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Hi, I wanted to ask you a further question about heat dissolution. You had commented on a previous posting of mine - I waited too long to reply and I can't reply to the original co…

I'm the person who originally said "how can that be true about surveillance video?". I found a good writeup on it, https://www.techdirt.com/2020/02/24/can-you-license-video-yo... T…

I guess you aren't kidding with your comments. Mentioning what something is, where that thing isn't that well know is not egregious. Also, don't the people who make SuperDuperer! w…

I appreciate your informed take. I follow the reasoning but I am amazed it works this way. I found some articles that supported what you said, and also said there's a follow-on ind…

We'll just get used to it and the problems won't seem so bad, even if they are. To bring it all back, it's just like using oracle software in your enterprise, after a while you for…

I think if I as a human use an llm to do something technical that would qualify copyright, it should still qualify for copyright. How do you decide how much human is copyrightable.…

well, plus the evidence of billionaires pushing for things that aren't that great after all. Maybe good for their bankroll though.

Yes, lots, look at the current US government.

We have locks on our doors for a reason. Any software that allows updates and relies on the honor system of "someone else must have checked this" will get hacked. Every day there's…

The behavior of the us is so stupid and self-destructive I'm constantly amazed that the average trump supporter doesn't see it. But the failure of the political resistance to him i…

And then there's the problem that you can't just log in with name and password to your email address. You need your special "authy" style number generator, or a software version on…

Yeah, there's no solution for heat dissolution at this time. You can run a few cpus in space, you are a few seconds closer to the data to figure out something basic, but you cant d…

but is the article on reddit about old.reddit.com being killed so they can track your porn viewing after you have to log in.

I hate all this biometric scanning on all sides. As an American it makes me not want to visit the EU to avoid being scanned, and I'd understand the other way too if an EU member wa…

How many years till it works and it's in service for regular missions? SpaceX says just a few more test flights hopefully, it's years later from earlier optimistic completion dates…

Tesla is another crazily overpriced stock but first my pointless take on spaceX. (1) SpaceX has a huge number of restricted shares coming onto the market soon as this thread has di…

I know someone whose garmin watch refused to charge after a few years, not sure if it was caused by sweat. Mine is starting to get wonky after a few years. I keep worrying I'll plu…

I didn't but that's the case. More likely there was a limited chance to evaluate the issue and something like they had a limited time launch window, no replacement ready and it tes…

Yep, I was thinking the exact same thing. Write something, get your llm to rewrite it to "standard Steve Yegge form" to hide your identity. If we all do the same we are probably sa…

I am strongly against asking an llm to weigh the pros and cons of important life decisions. Flipping a coin or throwing bones on the floor is just as good at making an important de…

Both experiences would help your future employment. I'd encourage grad school unless the Amazon job was something particularly special and perfect. Amazon might be willing to defer…

This is a clever trick to get you to enter your real name. ;-) I entered mine, I was on the page kind of, there was some kind of exaggeration of me as the last one. I was surprised…

I was expecting to find out that lots of men killed in the war led to many more women working after the war, and that's what could be interpreted/guessed from these pictures. But l…

We'll figure out how to make it much much cheaper to produce the compute needs we have today with tokens. The question is will how many new use cases arise that need much more - cl…

Thanks so much for your analysis. This kind of investigation and exposure of lazy work is the reason I love hacker news.