RiverCrochet

> How will the USPTO draw a legal distinction between AI-generated and GPU-generated?

Patents and trademarks are not copyrights. The U.S. Copyright office handles copyrights, the USPTO handles the other two.

In the spirit of your question, though, the concern predates AI.

Programs that you can use a stylus to draw with - in a similar manner as pen/ink and paper - have been around a long time, and are getting better.

Let the definition of human art be human effort put into creating something. If I put "etymology of the word art" into Google I get "The word art comes from the Latin noun ars (meaning practical skill, craft, or work of art)."

If I spend an hour drawing something in a program - strokes in the same exact manner as physical paint and canvas, but digitally adjustable and editable afterward - this is still art. But it's hard to prove that from just the output file alone. It's even worse for 3d model creation - someone who painstakingly molds/creates a 3d model in Blender is definitely doing art, even if there is no physical artifact until it's printed or projected.

Perhaps art programs will need to start authenticating input devices and movement sensors and recording their stream during the artistic process, and including that as part of the output file. This will only be worse if you want to create art but not train AI. The only solution to that is not create digital art.

Too bad every command takes a full second to execute. At some point, just use Python.

So am I, as a terminal user, supposed to track file handles now?

CLI programs might be used by an actual human, not necessarily called by a script.

UNIX/Linux already has a compromise here with stdin/stdout/stderr, the convention that those are fds 0, 1, and 2, and stream redirection in shells. You can already redirect raw fds in bash on linux, that's exactly what "something > something.stdout.txt 2> something.stderr.txt" does.

Graphics bitmap data was in the ROM - it was copied directly to the TIA's graphics or playfield data registers line by line by the CPU. No intermediate copy-to-RAM needed.

You still needed a counter (index) to determine which byte in the ROM to copy over. You probably also wanted to put the graphics bitmap data at the beginning of a page (e.g. $FD00) so you would only need to increment 1 byte in the pointer and not worry about carrying over to the next byte.

The horizontal resolution was 160, and generally you were generating less than 255 lines of graphics, so tracking the X and Y position only took 2 bytes, and maybe a few other bytes for metadata.

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You should have added "with AI" to your question. ReactOS and WINE have been around for a long time.

Windows still is, it's just x86 and ARM took over everything. Although I think ACPI/UEFI is hooked into Windows so deeply it's required on ARM, though.

The ARM-based Surface laptop (the one that Steve Ballmer had to write off $900m worth of in the early 2010s) was running real Windows NT. I believe Microsoft's last smartphone efforts - the Windows Phone 8 or 10, was also running NT instead of CE.

only if you want water, a coffee at certain times of the day, or a sauce with no other food.

When restaurant food was cheap, tipping wasn't a big deal, especially before the trend of paying for your food first at the counter. A $10 meal and a $2 tip for a waiter/waitress that took care of you - not really bad.

Today, that same meal is $35 - $40 and wages haven't kept up for most, so not only does the tip have to increase, but people are also just eating out less. Lately it seems restaurants are closing left and right. So I think restuarant tipping as a percentage of all tipping is probably really on the decline

What's sort of come up in its place over the past few decades is the payment system asking you for a tip before you even get your food. I think there is a backlash against that, as well as tipping in non-food places. I'm seeing more and more Instagram posts about it.

> Sometimes I wish that YouTube was just 100% ads.

This is the way. Remember Bitcoin faucets? Watch an ad and get 0.000000xx BTC?

A YouTube consisting of 100% advertisements that pays viewers pennies per watched ad will turn all the time people spend doomscrolling into a positive economic engine.

There's nothing more "free market" than ads. Ads literally cost you no money (free), and you don't even have to buy the product they're advertising (freedom from market if desired). If I know I'm not going to buy the product in question, I use the time to meditate, or take a moment to enjoy a cool, crisp sip of Kool-Aid. It's delicious when prepared according to the instructions. Oh Yeah!

I don't block ads because stealing ad revenue from companies is unethical. These companies have workers who have families that they need to feed. They provide a service for free, so it's the least I can do. I watch every ad in full.

My cousin, however, stopped blocking ads on YouTube when the YouTube warnings showed up. She is scared that at some point Google would ban Gmail accounts for doing it, and she's had hers for 10 years and really relies on it. She also says YouTube videos are really easy to download so anything she really wants from YouTube she tends to have a local copy of.

Many people unfortunately completely conflate one or more of these terms to generically mean "ROM-resident code that enables a device to self-bootstrap": BIOS, UEFI, firmware, bootloader, boot ROM, boot flash, IPL, (boot) monitor, microcode

Let's do it.

1. Even correct convictions can later be found to be wrong. Death is irreversible and financially restituting someone's death can never benefit one wrongfully killed.

2. Unless death is the sentence, a sentence should not result in death. If you don't closely control and monitor when the state can do something, it increases the risk of misuse of that power by the state.

3. If cruelty and punishment really worked, crime would decrease over time, not increase.

4. The AC can be set to 75. That's not luxury but won't kill anyone with heatstroke.