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I'm not a copyright lawyer, but it seems pretty clear to me you can't wash a license using an LLM. [US jurisdiction]: Anything in the result written by the LLM can not be copyright…

> While the intent is not to call for competing proposals, we believe that now is a good time to discuss and propose alternative proposals as well. If I were a contributor I would …

Well, there is a long tradition of "testing" developer candidates by asking them to exhibit skills in tasks that they never, ever, do in their work. Like whiteboard coding. It does…

It's not uncommon for older aerial photos to be single-pixel lines that the film is moved past. The motion of the film is correlated with the motion across the ground, so you can r…

I don't know, I go back and forth a bit. The thing that makes me skeptical is this: where is the training data that contains the experiences and thought processes that senior devel…

Did you ever test drive the Drafts app? It is remarkably easy to build customized workflows, both editing and document processing, and is built to be glue between different documen…

I don't think your conclusion of "hitting the wall on intelligence" is warranted. It makes more sense to believe that scaling has hit the wall on available text data to train on, a…

That answer has 4 upvotes. A much more electrically literate answer above it, with 35 upvotes, explains in detail that it is a real thing.

I don't recall any groups using Vignette at AOL during that time. It may be that one of the acquisitions used it prior to being acquired, but again, I never heard about it.

For many years every web page at CNN and all web email at AOL was hosted by AOLserver and coded in TCL. It was not a mess.

Two reasons it matters: 1) Discoverability 2) "System structure mirrors organization". I.E., it's an indicator of a fragmented and disorganized structure that's not likely to produ…

As someone who's spouse is currently in their 3rd year of rehabilitation after TMJ (tempo-mandibular joint) reconstruction, let me warn you against any kind of chewing activity tha…

I was like that for several decades but after I retired I got better. I'm fairly certain that, at least in my case, it was a form of hypervigilance and based in anxiety. I'm less a…

Not a mainstream view. Python 3 is a hugely successful language and implementation, and almost no one regrets that it exists aside from a few noisy holdouts, and people who never l…

I've never heard any seismologist holding a responsible office blaming the Ridgecrest quake on any man-made cause. The links posted do not support that claim either. Do you have an…

Because it costs too much to keep them running safely.

To be specific, it's even more basic than that. For 10Base-5 and all the coax ethernets, it was "if there's more energy on the wire than you are transmitting, a collision is presen…

RTO is actually energy positive from a heating/cooling point of view (i.e., excluding transportation). People set their home HVAC to "away" to reduce use, and the central HVAC syst…

Austin Energy does Tiered Usage billing, not time-of-use, for residential customers.

Your local fire department will want to very closely inspect your explosive materials handling and safety procedures. Think about what big banks of lead-acid batteries have to do, …

Seasonal energy storage is the last thing that needs to be addressed in the storage hierarchy. There are very high-value targets starting on very low time frames.

In Olympic track and field at least two cameras, mounted on opposite sides of the finish line, are required to be used. So the judges had available for their use both perspectives.…

> how do they ensure the lines are drawn on the frame exactly at the finish line? They don't. The horizontal axis is time. The red lines mark the time each runner's torso was count…