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New comment by oldkinglog in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

oldkinglog — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:40:53 +0000

> The decision was either to avoid them entirely or resign and buy into the ecosystem.

An easy choice that you somehow managed to get wrong?

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oldkinglog — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:58:22 +0000

What is "the message"? The video doesn't say.

New comment by oldkinglog in "Python's Supportive and Welcoming Environment Is Tightly Coupled to Its Progress"

oldkinglog — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:07:42 +0000

Invoking Popper's paradox of tolerance is misjudged IMHO, because the PSF doesn't aim to maximise liberty. Instead it aims to create a welcoming environment for everyone, and that involves adding restrictions that go beyond what is necessary to prevent a descent into fascism.

New comment by oldkinglog in "Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump"

oldkinglog — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 04:44:59 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(slang)#Concern_troll

New comment by oldkinglog in "Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court"

oldkinglog — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:32:24 +0000

> Boneless is a convenience, not an absolute guarantee.

It's a guarantee in any jurisdiction with adequate consumer protection law.

New comment by oldkinglog in "Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court"

oldkinglog — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:28:27 +0000

In the UK we've labelled things made in factories that also handle nuts since forever. I assume it's an EU thing that we never got rid of.

New comment by oldkinglog in "The data that powers AI is disappearing fast"

oldkinglog — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:31:05 +0000

This comment neatly explains why the LLM bubble will burst as soon as prosecutors remember that the DMCA doesn't have a carve-out for AI.

New comment by oldkinglog in "The data that powers AI is disappearing fast"

oldkinglog — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:23:38 +0000

> I think the worst possible outcome is a licensing regime that means that Disney or Paramount or Elsevier or whoever all get to have a monopoly on training large models within their niche.

Why is this the worst possible outcome? Companies using AI would be training with properties they own or have licensed appropriately, rather than the existing scheme of ignoring copyright law to extract $$$ from the creative works of ordinary people.

New comment by oldkinglog in "Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com"

oldkinglog — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:40:08 +0000

Monopoly leveraging is illegal, not mundane.

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oldkinglog — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:10:34 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

> According to one version, it says that "the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces."

New comment by oldkinglog in "Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution"

oldkinglog — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:06:34 +0000

A reform of the US voting system would make elections much more competitive and greatly reduce the risk of electing another Biden or Trump.

New comment by oldkinglog in "Sam Altman, Lately"

oldkinglog — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:49:26 +0000

Left wingers complain when journalists don't hold powerful people to account. Right wingers complain when they do.

New comment by oldkinglog in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

oldkinglog — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:52:23 +0000

Why can't "dampen" be applied to oscillators? It means "To lessen; to dull; to make less intense" in this case.

New comment by oldkinglog in "3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe"

oldkinglog — Mon, 20 May 2024 14:29:49 +0000

> The world is chock full of vampires looking to exploit helpers. Don't let them get you.

More importantly, don't let this dissuade anyone from helping. Some caution is needed yes, but cynicism is the greater foe. A life of public service is a life well spent.

New comment by oldkinglog in "The Lunacy of Artemis"

oldkinglog — Mon, 20 May 2024 06:12:04 +0000

> This is a remarkable situation. It’s like if you hired someone to redo your kitchen and they started building a boat in your driveway. Sure, the boat gives the builders a place to relax, lets them practice tricky plumbing and finishing work, and is a safe place to store their tools. But all those arguments will fail to satisfy. You still want to know what building a boat has to do with kitchen repair, and why you’re the one footing the bill.

What is this? The essay is littered with these awkward family guy-esque jokes that do nothing to illustrate any point.

The Disconnected Letters in the Holy Qur'an (2008)

oldkinglog — Sat, 18 May 2024 05:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://thedisconnectedletters.wordpress.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40396562

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oldkinglog in "The man who killed Google Search?"

oldkinglog — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:06:36 +0000

If you also take a wage, then you're also a class traitor by any reasonable definition, because denying the existence of class struggle only benefits capitalists - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict

New comment by oldkinglog in "The man who killed Google Search?"

oldkinglog — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:02:45 +0000

"class traitor" has a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_traitor

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oldkinglog — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:43:33 +0000

The Spectator harps on this issue, but do they ever offer their own definition of "woman"?

New comment by oldkinglog in "Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners"

oldkinglog — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:48:26 +0000

This is quite a misleading comment IMO. You don't "pay" donations, you make them. There is no exchange and no debts are settled. And wikipedia isn't a "product" in the usual sense of a commercial product.