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rymate1234··on Steamboat Willie [video]
Disney created the character and was able to profit from it for years, but Disney has equally profited over characters it didn't create but instead created their own adaptations. Why should other companies be denied the same thing Disney had access to?
rymate1234··on Show HN: Rapidpages – OSS alternative to vercel's v0
Depends imo. If it's purely just a few static pages then yeah I can see this happening but as soon as you have anything like a blog you're going to want some sort of content management system surely to manage it?

What I see this more doing is eliminating the need for someone to code the glue between the CMS and the website -- you can just ask the AI to add code to get your blogs from Contentful

rymate1234··on ChatGPT Enterprise
They probably just call the public API same as everyone else using it outside Microsoft.

The exclusive license refers to having access to the models, which is probably why they were able to finetune Bing AI.

rymate1234··on Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed
Probably why, like the article says, they're planning to add that

> In an attempt to address the issues with open-source licensing, GitHub plans to introduce a new Copilot feature that will “provide a reference for suggestions that resemble public code on GitHub so that you can make a more informed decision about whether and how to use that code,” including “providing attribution where appropriate.” GitHub also has a configurable filter to block suggestions matching public code.

rymate1234··on Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed
> It's been clearly displayed that these tools are emitting verbatim copies of existing code (and its comments) in their input.

Which makes sense when you consider that the sort of code that is getting reproduced verbatim is usually library functions which developers may copy and paste verbatim comments and all into their project, especially when you prompt the AI with the header of a function that has been copied and pasted often, so the weightings will in that instance be heavily skewed towards reproducing that function

rymate1234··on Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?
> Due to the insidious tax policy of withdrawing the personal allowance when income reaches £100K

The affect of removing that doesn't seem to be that major, with the figures [1] appearing to work out at almost 1.5% less tax for those on £100k, and a little over 2.5% less tax for those on £200k -- hardly a huge decrease in the tax burden for those people.

[1]: https://blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/8/files/2022/09/28sep...

rymate1234··on Microsoft to Reportedly Recognize Raven Software’s Union After Aquisition
See, maybe this is just a cultural difference but I definitely know unionized people who have taken on responsibility outside their formal JD

And I've definitely heard of non unionised companies with rigid roles like that where the middle managers liked having defined roles with little room for taking on additional responsibilities.

The difference between the two IMO is if the union has shit representatives you _can_ work with colleagues to get a different union rep as it's democratic when implemented correctly, whereas with a crap management you only have the option of moving job, so at least with a more unionised workforce you can do both.

rymate1234··on Microsoft to Reportedly Recognize Raven Software’s Union After Aquisition
Any reason why?
rymate1234··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
The "left" is no more immune to controlling thought than the right -- just look at China or the USSR

The danger is authoritarianism and centralisation, and in terms of centralisation big tech companies like Spotify have in spades. You could also feasibly argue they're authoritarian as no-one outside the company can influence policy outside of free market forces, but centralisation can make these companies somewhat immune to said forces, for instance Spotify being the exclusive distributor of Joe Rogan podcasts means those interested in his content have no choice but to continue using Spotify, even though some of his podcasts have been removed.

rymate1234··on The Microsoft .NET platform has been forked: Introducing Open.NET
And "they" can be used for one person though
rymate1234··on New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012
To be fair you can still charge the new macbooks via USB C if you want, and magsafe in this iteration is just a USB C to magsafe cable now
rymate1234··on The NFT market bubble has popped?
> Because you know what happens when private property is abolished? Spoiler, only the well connected and powerful will hold private property

If only a few people can own private property then you haven't abolished private property, you've just limited who can own it.

This was the main issue caused by the massive state control of Marxist Leninist countries like the Soviet Union -- by centralizing all control within one single political party you essentially just replace an economic elite with a political elite. Couple that with the democratic centralism you often find in these single party ML countries and suddenly you have something that's a lot less like the communal living the OP was referring to.

