I don’t necessarily disagree, but by that same logic we shouldn’t have any civil laws because regular people can’t afford to hire lawyers to sue people. But still, if someone posts a copy of your book or painting…
> How have our democracies not abolished copyright law yet? These laws only serve the 1% Yeah, fuck those billionaire authors and artists in coffee shops not wanting people to rip off the books and art they create…
It’s easier to say that when your parents were right. But there are a lot of parents who pushed their now-graduating children into fields that AI has recently eaten. And before that, parents who pushed their kids into…
The Champ de Mars park has that general vibe and is presumably the primary training reference source here, but it definitely doesn’t look exactly as depicted here.
> The opposite is true. Google has been the main funding source for Mozilla I think the point is more that Google has propped up a hapless, ineffectual competitor so that it can point to “competition” when antitrust…
> unless you encrypt it And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract…
Justin Bieber is a utilitarian rather than Kantian. From a UChicago economics view, he is behaving rationally.
Right. Everyone agrees that real ECC is more robust, and production servers of course run it. But it seems to me that if most RAM bitflips are in the module itself (rather than in transmission to CPU), then on-die ECC…
The problem I have with ECC discussions is that it’s always anecdotal. There is one Google study finding memory flips with some probability in their datacenters, but it was awhile ago. Everyone repeats the statement…
You make some good points, but here are some counterpoints: There is an existing infrastructure for ticketing by license plate, payment processing, collection, etc. You’re describing changes to the law, which require a…
The answer to all of these should be moving a stick over the equality sign to change it to an inequality sign.
According to Google Translate: “A man who loves text files and wears a peculiar hat announces a plan to have sex with the weather.” Hope this helps.
Forgive the naivety, but what graphical Linux apps are people trying to run that don’t have native MacOS builds? In my experience, Linux GUIs are generally written in Qt or GTK, both of which are multi-platform. I don’t…
Yes, that is why I said “local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine).” This isn’t an sqlite-specific point, although sqlite often runs faster on a single machine because…
There is some risk that, if you design your website to use a local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine), then switching later to a networked database is harder. In other…
I view stuff like this kind of like code that fits into a bootloader or whatever. It’s really more of the technical challenge than to actually solve a problem. The result is much better if you just run a script on your…
> water rights per acre Is that actually taken into account in a taking? I haven’t thought about this stuff in decades, and I know there is some weirdness with regulatory takings. Another way to frame the question: if…
Reminds me of that Wu-Tang album [1] that only sold one copy (to Martin Shkreli). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin
Monetary damages generally accumulate during the pendency of litigation. Also, it seems unlikely that this would take 5 years to resolve—Apple would presumably just reactivate the account and argue the case is moot now.…
I am having trouble understanding the distinction you’re trying to make here. The computer has the same pixel information that humans do and can spend its time analyzing it in any way it wants. My four-year-old can…
> I've never experienced a slow down You didn’t experience a slowdown at the height of the recession circa 2008?
I love all the unexpected twists in this. And it’s very beautifully written and sobering. > the most important thing was to find xin fu in life, not to live your life in accordance to the expectations of anyone else…
If we want to make the math analogy, C++ seems more like the language of math (basic algebra, the notion of proofs, etc.) that everyone uses, and the compartmentalization comes when you start to apply it to specific…
Took me a sec to understand you meant comma as “decimal point” :)
Right, but you aren’t limited to one DNS call. You could have the javascript resolve multiple text records, then combine them together. You could even do this over UDP if you really wanted, just merging a bunch of…
I don’t necessarily disagree, but by that same logic we shouldn’t have any civil laws because regular people can’t afford to hire lawyers to sue people. But still, if someone posts a copy of your book or painting…
> How have our democracies not abolished copyright law yet? These laws only serve the 1% Yeah, fuck those billionaire authors and artists in coffee shops not wanting people to rip off the books and art they create…
It’s easier to say that when your parents were right. But there are a lot of parents who pushed their now-graduating children into fields that AI has recently eaten. And before that, parents who pushed their kids into…
The Champ de Mars park has that general vibe and is presumably the primary training reference source here, but it definitely doesn’t look exactly as depicted here.
> The opposite is true. Google has been the main funding source for Mozilla I think the point is more that Google has propped up a hapless, ineffectual competitor so that it can point to “competition” when antitrust…
> unless you encrypt it And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract…
Justin Bieber is a utilitarian rather than Kantian. From a UChicago economics view, he is behaving rationally.
Right. Everyone agrees that real ECC is more robust, and production servers of course run it. But it seems to me that if most RAM bitflips are in the module itself (rather than in transmission to CPU), then on-die ECC…
The problem I have with ECC discussions is that it’s always anecdotal. There is one Google study finding memory flips with some probability in their datacenters, but it was awhile ago. Everyone repeats the statement…
You make some good points, but here are some counterpoints: There is an existing infrastructure for ticketing by license plate, payment processing, collection, etc. You’re describing changes to the law, which require a…
The answer to all of these should be moving a stick over the equality sign to change it to an inequality sign.
According to Google Translate: “A man who loves text files and wears a peculiar hat announces a plan to have sex with the weather.” Hope this helps.
Forgive the naivety, but what graphical Linux apps are people trying to run that don’t have native MacOS builds? In my experience, Linux GUIs are generally written in Qt or GTK, both of which are multi-platform. I don’t…
Yes, that is why I said “local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine).” This isn’t an sqlite-specific point, although sqlite often runs faster on a single machine because…
There is some risk that, if you design your website to use a local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine), then switching later to a networked database is harder. In other…
I view stuff like this kind of like code that fits into a bootloader or whatever. It’s really more of the technical challenge than to actually solve a problem. The result is much better if you just run a script on your…
> water rights per acre Is that actually taken into account in a taking? I haven’t thought about this stuff in decades, and I know there is some weirdness with regulatory takings. Another way to frame the question: if…
Reminds me of that Wu-Tang album [1] that only sold one copy (to Martin Shkreli). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin
Monetary damages generally accumulate during the pendency of litigation. Also, it seems unlikely that this would take 5 years to resolve—Apple would presumably just reactivate the account and argue the case is moot now.…
I am having trouble understanding the distinction you’re trying to make here. The computer has the same pixel information that humans do and can spend its time analyzing it in any way it wants. My four-year-old can…
> I've never experienced a slow down You didn’t experience a slowdown at the height of the recession circa 2008?
I love all the unexpected twists in this. And it’s very beautifully written and sobering. > the most important thing was to find xin fu in life, not to live your life in accordance to the expectations of anyone else…
If we want to make the math analogy, C++ seems more like the language of math (basic algebra, the notion of proofs, etc.) that everyone uses, and the compartmentalization comes when you start to apply it to specific…
Took me a sec to understand you meant comma as “decimal point” :)
Right, but you aren’t limited to one DNS call. You could have the javascript resolve multiple text records, then combine them together. You could even do this over UDP if you really wanted, just merging a bunch of…