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Comment It's Likely The Ship of Theseus (Score 1) 85

Articles and people will quote the book, there will be previews, reviews, translations and quotes in media and study.

Sure it may have read the book, but recital needs all the rest, built from parts that aren't the original, in order to weigh the NN.

Reading it once (in training) won't on its own have been enough to allow it to recall the book, so should they be accused of ripping off the copyrighted work if the parts were taken from unrelated (and legal) sources and piecing it together?

Comment Re: LEGAL LIABILITY (Score 1) 120

Yes they could, but when was the last time you heard of a dev using z notation or even knowing wtf it was? Your average code monkey would still fuck it up and a business would go under by the time the specs were formalised and ratified. Having hard non changing specs is why waterfall modeling is seldom used now except in safety critical systems.

Comment Re: Nope, just people defending their jobs and pre (Score 1) 236

Is it condescending? If you don't have money to influence what is in your best interests, what recourse would you have? I suppose you could take up arms...

For paternalistic, well that's the point of the state, to look after it's citizens, would you be complaining if a there was no benefit state because that's paternalistic too? If you agree with that statement then you'd need to consider that the US would become a police state due to the increase in crime, which is exactly the trouble seen in a few third world countries.

IDK perhaps the US should let monopolies and oligopolies go unchecked too because that's skewed too, which must therefore be condescending and paternalistic.

Or not.

Comment Visiting a sex shop website and prudish... (Score 1) 36

Gone are the days of browsing the top shelves and being seen by your neighbour and local shop keeper, typically a mid 30 year old woman trying to either keep a straight face and not judge, but leaving the magazine piled on top of everything else on the counter... :D

These days it seems you just sue these people for daring to suggest you also buy some johnnies or lube to complement the purchase.

Comment Re: Nope, just people defending their jobs and pre (Score 3, Interesting) 236

Non American mid right wing view (mine): Sometimes capitalism needs a *correction* because money skews everything; votes, vested interests and actual innovation, the very thing it was supposed to be better than Communism at.

Pushing solar particularly in the US where it's abundant is quite sensible, it's a natural resources just like oil you have plenty of, why wouldn't you take advantage of that? Jobs? Well yes jobs, but that means you're akin to training the next Gen in hand making cars when the rest of the world has moved onto robot assembly lines.

Market *correction* isn't always about letting the people choose, it's about letting the oldies retire out where technology is no longer needed.

Comment Tuition fees are the cause (Score 0) 229

Charging tuition fees was a big mistake.
They kicked the funding ball down the road and now reaping what they sow as the students can no longer afford it (no thanks to lying Lib Dems either who threw students under a bus when they got in coalition power, have said they would scrap them again but didn't).

With decline in STEM, we're going to have GenX and millennials be a large proportion of the science and technology part of the economy, right as AI and soon AGI comes about. Oh well, at least I get to have higher demand for my skills.

Nb. it's still free in Scotland, at least they know to invest in their future.

Comment Fuck em (Score 3, Interesting) 83

I had my account hacked in the early 2000s by a Russian (my own fault, I was naive back then) and had a ~100000 account number which was valuable on the black market due being low. I complained to their support, asked them to email me to reset, and all they said was "create a new account" and refused to help. They did this for a lot of people from what I can tell so fuck 'em. They're not missed.

Comment Dick move, should have done it with unit tests (Score 2) 117

I did a similar kind of thing a few years ago.
Big project, warned another dev not to take some lazy ass approach and creating a God object instead of doing it properly.
I added a unit test that counted fields under some circumstances.
Test would run fine even in dev scenarios, the minute it made it to main line CI all hell broke loose.
Test wasn't pointless btw, it said something akin to "Don't add new fields to this object, you'll break the flaky deserialisation in (external system) and you'll also cause issues with size of the object in (xyz scenarios)."
That developer was exceptionally pissed with me because his feature didn't go out that sprint, had it done it would have destabilised the flaky as fuck anyway tech debt ridden prod system relied on by thousands of people, so he had to change his solution since the error was now visible to all other project devs. That's what Linus should have done and blocked it from mainline merge.

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