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Comment · 5 months ago
>If one wants the 'teaching' part comes from a server then MCP. If one wants it local and static then skills

Not being facetious, but why not:

"If one wants the 'teaching' part comes from a server then OpenAPI specs. If one wants it local and static then man page."

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Re: oral exams in Germany

Not sure when this was supposed to be the case, but for actual universities (not meant in a deragotary way, Germany has two types of higher eduction) in hard sciences, most classes are graded on a single written exam. Both in undergrad/bachelors and masters.

Unless things have drastically changed in the last five years...

Comment · 8 months ago
With all due respect, but if you actually wasted hours (multiple) each (!) day on those issues, then yeah, I can fully believe that AI assisted coding 10 or even 100x'd you.
Comment · 1 year ago
Off topic, but I bought my (still in active use) 980ti literally 9 years ago for that price. I know, I know, inflation and stuff, but I really expected more than 50% bang for my buck after 9 whole years…
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, but a self-described socialist might just not be a socialist.
Comment · 1 year ago
Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you happen to have more reading material on said law?

In Germany, you can't even transfer copyright. So yeah, anything you create that reaches the threshold of having a copyright, you own the copyright. Even as an employee.

At the same time, you might not own the usage rights (Nutzungsrechte/Verwertungsrechte).

Comment · 1 year ago
>and we have enough fighting age immigrants pouring into Europe in the last decades that we can mobilize and throw into the meatgrinder before having to tap our own population.

I could say that this is extremely macabre (which it is), but I guess I have a better chance reaching the HN crowd by saying that soldiers under force usually perform atrocioucsly, especially fighting for a cause they have zero interest in.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's a nice addendum to the quote, actually. Will use it in future.

> There are only two hard things in computer science: Cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors

Comment · 2 years ago
Besides the fact that I have yet to see any "Big IP" fight for anything but strengthening and lengthening IP rights, your premise doesn't compute: Depending on the country copyright is either by itself transferable (and by far and away is done automatically in an employer-employee relationship) or transferable via exclusive licensing rights (for example in Germany).

It's bizarre to think that Disney somehow has to fight their employees for Disney IP right. It would be nice if that was the case, but it isn't.

Comment · 2 years ago
What has the old Pine-Cone been up to these days?
Comment · 2 years ago
That analogy doesn't fit. What actually happened is that someone shared with you how they do mining contingent on the fact that if you use that knowledge or add to it, that you have to share it as well (WordPress was a fork off of b2/cafelog)

You did so, but turns out that other people are way better at utilizing that knowledge than you are. You throw a hissy fit on the internet. Everybody turns against you, even people who think that in essence you're right.

Comment · 2 years ago
My mom used to always say: Why bother wiping your ass, if your going to take another shit tomorrow.
Comment · 2 years ago
Don't bother. Humans always need a good and evil, and by nature the enemy of evil has to be good.

I've had this conversation many times, it doesn't lead to anything. If Hamas is bad, then anything that Isreal does in order to eliminate Hamas, has to be good. If Russia is bad, than anything that Ukraine does, has to be good. If Putin is bad, than Nawalny has to be good. If Erdoğan is bad, than İmamoğlu has to be good.

This is obviously just as true vice versa, so it's not like the "other side" is any more reasonable to have a discussion with.

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