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For a big tech the publishing fees are nothing in comparison to what they can revenue on patents. Let's say that they AI generate 1000 patents and let's say the cost is 1000$ for e…

The problem is that it doesn't work as such. We all know that Meucci invented the telephone but Bell patented it. The patent office rarely care about it, they register whatever you…

Depends, for example if the variable that selects between the two implementations is a compile time constant (#define or constexpr variable) the compiler can really remove the cond…

Indeed. The problem is trying to apply the principles of "Clean Code" or more generally of OOP everywhere. There are surely cases where having an interface as an abstraction and mu…

Only reason that I see is that is free to use, why other alternatives are either paid or you needs to be hosted (and thus you need to pay the cost of a server and the work to maint…

Well, not exactly. A LLM is still a computer, doesn't have an intelligence (beside being called AI). That means that their output is a mere computation of their input data, and the…

Let's say that Anthropic trains their models on their internal (private) codebase. Let's say that a contributor using Claude generates a piece of code (long enough to account for c…

An this is exactly the reason why the GNU project doesn't want LLM contributions. They don't want the chance that lawyers of some big tech state that they violated they copyright a…

To be fair, as an European, I'm now more concerned about the usage of AI that the US will be doing rather than China. And this is a sentiment shared among most European people that…

I appreciate my 2011 vehicle that only has a car radio with FM tuner and CDs, and yes, I know that I could easily swap it but I didn't on purpose, let me explain why: - all the con…

Except than later we returned to a sort-of segmented memory. That is of course paging, our programs allocates pages of memory that are a fixed size (4096 bytes) and are arranged in…

> but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once Is really that simple compared to a normal cross platform web application written in (for example, bu…

And a limited VM, for example I look at the documentation and it's not possible to share USB devices with the VM, making it perfectly useless for doing embedded development where y…

It did work quite well. The problem with the filesystem could have been solved by optimizing the Windows kernel, that would have benefit also programs run outside the WSL by the wa…

The future is clearly that, model inference running on consumer hardware not a network datacenter. We are getting there, local models gets better and better, it's only a matter of …

> if you don't like that car/company, don't buy their product. buy competitors. that will show them much better. (or petition to government to put pressure on them). That maybe fin…

No: T&C cannot override the law, that is a national/EU law is still superior to anything that is written in the T&C. If there is a contrast between T&C and the law of course that T…

To me there is a fundamental difference. Even if PC hardware costs slightly more (now because of the RAM situation, Apple producing his chips in house can get better deals of cours…

It's not the job of the operating system to protect children. Social media is bad even for adults, to my point of view why they don't address the source of the problem, banning wha…

To me is strange that for such important document they didn't print them and scan with a scanner (that way it's physically impossible that some metadata or other thing that is not …

Nowadays they call AI everything. Browsers translate websites from decades, when AI was only a word you would see in science fiction movies.

Why they are a security feature? They are not, the article even says it. Even if UUID4 are random, nobody guarantees that they are generated with a cryptographically secure random …

If you put an index on the UUID field (because you have an API where you can retrieve objects with UUID) you have kind of the same problem, at least in Postgres where a primary key…

> Even further, there is technology to encrypt from server to screen. I'm not sure on the rollout on this one. I think we have a long time until this is implemented, and even then,…

I think because it cost money and they get little benefit on doing so. Major platform like Netflix etc. don't implement that DRM since they care, it's because they content they dis…