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The requirement to use union labor for construction hasn't stopped datacenter buildouts here in Nevada.

Arizona is conducive to abundant solar power, so that'd be a good reason to build there. Similar deal here in Nevada (with the added bonus of Nevada being a giant blob of geothermal heat, further driving renewable energy supply and therefore datacenter attractiveness).

It's interesting that the “Classical Music” sample ended up with a style prompt of “Contemporary Christian”.

It's even more interesting that the “Contemporary Christian” music it generated was specifically Mormon music (specifically about the exile of Lehi and his family from Jerusalem into the wilderness, during which they reach the ocean, build a boat, and sail to the Americas), but in the style of contemporary Christian rock.

A good enough lens would make it straightforward to solve murder mysteries, provided the murder happened outside on a sunny day.

Fair enough, though how common was that belief that Pluto would look like Triton? Before the first photos from New Horizons pretty much every artistic rendition of Pluto I'd seen was a solid ball of rock and/or ice, more like Ceres than Triton.

If tech giants could stop trying to make the telescreens from Nineteen Eighty Four for five fucking seconds, that'd be great.

If a Toyota Prius taxicab fleet were profitable, Toyota wouldn't sell you one.

And the software, if the saga around the constantly-broken ice cream machines is any indication.

> This remarkable transformation in our understanding is the result of just three missions: Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini—along with some computer modeling and hard staring by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.

Seems odd to neglect to mention New Horizons immediately after mentioning the probable existence of liquid oceans under Pluto's surface, a finding made possible thanks primarily to New Horizons.

It's nice to be able to send/receive photos with more than 13 pixels in them.

As someone who uses and loves Unexpected Keyboard: the higher learning curve compared to other keyboards would be the main reason I can think of. The reliance on swipes in particular is something that's likely alien to a lot of smartphone users.

> In the longer term, we plan to add support for RCS including support for the standard end-to-end encryption (E2EE) via Messaging Layer Security (MLS). Currently, RCS including E2EE is available on GrapheneOS via Google Messages. We want to avoid the need to use Google Messages for RCS eventually.

Hell yeah. Google Messages has worked reasonably well for RCS so far (after a long and frustrating period where it didn't on T-Mobile), but having a non-Google option will be huge.

I did mean non-US lmao

I'm hopeful that SpaceX's success will lead to European companies following in their footsteps and providing some more affordable alternatives to Ariane's current wildly-expensive rockets.

The EU already had quite a bit of non-EU spaceflight capability, both in terms of rockets and launch sites.

Or at some point going nuclear and halting article creation entirely unless it's by existing accounts that have proven themselves to be human.

> They also started posting on Uncyclopedia (a parody wiki modeled after Wikipedia)

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time…

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I've wanted to do something like this for a long while now. Seems like an obvious way to make executables of varying “fatness”: for example, starting with some platform-agnostic instruction set (like WebAssembly), and gradually adding natively-compiled pieces that the executable runner could swap in if the machine satisfies various conditions. Want to use some fancy new instruction set extension but you don't know if all your target machines support it? Ship multiple versions of that particular function in the same SQLite-database-based executable, and let the loader decide which function version to use based on the host machine's known capabilities.

If these AI companies were smart they'd be contributing their own scans to Anna's Archive, such that all of humanity benefits.

And SQLite: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

In fact, relevantly to this article: https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html

> you lose animations

lol. lmao, even.

https://mirrors.mit.edu/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/animate/an...

> I understand you think you're making a cogent argument against intellectual property because the very concept requires drawing of the line, but no, you're really not.

So you say, but inherent in the drawing of that line, anywhere, is the legal authority for one entity to prevent another from engaging in creative activity. Once upon a time it was not uncommon within online communities to believe, as I do, that such a prohibition is morally perilous and has indeed done more to hinder creative expression than to reward or protect it.

> If you come knock on my door to sell me shit, you're fine.

I don't consider that to be fine, either. There is a time and place for sales pitches; my front porch ain't it.

It's the “own little DOS environments” that makes WINSTART.BAT's functionality surprising for people who ain't intimately familiar with the Windows 3.1/9x architecture, because those DOS environments are launched from within Windows but without running anything in WINSTART.BAT. Most people would expect those DOS environments to be running inside the Windows environment, not in parallel with / independent from it.

> And many musicians have won copyright cases, because their shit wasn't similar enough.

And many musicians have lost copyright cases, because — per my point — their shit was similar enough by complete accident, because

1. We Live In A Society™ and therefore are constantly exposed to all sorts of things we don't consciously remember 5 minutes later but which stick around subconsciously, lurking for your next “Eureka!” moment; and

2. Musical genres (especially the mainstream ones) tend to coalesce on rather limited sets of chord progressions and rhythms and such, so it becomes more and more difficult to write songs that fit within that genre without accidentally “plagiarizing” some other existing song in that genre (or a related one).

That's indeed one of many reasons why I'm staunchly pro-UBI.

> Like, now with the advent of AI, or even before?

My disdain for intellectual property predates the existence of LLMs by at least a decade.

> Who decides which artists get subsidized?

The easy answer is to just pay literally everyone. This is called a “universal basic income”, and has been repeatedly demonstrated to be a good idea for many reasons besides decoupling creative expression from the need to put food on the table.

The government can already do that if it so chooses, given that the government is the singular reason why any corporation is able to exist as an independent legal entity in the first place (as opposed to a bunch of individual persons collaborating informally).

That, too, is something for which I've been advocating for quite some time now.

Correct, and if it wasn't already obvious by now I believe that to be an unambiguously good thing.