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nhinck3··on Tesla Roadster
F1 cars are not fun to drive
nhinck3··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
> To my knowledge reverse engineering is legal.

This is not correct. Some types of reverse engineering are legal.

> As is emulation. Which means there should be no legal issues with getting the source code of a binary executable, and then modifying it to work on another system.

These are actually two of the exceptions. You CAN reverse engineer it to make it operative but that doesn't mean you can distribute the re-engineered binary.

They could have released a patching mechanism that used the original binary, but just releasing the re-engineered binary is illegal.

nhinck3··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Why do you believe that binaries have different rights to any other creative work? Given that object code can be protected under copyright and substantial similarity is the threshold for copyright claims what makes you think that this is legal?
nhinck3··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Yeah? If I print out a pdf and then scan it back in, it doesn't matter what process was followed to end up with an identical end product.
nhinck3··on Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions
Well I just judged that I won this argument, so I've won and nothing can take that away.
nhinck3··on Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions
It in fact didn't win, you are commenting underneath an article laying out that it didn't win.
nhinck3··on Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions
Fraud commits fraud using fraud tool because they don't have the skills to win competition and are too lazy to develop them.

Sounds like a sloppy way to win to me.

nhinck3··on Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions
You keep claiming its high quality, but the experts involved disagree, so all that means is that you are easily impressed by slop.
nhinck3··on Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions
Sure, go for it.
nhinck3··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
I've always wondered if people who work for Meta/Twitter/whoever think that the Nuremberg defense is valid
nhinck3··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
They weren't publicly facing, but the website was just a very thin wrapper that exposed a SAS server (I believe) to queries from the internet.

And if you are at all familiar with SAS, you will understand how trivial command injection is.

nhinck3··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
Anyone else's extensions not work on support.mozilla.org?
nhinck3··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
I mean if I'm forgetting, how would I know, but I've never woken up for the first time with any experience of having dreamt.
nhinck3··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
I sometimes experience dreams when I go back to sleep repeatedly, but in all normal circumstances it is nothing
nhinck3··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
Ban smart phones for kids.
nhinck3··on Banned Words List
Yup, that's exactly what was happening.

You don't need to think about it anymore, just crawl back into the hole, cover yourself with that nice big rock.

nhinck3··on Banned Words List
~200 of the 350 come from a suit brought against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The rest are probably true in a sense but not written down like those are.

nhinck3··on Differential Heuristics
> I was a bit confused about the colors - at least once the text talks about blue tiles being the ones that don't need to be checked because of the landmark, but they are actually green, and the blue ones are the ones that weren't checked anyway

I think the first demo in the introduction is supposed to have some blue but the default setup for some reason doesn't. If you move the landscape over to the other side you can see some blue appear.

nhinck3··on Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations
It's just momentum at this point. It had a massive advantage with games and office software but those are mostly gone at this point.
nhinck3··on AI companies are shredding rare books
You're right, it is arguably worse than book burning, not only are they seeking to deprive others of the books, they also want to profit off it.
nhinck3··on Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
It's also on youtube, so you can watch if you are so inclined.
nhinck3··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Really? I suppose you'll be able to provide proof that people were forcibly taken?
nhinck3··on Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
I don't call my Ikea furniture hand-built.
nhinck3··on Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
Yeah I'm sure those 4 lines of code are a big ask.
nhinck3··on Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit
Probably a firefox bug but the interface hit boxes are misaligned when fullscreen
nhinck3··on Lines of code got a better publicist
That does not appear to have a million lines of code
nhinck3··on Teaching Claude Why
The chart is complete and utter slop. But I guess their aligned AI didn't tell them that making up data is "not good" so how could they have known.
nhinck3··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
So is it for latency or is it for cost?

Why did you lie 11 days ago, 3 days after the fix went in, about the cause of excess token usage?

nhinck3··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Okay, I'll ring back tomorrow and we'll continue
nhinck3··on Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149
Yes?

I mean it's very provable that they sell access to your data and your eyeballs other companies.

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