tombh

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Comment · 29 days ago
At 15m18s he quotes LG Research "Common corpus contains only 20% legally allowed-to-be-used data". But he doesn't comment on how Linux itself legally navigates accepting patches from evidently illegally sourced means. He just says, "We'll let the courts deal with that". So what happens if courts do decide that it is illegal to use LLM output that's strikingly similar to copyrighted training data? Does anybody know of any discussions that have happened about this from within the Linux project?

I'm fully aware of the philosophical arguments about transformative use etc. But I'm more interested in the concrete reality of high profile projects navigating this novel legal territory.

Comment · 4 months ago
What do you mean by credential theft? Stealing the numbers on the card or a malicious person triggering the contactless payment?
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't know if this is related. But I've been confused as to whether these recommendations are for package-specific configs, or for system-wide home directory configs (~/.npmrc for example)? Or maybe both?
Comment · 6 months ago
Are we talking about `cargo build` here? Because my understanding is that if a lockfile is present and `Cargo.toml` hasn't changed since the lockfile was created then the build is guaranteed to use the versions in the lockfile.

If however `Cargo.toml` has changed then `cargo build` will have to recalculate the lockfile. Hence why it can be useful to be explicit about `cargo build --locked`.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
"Hey", /ˈheɪ/, has a dipthong /eɪ/, so é is precisely the first half of that dipthong. It may feel like it's between the “e” in “bet” and “ee” in “see”, but using the dipthong you don't have to guess it.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Oh, that sounds like an error on our part then. I'd really appreciate if you could paste the URL when one of those bad lines is rendered.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's just a matter of storage costs. Even storing a single line of sight for every point on the planet is over 200GB!
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
I don't know, but I really want to do it.
Comment · 8 months ago
I see, thanks. So my thinking is that overly dark areas to the North are caused by _relatively_ low visibility. The heatmap is actually dynamically generated for every viewport. So I agree that there has to be some amazing view from those North faces, it's just that they are drowned out by the sheer enormity of the views on the South face.

If were to use absolute global values for the heatmap, then the Himalayas would just appear as pure, washed-out white.

Does that make sense?

Comment · 8 months ago
Actualicé el website! Es mejor así?
Comment · 8 months ago
Agreed, pedantry very much appreciated. Website updated!

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