We've seen the phenomenon before. We've been warned against the phenomenon before, and we'll see it again in other contexts in the future for sure.

People want to be recognised for their contributions to society. People want to be treated fairly. Most scientific articles, as well as all text on the free web is already free information. It used to be difficult to search, categorise and summarise that information. There exist AI tools for that — and that is the good AI.

What also exists now are automated plagiarism and mash-up tools: that can take someone's article, change the words and churn out a new article that people can put their name on. There are scumbags that sell services for exactly that. And there are big tech firms that are operating in a very grey area.

Aaron Schwartz had broken a paywall. He did not anonymise the article authors.

You, and AI-bros like you remind me of one the people behind Pirate Bay when I argued with him back in the '90s, who used that same "information wants to be free" to justify software piracy.

The current US government is not representative for governments out there in the world, you know.

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The point was not to sell them, but the community around the hobby. I usually asked for only a little more than the cost of materials.

And that is also how I've approached open source software: It's a community first. In my first decade of using Linux, it was a movement. I got in it to build us a better future of computing, together.

A standard USB-C socket has four: one in each corner like some later Micro USB sockets. There even exists USB-C sockets with all through-hole pins but there's no space for USB 3 pins so they are all USB 2.0 or charging-only.

I used to buy cables with non-standard reversible Micro USB plugs, but I think there was only one manufacturer of them and now I can't find replacements.

The browser was considered slow and bloated however, and when Firefox came, its lack of theme support was perceived as part of it having been de-bloated.

That is, if you're only ever going to test for membership in the set. If you need metadata then ... You could store that in a packed array and use a population count of the bit-vector before the lookup bit as index into it. For each word of bits, store the accumulated population count of the words before it to speed up lookup. Modern CPU's are memory-bound so I don't think SIMD would help much over using 64-bit words. For 4096 bits / 64, that would be 64 additional bytes.

So in Google Maps on the web, I'd have to click the + and - buttons on the screen repeatedly to zoom in and out.

But those buttons don't always stay put. There is a status bar underneath it, that sometimes contains text so long that it wraps: and then that pushes the buttons up.

So sometimes, I click + + + - . Very annoying.

... except for the anorectic vertical Return keys on Apple keyboards with any European layout: which is a 1×1 key with a small vertical sliver. Japanese "JIS" keyboard layout also has a vertical Return key, and Apple made that properly sized, however.

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