Also the irony is that Disney freaking plagiarized and used stories in the PUBLIC DOMAIN...

No, that's not what happened because once something enters the Public Domain, nobody owns it any more, and anybody who wants is free to use it however they want. That's why Disney sticks to stories in the Public Domain so that they don't have to pay royalties.

I can confidently predict rsilvergun is going to do exactly what he always does: nothing. He's not the slightest bit interested in doing anything about whatever he's complaining about any more than the intelligentsia of pre-revolution Russia were, but like them, he's only interested in complaining.

Yeah but Meta torrented the entirety of Z-Library, reportedly.

They won't even pay for one copy, even setting aside the issue of trained networks being a derivative work.

You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to use the Shift key on the other side of the keyboard so that your other hand is free to move away from the home row if needed to reach a key on the top row. That's why there are two Shift keys HTH, HAND

What do you mean "promoted?" This was an entry-level job and he could only have considered to have been compotent if all that was expected of him was the ability to pick the right cheat-sheet to read to the callers more than 50% of the time.

DuckDuckGo uses, among other things, Bing. How is trusting Microsoft better than trusting Google? All you can do is decide for yourself who you're going to trust, and how much.

That's bad, but I can give you worse. Back in the '90s when I was doing senior level support for an ISP, I saw a guy on the phone firewall who clearly didn't understand Windows. The foreground program was maximized, but wasn't what he needed, so he minimized it. This brought up another maximized window that wasn't what he wanted, so he minimized that. Lather, rinse repeat. It never occurred to him to look at his taskbar and go directly to what he needed and telling him was none of my business. If it had been, he would no longer have been in charge of using anything more complicated than a push-broom or a mop, but that's why I never wanted to be a manager.

like if Amazon bought some SaaS provider that had all their infrastructure on Azure PaaS offerings. I absolutely would expect as part of the transition a pretty rapid migration from Azure infrastructure to AWS

In this case the Windsurf editor relies on Claud's model to provide an effective product, which none of OpenAI's models are offerings are even close to capable of.

I would not expect an immediate transition in that kind of Amazon acquisition where the selling point of the company being acquired's one product relies entirely on secret sauce unique to Azure. Amazon would need to put an enormous amount of effort working on AWS service offering to build the functionality required, so it would likely take a year to two at least.

There might be an eventual transition. It would not be within 6 days of possible rumors ahead of the acquisition being agreed on -- they would need to at least sign a deal on the acquisition and engage the acquired company's staff within meetings and discussions that take months before the management decides and sees for sure If and what kind of transition and how.

SMRs are toys.

Really? You might want to ask the USN what they think of them before getting too locked into your opinion. All of their current aircraft carriers today use reactors for their power, along with submarines. Clearly, they don't consider SMRs to be toys!

I so rarely need Calc in non-engineering programming but matrix algebra, yeah sometimes.

Yet there are libraries for the crunch so being familiar with the concepts and applications is more important than computation.

We should probably have CS-track math that focuses more on concepts and gets twice as much done than 1950's math classes.

Same, except for being 9 on a C=64 keyboard which was a bit non-standard.

I know some programmers who can do 120 wpm or more and that is impressive. I don't think you can get there without drilling and some people aren't built that way.

The speed helps when fleshing out a new class but that's about it. Prose, of course too.

Normally I can type faster than I can come up with good variable names or remember control flow syntax in whichever of a few dozen languages I have to use at any given hour.

Personally, I like Startpage.com. Yes, it uses Google for the actual searching, but not only does it act as a proxy so that Google can't get your IP or know who searched for what, it doesn't keep any logs so that there's no records for the police or three-letter agencies to grab. And, they trim off all of Googles huge list of ads from the results and replace them with a much smaller set of their own. (How do you think they get their money?)

An IP address does not identify a person, it identifies a network endpoint.

Very true. And, if you live in an apartment building, as more and more people are every year, the odds are that your Internet connection is provided by the management. That means that your building has exactly one public IP and all of the tenants are on a LAN with only local, non-routable IPs so that getting your public IP tells people where you live, but not who you are, no matter what the extreme privacy phreaques try to tell you.

It's absolutely critical, further you have to do it in dvorak if you want any credibility.

This is supercool(ed) research but it still amazes me that bluesky startups like this can get funding.

Is DARPA backending it?

Or is the hope of a mega acquisition before market just that high?

Doing actual physics engineering mostly stopped after 1971 so the compass is pointing in the right direction, even if this one doesn't produce a usable product.

Radiance Corp too but they have an unspoken advantage.