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I don’t necessarily disagree, but by that same logic we shouldn’t have any civil laws because regular people can’t afford to hire lawyers to sue people.

But still, if someone posts a copy of your book or painting online, you can pretty cheaply file a DMCA request that it be taken down, and most large players will comply. If you throw out copyright law altogether, you get rid of that too.

> How have our democracies not abolished copyright law yet? These laws only serve the 1%

Yeah, fuck those billionaire authors and artists in coffee shops not wanting people to rip off the books and art they create without compensation.

It’s easier to say that when your parents were right. But there are a lot of parents who pushed their now-graduating children into fields that AI has recently eaten. And before that, parents who pushed their kids into fields they hated and ended up burning out.

That said, I am probably going to do with my kids exactly what your parents did and just hope I’m not wrong about their economic future and passions. But man, it’s a tough strategy call.

The Champ de Mars park has that general vibe and is presumably the primary training reference source here, but it definitely doesn’t look exactly as depicted here.

> The opposite is true. Google has been the main funding source for Mozilla

I think the point is more that Google has propped up a hapless, ineffectual competitor so that it can point to “competition” when antitrust probes seek to have them spin off their Chrome division or whatever.

> unless you encrypt it

And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract encryption keys from RAM.

So, really, you need to trust the cloud provider unless everything is encrypted on computers you own.

Justin Bieber is a utilitarian rather than Kantian. From a UChicago economics view, he is behaving rationally.

Right. Everyone agrees that real ECC is more robust, and production servers of course run it. But it seems to me that if most RAM bitflips are in the module itself (rather than in transmission to CPU), then on-die ECC could in theory make the probability of a bitflip in practice so low that for things like home servers it isn’t worth the price premium for real ECC. But without data on this, everyone is just speculating.

The problem I have with ECC discussions is that it’s always anecdotal. There is one Google study finding memory flips with some probability in their datacenters, but it was awhile ago. Everyone repeats the statement DDR5 on-die ECC isn’t a replacement for regular ECC, but nobody ever shows data on DDR5 bitflips. That’s not a knock on this article per se, but it’d be nice to have actual data here.

You make some good points, but here are some counterpoints:

There is an existing infrastructure for ticketing by license plate, payment processing, collection, etc.

You’re describing changes to the law, which require a bunch of procedural hurdles. It’s much easier for the DMV to just promulgate new rules that tap into existing infrastructure, as they did here.

Also, how is the government supposed to assess whether these violations are intentional or not? Tickets are strict liability (you get the ticket if you do it regardless of intent, reasons, etc.) because it is easy to administer.

The answer to all of these should be moving a stick over the equality sign to change it to an inequality sign.

According to Google Translate: “A man who loves text files and wears a peculiar hat announces a plan to have sex with the weather.”

Hope this helps.

Forgive the naivety, but what graphical Linux apps are people trying to run that don’t have native MacOS builds? In my experience, Linux GUIs are generally written in Qt or GTK, both of which are multi-platform.

I don’t doubt that they exist, I’m just struggling to think of a popular example.

Yes, that is why I said “local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine).”

This isn’t an sqlite-specific point, although sqlite often runs faster on a single machine because local sockets have some overhead.