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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How hard is the core are we talking here?

HARDCORE TO THE MEGA!

HARDCORE

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

A proper engineer would make the tag absorbent and use the principle of capillarity to transfer the water to the bag (and the other way round once tea flavoured) to cover this case.

Users can't avoid being stupid, but a proper engineer should be able to cover all cases.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

If it can be mounted both ways it should work both ways. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I just push both, to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I liked TARGA, personally...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I don't even drive a car, but I'd still download one out of principle (wouldn't actually print it, though, waste of resources if I'm not going to use it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A collage would be fair use

A collage made by a human, sure. One made automatically by a piece of software, though, I'm not so sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

the argument is that it's not actually copying it and instead learning from it.

It's not learning, though.

Saying that these models have learnt the data they've been built with is akin to saying a zip file has learnt the data it's storing.

It's not AI or anything remotely resembling AI, it's just a new form of storage that's very good at classifying the data that's been stored in it and retrieving stored data that shares similar classification properties.

Its only difference from straight up copying are the classifications it builds. Whether that's transformative enough to count as fair use, though, is open to debate.

If you make a software that takes random pictures off the web and randomly makes collages out of them, would it be fair use? Would those collages be copyrightable?

Whatever you answer should be your same answer for these models (I believe current copyright law would say that the software is copyrightable, but its works aren't, and don't fall under fair use, but I might be wrong).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As someone used to working in c# (and before that Java, C++, Visual Basic, and Pascal) I haven't seen any brace or semicolon related errors since the days of Borland IDEs (any remotely self respecting IDE will highlight them and refuse to compile, these days), but working with Kotlin has shown me that I, at least, read code with semicolons slightly faster than code without.

There's a reason we use punctuation when writing, and the same applies to code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a shit ton of physical media going back into the eighties

If you care about it, you should make sure that you still have it, and not just useless plastic, and make backup copies (and / or upload it)... magnetic tapes and discs degrade quite fast, and even CDs and DVDs have a limited lifespan... vinyls will probably be fine, though if treated properly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Big, but orders of magnitude smaller than what all the Steam games I've bought at sales and never found the time to play would need if I installed them all at the same time.

“Piracy” really is a service problem.

(Fuck, I've got Amazon Prime for the free deliveries — it comes bundled around these parts and is surprisingly cheap — and I still torrent Amazon series because it's more convenient and gives me better quality...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's the way. Turning computers off isn't good for them anyway.

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