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"Does the GPL specify that the user has to change the name when it's forked? " - GPL is defines copyright permissions for the software code: copying, modifying, and redistributing.…

The biggest problem is fans. They want to re-experience what they had when they first saw it, then get mad when the movies don't live up to their past experience. I was 7 when Star…

Again, the question is who blesses the expert? There’s a difference in having a voice and your voice being taken seriously. If someone posts a link on a a new laptop, who should re…

It can catch things that I might miss or might be misinterpreted. I sometime miss simple things, like like repeated words, that an AI point out. Is a spell checker considered "AI"?…

What constitutes “at edited”. If I throw a block of text in to an ai see if it makes sense — say a response to a post — and fold the suggestions in, is that “ai edited”?

The sequel series was one of my favorite sets of books. It’s markedly different from Rendezvous, but I found them an enjoyable read. It was contrived at points, but the series had …

There is a concept of “the burden or knowledge”, in that doctors know the worst thing that could happen, so they recommend the most cautious approach. My son had stomach pain one t…

I feel the same way about using the Internet or books to code. I'd rather just have the source code so that I'm not dependent on anything other then my own brain.

I bought the first edition when it came out. I was just 3 years into my SW development career and it provided a lot of good advise. I bought the second edition and enjoyed it, but …

Is your complaint that it has errors? I mean look at what it can do. This is a freaking computer generating things from scratch based on a prompt. Two years ago, technology like th…

I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to leave it’s not an is…

What's to prevent HIV from evolving past the protection? Strains of gonorrhea (a bacteria) has evolved to get around antibiotics. Won't that happen with HIV? Or is a virus not able…

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

It was the 80s.

40-plus years ago, I would take my dads bow and arrows, stand in the front yard, and shoot arrows straight up in the air. Not too high up, but high enough for me to toss the bow as…

“Women don’t read sci-fi”?

I bought a loofah pad and it works amazingly well. Never breaks the skin.

My understanding is that the drugs keeps you from wanting to eat as much.

20-some odd years ago I added the initial bookmarking feature to Rockbox. None the MP3 players at the time targeted audiobook users so it wasn't a feature you could find on the mar…

When I was 12 or 13 (in the early 1980s), the same thing happened to me. I told my mom, who scheduled an appointment at the doctor. At the appointment the doctor needed to prove ar…

I use a "Go To Root" bookmarklet for both going to the root url of the current URL; or going to the subreddit if I'm in a reddit story. It's far from perfect, but I use it daily: `…

I wonder if this could be used to address allergies as well.

When I lived in Colorado, I had a habit of checking my oil every time I filled up my tank, and would top it off when it was low.

I recently asked an AI for help writing a python program with a mutex to prevent outdated information from being accessed. It presented me with a solution that I didn't fully under…