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veggieroll··on Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
It’s already been months in this case. And, court cases often take many years to resolve.

The issue is more that the court is slow and expensive even in the best case.

veggieroll··on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
Source available is not open source. Don’t try to redefine what open source means. It’s so insulting to volunteers hard work.
veggieroll··on My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
> With clear quarterly goals

This requires a quality of product/program management and upper management buy-in that is rare in my experience.

The dynamic I've experienced is upper management giving the same incompetent teams projects over and over, having month after month of meetings with no deliveries and no real progress on the deliverable, and then eventually having to scramble and find someone else who can actually accomplish their goals.

Either that or so many things are broken that there's no possible way to prioritize beyond a few weeks because you can't let attention dip from any one spinning plate for too long or it'll fall.

veggieroll··on Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
> overreacting to a small part of [a Pope]'s talk

As is Catholic tradition in the US

veggieroll··on Evolving Git for the Next Decade
Use trailers like has become common for LLM assisted code.

Co-Authored-By: Whatever LLM

License: WTFPL

veggieroll··on Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time
> add strategic insights

This claim has always been BS in my experience.

veggieroll··on Many hells of WebDAV
I think it is unwise for a maintainer to accept anonymous contributions.
veggieroll··on Many hells of WebDAV
I think the situation your missing is when the employer has a much much more aggressive stance to IP. Even if you are 100% confident that your contribution doesn't violate your employer's IP, they can still sue and ruin your life.

Some employers have an unbelievably unreasonable interpretation of non-compete and IP. They think they own everything their employees do, and even though they're wrong. That doesn't stop them from ruining you and whatever unfortunate open source project they set their sights on with vexatious litigation.

veggieroll··on Many hells of WebDAV
I feel like it'd be kinda a jerk move to contribute anonymously when you know that might create an IP issue for an open source project. Even if the code truly has no IP issue, legal attention from an litigious company would likely be devastating to even a well resourced project.
veggieroll··on Many hells of WebDAV
I have some patches saved up coming your way once I leave my current employer, who doesn't allow external open source contributions. Though that is not for a few years probably.

Love the libraries BTW. Thank you for all of your hard work.

veggieroll··on Many hells of WebDAV
> This library was lacking some key features we needed, like server-side collection synchronization

Yes! This is my #1 issue with the library as well.

veggieroll··on AB316: No AI Scapegoating Allowed
I think most non-lawyers agree with this and consider it common sense. But, the US legal system explicitly disagrees.[0] My understanding is that it does affect the damages though, meaning the damages scale down based on the level of pre-existing frailty.

This is an issue of the law struggling to catch up to technology yet again. I think the only novel thing here is applying eggshell to psycological frailty. But that may just be because I'm not a lawyer and not aware of cases around this that might exist (beyond the extreme bullying cases like [1]).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy

veggieroll··on GLM-4.7
Looks like it's available on the coding plan as well.
veggieroll··on What folk can do
I would buy one of these if they sold a kit. Although I have the skill-set to assemble an working copy of folk myself without the kit, it's something that I just haven't prioritized doing. And a kit is probably enough for me to get over that hump.

Imagine if the 3D printing movement ideologically refused to sell kits. 3D printing would have remained irrelevant instead of starting a revolution and creating millions of home makers. Same for Arduino and so many other devices.

If the goal of dynamicland & folk is to empower everyone to participate in computing by moving it into the physical world, I'm not sure why lowering the barrier to the necessary hardware is off limits. That's what dynamicland is doing with the UI, but how can anyone interact with the UI if it only exists in Oakland, CA?

Folk is doing the messy work of making dynamicland-style physically interactive computing available on hardware that normal people have access to and in the environment where they currently are.

veggieroll··on Terence Tao focused on fundraising after federal funding to UCLA was suspended
The vast majority of people talking about how big university endowments are don't care what the rules are on it. It's not that people don't know how endowments work; they just find the rules to be bullshit to justify universities continuing the status quo.
veggieroll··on macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]
I don't think it's that surprising that the Open Group would cut corners certifying Unix compatibility.
veggieroll··on Software Rot
I don't have experience with .NET. So that's nice to hear you've got a reliable setup. But, this has generally not been my experience with Microsoft.

There's tons of old programs from the Windows 95-XP era that I haven't been able to get running. Just last week, I was trying to install and run point and click games from 2002 and the general advise online is to just install XP. There was a way (with some effort) to get them working on Windows 7. But, there's no way to get them to work that I've seen on 10/11.

veggieroll··on How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers
Ultimately, we need to convince DC to start enforcing monopoly laws again.
veggieroll··on The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake
Use yt-dlp to download the transcript.
veggieroll··on Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications
For the employer, the question is self fulfilling. Either way they get what they want. Even if someone knows enough to lie, the lie betrays that they’re desperate enough to be unable to resist anything management demands.
veggieroll··on The Surprising Reason Rural Hospitals Are Closing
> regulation demanding unattainably high levels of care

IMO this is the missing gap in a lot of the US economy. Cars, housing, medical care. Kei trucks, SRO apartments, and so many more similar solutions are functionally illegal.

veggieroll··on The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations
I definitely appreciate the perspective of benefit of the doubt and seeking understanding. But I really can't figure out what he was getting at.

This was in 2018, before GLP-1's, and I wasn't looking for medication.

veggieroll··on The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations
Yes, I understand because I also couldn't believe how any doctor could think that.

But no, I had no active medical conditions and this was the first time I saw this doctor. So, he didn't really know my medical history anyways.

The weight loss was really the entire reason I went in. But over my medical history I've had a lot of experiences like this where doctors really aren't very helpful. Or at least, they don't have enough time to actually think beyond the 10 most common things that happen to people.

veggieroll··on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores
Thank you for explaining this issue in more detail.
veggieroll··on A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books
Genius!
veggieroll··on A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books
Indeed, I forsee a "training dataset consortium" arising out of this, whereby a bunch of companies team up to buy one copy of everything and then share it for training amongst themselves (ex. by reselling the entire library to each other for $1).
veggieroll··on A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books
BRB, I'm going to download all the TV shows and movies to train my vision model. Just to be sure it's working properly, I have to watch some for debugging purposes.
veggieroll··on The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations
I went to my doctor as someone overweight bordering on obese and asked for help. I told him my plan for losing weight. But, he told me I didn't need to lose weight, because being overweight isn't bad for your health. Eventually I lost 70 lbs and found a new doctor.
veggieroll··on The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations
I went to my doctor as someone overweight bordering on obese and asked for help. I told him my plan for losing weight. But, he told me I didn't need to lose weight, because being overweight isn't bad for your health. Eventually I lost 70 lbs and found a new doctor.
veggieroll··on The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations
This happened to me. I switched doctors.
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