Mcmaster also isn't (somewhat famously) competing on price. They won't rip you off, but you can't sort by price. There are no sales. With limited exception, they won't list brands on the site. (But if you contact them,…
I believe the American Supreme Court explicitly ruled against that in the past ~10 or so years. Except it was one GPS tracker on one car, done without a warrant. I don't know why that decision, explicitly founded on…
I've dreamt of governments hiring devs with promises of full time OSS work. It _might_ get some people over the lower salaries of government work. But I overheard a state CIO once say "We configure, we don't create".…
Oh, definitely. But what my parent comment was suggesting that PE do for their dentist is what 10% business management companies were already doing. An acquaintance doctor in vet med was pitched 10% ownership in a…
I don't agree with the parent of your comment, but saying they're a Maoist is way too far from my request of steelmanning.
In human med, it's a pretty standard practice to offer a management company 10% ownership for them to handle the business shit. I'm not arguing with you; I'm legitimately curious what happened to that model and why PE…
> The issue is scale A guest on a podcast said, in response to open source and community websites being flooded with AI scrapers, "the internet has always had people scanning websites; get over it". I still respect the…
Making the possession of data this either illegal or too horribly cumbersome. Flock is just an iteration, and getting rid of that brand won't fix it. And camera tracking of normal citizens is just an iteration -- not…
Publish enough docs to let someone write a full OS?
The Pixel line is, from what I can see, a tiny part of the smart phone market share. So, yes, I can buy a phone that I can mostly control (at the risk of losing access to some draconian apps). But most devices being…
You can't really spit in the hobby 3d printing world without hitting the community. I have coworkers who talk about their printers, filament choice, what they've printed recently, etc etc. I've been around hackerspaces…
We need PII to be so toxic that companies run screaming from the liability unless they have explicit consent[1] and a legit reason to house it. A company selling me widgets wouldn't store or let another company store…
> I think the distinction between political appointee and scientist/researcher stands. I agree with this. I'm a civil servant and I know (personally; my work is nowhere near the labs) a number of people who work or have…
I've seen coworkers do this to each other when their expertise is in different domains. I find that AI can be incredibly useful, but just text dumping its output into a conversation feels insulting.
What would happen if you honestly listed your earnings on your tax forms?
Solar power is not free. You can decide to not fix the panel that was being used to power a GPU. Or you could sell the power back. Or you could put it in a battery bank for when the sun is down. Or, if none of those are…
I have no clue. But I do think that this is a much better start than letting companies ignore the impact to software consumers or having open source devs be on the hook for volunteer work.
That's apparently already changing in the EU, where software vulnerabilities mean the company is liable for damages. The only way out is to straight up not make any money (not just from direct sales) from the software.
A not thoroughly thought out response: Those people would heavily incentivized to protect their ability to vote.
If you sell something to someone and they do computer crimes, you're going to have to prove that you couldn't've known that they're a computer crimer. It's the same thing with selling general offensive security tools.…
I don't think that using LLMs for medicine is an appropriate fix for the US's healthcare issues. Unless healthcare businesses decide to improve patient care with AI instead of increasing patients per day, I think it's…
Calling people dogs by analogy is not great. That aside, corporations and groups don't make decisions. People do. We can understand and empathize with what led them to that decision (and sometimes we might be looking at…
As other commenters pointed out, rubber/plastics fail. Littmann sells repair kits.
Bike lanes exist to protect cyclists from drivers and to limit how cyclists affect the flow of traffic. Cars stopping in the bike lane shit all over that, just like they would if they parked on the sidewalk. I wish…
If I had a roommate who spent huge swaths of our monthly budget on house cleaning we didn't need, I might tell them to go find another place to live. Or to stop stretching metaphors.. The investors should be mad that…
Mcmaster also isn't (somewhat famously) competing on price. They won't rip you off, but you can't sort by price. There are no sales. With limited exception, they won't list brands on the site. (But if you contact them,…
I believe the American Supreme Court explicitly ruled against that in the past ~10 or so years. Except it was one GPS tracker on one car, done without a warrant. I don't know why that decision, explicitly founded on…
I've dreamt of governments hiring devs with promises of full time OSS work. It _might_ get some people over the lower salaries of government work. But I overheard a state CIO once say "We configure, we don't create".…
Oh, definitely. But what my parent comment was suggesting that PE do for their dentist is what 10% business management companies were already doing. An acquaintance doctor in vet med was pitched 10% ownership in a…
I don't agree with the parent of your comment, but saying they're a Maoist is way too far from my request of steelmanning.
In human med, it's a pretty standard practice to offer a management company 10% ownership for them to handle the business shit. I'm not arguing with you; I'm legitimately curious what happened to that model and why PE…
> The issue is scale A guest on a podcast said, in response to open source and community websites being flooded with AI scrapers, "the internet has always had people scanning websites; get over it". I still respect the…
Making the possession of data this either illegal or too horribly cumbersome. Flock is just an iteration, and getting rid of that brand won't fix it. And camera tracking of normal citizens is just an iteration -- not…
Publish enough docs to let someone write a full OS?
The Pixel line is, from what I can see, a tiny part of the smart phone market share. So, yes, I can buy a phone that I can mostly control (at the risk of losing access to some draconian apps). But most devices being…
You can't really spit in the hobby 3d printing world without hitting the community. I have coworkers who talk about their printers, filament choice, what they've printed recently, etc etc. I've been around hackerspaces…
We need PII to be so toxic that companies run screaming from the liability unless they have explicit consent[1] and a legit reason to house it. A company selling me widgets wouldn't store or let another company store…
> I think the distinction between political appointee and scientist/researcher stands. I agree with this. I'm a civil servant and I know (personally; my work is nowhere near the labs) a number of people who work or have…
I've seen coworkers do this to each other when their expertise is in different domains. I find that AI can be incredibly useful, but just text dumping its output into a conversation feels insulting.
What would happen if you honestly listed your earnings on your tax forms?
Solar power is not free. You can decide to not fix the panel that was being used to power a GPU. Or you could sell the power back. Or you could put it in a battery bank for when the sun is down. Or, if none of those are…
I have no clue. But I do think that this is a much better start than letting companies ignore the impact to software consumers or having open source devs be on the hook for volunteer work.
That's apparently already changing in the EU, where software vulnerabilities mean the company is liable for damages. The only way out is to straight up not make any money (not just from direct sales) from the software.
A not thoroughly thought out response: Those people would heavily incentivized to protect their ability to vote.
If you sell something to someone and they do computer crimes, you're going to have to prove that you couldn't've known that they're a computer crimer. It's the same thing with selling general offensive security tools.…
I don't think that using LLMs for medicine is an appropriate fix for the US's healthcare issues. Unless healthcare businesses decide to improve patient care with AI instead of increasing patients per day, I think it's…
Calling people dogs by analogy is not great. That aside, corporations and groups don't make decisions. People do. We can understand and empathize with what led them to that decision (and sometimes we might be looking at…
As other commenters pointed out, rubber/plastics fail. Littmann sells repair kits.
Bike lanes exist to protect cyclists from drivers and to limit how cyclists affect the flow of traffic. Cars stopping in the bike lane shit all over that, just like they would if they parked on the sidewalk. I wish…
If I had a roommate who spent huge swaths of our monthly budget on house cleaning we didn't need, I might tell them to go find another place to live. Or to stop stretching metaphors.. The investors should be mad that…