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markive··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Does this mean that even with 3 availability zones for Amazon S3 storage, that some data is lost?
markive··on Can we have the day off?
Because your competitor can now produce 10x more work with the same resources that your company can only produce 1x, therefore in short order your company isn't competitive and will cease to exist.
markive··on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
I'm really excited about this device for B2B.

No glare, but with a backlight and excellent battery life make this a great option for Engineering. The only thing that's missing here is a rear camera. Fingers crossed this is considered in the future!

markive··on New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
2 screens, but with the lid shut!? So you need a separate mouse and keyboard to use 2 screens. That's weird..
markive··on Generating SQL with LLMs for fun and profit
There is nothing malicious about Alter Table or Drop Table commands. These all have valid use-cases and is not something an LLM needs to guard against.

If a bad-actor can issue these commands against your DB, you are already toast!

markive··on Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
Also look at all the post processing and AI that goes into smartphone cameras right now. The human element doesn't even choose which photo this is done algorithmically and the photo is stitched together in lots of different ways. The human just prompted: 'Now!'
markive··on Inviting another GitHub user to be your successor
I suppose as a Contributor you would just fork the private repo. I can't think of anything you would lose with this approach.
markive··on Inviting another GitHub user to be your successor
How does this work for private repositories?
markive··on London’s Tube Network to Switch on Wi-Fi Tracking by Default in July
So typical of the UK these days..
markive··on Sony Aibo
This plus Siri would be amazing.. I live in HK with very limited space and a lot of apartments that don't allow pets. Plus it's Asia so people will go wild for this..
markive··on Surviving the New MacBook Pro
Apple audio especially with Airpods is full of glitches..
markive··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
Firstly, make sure you regularly Export from your Evernote all Notes and back that up to somewhere cheap like Amazon S3 / Glacier
markive··on WhatsApp doesn't understand the web
Hate the gifs.. Made the article almost unreadable.. Just have them loop once or twice when I scroll to that part of the article.
markive··on Apple allows hot code push for JS downloaded and run by WebKit
Does this count for technologies like Appcelerator?

Or can I work around the standard way Appcelerator works for example by making more Javascript code available through a webkit Ti.UI.Webview or something?

markive··on FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM
Why are they doing it then?
markive··on Monsanto: All Your Seeds Are Belong to Us
I suggest you watch the documentary Food Inc to see why it isn't as straightforward as that..
markive··on Mega Overtakes Rapidshare, DropBox
He had A-list endorsements coming through with the previous product, when it becomes that high-profile and main stream the U$A won't be able to just steal the domain without public due-process.. They had their chance, but they may still find a way..
markive··on Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
I'm trying it out at the mo.. It seems to be fairly full of Google searchers.. The fact that there are so many $1 means I thought by going in at $10 I would get a good response.. I've had quite a few, but there's no incentive for the responder to test their solution that it has met the test.. It's like Stack Overflow in that the first to respond often wins.
markive··on Dolphins, and the right side of history
Haha..

I like your little reproductive capacity caveat.

But since it's a purely philosophical argument.. If you create a program with all the sentient properties, feels pain etc.. Does it not afford these magic rights you speak of? After all pain is just an electrical impulse expressed as a negative emotion..

If vegetables prove to create a chemical response to trauma, does that not mean they feel pain too?

markive··on Dolphins, and the right side of history
You missed my point, sentience is a human concept, what happens when robots have indistinguishable sentient properties?

It's a messy philosophical argument, what about the vegetables they feel pain too! http://www.vegetablecruelty.com

markive··on Dolphins, and the right side of history
They didn't then try to eat the savages did they? It's comparing apples and oranges..
markive··on Dolphins, and the right side of history
Nature is cruel, animals are food, we are animals.

I don't see why any animal no matter how cute or intelligent deserves more rights than any other, but it's a messy philosophical argument.

Does an animal have the right not to be made extinct? The scientist in me says No, the naturalist says Yes.

markive··on Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents
Surely if one other person is downloading the same torrent at the same time it's better (potentially) than a direct download, as part of the torrent can be shared in the swarm..

As long as archive.org is seeding everything all the bits are there..

markive··on Show HN: Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG
Love it! You've got the 960 grid, how about some other common page template sizes that the UI can snap to, like iPhone, iPad. I'd also like to be able to go into that mode so I only see native (moqup style) controls as options..

I often want to bang out a layout so I know I've got UI / distribution of controls sorted and then know my general widths / positioning..

If the snapping as good, and I could export or easily grab the positioning / pixels that's something I'd pay a bit for..

Keep up the good work!!

markive··on Traveling, Writing and Programming
I've been seriously considering this for ages.. I wonder what his setup for travel working is? I'm thinking a 17" Macbook would be too much of a pain / risk to travel round Asia with? A follow-up post on the logistics of the work side would be amazing!