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So we need to "prohibit to the states" the power to enforce medical procedures (or the prohibition of a medical procedure) on individuals. Which amendment protects someone's bodily…

One of my first jobs, back in the 1980s, was a project for a government department that the supplier (Wang Computers) had bet on MS-DOS being multi-process. Of course, it wasn't bu…

Does this apply to Apple to have something separate to Siri in iOS?

When you are integrating to other people's stacks, then you need a test facility where people can bring systems together, sometimes there are also physical elements that are requir…

Depends on the type of testing. If you're doing integration testing between systems, then it's not just a matter of spinning it up on a developer's local machine. You need a testin…

Corporate personhood is a common legal practice, where necessary the law distinguishes between "persons" and "natural persons". That's the same in the US/UK/AU/NZ/CA/DE/JP/IN. The …

The first paragraph talking about reviewing, editing, and refining, is literally the job of a Literary Editor when working with an author on their literature. Editors do not have a…

I've been a programmer for 40 years, I've never considered myself to be an engineer. We don't have the same level of "proven solutions" and constraints and mathematical rigor that …

Just prompts are not considered to be "direction". The example in the US Copyright Office report was of a client providing "direction" to an architect, which did not provide the cl…

There are two different but related copyright problems with LLM generated code: 1. Making a derivative work of already existing copyrighted code that breaks that code's license (eg…

Do they offer the same indemnification that the code they generate IS subject to copyright and that you own that? Because the US Copyright begs to differ.

The fact that AI generated code is not subject to copyright means that your contribution is essentially public domain. This means that any license (GPL, BSD, Apache etc) are no lon…

I thought they were "clankers" not "clangers"?

LLM-generated code is not subject to copyright.

Given that the GPL is entirely dependent on copyright to be enforceable, the fact that AI contributions are not copyrightable is something that is going to bite someone big very so…

If debugging is the art of removing bugs from programs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.

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"Design depends largely on constraints." - Charles Eames

Maybe start with freight aircraft which are less subject to the standard airport gate configuration restrictions? Avoids the issues about people sitting in the wing area and "enjoy…

On rentals: Anecdata vs ABS statistics. No one is arguing that rents haven't gone up, but the rise peaked post COVID at ~8% and are now roughly reverted to the mean of 3-4% pa. On …

Hope HVDC really takes off, having a power network that has solar feed covering 3 timezones as well as multiple latitudes adds to the national solar harvest and grid resiliency.

Smart meters don't make things better or worse, they are technology that enables better time-of-use metering than the century of multiple meters for peak vs off-peak consumption, a…

In response to your nonsense about Victoria somehow being bankrupt.

Amber offers that in Australia. https://www.amber.com.au/

Victoria has had smart meters rolled out for over a decade. The rest of the states in the NEM are aiming for 2030 to complete their rollouts. Aside from the supposed "contentious" …