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Do the AI labs in the U.S. publish the AWS IP address sets that their crawlers use? Is that not an effective way to block those crawlers anymore?

I'm starting to think that complaining about these kinds of practices isn't having an effect.

I understand you about the implied contract. I think it's more complex than that. People were making videos before the promise of ad revenue, and they were better videos. If people…

I'm not generating revenue for a lot of companies who are in the advertising business. That's not the definition of piracy. Find another word.

I agree with this. There was no meeting of the minds, no contract. But, the terms in the Google account probably include something about the terms for viewing youtube videos.

No, piracy is defined as stealing a vendor's exclusivity by making copies and putting them up on a web site. Ad blocking is not the same as making copies and distributing. You migh…

Judging by the response to the parent come back, evidently TSMC deserves the high prices it will be charging. Why? It's unrealistic to expect just anyone to start up a new fab. But…

The story at the beginning proves that choosing your VP is significantly more important than choosing a PL.

> I was daunted by making the jump to C, then c++ and python. Only over time did I overcome the nerves and move on with Java, [...] It sounds as if you did skip C++ and moved to Ja…

Let the team choose the language they're most familiar with or most happy with. Then if they choose the wrong one, get a different team.

> A new language / style / technology / whatever very often will leave us less competent. This may be a big factor in rejecting unfamiliar languages. Over time the brain trains its…

I too appreciate detail-free programs, and I wonder at the value of including all the typedecls and pointer markings, and lifetime markings, and mutability markings interleaved wit…

> [...] show people posts from the people they follow or that the people they follow liked. Yes, this is a good system. It'll work particularly well at filtering spam because peopl…

Yes the symbols in a way are the letters of APL, and the phrases are the words.

I never did any real programming in APL, but I studied it over about 2 months. When you get used to the symbols, reading spelled-out words feels like reading in slow motion, or bei…

I saw a video where a mechanic replaced a pack on his Model S with a 100Wh pack. There were some minor issues of fit, which he had all figured out. There was a connector change and…

If Google has failed so far to resolve mem safety issues in their decades old giant code base, then I'd rather hear standardization ideas from someone who succeeded. If G succeeded…

The article in question is published on Google's blog. Has Google resolved memory safety issues in its C++ code base? Did G port their code base to Rust or some other memsafe langu…

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I notice you don't make a definite claim that it wasn't stolen. You're annoyed by the fact others believe it was, based on what you feel is insufficient evidence, yes? But if you c…

> Because I'd much rather my grandma get a COVID vaccine than trying to find a source of Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. So the misinformation didn't affect your decision making.…

I agree with the first part totally, and you're probably right I invented something there. I only meant that free speech / "more information helps" seems to resonate with the right…

Those are all valid disadvantages of community notes, and free speech in general. How do you explain that there are smart people who have known about these very disadvantages for m…

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