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I think the point is exactly that just because someone is smart in one area doesn't mean they know anything about other areas, and yet we constantly assume that's true. We probably…

I'm always surprised how many people who read my blog do so over RSS. It's probably one of my biggest traffic sources. (Definitely due to my niche topic and small reach, but still)…

Questionable acronym choice; immediately made me think of arbitrary code execution (which, you know, I would hope any processor would be capable of)

Nothing is actually rendered on the pre-render scanline, though?

Was not able to use the name of the blog post in the title, it's actually " How a Konami Cabinet Stays on Target: Target Panic!" but the "How" got stripped by HN

Personally I prefer having a smaller screen on my laptop, because I can plug it into a monitor when I need a large screen but it makes it more portable. Still miss the 11" MacBook …

It seems like a fine offer to have exist, but one that a pension fund with low risk tolerance wouldn't want to take. So everything seems reasonable with the world. Similarly I don'…

I would say the center-left didn't, but the left did. Not particularly relevant to SpaceX, though, since the left doesn't run many defense contractors.

The Signetics 2650 found its way into a bunch of arcade games by lieu of British company Century Electronics. I have a conversion kit of theirs installed into a Donkey Kong Jr. boa…

The PC Engine CPU is highly underrated. People like to go "haha, it was the TurboGrafx-16 but its CPU was 8-bit" like that makes it a joke, but that clock speed boost on top of the…

I find programming for the 6502 to be a joy in a way that the Z80 isn't. I'm not quite sure why that is; I guess maybe because 6502 feels so stripped down, the amount of context yo…

It's an odd thing here, because I don't really understand why this is LLM-specific at all. If someone came up to me and asked "who's the 6 Nimmt world champion?" I'd google it and …

The "Arduina" comment definitely made me think it might be at least a little satirical in nature

Honestly I believe there's a puritan streak in the aspartame controversy; you don't deserve to experience sweet taste if you're trying to avoid sugar, you need to suffer for your d…

I can definitely see why the Asus CEO would want to put it in that box, though.

Well sure they didn't do the dance, but you don't have to do the dance. The reason to do it is that it's a good defense in a lawsuit. Like you say, all of this is a legal minefield…

Of course, the problem with this interpretation is that all modern LLMs are derivatives from huge amounts of text under completely different licenses, including "All rights reserve…

I mean, Blanchard was the longtime maintainer of chardet already, and had wanted to relicense it for years. So I think that complicates your picture of "squatting an existing succe…

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is: In theory, copyright only protects the creative expression of source code; this is the point of the "clean room" dance, that you're keeping o…

Interesting that your takeaway is "capitalist South Korea doesn't exist" when I also said the 38th parallel held? Also I guess now we're discussing the Repugnant Conclusion, which …