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Yes, ultimately the problem is that the law is vague or inadequate. The courts have their definitions of fair use, which are their best efforts at interpreting the law, and I have mine, which is different.

Yeah, I can't AB test against a world without copyright at all, but I think there's sufficient evidence to believe that a lot of stuff would never have gotten done without copyright to ensure it could be done gainfully.

The importance of striking a balance between incentivising creation and enriching culture was why the original copyright term was dramatically shorter. The modern term of owners life + 80 years or whatever it is, is clearly ridiculous. 20 years before entering public domain seems pretty reasonable.

There's unfortunately also some pressure against people using legitimate public domain works. E.g. youtubers getting copyright strikes for playing public domain music because it's too similar to a specific copyrighted recording.

I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a general purpose CPU that can do many things.

Right, it's about incentivising intellectual work. While I have big issues with the copyright system, like all the extensions lobbied for by Disney and friends, it did enable a lot of good work to happen.

Chinese Communist Party or Communist Party of China makes little difference. There is a clear convention and no clear reason to change it.

As far as I'm concerned, the courts are wrong, and training on ill gotten copyrighted material is not fair use. Given the clear value of highly trained LLMs, the investment they have taken on, and the amount of disruption to the existing economy they stand to make, in a just world, the people who created the training data deserve some level of compensation. I think, in the US, they are very afraid of falling behind China, who doesn't give a shit about intellectual property, but that doesn't mean we aren't crossing an ethical boundary, acting like them.

ASMLs machines can easily be "one of the most sophisticated" without stepping on LHC or ITERs toes. I'm not sure ISS qualifies anymore. I would have went with JWST.

I wish I could say that funding the US or Israel or China was better. It's not all equivalent, but pretty much every major country is supporting atrocities in one way or another, today.

Fuck off

You don't need to rehash the same old argument. Runtime memory management is forgiving but also inferior in a lot of ways to compiled stuff that works with memory deterministically.

Garbage collection is a method to make programming easier, not to make the resulting program better.

Yeah, I have fixed issues that could have potentially destroyed the company I was working at. There was an instance of a lazily written script which just took user input for a file open. It could read sensitive files on the system because of lazy development. The other devs praised me for fixing it, but I didn't get any recognition comparable to the losses our company could have had if it got exploited.

You're saying "this is normal" without making an argument that it's sensible.

Paleontology has been really helped by the ease of sequencing, to the point where many evolutionary arguments are moot. Humans are apes, birds are dinosaurs. Some people still dispute it, but not with evidence on their side.

Yes, processes changed. Because you don't need NAT, mainly. Overall it's simpler, with more bits in the addresses.

Not much more complicated than IPv4. There are more bits. The addresses are longer. It's not hard to grasp if you understand the prerequisites to understanding networking in general.

It's not. I learned how IPv6 worked SO LONG AGO that I really can't understand remaining confusion.

Thank you for sharing.

I wouldn't say that's robust email monitoring at all. It's embarassingly bad. Gmass shouldn't exist and your salespeople should be out of a job.

We need models that are smarter than humans. So far, the cost of an AI query + training is dwarfing the effort it would take to teach an intelligent human how to do a task. We are dumping an incredibly amount of money/effort into making AI do stuff when it's still not competitive with humans, because dumbass people are controlling investment. The stock market is not a replacement for competent investment. The fact people buy meme coins shows how fucked we are.

Deceiving people is not a sustainable business model, but it is the most prominent one in the US right now. Lie to the public, sell them stuff that's bad for them at too high of a price, get rich quick, then act confused when your economy collapses because the victims of your grift can't spend anymore.

This is desperate rebuttal from ignorance.

My point stands. You haven't innovated, you've just leaned on an LLM to work with your unoriginal DSL. I'm sure it's worth 100 megawatt-hours.

LLMs aren't like a screwdriver at all, the analogy doesn't work. I think I was clear. LLMs aren't useful outside the domain of what they were trained on. They are copycats. To really innovate on software design means going outside what has been done before, which an LLM won't help you do.

There is absolutely no reason why software today has to be written like software of yesterday.

I get what you're saying, but the irony is that AI tools have sort of frozen the state of the art of software development in time. There is now less incentive to innovate on language design, code style, patterns, etc., when it goes outside the range of what an LLM has been trained on and will produce.

I don't know why people think wind turbines are ugly... Someone who admires gold toilets, no less. I think the opposite.

A as in Ang, clearly.

The classic version is not a developer, it's a mechanic or some other blue collar job. I've seen it on a sign in a machine shop 20 years ago.

yeah the real war is between people who do useful stuff and the trillion dollar industry which means to displace them.

This is just another aspect of the failure to foster a positive society. The rich who are balls deep in AI don't give a fuck about what happens at a societal level. They want numbers to go up and the result is dumb people in charge of things they shouldn't be in charge of.

children now don't have to work hard, but they're precious because no one is having children in the educated world.

This is a misunderstanding of what community is, said by someone who doesn't know.

Yes, I would also prefer that servers were community run as in the hl2 days.

I would still argue that there are technical issues leading to some amount of cheating. In extraction shooters like Hunt Showdown, Escape From Tarkov and a few others, people can run pcie devices that rip player location and other information from the machines memory in order to inject it into an overlay with a 2nd computer, and they do go to these lengths to cheat, giving them a huge advantage. It wouldn't be possible to rip that info from memory for these "ESP cheats" if the server didn't needlessly transmit position information for players that aren't actually visible. IMO this is a technical failure. There are other steps that could be taken as well, which just aren't because they're hard.