I'm not saying abolishing private property will be some magical fix all, but I also don't think using the soviet union as an example of why it won't work is a good example. You could have a society where usage of resources is governed by consensus rather than "lol stalin said so" but consensus is obviously a lot harder to do on a global scale than a small communal village

rymate1234··on LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
Having to jailbreak an iPhone is what makes the iPhone more work -- Termux is a single install and works on stock Android, and comes with a package manager
rymate1234··on Apple, Epic, and the App Store
Unironically there should be alternatives for those platforms, and the Switch
rymate1234··on DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
I'm not too sure about that, what about the support for DX12 in WSL? Can't deploy that to production outside WSL right now as far as I'm aware, unless they add DX12 support to azure Linux vms...
rymate1234··on Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
Main difference with Vercel / ZEIT is that unlike Netlify, it can more easily have SSR pages.

So like if you're using NextJS for instance, on Netlify you can only really use the static site generation features of NextJS, whereas with Vercel you have SSR pages as well as the API functions.

Also Vercel _can_ do full standard servers if needed, including for NodeJS https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#advanced-usage/advanced-nod... or Python https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#advanced-usage/advanced-pyt...

rymate1234··on Tailwind UI
the 700 is a shade of gray not a font weight
rymate1234··on Native Applications with Racket
There's a true platform framework for Windows, and that's either WPF if you need to target Windows pre 10, and WinUI / UWP for targeting Windows 10

People do this all the time, there's native mobile applications using the true platform frameworks for both operating systems

rymate1234··on Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
They have some legitimate reasons for the Gatsby specific CSS -- specifically because everything needs to be available at build time, and I assume the prismjs library depends on browser APIs that may not exist at build time.

It's also not too surprising to hear that it doesn't support code highlighting out of the box in React given it's a plugin for Gatsby's remark plugin.

However, because we added prismjs as a dependency, you can still use it in React without hacking it with `dangerouslySetInnerHtml` so no idea where you got that idea from: https://pathof.dev/blog/code-highlighting-in-react-using-pri...

rymate1234··on The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
Firefox Containers is a great way of doing this without having to run separate browsers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Also incidentally electron apps afaik don't install cookies on your main browser, they should be separate anyway

rymate1234··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
You realise you don't have to play the same gender as you are in real life right?

It's probably more likely they just wanted to remain anonymous rather than this being part of some sort of movement to eliminate gender in text

rymate1234··on Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
I personally use a 3rd party client which uses actually native code rather than electron https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
rymate1234··on Show HN: A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js
React still has a "component lifecycle" -- it's just with hooks the way you interact with that lifecycle is different [1].

> Hooks are a more direct way to use the React features you already know — such as state, lifecycle, context, and refs. They don’t fundamentally change how React works, and your knowledge of components, props, and top-down data flow is just as relevant.

And if you like functional components, VueJS has them as well [2]

[1]: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-much-of-my-react... [2]: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/render-function.html#Functional-C...

rymate1234··on Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system
Cars are able to drive outside of populated areas, so the satellites might be useful for that purpose
rymate1234··on GitHub Sponsors
Don't they already have this with Azure Pipelines?
rymate1234··on MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates
Alternatively, the official mirror http://mycpu.thtec.org/www-mycpu-eu/index1.htm
rymate1234··on Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it
I agree, but the solution is for ad companies to improve so you don't need tons of JavaScript to display an advert. Why can't they be done server side, rather than handled by client side JavaScript? A lot of web apps now employ SSR, so having the adverts use SSR should considerably speed them up
rymate1234··on Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it
The EU experience of USA today weighs on at 248KB and that's without AMP

So even if the AMP Pages are small, they're still much larger than the page ought to be

rymate1234··on Netlify Dev
That example doesn't serve the main website, like all netlify functions they can only handle requests under the .netlify route for functions https://express-via-functions.netlify.com/.netlify/functions...

Whereas on Zeit Now the root of the website can be a web server written in multiple languages, and offer the ability to make your own "Lambda Builder" if necessary https://zeit.co/docs/v2/deployments/builders/overview

rymate1234··on Netlify Dev
Yeah but with Zeit Now the serverless functions can actually serve the application, so if you need SSR with dynamic data you're able to, whereas with netlify it's static html being served with optional AWS style lambda functions.

For instance Zeit can host a standard node server to serve your application if necessary https://zeit.co/docs/v2/deployments/official-builders/node-j...

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