butlersean

The numbers involved here should convince anyone that rent taking is a sin.

I think the issue here is: the books could be for sale but the publisher doesn’t want the liability of having supported PA via funds. They could sell the books and not pay the author but that’s a different moral problem.

i heard a rumor that perhaps someone on here can confirm or deny. did jagex actually turn down the opportunity to publish minecraft.

is that true?

console games were stagnant before sony opened the market. open source compilers meant many more people could write c/c++ without paying $500 to MS for access to VS. in the same way that access to tools creates an explosion in software these language abililties will naturally create an explosion in languages.

claude is perfectly capable of building a language to your specific design and then being competent at programming in it. the trick will be how much senior or experienced devs stay in the process. hands off will be boring and backward looking. hands on (steered by human in the loop) will be innovative and interesting.

i predict the results will be that we will get a cambrian like explosion in the number of new syntaxes and languages. every home experimentor will create their variant of c++ or lisp, they will be frowned on by experts. but because out of it will come one or two unique and interesting new ways of programming that nobody else thought of before.

“proposal is among measures being drawn up”

it’s been common in political process to draw up a number of proposals like this. The end result will be more acceptable.

The telegraph is a broadsheet that likes to stoke political fear to promote its preferred party. The headline sounds like it’s the outcome for the British government. But it’s really the opening position of the Americans.

The article doesn’t make this claim.

The uk gov are watching Australia and the evidence to see the effect of their new ban in practice.

This is normal practice for any government.

No news here. Just bait by a right wing Conservative Party mouthpiece.

For those outside the UK the Telegraph should not be considered unbiased news.

Because Capital has captured the legislature.

to commit an act usually means that its intentional and illegal. suicide is often neither. hence the passive tone.

compare and contrast: - he committed suicide - he was a victim of suicide - he died by suicide

each implies different levels of legality and passivity, and therefore control, and responsibility.

in this particular case the passive voice is extra important because to any reasonable person the post office management / fujitsu / uk gov are the responsible parties.

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def means define, could be used to define all kinds of things

fn isnt a legitimate short form of function

fun doesnt work because of the amusement factor

func is the only alternative we have left