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bysjames
026 @06:06PM
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Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
Harvard, like all universities with a mainframe back then claimed rights to anything developed on their mainframe. It was part of the agreement signed on admission.
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bysjames
026 @04:19PM
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Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
Some had pre-paid for Altair BASIC and it was months late. Gates didn't pay for the mainframe time used to run the emulator Altair BASIC was tested on. Technically, the code belonged to the university, but that legal term was never enforced. Several bugs were fixed before it was distributed.
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bysjames
2026 @06:33PM
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Attached to: Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?
The various manufacturers are doing everything in their power to avoid switching once and for all to propane as a refrigerant because that one isn't patentable. Zero ozone depletion and 3x warming vs. CO2 (while R32 is 675x warming). And, of course it's much easier to dispose of. Capture it as usual and then cook burgers with it.
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bysjames
2026 @12:11PM
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Attached to: Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica
When passing an obstruction like a tall van, there is actually a point where the 'safe' speed forward is under 1 MPH when you include reaction time. Do you pass parked tall vans at less than 1MPH on a routine basis?
Followup, if yes, do other drivers frequently throw eggs, coffee, and trash at your car?
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byroman_mir
28, 2026 @12:40PM
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Attached to: Amazon Cuts Another 16,000 Jobs
The economy started collapsing once the government introduced such concepts that allowed it to get to the point of the collapse. 2007 was a result of a number of wrong and bad decisions, it was not the cause. The cause is the government expansion, printing of paper money, federal reserve controlling and manipulating interest rates to be below what market would set, various rules, laws, regulations and taxes that prevent formation of capital and of businesses and promote outsourcing manufacturing.
What we are observing now is just many lines of bad decisions coming together into a single point, everything is being focused together and comes into light.
The reasons for all of this is corruption bottom up and top down, it is people expecting free shit to be handed out by government, expectations are that some people will pay for others, it doesn't matter if we are talking about income taxes, bank bailouts, housing subsidies, various rules and regulations, it is just a culmination of the effects of all of these causes.
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bysjames
026 @05:11PM
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Attached to: Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves'
Can't wait until the AI mixes up the Zimbabwe dollar and the U.S. dollar in a transaction...
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byroman_mir
2026 @03:20PM
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Attached to: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions
Marking the value of these companies to market, is that it? For decades the idea for all of these 'businesses' was to collect as many free users as possible (which is why they could get hundreds of thousands if not millions of subscribers per day) and then get paid by the 'investors' (gamblers) for this. Their best business propositions were to sell advertisements and to sell user data. By introducing paid subscriptions AFAIC they are actually marking the value of their businesses to market, as in they are going to find out what their business models are actually worth. What will this do to their share prices you ask? I don't know, I wonder if they do.
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bysjames
26 @06:19PM
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Attached to: Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot
To the minority of companies, naturally.
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bysjames
26 @04:24AM
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Attached to: Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot
No. Dead weight tends to stay because they don't have the sort of CV that gets them a nice WFH job elsewhere. Top talent is a lot more mobile.
So you'll see top talent flee and dead weight slogging to the office and pulling down morale because they hate it.
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byQuantumFTL
2026 @05:50AM
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Attached to: The Microsoft-OpenAI Files
retains access to the AI startup's technology until 2032, including models that achieve AGI
Exactly how do they envision an autocomplete gaining sentience?
It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.
Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.
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bysjames
2026 @09:20PM
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Attached to: New Jersey Law Requires E-Bike Drivers To Have License, Insurance
Do you have a license to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in Omaha Nebraska?
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byroman_mir
2026 @12:07PM
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Attached to: Ukraine To Share Wartime Combat Data With Allies To Help Train AI
This is already happening today and as many things are done in Ukraine today, much of what is done is done without some order from a high up office. I know that there are AI models trained on real combat data.
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byroman_mir
2026 @10:01AM
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Attached to: 'Just Because Linus Torvalds Vibe Codes Doesn't Mean It's a Good Idea'
I saw a truck company exec spend 7 hours in one day to throw together a working portal that integrated with his TMS, QuickBooks, Slack, Telegram and a system called Border Connect. This portal looks like he wanted, does what he wanted and reduces work load and processing errors in his company. He had no idea what coding is, he had no idea and no interest even to find out what technologies were used, what languages were used to put together the solution. I have to admit it was impressive.
To say that using something like LLM for a solution generation is a good idea or not a good idea you have to look at the final result I think. It may be a terrible idea but what if it works, delivers what is asked of it and reduces expenses for a company? Also I saw how happy the guy was that he could do it, he was proud of his achievement and I must say, for a person with 0 knowledge and no understanding of the underlying tech still to be able to do this was impressive. I was impressed that he was able to achieve this.
Will it withstand the test of time? Only time will tell.
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bysjames
2026 @03:06AM
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Attached to: Students Increasingly Choosing Community College or Certificates Over Four-Year Degrees
It IS an insane expectation even for talented high schoolers. It MIGHT work out for them, but they have zero real world experience to base a decision for that kind of financial commitment.
Consider, ever where you are in your life right now, are you prepared to commit to a debt of 10-20 times your lifetime earnings so far? Now consider that you have years more experience in financial matters than a high school senior.
It's especially insane given that it wasn't that long ago that working through school was a viable way to graduate with a good degree debt free. My dad did that at Ga. Tech and he was not at all well-to-do at the time.
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byroman_mir
2026 @05:14PM
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Attached to: Anthropic's Index Shows Job Evolution Over Replacement
Which part of "advertising that otherwise wouldn't be possible, because it would have required a movie crew" is unclear? I never hired a movie crew and I would never hire a movie crew, so there wouldn't be any advertising shot with a movie crew, because I wouldn't be able to pay for it.
I can, however, pay for a couple of guys making videos based on my requirements by using tools that were previously unavailable and thus costing one thousand of what it would cost with movie crews and traditional filming techniques. Having a commercial done for a few thousand dollars altogether, something that otherwise could easily cost 1-3 million? I am not talking about just being efficient here, I am talking about being able to afford something altogether.
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