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It's worrying, but it's consistent with how copyright law is currently written. Laws haven't caught up with what technology is currently capable of yet. The discussion should be wh…

> I don't believe this, and I doubt that the sense of copying in copyright law is so literal. It is actually that literal, really. > For instance, if I generated the exact text of …

It sounds to me like you're responding to a different argument than they're actually making and reading intent into it that isn't written into it.

That's the "but their case would still fail if the second author could show that their work was independent, no matter how improbable" part of the post you're responding to.

This actually isn't what legal precedent currently says. The precedent is currently looking at actual output, not models being tainted. If you think this is morally wrong, look int…

> If you had a hermetically sealed code base that just happened to coincide line for line with the codebase for GCC, it would still be a copy. If you somehow actually randomly prod…

Creole is a scientific term, not a casual one. Creoles evolve from pidgins. English was never a pidgin, and it has a very clear history. No useful interpretation of the word "creol…

By "continuous physics", it doesn't mean the "objects don't go through walls" thing (that's easy), it means that it actually finds the times that interactions happen. Box2d isn't a…

I covered integration error in my first post here, point 3. The thing I was calling Box2D out for is the fact that it doesn't use a hacky way of rectifying collisions. It seeks out…

>I don't know why you keep saying this. Because it's true. The same operation on the same data may give different results on different CPUs, even if you're operating at the machine…

Online games avoid that problem by having an authoritative networking architecture, not by avoiding minor deviations in CPU behavior between players. Games that use synchronized lo…

First, even at a constant framerate, different players will have different experiences with the game due to different amounts of latency in their peripherals, weird CPU bugs, very …

The whole point of robots.txt is that there are pages which people may hit that bots can't. What are you on?

Robots.txt is different. Without it, bots have no way of knowing whether to get any other data from the site. You would need "bots allowed" information in the HTTP handshake itself…