5 years is too little. 95 years is too much. There is a happier medium.

But I'm excited that *anything* is making its way. I honestly did not think anything was going to age into the public domain in my lifetime. I'm hopeful that the fact the world does not end when these things go public domain may mean we might even get a shorter term some day.

I have to think that there were a few other steps between #1 seller of robotic vacuums and chapter 11. Maybe even 10 chapters :-)

Guh. How long until my 'bot is a brick.

I disagree with the interpretation that bytecode is some kind of in-between thing. Bytecode is the machine language for an abstract machine (the VM) which is basically emulated on every machine that has an implementation. Look at Java bytecode. There's have been actual physical CPUs that directly run Java bytecode. So Java bytecode is the machine language for those machines. The JVM just emulates those machines. The fact that it does that with JIT binary translation doesn't change it from being an emulator. This means that your compiler that outputs bytecode literally is a cross-compiler. It literally runs on a different machine than the one it compiles for. The fact that there may not exist an actual physical implementation of such a machine is irrelevant.

And, yet it's also possible to interpret the situation as being that bytecode is some kind of intermediate. Sometimes more than none thing can be true at once. So, girls: you're both pretty.

In this case, I think it's both. When it compiles to JS, it's a transpiler. When it compiles to WASM bytecode, it's a cross-compiler. Yahtzee!

https://www.myarkansaspbs.org/...

Maybe they should have been a little more nervous.

I guess you mean their annual car sales?

Specifically:
Overall Guidance: Rivian adjusted its 2025 delivery target down to 41,500 - 43,500 vehicles due to retooling for the next-gen R2 platform, impacting production.
(vs about 51K in 2024)

I guess I'd call that a blip if the numbers play out and they get R2 up and running - which I'm looking forward to.

*never turned it back on. Oops.

That would be me. Literally. I use Opera on Android (Edge on Windows and I haven't used a browser on Linux in quite awhile, last time I did I used Firefox). And I was reading this post on Slashdot while taking a massive shit. No joke.

(Speaking of massive shits, has anyone seen that YouTube Short/TikTok video where the guy makes pop songs out of bad Tinder conversations, specifically the one where the guy asks, "Hey, girl, what that ass do though?" and she responds with, "Takes massive shits!"? If you haven't, look it up; it's really funny.)

Can't Europe solve this for us? I expect this kind of crap in the US, but Europe tends to lean a little more toward consumers than copyright holders, right?

I wonder if pursuing this in Europe would be more fruitful than doing it here.

It's worse than that. Slashdot's source code has had support for Unicode for more than 20 years. They even turned it on once. Then, like a week later, they turned it back off again and turned it back on. The reason was that they forgot to properly deal with direction-of-text markers, people figured that out, and the pages of comments got really messy and unreadable. So, instead of fixing their mistake, they said, "Fuck it," and went back to straight ASCII.

Horseshit.

To learn maths properly - enough to do middle school math - you need to be taught it. You don't have to love it. You don't have to enjoy it, even. You just have to be taught.

Sure - it helps if you love it. But we're not talking calculus, here; we're talking algebra. Geometry. Not even trig. You don't need to love math to learn that.

Where have you been? On Windows, at least, the default is to view PDFs in Edge. If you install Chrome then the default changes to Chrome. There's no need for Adobe Reader anymore, and hasn't been in years.

You often need to do that to compile your open source software on Windows. It's got nothing to do with cut and paste or Microsoft stuff leaking into open source.

On Gboard, you can just hit backspace and it will delete the last word so you can try again. It kind of sucks when you don't realize until later, but at least that's something.

No. The AI is a red herring. It has nothing to do with this. What these systems are doing is using actual rent amounts that tenants pay to determine what to charge. That rent information is not publicly available. That's the problem. If these systems stuck to the rents sought in publicly posted advertisements, it'd be no problem. Using that non-public information to set rents is already illegal; it's a form of price-fixing. What this law does is makes it clear that it's illegal to do even if the information transfer is conducted by a third-party.