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New comment by davidron in "BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs"

davidron — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:46:09 +0000

It's perfectly legal to train a human on copyrighted work and I think, depending on the country, it's not settled that training ai on the same data is illegal.

New comment by davidron in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

davidron — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:48:04 +0000

American here. My experience is that the US dollar seems to be accepted in tons of stores in countries all over in the Americas Europe and Asia. Trade is trade it seems.

New comment by davidron in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

davidron — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:53:09 +0000

As a regular human who plays games and doesn't know about chip architectures, one woud probably lump the wii and the switch closer together than the game cube based on the modes in which one can interact with the systems.

Wii is a game cube with a funny controller. Or, wii is a tv-only olde switch.

I appreciate that it has its own name due to being a transitional experience.

New comment by davidron in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

davidron — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:28:03 +0000

The bottleneck of most applications is acquiring enough users to hit a technical bottleneck.

New comment by davidron in "Ollama Turbo"

davidron — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:36:54 +0000

Or non native English speaker who pronounces "may" the same as "might" and didn't realize the difference?

It is maybe not coincidental that "may" and "might" mean nearly the same thing which bolsters the case for auto correct gone awry.

New comment by davidron in "How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes"

davidron — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:21:21 +0000

For those that haven't read the article yet, scroll down to the flame graph and start reading unit it starts talking about back porting the fix. Then stop.

New comment by davidron in "Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools"

davidron — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:32:23 +0000

Isn't there a carve out in copyright law for fair use related to educational use?

New comment by davidron in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

davidron — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:26:04 +0000

I bet Microsoft would do something similar. If Microsoft entered an agreement with another company, Apple for instance, to build a version of word for the Mac, a fork, and part of the license has a requirement to attribute in the help file or something like branding requirements, and then Apple doesn't do it right, then Microsoft reaches out to Apple and tells them to fix it else be in breach of the license. They fix it, happy happy. They don't fix it and lawyers get paid.

This was MIT licensed open source software and an attribution clause was not properly respected. Hardly piracy.

New comment by davidron in "The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks"

davidron — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:35:46 +0000

Handspring Trio had a web browser by (before?) 2003 with a touchscreen. I loved mine!

New comment by davidron in "Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1"

davidron — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:36:26 +0000

This is EXACTLY what I remember people saying about Cell Phones and PDAs when they were popular in the 90s (people can't remember phone numbers any more), Google when it was first unleashed (people won't know how to use card catalogs and libraries any more), and then again about Wikipedia when it became popular. What actually happened was that behavior changed and people became more efficient with these better tools.

New comment by davidron in "Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter"

davidron — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:16:58 +0000

The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associated with id_8z6748dxzh and combine it with your shopping history at Macy's and Safeway, for instance. This is even more valuable when combined with your cellular bill.

I've work in ad tech,and with CDPs for nearly 20 years.

New comment by davidron in "We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines"

davidron — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:43:01 +0000

... If incentives were properly aligned to make this the correct strategy, then this is probably what McDonald's would do. Unfortunately not. https://www.today.com/food/trends/why-is-mcdonalds-ice-cream...

New comment by davidron in "Kevin Mitnick has died"

davidron — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:52:13 +0000

Education is a patch. It's very hard to install though.

New comment by davidron in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

davidron — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:28:55 +0000

You monster.

New comment by davidron in "When will Google shut down Stadia?"

davidron — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:08:48 +0000

For those that remember Google Notebook, this is also what Evernote did 10 years ago. It's why I've been using Evernote for 10 years and why I'll never use Google Keep.

https://www.cnet.com/news/evernotes-google-notebook-importer...

New comment by davidron in "Announcing the first SHA-1 collision"

davidron — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 06:01:32 +0000

The composition of the result of the original hash function and the result of that validation function can be taken together to be some larger function. Call that an uberhash. Such an uberhash is created by putting some number of bits in and getting some smaller number of bits out. There will unfortunately still be collisions. That trick is an improvement, and newer hashing algorithms contain similarly useful improvements to make creating collisions difficult.

New comment by davidron in "Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits"

davidron — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 06:28:12 +0000

I've had an Orbi for some time now. What sold me was that it doesn't actually create a mesh network. Instead, it sets up a 1.7 gigabit wireless backhaul connection completely separate from the frequencies used by the client devices you connect. This avoids all of the interference (noisy clients disrupting the access points) and latency (hopping from one access point to another) pitfalls you often encounter when using a traditional mesh network or wireless extender.

The Orbi is basically the wireless equivalent of running wires through the walls.

New comment by davidron in "The Mac Platform Decline"

davidron — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 21:14:13 +0000

>If that's true why do I see so many developers using Macs? There are lots of developers who use Apple hardware with linux. Even Linus (at least as of 2012)! http://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvalds...

> Desktop Linux is a mess and always has been. The problem is structural. The people making it don't have any profit motive to make it better. They're all either volunteers having fun or subsidised by server products.

It sounds like you are saying there is a direct relationship between the quality ("betterness") of software and a profit motive to create that software and that there is no profit motive to make Desktop Linux better. I see two flaws with that argument:

1. You posit that there is zero profit motive to make it better, then there should be zero quality of the Linux Desktop. Certainly, you can't be saying that there exists nothing worse than Desktop Linux, even conceptually.

2. This argument, if I understand it correctly, also implies that it's impossible for an application to be "better" or "good" that has no profit motive. This would include all of the open source utilities, text editors, programming languages, compilers, games, emulators, and other applications - many of which ship with every single Mac on the market.

Those two reasons make your argument logically inconsistent, I think.

But, even if your argument were logically consistent, I believe that there is a profit motive to make it better. Some people, including myself, derive non-monetary profit from building something useful and we find that the open-source model allows us to collaborate on these things because they are too complex or time consuming to do alone. The fact that there actually exists a profit motive makes your argument factually inconsistent as well.

New comment by davidron in "PurpleJS – A JavaScript application framework running on the JVM"

davidron — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:57:48 +0000

So long as one executor is executing the recipe/procedure/etc it makes sense to simplify directions to make them appear synchronous. When I turn my computer on and wait for it to start, I don't literally freeze up and stop breathing. I go do other things and wait for a signal that startup is complete or I poll the status of the computer from time to time. The synchronous instruction "wait for the computer to start up" is interpreted as "do whatever you want or need to do until the computer has started up".

As soon as two parties are involved, instructions start making sense asynchronously. Try writing a recipe for baking a cake by two bakers, keeping both chefs occupied the entire time. You'll see that the instructions must be read asynchronously otherwise each baker would not be able to continue reading his/her instructions when a "thread" of operation for the other baker has been called out.

New comment by davidron in "Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database"

davidron — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 07:19:07 +0000

Syncthing doesn't reconcile differences. Instead a copy of the file is created.

  Syncthing does recognize conflicts. When a file has been modified on two devices simultaneously, one of the files will be renamed to .sync- conflict--.. The device which has the larger value of the first 63 bits for his device ID will have his file marked as the conflicting file. Note that we only create sync-conflict files when the actual content differs.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html