The serious cloud vendors lay out their own rack design, and save a lot of money from it. In a previous life, a Sun customer saved 1.3 million dollars by specifying four 32-socket, 64-core racks instead of a collection of 1u devices. Cases, power supply and fans, you see, don't make a hardware company much money. Chips and sockets do. My former boss has been tracking these folks with great interest: we used to work with them at Sun

People notice when they're posting articles from "News of the World" instead of the "Globe and Mail", and skip onwards.

(the first is a paper famous for publishing articles about subjects like Elvis' baby with a grey alien, while the second is the leading newspaper in Canada)

Asimov wrote those with bugs, for literary purposes. The really obvious bug was the second half of the first law (;-))
Someone who's read the stories recently can probably suggest a more bullet-proof set.

The big advantage of on-line ads is that if someone clicks on my ad, I get a log entry showing the ad was interesting to someone.

This is the solution to Wanamaker's lament: "‘Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half". Now I know which, and can use that information to help me write better ads and place them where they will be read. Secretly knowing that Aunt Martha clicked on my sneaker ad isn't useful to me: she's probably buying them for her little nephew, not herself (:-))

So papers which are retracted or amended are typically treated as honest science, independent of the country they come from.

However, in some countries, habitual obedience is what one should assume. If the government of the days says "hop" you say "how high". And it doesn't even need to be conscious: if your boss says fix your paper, you assume it's broken.

It's related to the odd phenomenon of most-wanted professional criminals being caught in traffic stops. They're so habituated to breaking the law, they don't remember to drive legally when they're trying to avoid notice.

It's perfectly normal in Canada to get a "Norwich Order" to make the publisher provide what identifying information they have about the author. An example is https://www.slaw.ca/2009/09/13... (courtesy of Omar Ha-Redeye and Slaw)

It's a non-profit, and not at all rich.

They testified that they had loaned out fewer copies than had become unavailable when the physical libraries had been ordered closed. That wasn't considered relevant in the fair-use case.

Contracts are like signing up for trial by battle: they chap with the biggest wallet gets the biggest sword (;-))

I like law, notably the Criminal Code. It's backed up with police, not money.

They scrape just enough to not get sued, and it's very effective at getting people to stay on FB and not go to the news sites. Pictures are particularly effective: they seem to be able to quote one entire picture for almost any article.

My usual newspaper, the Globe and Mail, made a deal and gives FB nicely formatted pictures and headnotes. That does seem to draw some customers.

I've done significant work in B, C, C++ and Go, and a little bit in Rust.
- B and K&R C are scalpels, and I get cuts on my hands from them
- Late C is a scalpel with a blade guard. so I only get some cuts
- C++ is a power saw, so I use all sorts of safety equipment lest I cut my hand right off
- Go is a power-plane with decent protection, but you can grind parts of yourself off if you want
- Rust is a circular saw with a blade guard, guides and the like already built in. Like Go, you can cut your hands off if you want, but most people don't want.

It was a draft proposal, to see if it was sane. The answer was, of course, "No"

To be precise, "No, change it to opt-in. That's sane".

Visarga said:

This makes it a competitive advantage for organizations who use open-source code. Right now, it looks like a lovely "assistant" for someone debugging code about which the ML model has been trained.

That looks like mathematical logic from the example, but might well be all open source... which would make it especially effective on similar open source. Linux kernel, anyone? Maybe Libre Office?