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I was initially confused what Dawkins was doing with books, until I realized that the "he" in your last sentence was Kahle, not Dawkins. Might want to edit your comment to put his …

What happens if you try to run Python eggs under Chicken? Do you get Roko's Basilisk? :-)

> He knew to crash on a golf course so the doctors didn't need to walk very far. (Not a joke. That happened.) The link only mentions that he crashed on the golf course, not why he …

Claw "game" (scam) machines have deliberately-weak grasps, designed to drop the item they've grabbed whenever the arm is jolted — and then it's jolted at least once, usually twice,…

For those who use Chicken Scheme: what made you pick it over other Lisps? What are some things it does particularly well?

I was expecting something about double-entry accounting and how it can (initially) be non-intuitive whether to mark a given entry as a debit (-100) or credit (+100), especially for…

You just reminded me of a funny story about redundant power supply. A college buddy used to work at Motorola (I'm naming the company because they wouldn't mind this story being sha…

Maybe the workflows, etc., are inherent complexity, so that any similarly-flexible product will have the same problems. But the awful client-server architecture, where anything you…

Back when I was in college, I took some philosophy classes just for fun. I discovered when I took Symbolic Logic that while everyone else was struggling with the class, I was findi…

Even with all the downsides of being colonized by Britain, it was still far better than being colonized by Belgium. Heck, being colonized by pretty much anybody but Belgium was bet…

In countries with a sensible legal system, yes. Truth is not a defense against defamation in all countries. I can't know what country you (generic you) are in, so best to look up y…

The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe: > MySpace seemed like…

> Firstly, they didn't spend trillions on training. Then please argue with the guy who said they did, the guy who goes by richardw and whose comment I was responding to in the firs…

In Codeberg's case, they have chosen not to distinguish between those. Their bright line is "mostly", as in, if your project "mostly" consists of LLM output then it is not allowed.…

Which is true, but also completely irrelevant to the point of this discussion. Which was about the U.S. companies spending trillions and the Chinese companies spending billions and…

And, as I pointed out elsewhere, the difference I was pointing out was an economic difference. You keep on ignoring that fact and thinking I'm talking about ethics, but I'm not. I'…

It takes more computing power, and money, to pay for training an LLM, compared to distilling an LLM that someone else has already trained. That's the economic difference.

The difference I was referring to was economic; I was not making an ethical judgment. So many people seem to be reading my comment as making an ethical judgment (based on their rea…

It quotes figures from Q1 of 2026, so it was definitely published this year.

The first time I encountered VTubing, I thought the point was just to hide your face, for various reasons. Being sensitive about your looks, not wanting to attract stalkers, whatev…

Huh? What exactly do you think I'm trying to "cope" with? That American AI companies are overleveraged and some of them are going to go bankrupt? I've been predicting that for mont…

Not saying the American AI companies are ethically in the right, just that the work they did is a lot more expensive to do than what the companies distilling their work are doing.

Good UIs look alike, yes. But I'm not sure that comment is a good rebuttal in this particular case, because the model calling itself Claude is pretty strong evidence of distilling:…

That's the difference between innovating and copying/distilling someone else's innovation. https://wccftech.com/chinas-kimi-k3-identifies-itself-as-ant...

And null termination is guaranteed to work, because the only two characters forbidden in Unix filenames (for most varieties of Unix, I won't guarantee there aren't some weird varia…