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Gift link for the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/technology/new-york-times... …

The picture of the collapsed one is at https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/7fee/live/52acf... It would be curious to know what parts and connectors i…

> The sole occupant was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

> Java applets can invoke JavaScript functions present in the same web page as the applet. The LiveConnect Specification describes details about how JavaScript code communicates with Java code. ht…

From days of old... Invoking Applet Methods From JavaScript Code - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/in... and Invoking JavaScript Code Fr…

From a more complete article... https://www.universetoday.com/articles/one-extremophile-eats... > But that’s not all Chroo can do - it can live on Lunar and Martian soil, and …

I'm saying the idea that you can do one test for software engineering and never have to study again or be tested on a different domain in the future isn't something that professional enginee…

> Professional engineering associations between civil engineers and chemical engineers? One takes the FE exam ( https://ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/ ). You will note at the …

Sunk cost. You've spent... 20 to 100 hours on interviews. Maybe more. Doing it again is another expense. Onboarding. Even with good employees, it can take a few months to get the flow of the …

I'm unsure about how long your career has been. At Taos, there was a monthly training session / tech talk on some subject. At Network Appliance ('98-'09), there was a moderate push…

> Old days: Get the O'Reilly book for that programming language. Lookup access modifiers in the index. 10 year ago: Google for a blog with an intro to the programming language. There will be a…

I was attempting to mock Claude's "You are absolutely right" style of response when corrected. I have seen responses to PRs that appear to be a copy and paste of my feedback into it and…

The US couldn't drop to the Berne floor... because it is a member of the WTO and restricted by TRIPS which has a floor of 50 years. Going to anything less than 50 years would entail leaving the W…

The same copyright laws apply to all things that are copyrightable regardless of medium. Anything that can be put into a fixed medium, be it print, digital recording, film. Such a proposal needs to t…

If I understand this correctly, your assertion is that me selling you a print 14 years ago (or 28) would now give you (or anyone) permission to put that on T-shirts and sell them despite that I'm…

> Now I just assume they're taking my feedback and feeding it right back to the LLM. This is especially annoying when you get back a response in a PR "Yes, you're right. I have push…

Why should I be required to license my (non-stock) photographs hanging in a gallery to someone who wants to make placemats of those images? Why should a photograph of a model (I have a model release) …

How would this impact open source? Would I be required to register every repository that I have on GitHub? Would anyone be able to license that repository for $(legislated amount) and make it into a …

> Copyright must be registered. https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04_e.htm Members shall comply with Articles 1 through 21 of the Berne Conve…

Which government do I need to have faith in for enforcing the copyright for a citizen of Wakanda who is infringing upon my work? The floor of copyright reform is set by TRIPS and the WTO. That's…

As a photographer, why should I be forced to sell prints of the photographs that are hanging in a restaurant? If the limitations on copyright weren't present, why wouldn't the restaurant mak…

Which government? Who controls the account? How do I claim it? How does this work across national boundaries? (e.g. how does someone in Wakanda license a work created by someone in the US? How does…

I'm gonna flip this around... have you tried pasting the image (and the relevant paragraph of text) and asking ChatGPT (or another LLM) to generate the alt text for the image and see what it prod…

From a couple years ago... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/seeing-a... https://youtu.be/R2mC-NUAmMk https://youtu.be…

This is largely a moot point unless the US wants to withdraw from TRIPS (and implicitly the WTO) and join the list of countries that don't observe it such as... Eritrea, Kiribati, North Korea, So…

It was driven by privacy and on device compute. Anything you ask an Android device to do, or an Alexa device goes to their clouds to be 100% processed there. Apple tried to make a small and focused in…

Again, you are focusing on tech workers. Not everyone on a H-1B visa is a tech worker. There is a problem with tech and how oversubscribed the H-1B visa is because of tech contracting - especially wi…

The position of "Can we just cancel this program please?" I take to mean all of the H-1B visas. This is a position that I've often seen echoed by people who haven't considered t…

Not everyone wants to relocate to rural hospital areas (where they're often most in demand as a fraction of the total workers). The wages are often tied to what insurance (and medicare) can reim…

Could you elaborate on how wages of native French speaking language teachers are being suppressed? Or that nurses in North Dakota are not getting jobs because the hospital is going through the process…