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syrrim

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    Comment #49031320

    This is a facile and pointless discussion. The hard work in building source code is paying millions of dollars to software engineers to write it. "Open source" allows others to ben…

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    Comment #49027020

    Fighter jets don't need 100%. In a war, we accept a much higher rate of casualties than we do in day to day driving. I would also imagine that while planes are harder for a person …

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    Comment #49025816

    > What happens when "those files on a USB drive" turn into a zero day button that can harm millions of people? We need to make sure only the chinese and criminals have that zero da…

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    Comment #49010988

    There's no question about it. Llm output is not copyrightable. Which is moot anyways, because training on copyrighted data is completely legal.

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    Comment #48987929

    The "head of strategic futures" at openai stated "I don't think [kimi's] performance can be explained away by distillation". So you're premise is likely faulty.

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    Comment #48969626

    that's not arch specific per se but touche

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    Comment #48968806

    > I don't know if that is an Arch distribution specific feature. That's unlikely for two reasons, first because minecraft is closed source, and second because arch packages usually…

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    Comment #41937324

    recommend setting up tests for your code s/t failures block deployment. can catch categories of bugs beyond typing errors

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    Comment #39655205

    And someone choosing to pay for threema presumably trusts threema.

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    Comment #39648885

    Or require it of all devices sold in the EU, regardless of where those devices are later brought. This would be entirely defensible - "we're just regulating products sold within ou…

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    Comment #36125562

    Could you render very close objects twice, far objects once, then composite the image for each eye?

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    Comment #36125515

    Presumably, the GP considers intent to be the only relevant factor in determining if something is racist.

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    Comment #36059200

    > The police can't circumvent legislation by just paying a PI to stalk you instead. Why would they need to? Stalking you doesn't require a warrant. Breaking into your house, for ex…

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    Comment #36050826

    Or they were supremely overvalued as of oct '21, as were many other stocks and securities, and the decline represents a return to sanity.

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    Comment #36039112

    One suspects that the delay was not caused by the complexity of the implementation, but rather uncertainty around the necessity or desirability of it.

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    Comment #35993447

    A middle ground between exceptions in c++ and checking every function call for an error code in c.

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    Comment #35938234

    Most implementations I've seen use an ioctl to query those particular bits. That's implemented quite reliably, since the same ioctl is used for character size as window size. Some …

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    Comment #35938171

    You need to configure it properly or pass the -u flag for it to support unicode I believe.

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    Comment #35924452

    The data collection would also be illegal in the EU I presume.

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    Comment #35895829

    An inch in aspect ratio is a relatively large change, considering it entails ~70% of an inch in both dimensions. It would be better to compare screen area or vertical and horizonta…

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    Comment #35895596

    Either the competitor has no ads and doesn't charge money, at which point it would bleed money, or it charges a fee, and hence would be even less successful than youtube.

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    Comment #35721179

    Apple sells hardware and software/services, Microsoft sells primarily software and software services (surface aside). Hardware is the business of buying materials, improving them, …

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    Comment #35683229

    They cared enough to implement detection and blocking.

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    Comment #35673284

    Afghanistan is a relatively poor, undeveloped country, yet they just demonstrated their sovereignty in your sense against the most capable country on earth. Of course, if the US wa…