clankyclanker

Does anybody have insider details on how HP killed the Memrister? I'd be fascinated to read that, too.

That's why (A)GPL is so handy, it discourages value-extraction.

As cwebber says: https://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/

Let me introduce you to the "germ theory" of disease. It makes more accurate predictions about the world than other disease theories!

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/08/history-pas...

That seems optimistic. I would instead expect that those VIPs would be added to a table of folks who don't get tickets, codifying the current semi-formal process.

…but, like drowning, plane crashes aren’t infectious.

There might be something to your analogy if a crash in Boise caused everyone in town to come down with a plane to the head, but that’s not how that works so it’s kind of apples to oranges.

So, PBS Space Time did a video on this “fine tuned universe” theory and it, like all of their videos, is great. The concept seems to be that in an unbalanced universe, life couldn’t form, and we’d be incapable of having this conversation. So, either there are infinite universes and we exist as a result of being in the right one, or there’s one universe and we exist as a result of the one we’re in being right. Either way, we’re pretty lucky.

https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc

* Representative

Then you file a complaint with your favorite reordenarías because somebody skirted the GDPR?

Isn’t that usually called extortion?

Agreed, I only picked up reading again after finding Libby.

(A short story about how cheating the user with exorbitant prices results in the exit of your audience.)

I don’t think that’s quite the takedown of the gp you might it is; copyright doesn’t really ensure any of those things. It looks like think you’re conflating a few things here, particularly attribution and profit. I don’t think copyright guarantees either.

The gp was speaking about the purpose behind creating copyright, which is to produce the maximum number of works, while you were looking at the results to the author, the goals of recognition and payment.

Only specific representations are protected: non-derivative readaptations are generally permitted (the thorny issue is whether it is derivative or not: c.f. Disney vs Pixar). Additionally, the US specifically avoids guaranteeing profits for works by endorsing “sweat-of-the-brow” or effort-based value judgements. Doing otherwise is an implicit validation of communism: to each according to their effort, which is counter to the distribution policy under capitalism.

...Not in practice? The US has had laws in the books regulating gun ownership for almost a century.

https://time.com/5169210/us-gun-control-laws-history-timelin...

pdftk?

(If that's the case I'm thinking of) it was actually documented as a challenge to export restrictions, mocking them was merely a pleasant byproduct.

The EFF's legal challenge was essentially that if crypto is a munition, then this printed book explaining the crypto is also at least as much of a munition, if not more so. They gave the judge the choice between deciding that a printed book is some sort of deadly tool, or deciding that crypto wasn't conceptually a munition. Strangely, the judge ruled in the EFF's favor.

I'm around there and am interested in adding new trees to my yard. If you're serious, drop me an email.

Yeah, it seems like it doesn’t break theory, but it’s a potentially useful product instead, and folks are disappointed.

Sadly, there’s no “am I dominating the conversation?” multiplier. That’s the sort of thing I wild have lived to have in a hackerspace’s monthly meeting.

Or, more pithily, always ask "how can you disprove it?" - If you can't, it isn't science and can't be treated as such.

Yeah, confirmed, it's the shadow in dark-mode.

I agree with some of them, but why is the font blurry? My poor eyes.

Replace show-trailing-whitespace with automatically-deleting-whitespace, though.

  (defun x/delete-whitespace ()
    (unless (or (string= major-mode 'diff-mode)
                (string= major-mode 'hexl-mode))
      (delete-trailing-whitespace)))

  (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'x/delete-whitespace)

> we have a nebulous understanding what the equilibrium price would be on a free market.

I can’t imagine a free market existing in the US without PS5-style-resellers immediately buying out the entire supply and jacking up the price for drugs people need to live. Not like that’s significantly different than what we have now, it’d just be a worse version.

That’s the thing: the GPL isn’t there for you, the developer. The GPL exists to ensure freedoms for the user and it does this by requiring responsibilities of the developer.

This creates an interesting and important second-order effect that allows it to accomplish its goals without needing to boil the ocean by ensuring every user has the same ability to develop the same software, blurring and reducing the line between user and developer, creator and consumer. Practical considerations often prevent the expression of this effect but the opportunity doesn’t even exist in most other situations, particularly when you get to web services.

I didn’t reply to the important issue of money, the fundamental developer problem, because I’ve never been in a situation to sell my own code: my own projects have zero to do with my rent work.

I never knew there was a “sleigh” in “dogsled,” I’ve only ever heard “sled,” like “slid” or “skid.”

About a dozen years ago, folks estimated that G made about $100M/day from AdWords. That number has probably kept pace with inflation, but even if it hasn’t, they’re committing at most about a fifth of day’s income, per year, or 1/1500th of their annual income.

I, too, would like to receive good press for donating less than 0.06% of my income! Tithing comes to mind.

If they wanted to put any force and meaning behind those words, they’d just hire Gebru on as a consultant and then I wouldn’t even care about whether they were buying friendly research articles at $2M each.

The speed that caffeine starts hitting your body depends very strongly on how full you are when you consume it and how much food/water you’ve already had throughout the day. The timing after a meal will be very different than an empty stomach, which is probably just minutes. People are more used to noticing the same effects with alcohol.

Are you sure?

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft...

The Azure-State-Department breach had nearly a half dozen contributing bugs...

Nowhere does acknowledging and permitting the use require a C&D. A simple “we see you and this is fine” letter would’ve also met the policing requirement.

The C&D is only required when you want to shut folks up and get the lawyers their bonuses.

That’s what Google used to do (though not for BGP), back in their engineering days. That’s what gave us AFL.

Nope:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35483823

This is precisely the case where ChatGPT (or any LLM) will have trouble that a layperson would have trouble validating: Toki Pona has a limited document corpus and requires contextual interpretation obvious to experts.

In short, expect hallucinations and other lies.