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IcyWindows··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
I don't want to have to pay licensing costs for books I read since I "trained" on it.

I'm deeply concerned my children will have to pay rent for the rest of their lives for the schooling they got.

IcyWindows··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Let me know if you find it, I'm also looking
IcyWindows··on Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls
I don't see how they can adjust for the type of people not responding to polls unless they can force them to answer.
IcyWindows··on Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All
The article explains that the federal and state governments did do something about it.
IcyWindows··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
What if we meet extraterrestrial life? Would we ban them from showing us all the math they already solved and/or invented?
IcyWindows··on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
Won't those same people just use unsafe in Rust?

If not, why would they be allowed to do the same in C++

IcyWindows··on NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
The issue is we don't know if they texted the carpenter or had a detailed design discussion followed by detailed follow up and tweaks.

People often assume one extreme or the other, but in my opinion, this is where these disagreements stem.

IcyWindows··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The problem is if they used it for a slide, they could have used it to design a part or code or something else.

These blanket rules are very typical in large organizations.

IcyWindows··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
100% There are implementations that have sane behavior for "UB" instead of making it an excuse to misbehave.

The ISO standard is not the same as a language from a single vendor.

IcyWindows··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
What about books or art or movies?

The electronic version of all those is also near zero marginal cost.

IcyWindows··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
Is that different than cattle escaping and damaging property?

I believe the rancher is at fault.

IcyWindows··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
Do we have a breakdown on how much traffic is free users vs paid users?
IcyWindows··on How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
People have caused lots of damage with bulldozers.
IcyWindows··on RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
The article explains why it's worse
IcyWindows··on Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker
My comments are not "corporate-biased", they are business owner biased, which includes small businesses.

Employment is an free arrangement between two entities, not a modern day serfdom where the employers are now responsible for their serfs housing, food, etc.

IcyWindows··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Some people care about justice in general?

Also, normalizing stealing IP is only going to have bad consequences for everyone.

IcyWindows··on Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker
Each side has incredible freedom. There are downsides to them.

Employees can take up a huge amount of resources and then leave before costs are recovered.

IcyWindows··on Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)
What I got from this is if we mandate the hospitals open their rooms to the sun, the new correlation will cause people to avoid the sunlight because "it leads to more deaths"
IcyWindows··on How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
I see his reply as "people say Rust is safe, but Rust just pushes it under a rug and pretends it's safe when it's still all there - just in a dependency"
IcyWindows··on How to earn a billion dollars
So "enough of us" can take anything by forcing the asset to be valued at an artificially high value, force them to sell it for taxes, and then reduce the price down again to keep it ourselves?
IcyWindows··on I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
Maybe a movie producer is a better analogy?
IcyWindows··on Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'
I'm not sure how paying a large corporation for generic stock photos is so much better.

Either way an actor isn't getting paid. It just prevents someone from generating it locally?

IcyWindows··on Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot
Citation needed
IcyWindows··on Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
I should be able to have a different opinion without being a troll.

My point is to say many things have been replaced by technology over the years, but people do them as hobbies.

IcyWindows··on Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
I don't see how this is different than things replaced decades ago:

Music is a human endeavor and musical recordings hurt musicians, bands, orchestras, etc. Especially those starting out.

IcyWindows··on 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug
Sure, given infinite time, they could diligently try to reproduce every bug across every version of any given product or open source library from a team at Microsoft.

However, if you have 1000s of reports a day, many of them vague with the person hoping it's close enough to a real issue to get paid, it makes sense to me personally that one needs prioritize active issues over tracking down when other issues were fixed.

IcyWindows··on Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims
It sucks to have your work made redundant, so it's hard to understand if their critism is founded or just sour grapes.
IcyWindows··on Microsoft Is Bricking the Perpetual Version of Office 2019 for Mac
Is that really correct?

Reading the page, the software needs an update due to Apple breaking it, but 2019 is out of support so Microsoft won't fix the breaking change.

IcyWindows··on Performance of Rust Language [pdf]
Do they even count towards safety if they aren't in release mode?
IcyWindows··on That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
Which "Other jurisdictions manage this"?

I have lived in places with more rules, but that meant we just didn't do it. We eventually gave up.

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