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e-/bikes and e-/scooters are big changes to city navigation.

e-skate and segways are non-factors. And that's the difference between a good product (ebike or even just plain old bikeshare) and a bad one (segway).

Will you release the code into the public domain, like SQLite?

a side note, I actually quite like this game even though it's horrendously luck based. Like a less competitive monopoly.

right. so glofo couldn't keep up abandoned the bleeding edge. what's the evidence that intel foundaries, divorced from design, wouldn't suffer the same fate?

Intel is the only hope for relatively short-term microprocessor fabrication on the continent.

TSMC is trying to do fabs here but that's going to take ages to scale.

The real question is, how do you subsidize this sort of development from scratch while not hamstringing or ignoring already developed abilities. For promoting advanced chip fab inside of the US, intel is america's best bet.

The only other option would have been AMD, but they closed their on-shore fabs like two decades ago afaicr.

technically open ai has respected copyright, except in the (few) instances they produce non-fair-use amounts of copyrighted material.

dmca does not cover scraping.

Twitter closed API access long before musk arrived. It used to be fully open. I think perhaps they were trying to make the API a little less useless, but it would never return to its full glory (maybe for data ingest, but certainly not read).

Any platform that relies on serving ads will not have a full-featured API, because it's an obvious way to ignore ads (and maintaining the API costs you money).

API isn't free.

I walk most places and when I don’t walk, I take the train, which has steel (and not rubber) tires.

SWEs will happily tell you that their profession is such a highly demanded activity and they don't need a union because the pay/benefits are so excellent.

However, I think this comment highlights the fact that swes are not some privileged elite above at least some of the benefits of organized labour.

the leetcode will continue until union perception improves.

I have thoughts and feelings about a lot of this, but the part that stands out to me is LE folks intentionally working with agents out of their jurisdiction to circumvent the laws in their own jurisdiction.

You want to talk about unethical behaviour? That sounds borderline like a poison tree to me.

Of course Marin got an exception.

Combination of 2 and 3. The business changed. Streaming was more or less a solved problem for Netflix. They needed money for content, not expensive engineers. Ted is co-ceo… you can see where the priority is.

From what I've heard, Netflix has really diluted the culture that people know of from the Patty McCord days.

In particular, they have been revising their compensation structure to issue RSUs, add in a bunch of annoying review process, add in a bunch of leveling and titles, begin hiring down market (e.g. non-sr employees), etc.

In addition to doing this, shuffling headcount, budgets, and title quotas around has in general made the company a lot more bureaucratic.

I think, as streaming matured as a solution space, this (what is equivalent to cost-cutting) was inevitable.

If Netflix was running the same team/culture as it was 10 years ago, I'd like to say that they would have been able to pull of streaming.

Interesting. Windows 7 is a number of years old, but doesn't feel that old in the grand scheme of things.

It feels sort of crappy that those users are no longer able access the titles they paid to access.

People like to compare CRISPR as scissors or cut/copy-and-replace, but people should think of it more as 'find and replace all'.

in that context, it's much more understandable why the tool has drawbacks.

social media for us was chronological timelines of content our friends produced.

Not... waves hands whatever the f*%k this is.

I'm the opposite. I cannot stand Apple's productivity software, and I get irrationally mad when something tries to open those.

Anyone who has done a programming contest, advent of code, etc knows that the language doesn’t matter so much as your algorithm.

Yes, the language can bring a nice speed up, or might give you better control of allocations which can save a lot of time. But in many cases, simply picking the correct algorithm will deliver you most of the performance.

As someone who doesn’t JavaScript a lot, I’d definitely prefer a tool written in go and available on brew over something I need to invoke node and its environment for.

I think that’s a more interesting question. I’m not sure how to do it, but I think that finding a way to stop the reproduction of copyrighted content is probably the missing piece.

If there was a monetary penalty for reproduction of copyright works (apply human laws to machine), then I bet these companies would quickly figure out how to fingerprint output and match it to source data before sending it to the user.

Well, copyright law has literally everything to do with reproducing content and has nothing to do with consumption of content.

So I have to disagree. Copyright doesn’t stipulate the terms of your consumption of media. Sure, people can write licenses and whatnot, but that’s not copyright, that’s a license (for example, the TOS of NYT website may dictate your rights to scrape it)

Copyright law is woefully under-prepared to deal with the challenges of llms. If someone has a photographic memory, it’s not illegal for them to read the book, it’s illegal for them to reproduce it. That’s essentially what we’re seeing with LLMs.

In all of your examples, the illegal part is really the distribution so far as copyright is concerned.

That’s rose coloured. Maybe people were more intelligent, but even 10 years ago people would absolutely flame each other in GitHub issues on public projects.

no, but with a shitty laptop it can be hard to be a good developer. having dull knives will make cooking experience, slow, dangerous, and unpleasant. having a boat-car will make it difficult to practice any sort of skilled driving.

it's not that you can't overcome adversity and do the thing anyhow, but you're certainly not making it easy. In all cases, using the proper tool allows you to remove the extra difficulty factor and focus on that task at hand.

But also, cutting a tomato with a sharp knife is way, way easier than with a dull knife. Same with soldering. Ignores the rest of the parts of being a chef, but you get the comparison.

didn't itunes let people convert their pirated music collections into legit paid ones?

except they did a bad job by replacing tracks that sounded similar and then deleting the original.

The US government needs actual anti spam laws.

In Canada, it’s not legal to start sending someone emails because you happened across their email, purchased a list, or someone bought something from your square store. Marketing emails must have express consent, and the consent is not transferable.

I always thought the pretenses for this lawsuit were extremely thin.

Now that I see GARM was shuttered as a result of financial pressures from the lawsuit, I believe this was this was actually the goal all along. It didn’t matter that the reason was flimsy. It just had to pass muster.

I see many, many tech people take an extremely simple position on a topic contrary to general knowledge.

Then they say something like 'I believe in strongly held beliefs, held weakly'.

I'm so bored of debating people with opinions on things they've spent zero time researching or even thinking about. Just say you don't know. It's okay.

it means the same as it always did. net neutrality as you describe it didn't draw a distinction between "end nodes". Everything that has a wire connected to it is a node. The wires are the edges. Some nodes transmit or receive more than others, and some have different purposes. Some are even behind firewalls.

In this context, the net is not neutral if traffic-shaping is applied to some packets and not others, which is the same as what you describe.

Perhaps the circumstances for signing agreements are a lot more complicated than it used to be, but at its heart, it is the same problem.

Do sharks not have any way to metabolize or pass these things? Usually bioaccumulation refers to things that STAY in an organism. For example, vitamin c does not bioaccumulate. Microplastics do.

Comparing opioids to caffeine is also not a particularly convincing argument... Is your comment satire?

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