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Comment · 4 days ago
Review the "Menu Tree" from win 11 and win 95.

I could use like 3-4 keyboard navigation items and have my app open in win95. In win11 I must use my mouse and it is slow as balls and I have a ryzen 7 + GTX2080ti this isn't entry level hardware.

If the start menu was still as usable as it was then I agree I an many others would have no reason to complain but it isn't and the "better" alternative is only better about 50% of the time so in general what I end up doing is pinning everything to the task bar or putting it on the desktop and try my best to just do the rest in the terminal.

Comment · 5 days ago
> In modern WIndows, from 7 onward, I can hit the meta key and type the first letters of the app I want to open, hit enter and boom, it's opened.

I mean in theory I can also do that on my Win 11 machine... In practice if I actually performed those exact steps I will probably have edge open up with a web search of the letters I typed.

The amount of times I actually have to use the now even less user friendly way of finding an app in the start menu regardless is infuriating, give me both, a star menu that is deterministic and a search that works...

Just because I want the older stuff does not mean I have to give up some of the newer stuff.

Comment · 5 days ago
> If you are going to release them, which I would not be in favor of, you ban them from all electronic devices.

I want to ask two questions here.

If you believe the prison system can change people and make them better, consider how you would live your current life without access to all electronic devices. Do you still think a flat out ban is reasonable?

If you don't think the prison system can bring about actual change then what do you believe the alternative is?

I think my question boils down to this.

Would you be willing to spend a portion of your salary for the rest of your working life to support a pedophile? That is exactly what would happen if they were cut off from all electronic devices or imprisoned for life.

Comment · 19 days ago
cough FFMPEG, cryptography…

So no actually we very much do, because sometimes it is worth it.

Comment · 26 days ago
My bigger argument that is if I cease living the atoms that correspond to my body no longer has consciousness.

So is your argument that whenever a session ends or I interrupt a session that consciousness ceases for the LLM and it has died?

Then how do you correlate that with a consciousness not being able to be returned one dead? You can try to make the argument that consciousness is the firing of individual nuerons in a fixed system but we have never been able to model that and some pretty popular theories tend to believe that is a by product of consciousness and not the cause of it, once again not exactly possible to argue for or against.

Comment · 28 days ago
If AI is conscious then what about it is conscious? Because turn to turn it might be served from completely different GPUs and I can just change something in the context it is fed and it will have completely different output.

It is in the end a set of mathematical operations that if not queried will do nothing.

That is not true for any other animal on earth so whether you consider humans as superior to animals or not I would like the make the argument that something should at the very least be alive to be considered conscious, ignoring any scholarly definition of consciousness.

Pretty much if you consider an LLM conscious then my pocket calculator doing a mathematical calculation should be considered conscious by the same argument since it is a simpler version of an LLM.

Comment · 28 days ago
People include licenses because if there isn't any license copyright law applies and you may not create any copy of said code. You as a third party have no use of the code without a license
Comment · 1 month ago
MIT does not wave the right to attribution so no even under MIT it is illegal to reattribue work.

Authorship and the underlying code are seperate rights under law.

Comment · 1 month ago
This seems like one of those “reality has a surprising amount of detail” situations.

Surely getting something to autonomously without fail extend an arm and plug in for the lifespan of these vehicles vs just park in this allocated spot you would park in anyway is an obvious tradeoff.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Today's software is still the same software that ran perfectly well half a dozen years ago.

This statement is quite honestly not true at all. Just take the two largest OS from 6 years ago and compare resource usage between them and you will find you are incorrect, never mind the software running on it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Not sure if it’s a setting but my mac definitely asks me if I want to reopen windows after a forced reboot.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not entirely sure I would put that on BMD. AMD support on linux when it comes to actual compute capabilities has always been hit or miss.

Only recently has AMD even become viable for LLM inference on consumer chips and that is the same compute codepaths Resolve would depend on.

So effectively AMD is the issue, AMD on linux is great, AMD on linux for a workstation was kind of hit or miss.

Comment · 1 month ago
If you allowed that in your contract when doing the commissioning that's on you.

I wouldn't be surprised that if you asked an AI to weite said contract it would add a clause regarding copyright ownership of all codr and will put the onus on the developer to prove ownership of all of it.

Effectively you could sue them if you ever get sued.

When it comes to copyright and licensing it's complicated and it's best to write the code by hand.

Comment · 1 month ago
As in all cases it depends on jurisdiction. For example where I am performers have a right to not be recorded so you may in fact not make such recording, you didn’t not necessarily violate copyright but you violated related rights.

And likewise if you distribute any sort of copy of the recording you made you are violating at least one if not more copyrights.

Comment · 2 months ago
By that very definition you did not create it.

Yes it’s the same as using a stock drum pattern in a drum machine, it is not copyrightable because no human was involved in any part of it.

If you have an idea and want rights to it then do it the old fashion way and pay a developer to do a commissioned work and you can have your copyright, heres the catch, that will cost a hell of a lot more than 100usd a month

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