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> It’s been established that LLM-generated code is not copyrighted If that's a reference to Thaler v. Perlmutter, the only thing that's been established is that an LLM can't be con…

One out of two isn't catastrophic, but dear gods, wouldn't it be nice if people consulted the map instead of going off by the vibes. Poor Moldova, it got roped into the Balkans jus…

Any party can win if it gets the majority of candidates across all parliamentary constituencies. However, a Prime Minister must be elected as an MP somewhere . If Reform got a majo…

Couldn't help noticing: In other words, it’s not just a tool problem, any more than it’s a human resources problem or a leadership problem. Instead it is a systemic problem [...] S…

> are there people that use the caps lock key? I for one do. Old habit when typing in longish C constants (ECONNRESET) or shell environment variables. I'm used to typing capitals b…

Domino theory as applied to business, plus one should never underestimate the lengths to which a company will go to wring the last ounce of profit from a market.

> This is what they don't tell you about continuous/transition/progressive bifocals: optically they don't work. I'll defer to your judgement re optical properties, but I want to of…

> But the 15c 'Collector's Edition' had some issues, and I wonder about the build quality and reliability of this new one, too. Build quality deteriorated (from impressive heights)…

Yes. Bell Labs are a shadow of their former glory, when Bell could lavishly fund it, having a quasi-socialist telecommunications monopoly. Private companies don't like to fund rese…

> I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude) Who, then, understands the code? If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. O…

> Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that peopl…

> I went to Finland, and there were ships going from Finland to Estonia, carrying people just to buy cheaper alcohol there. They went back to Helsinki with shopping bags full of vo…

> You just have to use a secure device. Secure as defined by a duo of monopolists. It's a contractual concept and doesn't have a firm relation to security-related characteristics. …

> Considering the amount of money at stake, Software is a deeply, deeply unserious and careless industry, and a great many practitioners are also deeply unserious and careless peop…

The plus I haven't encountered before, but "996" is a Google away. In short, working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days per week.

> You must belong to the club of folks who use hashmaps to store 100 objects. Apparently I belong to the same club -- when I'm writing AWK scripts. (Arrays are hashmaps in a trench…

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> Why can't the cyclists slow down when they see that there's a human obstacle in front of them? They usually do. (The considerate and/or non-confrontational ones. There are always…

> That is spectacularly useless Depends. If one is aware of the meaning of section numbers, that "(5)" is very obviously suggesting that there is a file format named "crontab" whic…

Hehe "Balkonkraftwerk", available from Lidl for €250 (see TFA). This makes me unreasonably happy for some reason.

> Just having something like "Have a bonded 3rd party security team review the source code and running router software" would solve around 95% of the stupid things they do. It woul…

Not on account of its control software, which is what I was talking about.

> So, we don't need an electrical code to enforce correct wiring. For an analogy to work, its underlying elements should have a relation to the target. Your analogy is not in the s…

> With network protocols, you make one layer (Ethernet), you add another layer (IP), then another (TCP), then another (HTTP). Each one fits inside the last, but is independent, and…

Qt costs serious money if you go commercial. That might not be important for a hobby project, but lowers the enthusiasm for using the stack since the big players won't use it unles…