spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 8 minutes ago:
So you would rather the publisher make the money instead of giving it to the family of the artist for a short period of time.
What terrible priorities.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 29 minutes ago:
Minor children of artists benefitting from their parents work is one possible reason. Like if an author had a five year old why shouldn’t the kid get royalties if their parents is in an accident?
It should be short enough that the child of an artist shouldn’t be benefitting for decades, but there are cases where an untimely death would screw over the artist’s family and allow the publisher to make all the money themselves.
The current setup is awful, but there should be at least a period of time after their death for rights to be inherited that is no longer or possibly shorter, than a reasonable time frame like a decade or two.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 18 hours ago:
I find it hard to believe that someone who entered a PhD program wasn’t given a heads up immediately about the competition for professor positions.
- Comment on Stinky is cute y'all why ban him 20 hours ago:
Reminds me a bit of Bender from Futurama.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 22 hours ago:
I grew up when even digital clocks were off by a couple minutes or more because they weren’t centrally connected to something that kept them accurate. Heck, my phone and computer clocks aren’t always exactly in sync down to the second.
I prefer analogue clocks most of the time because it lets me know roughly how much time is left until something at a glance instead of needing to calculate it in my head.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Hire from outside the company like they have been doing for decades.
Surely some other company will be the one to spend money on training!
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 1 day ago:
argue mint
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 1 day ago:
Yeah, it should be off by default with the option to turn it on.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 1 day ago:
(25 years from now as per the article)
Anything 20 years or more away is a pipe dream that isn’t likely to happen anywhere close to speculation.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 day ago:
It is completely useless as presented by the major players who atrocities trying to jam models that are trying to everything at the same time and that is what we always talk about when discussing AI.
We aren’t talking about focused implementations that are Wikipedia to a certain set of data or designed for specific purposes. That is why we don’t need nuance, although the reminder that we aren’t talking about smaller scale AI used by humans as tools is nice once in a while.
- Comment on Daedalic reveal story-driven Star Trek: Voyager strategy game in which you can betray everything Janeway ever stood for 2 days ago:
It means you can betray coffee!
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 days ago:
A lot of people are fine with getting wrong answers about shit they don’t know already.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 days ago:
Hartman did the intro.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 2 days ago:
Income tax is used because it’s super simple to collect, compared to e.g. a wealth tax or a capital gains tax which is more complex.
The real reason is that the people who are wealthy and make their money off of capital gains wanted to use the idea of income tax being easier to avoid being taxed themselves.
- Comment on [[TheGamer]] Forza Horizon 6 Setting Potentially Leaked By Australian Car Company 2 days ago:
While it doesn’t outright confirm anything, there would be very little reason for the developers of the next Forza Horizon game to scan Kei cars if it were to take place outside of Japan.
I don’t think the game cares about where cars are from or whether they are even street legal.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 days ago:
Oh shit, I always thought it was a fictional name that the writers used for the random stuff that come up during the writing process. Didn’t know it was a real person!
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 days ago:
If I remember correctly the Intel floating point thing didn’t come up for most users like AI does.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 days ago:
the university or the government does not project these things and adjust the available program sizes
They kinda do, but only the part where they increase program sizes after demand exists and only wind down when the market is saturated. They can’t really work too far ahead if they don’t know ow something will be in demand and they don’t want to tell students to not do something they offer just because there are too many graduates. Add the four or five years to graduation and you get a system that lags behind reality even if the planning was better.
But a well designed post secondary education means graduates can go into similar or related fields, they aren’t limited to what is on their diploma except in their own minds.
- Comment on This is very funny to me. 2 days ago:
“Durian fruit because they have replicators that can make anything.”
- Comment on Caption this. 2 days ago:
‘Seven legged turbo spider’ just seemed pretentious.
- Comment on In Full Bloom isn't just about being a planet-devouring Sarlacc's babysitter, it's my brain on games showcase 2 days ago:
To put it another way, the game’s like jumping into a MeatCanyon video about ASMR.
Well I’m sold!
- Comment on Caption this. 2 days ago:
Arachnofartia
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Neil is a genius.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 3 days ago:
Personally I think that claim is a decent one: user-initiated request should not be subject to robot limitations, and are not the source of DDOS attack to web sites.
They are one of the sources!
The AI scraping when a user enters a prompt is DDOSing sites in addition to the scraping for training data that is DDOSing sites. These shitty companies are repeatedly slamming the same sites over and over again in the least efficient way because they are not using the scraped data from training when they process a user prompt that does a web search.
Scraping once extensively and scraping a bit less but far more frequently have similar impacts.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It’s a bad practice that should be banned for everything except medical issues such as phimosis.
That’s what I said, but apparently not in enough words.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t allowed be if it was illegal…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It should be limited to medical professionals who do it for medical reasons, not for religious reasons.
Also I’m circumcised and it happened to work out well so I have no regrets, but it was done by a doctor and not as some backwards religious ceremony.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
IT’S LOUD IN DA CLUB
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 3 days ago:
Johnny 5 is alive!
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 3 days ago:
Chug that prune juice!