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messe··on A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return
California for one.
messe··on An iroh powered smart fan
> Does C also have a compiler that turns C code into assembly before the real runtime does its work?

What do you think ahead of time compilation is?

messe··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
Denmark too. Aarhus looks like a war zone from the smoke on new years.
messe··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
> Distilling a model is a method that can push the entire market to low margins and prevent companies from making money off such research

Then it's on Anthropic to actually price their models accordingly so that distilling isn't profitable. Why does this need a legal remedy when market forces could easily resolve this?

> Is it in the interest of the USA, probably no

Good. The world needs to diversify away from dependence on US technology.

messe··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
> Copyright law and IP law is not the same although everyone seem to conflate the two.

Copyright law is a subset of IP law. What IP is being infringed upon here?

> Search engines for example historically ignored copyright law by copying excerpts or serving other site images

Excerpts are often considered fair use, but it depends on country.

> it doesn't mean someone copying Google's code has some moral frepass

Nobody copied Anthropic's code. They used it's output to train another model. At most they violated some terms of service.

Did they maybe abuse Anthropic's subsidised pricing? Sure. But that's what happens in a free market if you sell below cost.

messe··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
> Alibaba reuses the IP anthropic used to train the model that's more akin to historical Chinese reverse engineering methods and disrespect of IP

Why is this any worse than Anthropic's disrepect of IP? You've apparently drawn a distinction between the two here, but I'm failing to see what it actually is.

messe··on Podman v6.0.0
That's the "podman compose" wrapper command. podman-compose (the implementation referenced in the first sentence of your quote) does not call docker-compose: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
messe··on This blog is written in en-GB
And kilometers instead of miles.
messe··on More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)
I can confidently say that nobody has ever confused The War of the Worlds with The Two Planets.
messe··on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
But part of the point of mathematics is human understanding. I think most would be willing to accept the proof. They just wouldn't think it's nearly as useful as one that could be understood.
messe··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
> Europe at the very least

How's life under that rock?

messe··on Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements
That's only because we write numbers in big endian.
messe··on Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in Mars crater
> Organic matter, i.e. originating from once-living matter.

No, it means matter composed of organic compounds[1]. It categorically does not in this instance mean originating from once-living matter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound

messe··on Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in Mars crater
> Although in situ Raman analyses cannot determine whether these organics denote abiotic or biotic sources, the organic association with both depositional and diagenetic minerals and the detection of organics on the martian surface suggests that the organics observed ubiquitously at the Bright Angel outcrop may be resistant to radiation and oxidation or have been relatively recently exposed.
messe··on OAuth for all
> was there for some good reason (security?).

To cover the myriad of (sometimes downright stupid) requirements that large enterprises have.

messe··on Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
In this case, it was not used in a jocular way. It was a British person demonstrating their complete and utter ignorance of the only country they share a land border with, and I will call them out on that any day of the week.
messe··on Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
No, I'm saying that it's associated with a certain outdated and bigoted attitude toward the Irish.

Using Éire in English, would be seen as odd. You wouldn't say Deutschland or Danmark.

> If I change the rest of the sentence to Na Gaeilge will that be better.

No. And you've used the genitive instead of nominative there, so I have some doubts that you could.

messe··on Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
> Eire

A nitpick, because it's often a dogwhistle: but almost nobody in Ireland calls it that when speaking English. And that's still incorrect in Irish, the correct spelling is Éire.

messe··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
You can own multiple guns and store them at your residence in Denmark. I know a couple of people who do so, admittedly both ex-military.

This isn't limited to shotguns or bolt action rifles for hunting. You can own up to six handguns.

You do need to be licensed however, and given Andersen's history he probably wouldn't be permitted.

messe··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
Umm, yes? My contact information is attached to the business names I trade under? Which is publicly available information.

Is this an alien concept to you?

messe··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
Yes... if you want to do business with people, then those people want to know who they do business with.

What a fucking tragedy.

I'm sorry you have to live in such a socialist hellscape.

messe··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
Precisely what inconvenience does it actually cause those businesses?
messe··on McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)
On a similar note:

There was a period post-Brexit when I hadn't moved away from Ireland yet during which I also did my best to avoid UK produced goods too.

Now that was a lot harder though due to the UK still being in the single market at the time, and on top of that just how integrated supply chains between the north and the rest of Ireland are.

I'm cautiously optimistic that the UK is moving back toward sanity though.

messe··on McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)
Actually, it's not. Speaking from experience. I'm a sample size of one, but that's still one better than your extrapolation from zero.

One of the local supermarket chains here in Denmark (Salling Group) even puts a star on the price tag for products of European origin.

For larger purchases, I'm doing research on the product anyway.

I still sometimes buy American at times; sometimes there's no avoiding it for certain items. But on the whole avoiding American goods isn't that hard, and doesn't require much effort.

messe··on Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
It doesn't have local hidden variables. That's an important distinction.

I'm not sure a non-local hidden variable explanation of QM is any distinct from superdeterminism though.

messe··on Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
It was far from exactly like that. GR was in part prompted by the precession of the perihelion of mercury for which there was plenty of data.
messe··on Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
> Linux developers should be doing a lot more of this. We should be making everything work better for us without caring how it's going to impact other irrelevant platforms

Linux developers already do. Using a BSD can already be a pain in the arse, thanks to (often poorly thought out) Linux-isms cropping up everywhere.

messe··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
Apologies, and noted. I wasn't my usual self, which is honestly what prompted me to give in to replying to them. I usually try to do better, and will do in future.
messe··on What type of code should you generate with AI?
A fun first project would be something to cultivate bitter almonds, and then isolate the cyanide compounds from them.

I don't know what you'd do with the cyanide compounds. But maybe you could get some inspiration from the current attitude toward "AI" products.

messe··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
The fact that both our comments are being downvoted is dumb.

Over the last year, the vibe on site has become... concerning.

Yeah, it's always leaned right wing capitalist. That's fine by itself—I like the contrast to my own views at times. I'm a lefty—very left compared to US "left"—but still have some right wing economic sympathies at times and in certain areas. There's actual discussion to be had there!

But recently it seems like this site has gone off the fucking deep end in delusion when it comes to everything. The misogyny and transphobia has started becoming less and less hidden too. This is the first time I've logged in here in over a month, and I've seen my comments today getting flagged for arguing against a person saying that bicyclists have more fatalities on the road—just asking them to cite a fucking source.

What you are saying is not controversial. You're not crazy. This site is just full of fucking idiots who haven't realised they're the next serfs in the reality they're bringing about.

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