I can't tell whether it will be practical to sew on by hand. I expect most tailor and seamstress shops won't be taking our loans to buy machines just to sew
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by kemitchell 1y ago
You've given the argument from fallacy, dismissing an argument without any reference to its content, but only to its conclusion. The existence of bad arguments for a proposition doesn't condemn all other arguments for the same. Th
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by kemitchell 1y ago
Art versus engineering is a very dangerous generalization of the law. There is a creativity requirement for copyrightability, but it's an explicitly low bar. Search query "minimal degree of creativity". The Supreme Court deci
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by kemitchell 1y ago
npm got around to `@{author}/{package}` and `@{org}/{package}` beyond just global `{package}`, albeit midstream, rather than very early on. The jargon is "scoped packages". I've seen more adoption recently, also wit
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by kemitchell 1y ago
Refuted?
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by kemitchell 1y ago
I shell out to POSIX `date` on Linux and I believe also on Windows: - trigger: ";tod" replace: "{{mydate}}" vars: - name: mydate type: shell params: cmd: date --iso-8601
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by kemitchell 1y ago
Court Listener has the opinion here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.53...
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I encourage you to read the opinion. There was nothing to nail down here. The Copyright Office rejected the registration. The Review Board affirmed. The trial court affirmed. Three appeals court judges affirmed. No dissenting opinion.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I have seen `git blame` used to blame specific people. I've seen it work. Some of those people deserved some blame. The manpage explains what the command does. How and why it's used is up to the user.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
The current Reuters headline is "US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator". That's still kind of clickbaity, but far more accurate and correct than the link I see here on HN.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Кнопки (k-nope-key) is Russian for "buttons". Maybe related.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I would love to see HN adopt a policy of replacing links to news pieces about court opinions that don't link them with links to better news pieces that do.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
> In thinking about our own law, most people would acknowledge the existence of literary and rhetorical features but these are generally considered irrelevant to the true work of law, and in many cases are judged to conflict with that wo
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by kemitchell 2y ago
No well-known permissive open software license includes any promise to do future development, much less to make it available under the same license terms. A key draw of permissive licensing is that anyone can fork and put new work under
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by kemitchell 2y ago
> It's a bit surprising to see the former used by an American author in an American publication, however. Strange things happen to American writers who read lots of Russian novels translated by Brits.

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