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by kod 1y ago
The "one module should be written by only one person" dogma is kind of interesting. But I got to the "my wrapper around SDL supports multiple simultaneous mouse inputs, even though no operating system does" and noped out
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by kod 1y ago
> Not sure how cloudflare keeps struggling with issues like these Cloudflare has a reasonable culture around incident response, but it doesn't incentivize proactive prevention.
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by kod 1y ago
Facts aren't copyrightable. Expression is. LLMs reproduce expression from the works they were trained on. The way they are being trained involves making an unlicensed reproduction of works. Both of those are pretty straightforwardly
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by kod 1y ago
So toyota made more in net income last quarter alone than nintendo has in net cash, but they're less successful? Seems like a really weird metric.
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by kod 1y ago
> Nintendo is Japans most successful company and Sony isn't even in the top 300 by what bizarro metric is Nintendo more successful than Toyota? debt to equity ratio is all you care about?
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by kod 1y ago
I get where you're coming from, but describing the fastest production FWD car as the "closest thing" is really funny
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by kod 1y ago
harrison ford certainly does edit - also, I wasn't making a binary claim, the person I was responding to was: "no law". There are more than zero laws relevant to this situation. I agree with you that how relevant is context
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by kod 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_Stat...
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by kod 1y ago
to be fair, "thunk" is decades old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk
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by kod 1y ago
Besides flooding them with junk, what about outright sabotage in the form of serving zip bombs or other ways to waste computational resources?
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by kod 1y ago
> So long as the resulting model does not contain copies, it is not infringement That's not true. The article specifically deals with training by scraping sites. That does necessarily involve producing a copy from the server to the
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by kod 2y ago
> your game must be good looking to sell copies Nah, vampire survivors and balatro look like crap by modern standards, yet are breakout hits.
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by kod 2y ago
Kafka wrote a lot, and destroyed most of what he wrote. Seems like a good name for a high-volume distributed log that deletes based on retention, not after consumption.
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by kod 2y ago
If it's a fundamental probability thing with randomized partition selection, put the actual probability of what you're describing in the article. .25^20 is not a "somewhat unlucky sequence of events"
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by kod 2y ago
But always protecting the maintainers' best interests over those of users or new contributors ultimately leads to the death of the project. There's a fairly good chance the reason someone wrote that 10k line PR is because they act
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by kod 2y ago
> But there is no correlation whatsoever between writing on a typewriter or using a fountain pen (or the physical experience of writing generally) and the quality of the writing I heard neal stephenson say that he writes using a pen rath
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by kod 2y ago
> the type system cannot prevent logic bugs or design bugs ^ your words, that statement is false. the type system _can_ prevent logic bugs or design bugs, exhaustive pattern matching is an obvious example. I bet you can find a way to e
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by kod 2y ago
> "No invisible magic" was a promise that Rust made to us. Honest question, where did you get that promise from? The 1.0 release didn't really emphasize that: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/1
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by kod 2y ago
https://ecomodder.com/forum/em-fuel-log.php?vehicleid=3158 https://ecomodder.com/forum/em-fuel-log.php?vehicleid=7982
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by kod 2y ago
I was a student at the 2018 racket school mentioned in the link. All of the instructors, including Felleisen and Butterick, were nothing but helpful and friendly inside and outside of the classroom. Even taking that link completely at face
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by kod 2y ago
more like D&D has so much cultural influence that Ultima wouldn't have existed without it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth:_World_of_Doom#Devel... "the game continually evolved over two years under
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by kod 4y ago
> No one, and I mean no one, flys southwest because it's their choice. Everyone in my family preferred to fly southwest (at least before this round of incidents). Among other things, this was based on a history of better customer se
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by kod 4y ago
That person is not delusional. I've successfully asked for and been shown code as part of interview processes with multiple companies.
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by kod 4y ago
Sparring with quarterstaff is a bad idea, regardless of age. A 7' lever is no joke. Anyone who thinks that's a hot take, infantilization of kids, politically motivated, or whatever else has been going on in this thread should prob
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by kod 6y ago
> When console games started selling for $59.99 (or more) So last century? Big single player 16 bit games were $80usd (e.g. Phantasy Star II) and $59.99 was not unusual for run of the mill licensed or sports games. https://i.
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by kod 6y ago
"Favor Immutability" - Effective Java, circa 2001 Should not be controversial at this point.
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by kod 6y ago
You have any actual data to back up those claims? Recumbents own the unfaired bicycle speed records.
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by kod 6y ago
Sane. "There's too much risk either direction, stay away from it" sounds pretty sane to me.
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by kod 6y ago
Safari
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by kod 6y ago
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