jagged-chisel

… very specific …

That phrase is doing a lot of work. In the US, any writing is automatically protected by copyright. (This comment, for example.) Whether the author can claim infringement is a can of worms: legal costs, fair use … but your “very specific” phrasing makes it sound like there’s a prescription for exactly what is protected by copyright - there is not.

Ideas are not protected by copyright.

The expression of the idea is, however. Same with facts. The fact that I live at a specific street address is not protected. My sentence construction explaining my specific street address is protected.

The output of an LLM …

… is not protected, not matter its shape. The US Copyright Office has declared as much.

How big of a problem is this? I did get my X4 from somewhere else, but I was still able to change firmware. I think it just adds a hurdle to make it less trivial for unscrupulous resellers to install crapware.

What are the limitations with XTEINK currently? I have an X3 and an X4 and both simply use whatever firmware you give them.

Which is why They have spent decades attempting to dismantle it.

Replying to myself to address responses.

I didn’t express an opinion about whether it’s a good idea or a bad idea. All of you have had an immediate emotional reaction to the idea that there’s no legal “right to privacy” from your spouse. The legal question and the ethical questions (should you be aware at all time what your spouse is up to? should you dig around in their personal journal or phone to learn thing?) are separate.

Should you invade your spouse’s privacy? No. And if you’re constantly paranoid enough to be doing that, you likely have issues that are negatively affecting the relationship.

There’s not even proper protection of your privacy from strangers and companies, let alone such from a spouse.

Should there be? Of course.

The arguments against this behavior don’t even need to include spousal considerations. It shouldn’t happen, period. When it happens, it should be punished, period. But when it’s punished, “oh, it’s just my wife” isn’t a defense - not because spouses should have privacy protections, but because the system was abused.

Ethics aside, I don’t think there’s a legal issue with obtaining data on one’s spouse.

I’m not sure I understand Recurse. Self-directed self-improvement. “Attending remotely” is even more self-directed.

Ok, so Recurse is providing accountability partners or something similar?

How is Recurse making money? I don’t see a pricing or tuition page.

What alternative?

I think it remains to be seen whether Verisign follows through.

That’s definitely not “inadvertent.”

Denying the problem exists is not the same.

Denying that the problem is a “problem” would be.

In the first case, the affected do nothing because there is no problem.

In the second, it’s “not a problem” because they did a thing and moved it elsewhere.

… they inadvertently perpetuate the problem

“Inadvertently”? Seldom.

Lumber along and smash stuff

Shocking! That seventy five cents is suspicious.

grant-funded

Capital.

Customers are customers because of capital.

Management represents the owners (capital.) Any other framing is delusional.

First, I don’t pretend that’s the only driver.

Second, the whole reason students are doing that is still monetary motivation.

Third, we’ve been running capitalism for long enough that we don’t even know what the baseline for “it’s human nature to take shortcuts” is without a monetary motivation.

Now that you’ve made me think on this longer, I conclude that indeed capitalism is the problem. At least, the part of capitalism that wants infinite growth immediately.

Sounds like that comment about economic value from earlier this week (yesterday?)

I think we need to address the underlying causes of people outsourcing their thinking like that. And a big contribution is “move fast.” No one has time to read, process, and think, because The Powers That Be (capital) want their results now.

"Luckily"?

Let's add inflation to that. Or charge interest for the loan.

I don’t think scam is the right word. The valuation and bank price targets are absolutely insane.

I was hoping you were headed to "...beyond scam" into serious fraud or something. Regardless how this is categorized, everyone (banks, stock market, the executive branch) is complicit, and I think SpaceX stock should have stayed off the public market.

On what platform? Works here.

    macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 (25F84)
    Firefox 152.0.5 (aarch64)

"Today's run is over"

I hate games of this kind. "You failed. Try again tomorrow." I won't be back. It wasn't enough fun to remember. And I'm not likely to upvote because of these reasons (so it won't appear in my 'upvoted submissions')

So you have no idiom in vanilla JS for this. You just rewrite the boilerplate on every field. Any coder can do that. Do you have a proper abstraction for this or is it just "hurr write the code"?

Even more reason for AI to be local only.

Maybe you missed my subtle point. If you’re still implementing Bret’s vision, that doesn’t seem like independent thinking to me.

I do think the particular vision has merit. But I have yet to see it demonstrated on real-world work. Even Bret’s own demos were limited and lackluster. Show me how to use this to manage some typical administrative tasks. Or create a database. Or routing on a map.

Since I can’t tell whether there’s humor intended, I’ll just answer you with:

No

And you completely avoided answering the questions I asked. If you don’t know or understand, say so. Don’t act like an LLM that has to keep talking even when you don’t know.

Whether the former forwards to the latter, or the latter to the former is not the important part.

It is important to make it as easy as possible to get to the main content of the site.