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Can i please say something about the announcement itself. I marvel at its simplicity and focus on the outcomes & benefits. Especially its lack of trying to link it to a political party / person is very refreshing to see and i wish can be emulated in some of the more developing nations.
"you can't enforce the law if you can't see the crime taking place"

Isn't this the key?

If AI can learn how to write a song like the Beatles, is it a crime that it has learnt it, or is it a crime that someone can use AI to produce work that resembles those artists' creations?

May the control be put on preventing AI from plagiarizing instead of putting measures to prevent scraping specific content from the open web.

Re:Thought Leader (2016) [video] on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:40PM (#43245163)
Re:ReMarkable launch Paper Pro, a colour e-ink tablet on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:41AM (#41446384)
At last someone echoing my biggest gripe with RM2. I dare say a number of recent sw upgrades have been annoying - but the one that made me use my rm less is the infinite scroll and pressing a button to add a new page. Also the zoom feels very clunky.

Is there a way to revert to the older versions of the software?

Re:Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:12AM (#41366248)
> 33 million lines of code in total

Is that a fact? That seems insanely large.

Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:10AM (#38034597)
I wonder why the prices here (https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/scn/send/services/takky...) are so specific (not rounded off). Am I right that this is a general trend in Japan?
Re:MiniGPT-4 on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:44AM (#35601515)
You make a good point. Except that a number of these concepts and tooling in the ML world have been slingshotted into the forefront in a relatively short time and it has been hard to play catch up. For eg. - someone said "frozen Vicuna" below - what does that mean?
Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:33AM (#34026607)
i know what you mean about "good stuff", but i did really enjoy the full commentary on this one. you have to give the narrative a chance and you can choose to skip right ahead if you want to without so much of an effort.
Re:You don't need live chat on your website on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:04AM (#33909391)
I agree that it popping it on its own is irritating. But having a live chat feature I have found to be very useful. Recently I have had to do a lot of purchasing for my House renovation project remotely (from a different country). It was useful feature, to enquire about specifications, book replacements etc. So much so that on the websites that didn't have this feature, I really missed it.
Re:Ask HN: A new Java based MVC framework? on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:32AM (#33105085)
Yes this is the one. Thank you
How long does it take to train to fully appreciate this like you do, if that is even possible for someone in a full time job in an unrelated field.
Also technology wise its not 2022 everywhere, if you know what i mean. Many poorer nations suffer from inferior infrastructure, which could mean slower loading / processing times for https based webpages.

I remember reading an article along these lines a few years ago when arguing against using https absolutely everywhere.

What is the concern with these logs? Do they contain end user information? May be IP, anything else?
Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:16PM (#26428506)
Hey I really like this. I have been listening to this on repeat. Thanks!!
Re:The new iPhone 12 has an Anti Repair design on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:24PM (#24936832)
I think you have link to the wrong video. Though i enjoyed this video too.

Here is the correct one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY7DtKMBxBw

Re:The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:27PM (#24932224)
You raise a good point.

In my experience, upper management with enough years in the business do not feign as much authority in understanding how IT works. On the contrary IT people who have been with the business long enough seem to think they understand the business pretty well. They don't. And half knowledge is dangerous is indeed a wise saying.

So even though those system architects buzzing with their confidence due to years of being part of the business often provide helpful insight, i would always always run crucial decisions that effect the business functionally, by business people only.

Re:The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:35PM (#24923178)
hmm sadly i have to agree with you, but there is hope
Re:The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:28PM (#24923082)
In real world this is what happens:

- your main business is not IT

- your IT dept is under pressure to do a lot with very little

- your tech debt grows and grows until it becomes actually apparent to the business that even small changes are taking tremendous effort

- your IT team is not just stuck with legacy code but also with legacy skills

- someone has the sense to measure your IT throughput

- "expert" IT consultants are called in

- experts call for a total overhaul using some fancy terminology

- some $$$ later we have a n% transformation, some unhappy permanent employees who think they could have done this themselves, reluctantly acquired knowledge, skeptical internal users

- you now learnt the hard way to listen to your IT team more when they say that they need support with learning new skills and time to fix tech debt

Re:HN Meetup, Bangalore on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:38AM (#5563667)
any agenda? what usually happens at such a meetup?
This is utterly disgusting. Feel very sorry for the victim. The officer and her dept certainly needs to apologise for this.
Re:Chrome World Wide Maze on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:25PM (#5416294)
amazing. just wow. i havent been more impressed in a long time.

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