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> CLI app in a terminal

The terminal and CLI app within ran locally on a smartphone, which was the premise of the experiments within the linked post.

They also weren't comparing a Swift app on an iPhone with their Android run, they were comparing both against "... the system in the research paper that originally introduced vectorized query processing[.]"


Hyrum's law is about the real consumers/users (inadvertently) depending on any observable behaviour they can get their hands on.

TDD/BDD tests are meant to define the intended contract of a system.

These are not the same thing.


Yes, because when you hold credentials granted by a board of professionals that require you to sign a code of ethics, using those credentials to amplify your personal opinions comes with accountability.

To be specific: telling people "you're free to leave at any point" when they express concerns about humanity's impact on the planet is the kind of thing psychology boards take issue with, particularly when it comes from someone with a large platform and professional credentials in mental health.


Crazy huh? If an author wrote something as a child and lived over a hundred, you could hit even two hundred :)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, died in December 1940. Given the rules around copyright I would have expected things to expire in 2010 (death of author, roll to next calendar year, +70 years) so I'm unsure what happened here.


The rules were different at the time Gatsby was published. Its copyright expired 95 years after it was published - 1930 + 95 = 2025.


I was under the impression that the Mickey Mouse Protection Act 1998[1] extended the copyright protection for works retroactively (though already public domain works were excluded).

That being said, I guess the act had precautions to stop it from reducing the copyright protection for edge cases like these?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act


But Nick is not a derivative work; it's something original which references the characters and ideas in The Great Gatsby.

It's pretty crazy that you have to wait until 95 years until the publication of the referenced work to publish something like this.

Is it even about copyright or more about the abstract threat of litigation using copyright as a (baseless) pretext.


Whack, I always naively assumed copyright periods have only ever gotten longer. Good to know The Mouse [1] has precedent behind their legal theory :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#S...


It was published in 1925 and expired in 2021.


The US only switched to the life + 70 system in recent decades, and it doesn't retroactively apply.

I think if you add a child as a coauthor, the copyright will last longer. Nobody seems to do that, probably because it now lasts long enough for just about anybody.


Very likely a result of said anyone not having read the book in the first place.


It’s a short, easy read for high schoolers. They won’t be reaching for a dictionary and can probably pass the test based on study guides.

No work = no retention and no growth.


I'm well aware, I had the opportunity to read it in high school, though that was because of my grade stream; students in a 'lower' stream didn't get the same material.

Our prom theme the year I graduated was "The roaring 20s". The 2013 film had released months prior, and I remember discussing with friends how misleading it was--making the parties look incredible, while missing the book's subtler commentary. People who only glanced at the book, or only saw the film, can easily walk away thinking the Roaring Twenties were all glamour and fun, which is exactly the gap I was (poorly) pointing out in my earlier comment.


Yeah, I remember reading it in highschool and all we talked about eas the love story and parties. I re-read it in my early thirties for some reason and quickly realized the story was about temporal and moral tragedy. Daisy and Gatsby aren't romantics; they are morally shallow and selfish. I felt like the book was more about how we created a world were we train ourselves to chase glamor, but are punished for it in the process.

Funny enough a while back my wife and her friends were talking about having a "Gatsby" themed party. I think that is exactly what woukd have Fitzgerald rolling in the grave. Haha


Maybe the Gatsby-themed party was meant to be one where nobody was having fun but kept taking posed photos to post on Instagram.


The book is written in Latin, not exactly a dead language.


That isn't what the claim is about. I mean I don't think the source is particularly convincing but the claim is that it figured out the significance of the text not the literal meaning of the words


The interesting claim is that this would be hard for an expert to do, which is basically unsupported outside of anonymous experts who spent an unknown amount of time on the question. It also doesn't quote any experts on whether Gemini's conclusions are reasonable.


I'm unsure if someone who declares themselves as "obviously" part of the ruling class is the type of person who should be ruling over anyone at all.


What I do, I do for the people. The terrible tool known as AI shall be limited to my use so that only I need suffer its presence while the rest of you glory on unburdened.



> Surprisingly neurotic files full of strange comments

1. Have you looked at block lists before?

2. Do you have a specific example of what in these blocklists is strange/neurotic? I swear I've skimmed all of them a few times now and although I won't be using them, I'm struggling to understand what's odd about them.


> The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...


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