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> If they had no useful purpose, why did we think about them for years? I don't see a 'we' here. By your own admission you didn't spend years thinking about complicated math topics…

You can insist otherwise, but I suspect that so long as the government continues to ignore people's basic need for privacy, things will continue to get broken.

There's no question that, in general, people expect businesses to provide a valuable service that does not harm society in the process. Of course, the consensus as to what things a…

Social contract also includes the expectation that, over all, businesses work for the benefit of society, not its detriment.

> Why would Hanwha Vision need anything remotely related to the DoD? Is it possible that their CI is provided by some centralized team at their parent company Hanwha, where the nee…

In the controversy over AI and intellectual property rights, the notion of asymmetrical enforcement of those rights is presently an active and dynamic rhetorical position. If you s…

I feel the exact opposite. I feel that the documents I've collected but only lightly recall form an extension of my mind. I routinely collect electronic copies of technical documen…

Did you miss the 'prepare' in the title?

Well, a large swath of both sides are wrong in that they insist theirs is the only valid perspective.

> It is also the story of something larger: how powerful people and institutions failed, one after another, to keep their AI ethics promises in the face of pressure. I've worked at…

I don't see much confusion

People have settled on the term DSL to identify those languages whose domains are highly constrained as compared to more general purpose or broad domain languages. This usage exist…

> it suggests that these tools might actually be better at delivering the perception to the user of increased productivity while real productivity gains are lower, or maybe zero, o…

Lol, no. We discourage her from using the computer because she's been scammed* so many times. Generally speaking AI is not uniformly perceived as this awe inspiring boon to those o…

> You would expect only people who have a very high opinion of themselves to not feel the need to use AI. Please explain why my 82 year-old mother-in-law needs to use AI. Is it jus…

Ex-googler here as well. I'm not sure the distortion was worse outside of the core business. In the peripheral businesses (if one can call them businesses), I think you had more of…

You mean as a distraction from the point being made?

I said "harkens". Of course that structure never appeared on a punched card, and was designed with the unix block size in mind.

> The code, but not the function, occurred in multiple places in the V6 kernel and userland. Yep. The code is essential given the design of the direct structure, which harkens back…

> No other data structure works like this. You can't mess this up in an array, because no function that manipulates arrays is just going to keep going until there is a null. This i…

strncpy appears somewhere around the Unix v7 time frame, however only as function in the standard C library. It is not used in the v7 kernel itself.

> You can spread propaganda and poorly sourced zeitgeist and be among friends but if you try to have a genuine conversation about programming languages you are made to be unwelcome…

For many people who live in bad days, the thing that passes is their life.

IP licensing and certification are entirely separate from access to standards documentation. Of course certifying conformance to a standard is going to have a cost. But publishing …

> ... not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, So it would be okay for AI to rescale a sofa to appear proportionate to o…