thenonsequitur

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by thenonsequitur 3y ago
Now you're shifting the goal posts. Please re-read the comments/replies up to this point and you'll see no mention of laws anywhere. That's not what the discussion is about. It's about whether AI consumers of public
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by thenonsequitur 3y ago
That's actually an excellently apt analogy.
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by thenonsequitur 3y ago
If you don't want to engage in the argument, that's on you. I don't think ChatGPT not being a human makes any difference and I think the onus is on you to explain why it should.
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by thenonsequitur 3y ago
Well if you are blocking access to their crawler, I'd imagine they'd have no need to use an incognito crawler to check for malicious content. Why would they care if that content is not ending up in their index anyway? Presumably,
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by thenonsequitur 12y ago
This reminds me a lot of this Kurz Gesagt video: "The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hug0rfFC_L8 The idea in this video is also that most conspiracy theories are easy to debunk witho
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by thenonsequitur 12y ago
What's preventing them? If they did that, they'd have to give up a fraction of their sales. Also, it's not easy to set or agree on a commission percent when Tesla and the dealerships have such opposing interests to begin with
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
This part of the interview seems relevant here: "People can clone the app because of its simplicity," Nguyen says, "but they will never make another Flappy Bird."
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Not impossible, no. But we absolutely have enough control over software to make it highly improbable for someone to accidentally delete something important and make it unrecoverable.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
First, let me start by saying I'm a day-to-day Ruby developer and I absolutely love the language. That said, there are things besides the speed that prevent the acceptance of Ruby among people: * No static type checking, potentially
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Interestingly, Ruby is also approaching its 20-year anniversary. Of course, PHP has been popular much longer than Ruby.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
I think he's taking as axiomatic that there only a few people using ruby, thus claiming this demonstrates the general rule people don't use ruby. Thus he is, in fact, using the phrase correctly. But by taking it as axiomatic that
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Luakit must be wrong. You should probably switch to Internet Explorer. :S
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. I should have qualified what I said. I meant to say, "I'd only be using it with my computer anyway, and I don't think this will ever beat a keyboard/mouse in terms of practicality and ease of use
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
I think it's great that Valve is innovating on controllers. Personally, I won't buy one -- I don't intend on getting a steam machine so I'd only be using it with my computer anyway, and I don't think this will ever
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Not sure where that argument comes from -- it's certainly not one I've ever made. I personally really prefer the nub over touch pad, but it has nothing to do with not having to move my fingers away from the keyboard. I mean, given
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
It could be to cause a failure in an ancillary github service that results in opening up a new attack vector which could then allow the attackers to steal code from private repos.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
The goal may be to potentially open up a new attack vector to steal code, some of which may contain secrets. This is pure speculation, but a definite possibility.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
I remember reading Rendezvous with Rama when I was a kid, and the whole time in my head I was pronouncing rendezvous in completely phonetic English, which also happened to make my mom laugh hysterically when I first said it out loud.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Actually, at least one mainstream browser (Safari for iPhone) doesn't support Flash, and that's a part of why Flash has been declining (HTML5 capabilities being another important part).
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
1. "Even if W3C decided to drop EME, there are enough important companies working on the spec--including Netflix, Google, and Microsoft--that a common platform will be built. The only difference is whether it happens under the W3C umbrella.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
I also see them as equal, but I'd say I'd prefer the one that implies no official endorsement of a closed system by an open standards committee. That Flash also happens to be the one with more adoption is a bonus point.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
There was once when I did this as well. It was a contract web development company I was working for, about ten years ago. One of our clients wanted some SEO work done, and my supervisor had recently been reading a lot about SEO. He started
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
To be fair, Windows 7 typically still has that network driver problem with new ThinkPads. Fortunately, ThinkPad is a good company, and they make it relatively easy to locate and download the right network driver to put on a thumb drive, i
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
"If Windows were equally messed up as Linux I'd expect to run into the problems at around the same rate." My personal experience (as someone who has been dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu for nearly a decade and uses both operating systems re
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
I agree. I'd never guess what NT stood for. Even if I managed to deduce what it meant and how to use it by its usage patterns, I'd still not be able to guess. It reminds me of NB -- an acronym I learned how to use from context and even bega
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Never mind what carried the day -- I'm adopting this protocol starting now, convention be damned!
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Another game in a similar vein that came up on HN a couple months ago is http://bombermine.com/ -- that's the game that changed my perspective about the possibilities for javascript MMOs. Bombermine's source code is not open though, so it
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Well, to be fair, what counts as value to computer enthusiasts is the specification and feature details. I couldn't care less if it comes packaged with some chat software that I'll end up formatting away along with the default OS (except
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Tangentially, have you seen bombermine? It's an online bomberman clone that generally has several hundred people playing simultaneously, a ton of fun. Obviously not a console game, but your Saturn Bomberman reference made me think of it.
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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
Really? For me that phrase definitely means "movies starring Adam Sandler". A lot of (most of?) the movies written/produced by Adam Sandler also starred him, but that doesn't exclude other movies. I definitely think of Punch-Drunk Love as a

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