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40,765karma·16,215submissions·June 22, 2018
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Only if you push it to GitHub.
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I never had an NDA permit such usage.
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> Also, copyright isn't about compensating authors, but publishers. That depends on the country. There are moral rights [0] which are usually non-transferable from the authors. That’s especial…
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The media you cite are still copyrighted, meaning that it’s illegal for other people to distribute them or make money of it without a corresponding license. If that weren’t the case, creators might be…
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Indeed, “do you really mean that?” would be useful, though I would always have the user type the correction themselves, because too many users would select “Yes” without thinking or attentively verify…
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It makes a difference. People are less willing to wear heavy headphones all day than they are willing to wear regular glasses all day. They also wouldn’t want to wear ski goggles all day (unless they …
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If an AI chatbot would consistently defame a particular company, I’m pretty sure they would be liable too.
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If Google’s AI overviews used a deterministic LLM the ruling would hold just the same. This has nothing to do with non-determinism. If your software deterministically produces incorrect output for som…
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While I’m opposed to opinionated validation as well, you seem to be missing the issue it tries to solve, which is the user mistyping their email address, not receiving the verification email, and eith…
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107 grams is still pretty heavy. Regular glasses are 35 grams or less. My sunglasses are below 20 grams.
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In general, sooner or later you need to restructure one thing or another when requirements are changing. Good code lets you reason about a refactoring, and experience tells you when it is necessary or…
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I wonder what Vogons would think of it.
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More like a lemon tree economy. We can still talk about which trees to pick in order to not get lemons.
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There are around 3500 billionaires in the world. With family those rooms will quickly fill up.
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You seem to be under a misconception of how modus ponens works.
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They'll likely use what Samsung showcased at CES in January ( https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-crease-less-foldable-... ), or something very close to it.…
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The foldable iPhone will have an aspect ratio very close to 3:2 for the outer display (like the original iPhone) and of 1.41:1 (between 3:2 and 4:3) for the inner display (similar to an iPad).
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If demand for software developers decreases due to AI, salaries are likely to decrease as well. Take the academic world for comparison, where supply of very smart people vastly exceeds the demand.
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What fruit are UK salaries here?
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It's still modular.
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It has had a revival with the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. I don't know about Silicon Valley, but you frequently see it in tech-oriented forums when the topic comes up.
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From Apple's press release: "Some features, including image generation, have daily usage limits because they rely on powerful server models. Increased access is available with most iCloud+ s…
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While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.
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How is this substantially different from Safari extensions that can effectively see and act upon everything you do in the browser? One can imagine contextual prompts for all of the examples that you g…
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It’s not clear how it is significantly different from allowing apps access to your contacts, calendar, photos, and so on. And Apple doesn’t say that they merely need more time to properly implement it…
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The OS restriction aren’t merely based on the region settings, they are also based on Apple Account region/country and on the detected physical location of the device.
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> If Apple is only allowing its own AI to operate at the OS level Incidentally, that’s what’s preventing Apple from rolling out their OS-privileged AI in the EU, as the EU mandates equal access for…
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The Esperanto of sign languages wouldn’t inherently be the sign language of Esperanto. The same goes for flags.
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