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Yep, web browsers.

Mirrors my experience.

Paying for sync is my way of supporting the developers of this excellent application. The sync works well, it's less hassle, and more secure than using the usual cloud services, pa…

Now imagine that instead of an iPad, you've just bought a new house with fantastic materials and an integrated software system. Should the company that built it have the right to c…

Something like https://github.com/nci/drishti might be useful.

I think his software was a work of art, distinct from a tool for making art. As Rich Hickey pointed out "Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy."

FUD isn't enough to maintain market dominance indefinitely, just ask Microsoft.

Splatting for volume rendering is quite old - Westover, Lee Alan (July 1991). "SPLATTING: A Parallel, Feed-Forward Volume Rendering Algorithm"

If LLMs are soon to become AGIs they will have as much right to read copyright works as anyone else. Is a post scarcity world where parasitic rent seeking would be pointless someth…

s/effective/defective/g

So they want to align the AI with corporate goals. At least they're being honest here. I want a personal assistant to summarize a page, remove all advertising and do a fact check. …

In the light of the Google "moat" document, this would appear to a cynical attempt to monopolize the field before it gets going.

First paragraph of the docs - "Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environmen…

So if movies use AI to help create characters they won't be able to claim copyright? I expect Hollywood studios will have something to say about this. With AI already being deeply …

I often wonder how much data they would have accumulated with Google Reader and Google Code that would now be a gold mine for training AI. Short sighted management!

It's a great opportunity for employers to pick off Amazon's best developers. Start making them offers!

Google promised to index the world's information but ended up a noisy advertising platform that intrudes into all our lives. We sacrificed our privacy for the convenience of search…

Question - do any of the other streaming services have better Linux support?

The age old ostrich approach!

And they expect people to buy hardware from them in the future?

Not sure that is strictly correct. I vaguely remember a command line browser early in the piece. The inline image ability and tag came a bit later in the story when Andreessen put …

So I've determined Einstein had the remarkable trait of mathematical and physical intuituon. Also Pavarotti had a remarkable ability to sing. Now all I have to do is copy them, swe…