To me this is about both preserving the access to what consumers purchased, but also future preservation of art.

Copyright is not a natural right. It is a monopoly granted by the government to creators, specifically with the goal of the progress of art and science.

Games that completely die because their servers are shut off, in my opinion should just lose copyright outright. Why should the people via the government provide you with a monopoly on publishing something that you have stopped publishing?

And while you can beat low margin with scale, there is the famous joke "we lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume".

If you scale a low margin operation, you can become giant. If you scale a loss making operation, you go bankrupt.

Ideally fair use would be defended, it is the law of the land, and when a takedown notice was emitted maliciously, with known bad faith, the actor that did that would have to pay for the amount of time that the legal content was down.

And the US has proven me correct over and over again in that assessment. Will watch with great pleasure the brain drain your country will face, and I honestly hope your economy will completely collapse.

How do you know the unsafe operation is safe? What are the preconditions the code block has? Write it down, review it, test it.

This is so true. And the beauty is that with algorithms, we don't even need to know much about the entropy to be able to extract it.

There is the Von Neumann method of generating an unbiased coin from a biased coin. Of throwing it twice, and checking if you got HT or TH. And completely discarding all HH or TT results. It doesn't matter if the coin you are using is 20% or 80%, the result will be a true 50/50.

There are more modern algorithms that can be even better (in that they need less coin tosses if you have a very unbalanced coin).

And then there is modern cryptographic hashing. Feed it all the bits you can. Collisions end up only happening in the real world if every single one of those bits is identical. So if you have actual entropy being fed, that cannot be controlled, predicted, or replicated, modern cryptography tells you that the end result is unique.

And it is meant to feel meandering cause that is how this period feels for people trying to study it. There are many cases that we don't know what happened. We just know that the people were killed/disappeared. The perpetrators were never brought to Justice. We are not even sure who the specific perpetrators are in a lot of cases.

This is how the Brazilian military dictatorship operated. There are people in Brazil who want to go back to this period. They say that everything was better. The truth is that a lot of stuff that was bad, was so bad that we don't even have the records to properly reconstruct what happened.

And then for other democrats, the feeling when you have an unpopular president like Biden was seen at the time is to go anti estabilishment. But Kamala was Bidens VP. She couldnt run an anti estabilishment campaign when she was part of the estabilishment.

If there had been a primary, whoever was the candidate, even if it was Kamala herself, would have been much better positioned for the General Election.

I've never seen any evidence that thinking requires such a thing.

And honestly I think theoretical computational classes are irrelevant to analysing what AI can or cannot do. Physical computers are only equivalent to finite state machines (ignoring the internet).

But the truth is that if something is equivalent to a finite state machine, with an absurd number of states, it doesn't really matter.

Some survey from WebAIM found that 99.3% of screen reader users have JavaScript enabled.

So... are they really in accessibility territory still? Only people I still see complaining about Javascript being required are people that insist the web should just be static documents with hyperlinks like it was in the early 90s.

Can you find a modern source with valid reasons for accomodating non-JS users?

The mobile ecosystem was built in a way to funnel all users into apps. That's the experience that is optimized for use, that's the experience users feel safe and secure. Barriers were put in place on what apps are even allowed to do (like not having alternative app stores, or a browser in iOs that is not just a webview of Safari). This created an enviroment where developers and companies are forced to develop to this ecosystem, and pay the Apple tax, since that's where the users are. And an alternative system is impossible to be created since Apple uses it's power at the hardware and operating system level to make alternatives impossible.

And someone will probably come and say that this is all users choice to be locked down in the walled garden. That the walled garden is keeping the users safe, so therefore it is only fair that Apple gets to capture 30% of all digital economical activity.

So maybe an interesting file to have the LLM generate is instead of the final file, a program that creates the final file? Now there is the problem of security of course, the program the LLM generates would need to be sandboxed properly, and time constrained to prevent DOS attacks or explosive output sizes, not to mention the cpu usage of the final result, but quality wise, would it be better?

In more modern languages like Kotlin, there is a notion of extension methods and properties, where you would be able to write a library that allows this syntax, but the .days property would only be accessible in files where you have explicitly imported it (so basically a synthetic sugar for a static function call).

Just read the summary that Gemini provides for a good quick understanding, and follow up the multiple articles about it. Then please don't come back and say that there is nothing concrete about this evidence, that is just people speculating about a behavior that Apple has been engaging repeatedly and continuously for over a decade.

Anybody that thinks otherwise is hopeless naive, Steve Jobs himself envisioned a web app future as the future of technology; before Apple found out the gold mine that the app store became.