marcosdumay

When exactly did rulers thought about copyrights with the goal of empowering the people?

which were at least in part, if not largely, paid for by tax dollars

They were all in the public domain too.

I've had enough SD and micro-SD cards die on phones and cameras to doubt that is the only problem.

People probably see more of a problem on raspberry pis because they write more to the memory than other systems.

Yes.

At the same time, this is graph is something that really should not look anything like a bell curve. So the format is probably just a coincidence.

Except if the "all the questions have been asked" hypothesis is correct. What I really doubt.

The rules changed, a lot.

You created an account one day and the only things you could do were commenting and asking questions; you created it some other day and the only things you could do were asking and answering questions; some other day the only thing you could do was asking questions.

Any day you signed up, asking any question first was a sure way to be downvoted bellow the threshold that would ban you from the site.

Ouch, great, you should show that protocol you used to get causation out of an observational study to the entire scientific community! It's unclear what area will give you a Nobel Prize for that, but several of them will rush to do it first.

Does that mean I can complain about anybody that creates an excel spreadsheet at work for violating the T&C?

Just that no HW manufacturer thought to push spyware in their driver repos at that point to improve some team's KPIs.

Except for every printer, some popular GPUs, Microsoft's peripherals...

So... The AIs with no model of the world are replacing software developers that have no model of the world?

It probably doesn't.

There's a reason we let companies specialize in some kind of service and buy it from them.

LLMs aren't looking like they'll be highly differentiated like software, so their market will probably be competitive. What negates the main reason Open Source software exists.

Yep, we gained nothing from moving laptops and other high power devices into USB, instead of finishing the standardization of the barrel connector. Laptops chargers were already almost all compatible, and there is no reason to mix them with the low power devices.

Unfortunately, it's only Amazon that can issue bills backed by that debt, not the GP.

My guess is the GP swallowed a comma.

There is pretty much bad publicity. But for causes it seems to only impact the ones you don't know about.

To keep the proportions correct, it's between a model house the size of a piece of paper or a normal 2-bedrooms.

People like to hate Sonny products since that time they distributed malware on music CDs.

What sort of landmines are you referring to?

For example the Oracle's incapacity of reordering tests of different kinds (as in constants, functions, rows...) when optimizing a query; or the quadratic run time of triggers that change data in large updates.

Other commercial databases also do that

That's why you won't see many serious comments bragging about the performance of SQL Server either.

Even though is has way fewer performance land-mines that you must design your entire architecture around than Oracle.

Anyway, you are correct that RAC is a very impressive piece of software. If Postgres had something like it, it would be a beast. It's not enough to save Oracle, though.

and doesn't change anything

It does change people that don't know about your cause against it, quite reliably as long as activism results go.

For climate change, everybody probably heard about it, so yeah.

Lol about buying Oracle for performance!

But anyway, do you have benchmarks from anybody not related to Oracle showing that performance? Because Oracle forbids talking about it...

I suggest you take a deeper look at what's happening.

The Fed announced they will transition away from QE yesterday. When they did that 5 years ago, a lot of things happened and they completely gave up on the idea.

No one can care about fundamentals in QE times. If you stay out of the market just because nothing there is valuable, you will lose your money to the hidden inflation and won't be able to buy anything there when you want in.

In normal inflation you can at least buy commodities. But the US economy is organized in a way that will concentrate the money on stocks, not commodities.

It created basically the volume of the index funds buying the required stock, and it's not yet clear what kind of signal this has sent to people.

They got mostly the money SPCX paid them. It was a large payment but not out of the ordinary. And all that they risked was their index relevancy.

The most insistent the salesman, the highest odds you got a bad deal.

But we are thread is about corruption (probably with bribes, and stealing the money of people that didn't participate on the transaction), while everybody keeps pretending is a consensual sale.

"Lucrative" is not really the word you are looking for.

Requiring universal access is a form of regulation, and the OP asking for regulating the platform, not the access.

That probably includes things like bonus for signing up or recommending people, or discounts for new users.

Also, that certainly includes a lot of money for making all of the media and management training and consulting talking about them. Teams to talk about it on social media, agreements to increase its impact on visibility algorithms...

And they would be everywhere

How are you not seeing LLM companies ads everywhere?

That.

I'm personally on the team that think it's honest. But then they have to explain why their marketing numbers are so weird.

xAI financials are public, and OpenAI financials leaked a short while ago.

That's the best possible interpretation of them.

The other possible interpretation is that they are manipulating the numbers (that they have to show to investors) and inference isn't actually profitable either. If they are not manipulating the numbers right now, both companies have a serious case of uncontrolled operational costs that they have to solve too.

Chona also has about 50 times more people, what makes the per-capita numbers work like what is in my comment.