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perryprog commented on FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub   twitter.com/FFmpeg/status... · Posted by u/merlindru
alienbaby · 3 days ago
Llm's do not verbatim disgorge chunks of the code they were trained on.
perryprog · 2 days ago
I think it's probably less frequent nowadays, but it very much does happen. This still-active lawsuit[0] was made in response to LLMs generating verbatim chunks of code that they were trained on.[1]

[0] https://githubcopilotlitigation.com [1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...

perryprog commented on FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub   twitter.com/FFmpeg/status... · Posted by u/merlindru
antonvs · 3 days ago
Is working around accessing an embargoed site really any better than just accessing it directly? Morally, what's the difference?

If everyone just actively boycotted that site, it would become irrelevant overnight. Anything else is simply condoning it continued existence. Don't kid yourself.

perryprog · 3 days ago
The issue is that you need an account to view the replies, not that there's a moral opposition to visiting the website (though it could be that too).
perryprog commented on How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface   tidbits.com/2025/10/09/ho... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
SchemaLoad · 2 months ago
Isn't this the case for all UI redesigns? When youtube changed to their current design there were posts about browser extensions to restore the old interface. I remember hating it myself at the time yet now I don't have an issue with it and probably prefer it to the old design.

Some people are always upset with change.

perryprog · 2 months ago
For what it’s worth, I’m definitely leaning “Apple fanboy” and have been amenable to their past UI redesigns. This is the first that I truly think is a regression, and I immediately turned on Reduce Transparency after updating.
perryprog commented on Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients   news.ki.se/gene-therapy-r... · Posted by u/justacrow
pcthrowaway · 6 months ago
> But again -- people who live in the deaf cultural world -- they do not feel that, and they don't feel disabled because, in their context, they aren't

I can respect resisting pressure to be part of the hearing world, but there are certainly ways in which deafness impacts one's safety and opportunities. Not being able to hear sirens, or oncoming trucks, or cars honking their horns, or cyclists saying "on your left", or fire alarms makes the world less safe for you (and for others who may have the expectation you can hear them)

I'm certainly not saying this to suggest people should be forced to join the world of the hearing if given the option, but I do think doing so would be the responsible option, if it's a readily available one.

Kind of like I don't expect people to learn other languages than their native tongue, even when it's a language spoken by the majority in their place of residence. But if you don't speak the language spoken by the majority, and are presented with the opportunity to instantly learn it (like "I know Kung Fu"-Matrix style), I certainly think it would be more responsible to do so.

perryprog · 6 months ago
> Not being able to hear sirens, or oncoming trucks, or cars honking their horns, or cyclists saying "on your left".

For what it's worth, it's generally thought that deaf drivers are safer drivers. See https://www.handspeak.com/learn/280/.

> fire alarms

ADA requires fire alarms to include visual alarms (as in flashing strobes) for this reason.

perryprog commented on A better build system for OCaml   blog.janestreet.com/how-w... · Posted by u/gaws
tombert · a year ago
I have to respect Jane Street for proving that HM-typed functional programming can be production-ready and extremely fast when given enough love.

I still occasionally hear things about how the more academic-styled functional languages can't work in production, but Ocaml shows that it absolutely can work, even with high performance requirements.

perryprog · a year ago
NoRedInk[0] also uses some Haskell in their backend, as well as Elm for most of their frontend. They've also worked some with Roc according to a blog post from a few years back; not sure if using it.

[0] https://blog.noredink.com

perryprog commented on Regular expression functions in Excel   insider.microsoft365.com/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
airstrike · 2 years ago
easier to use for power users or for beginners?
perryprog · 2 years ago
As someone who regularly flits between Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, and Numbers regularly (with my most time in Google Sheets and Numbers), and as someone who's made some extremely complicated spreadsheets in all three, I have to say I vastly prefer Numbers if I can get away with it. It has a lot of issues that can make some stuff hard fast (no array formulas is a big one), but I find it significantly easier and faster to prototype in Numbers regardless.

I think the main bit I love so much about it is having actual tables instead of the Infinite Grid that most spreadsheet software uses. You get named ranges for free, and it makes semantical sense too, among a good number of other benefits (sheet organization, refactoring, simpler styling...).

There are some really nice things that Google Sheets does, and I've done a few fancy things with App Script which isn't too bad, and I do really like QUERY though I wish it was a bit higher power. I just always find myself missing the UX of Numbers, though.

perryprog commented on Tell HN: Bash.org is no more    · Posted by u/Khaine
nayuki · 2 years ago
Wikipedia isn't an appropriate place for Bash quotes because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia about broad concepts. Also, Wikipedia as a policy is not a primary source.

Wikiquotes could be appropriate. Submitting a dump of the entire database to Archive.org could be appropriate. (For example, Archive.org hosts user-submitted dumps of things like product manuals, old TV shows, old computer games.)

perryprog · 2 years ago
Considering the quotes have an unknown, and almost certainly not public domain or CC BY-SA license[1], they wouldn't be appropriate for any Wikimedia project.

[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"

perryprog commented on Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators   nowdo.org/... · Posted by u/sanity
sanity31415 · 2 years ago
True, forgetting is the reason NowDo is always-on-top on the desktop, it's a constant but unobtrusive reminder of what you should be doing.

You're also right about todo apps assisting in their procrastination. That's why I kept NowDo so simple, there are no superfluous features to tinker with like labels, due dates, or categories.

perryprog · 2 years ago
Speaking as a chronic procrastinator, I think GP is more referring to the difficulty that comes with actually /adding/ items that need to be done. At least, that's always been one of the difficulties for me.

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