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Applications don't load from the working directory first by default.
I don't want to have to pay licensing costs for books I read since I "trained" on it.

I'm deeply concerned my children will have to pay rent for the rest of their lives for the schooling they got.

Let me know if you find it, I'm also looking
Re:Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:37AM (#50260931)
I don't see how they can adjust for the type of people not responding to polls unless they can force them to answer.
Re:Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:06AM (#50153398)
The article explains that the federal and state governments did do something about it.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:30AM (#50149046)
What if we meet extraterrestrial life? Would we ban them from showing us all the math they already solved and/or invented?
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:33PM (#50080916)
Won't those same people just use unsafe in Rust?

If not, why would they be allowed to do the same in C++

Re:NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:32PM (#49902304)
The issue is we don't know if they texted the carpenter or had a detailed design discussion followed by detailed follow up and tweaks.

People often assume one extreme or the other, but in my opinion, this is where these disagreements stem.

The problem is if they used it for a slide, they could have used it to design a part or code or something else.

These blanket rules are very typical in large organizations.

100% There are implementations that have sane behavior for "UB" instead of making it an excuse to misbehave.

The ISO standard is not the same as a language from a single vendor.

What about books or art or movies?

The electronic version of all those is also near zero marginal cost.

Is that different than cattle escaping and damaging property?

I believe the rancher is at fault.

Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:32PM (#49457336)
Do we have a breakdown on how much traffic is free users vs paid users?
People have caused lots of damage with bulldozers.
Re:RISC-V: They should have known better on Friday August 14, 2026 @11:43PM (#49307424)
The article explains why it's worse
My comments are not "corporate-biased", they are business owner biased, which includes small businesses.

Employment is an free arrangement between two entities, not a modern day serfdom where the employers are now responsible for their serfs housing, food, etc.

Some people care about justice in general?

Also, normalizing stealing IP is only going to have bad consequences for everyone.

Each side has incredible freedom. There are downsides to them.

Employees can take up a huge amount of resources and then leave before costs are recovered.

Re:Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:40PM (#48726289)
What I got from this is if we mandate the hospitals open their rooms to the sun, the new correlation will cause people to avoid the sunlight because "it leads to more deaths"
Re:Memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:14PM (#48548358)
I see his reply as "people say Rust is safe, but Rust just pushes it under a rug and pretends it's safe when it's still all there - just in a dependency"
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:54PM (#48535115)
So "enough of us" can take anything by forcing the asset to be valued at an artificially high value, force them to sell it for taxes, and then reduce the price down again to keep it ourselves?
Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:18PM (#48510910)
Maybe a movie producer is a better analogy?
I'm not sure how paying a large corporation for generic stock photos is so much better.

Either way an actor isn't getting paid. It just prevents someone from generating it locally?

Citation needed
I should be able to have a different opinion without being a troll.

My point is to say many things have been replaced by technology over the years, but people do them as hobbies.

Re:Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:58PM (#48391258)
I don't see how this is different than things replaced decades ago:

Music is a human endeavor and musical recordings hurt musicians, bands, orchestras, etc. Especially those starting out.

Re:1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:56AM (#48384978)
Sure, given infinite time, they could diligently try to reproduce every bug across every version of any given product or open source library from a team at Microsoft.

However, if you have 1000s of reports a day, many of them vague with the person hoping it's close enough to a real issue to get paid, it makes sense to me personally that one needs prioritize active issues over tracking down when other issues were fixed.

It sucks to have your work made redundant, so it's hard to understand if their critism is founded or just sour grapes.
Is that really correct?

Reading the page, the software needs an update due to Apple breaking it, but 2019 is out of support so Microsoft won't fix the breaking change.

Re:Performance of Rust Language [pdf] on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:40PM (#48287502)
Do they even count towards safety if they aren't in release mode?

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