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That’s a pretty ambitious book to turn into a movie. Hope they don’t go too “Hollywood” on it, and respect the source material.

You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That’s the vernacular meaning of dignity.

In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.

You don’t infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to white people, or that gay people don’t have right to love who they love, etc.

The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people’s faces, free speech can’t include speech infringing on other people’s dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).

Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the instigator away.

Yes it was, that’s why they kept the patents when they sold Motorola.

I’m on page 12 and I already saw a false equivalence between human learning and AI training.

Of the SI system. The metric system started with cgs (centimeter, gram, second) and evolved from there.

They were all done by scientists or engineers.

The meter was defined based on what they calculated as 1 millionth of the length of Paris’ meridian.

The second was 1/86400 of a day, which makes sense with the angle/circle nomenclature on the clock.

The gram was initially set to be the mass of 1cm³ of water at 4°C - which is why 1l of water ≈ 1kg.

There’s nothing in the SI system that says ratios have to be between base units. Units that involve mass are defined against the kilogram not the gram.

Everyone is betting Tonga will not get itself into a war.

But if it hypothetically happened, I assume they would be pressured to use an alternative war flag by the international community.

On a more serious note, applying international laws against sovereign states is always more complicated than to enforce them against individuals and organizations operating inside of signatory states.

The red cross sign has a very specific meaning and protection under international law. They don’t want the symbol to be used outside of the agreed uses because they don’t want that meaning, and consequently the protection it affords, to get muddled.

They also don’t like when a red cross is used on a random first aid kit in the real world.

Is it so surprising that the mindset that makes people unable to face changes in one area of their lives also makes them unable to face changes in other areas?

Because neural networks aren’t known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s

Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the “Emperors New Clothes” levels of intellectual destitution.

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You don’t even need to go at a low level. Lots of programmers forget that their applications are not running in a piece of paper in general.

My team at work once had an app running Kubernetes and it had a memory leak, so its pod would get terminated every few hours. Since there were multiple pods, this had effectively no effect on the clients.

The app in question was otherwise “done”, there were no new features needed, and we hadn’t seen another bug in years.

When we transferred the ownership of the app to another team, they insisted on finding and fixing the memory leak. They spent almost one month to find the leak and refactor the app. The practical effect was none - in fact due to the normal pod scheduling they didn’t even buy that much lifetime to each individual pod.

Next time just shoot an movie industry exec, the sentence will be the same. /s (mandatory: don’t actually shoot anyone please)

The same legal terms might mean vastly different things in Germany and the US. This is often the case in arbitration and warranty clauses.

EFF’s lawyers don’t have the legal expertise to help a company based in Germany.

a WhatsApp user and whose number appears on his company website.

Either the number was in the training set, or it came up on the Web search somehow.

a WhatsApp user and whose number appears on his company website.

That’s where the LLM found the number. It being a valid WhatsApp number is a coincidence.

x11 doesn’t support HDR at all, so even with HDR support still not being fully mature in KDE and GNOME that’s a argument for wayland.