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by thebooktocome 3y ago
> To take a simplistic example, even janitors might potentially have access to ITAR controlled materials if engineers threw them out into a bin bound for a shredder/incinerator and janitorial staff are trained and trusted parts of t
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Yes, exactly; thanks.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
> For SpaceX to internally segment ITAR from non-ITAR is a huge bureaucratic overhead for them which leads to a possibility of mistakes. They decided to become an aerospace engineering firm in the US. ITAR security is part of the cost of
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
It’s complicated, but not always. Regardless, the ITAR issue is secondary; they hire for roles that do not touch ITAR.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
> SpaceX recruits and hires for a variety of positions, including welders, cooks, crane operators, baristas and dishwashers, as well as information technology specialists, software engineers, business analysts, rocket engineers and marke
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
They’re not mine; I pulled them directly from the parent comment.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
The client "needs" in question here are low cost overall, low marginal cost for each revision, and a totally-interactive "do what I mean" interface. Shoving a human artist in the middle is a liability on each front.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Can you give an example of a “clear and bright” line in copyright law that does protect “folks who don’t have the money to fight an uncertain battle in court”? For context, I’m in the process of translating a work that I know for a fact is
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
1. Yes. Always has been, within the ambiguous limits of fair use. 2. Discovery. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resource... Some variants of “theft of style” are recognized by some courts alrea
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
> Overall I think this is a net win, especially because I don't think this needs to be the end of the road for human illustrators, but this will force them to adapt and bring more sensitivity to the needs of their clients. The advan
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Author conflates legal and ethical options for preventing copyrighted work from being used to train ML image generators. There’s nothing legally inconsistent about passing a law saying, e.g., “ML training is not fair use”. Doing so will n
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
And if you have absolute dominion, so does everyone else around you—and then nobody gets water after the aquifer collapses.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
This feels more like a tool that arrests creativity before it can even put its shoes on.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
The Chinese have made it clear through their economic and legal policies that international collaboration can only occur on their terms and under their unilateral control. Nuts to any corporation or organization that tries to achieve equita
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
I don’t think she’s substantially lip-syncing (maybe here and there, but not continuously). I was at the Detroit show and she confessed to having a bit of a cold during the interim into Evermore. And indeed, she coughed and sniffled a bit d
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
I’m saying that on the continuum of Marxism, the PRC circa 1965 is somewhere to the middle-far-left and the article above (that OP claimed was Marxist) is all the way on the far right. I’m not super interested in whether or not their Marxi
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
It’s the same folk-interpretation of Marxism that always goes around. Now that Marxism is dead and can’t defend itself, it’s whatever anyone wants it to be. States that were far closer to Marxism, like the PRC during the Cultural Revolution
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Indeed, many of the new subsidies are to promote various kinds and scales of rewilding.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
It’s not related to the article, but the UK is currently restructuring its farming subsidies to, among other things, encourage sustainable farming and mitigate food security risk. Basically everyone is unhappy about it for some reason. Some
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
I’ve yet to meet a customer that cares enough to pay for the necessary numerical analysis.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Absolutely. And the specific example here—reminiscent of the dongle incident [0]—is definitely one of those. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
I’m not the parent but I imagine they’re referring to e.g., some FFTs use different partitioning strategies in different threading environments, which breaks bit-perfect replication. There’s also the weirdness that in C++ the floating point
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Where did I imply that? The fault was with the JVM. “The impetus for changing the default floating-point semantics of the platform in the late 1990's stemmed from a bad interaction between the original Java language and JVM semantics a
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
When exp(45) overflows that 64-bit integer doesn’t seem so impressive.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
As a fellow practitioner of the demonic -ffast-math arts, let us cackle menacingly together. :)
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Strictfp is no longer used as of JVM 17. IEEE-754 semantics are default. https://openjdk.org/jeps/306 Ironically, using your system’s math libraries will probably make replicating floating point results harder. Especia
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
My first attempt with Speak with Animals led to a somewhat awkward conversation with a boar, whom an absent druid had recently promised a mate. His "haunches" clenched and quivered with anticipation. I laughed heartily.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
It kinda depends on circumstances. If you’re mainstream attractive, healthy, and above median income, the US is pretty nice. If any of those things are missing, it pretty much sucks.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
That’s how representative democracy works. Generally speaking no country has citizens vote on specific foreign policies, with some exceptions.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/family-qa/what-the-bible-sa... These people do literally believe that. They represent a sizable political faction in the United States.

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