Last time someone uttered something similar, I didn't get an answer, so I'll ask it to you: what entitles you to free access to any song, movie or book?
This: The basic idea of freedom, that I should be able to generally do things including accessing media without interference from a third party.
Someone using a physical property can possibly deprive others of its use. This applies to the physical mediums of songs, movies, or books, but not the songs, movies, or text of the books themselves.
Intellectual property isn't real, it's a concept that exists to support copyright, which exists for this exact purpose stated in the Constitution:
"[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
I'm ok with accepting a temporary limitation on my freedom to support those who make songs, movies, or books, but life of the author + 70 years, plus the ability to assign the right to corporations which don't die, is not reasonably "limited" these days. It should be something like 5 years today.
No one is entitled to be a songwriter, movie director, or author; society needs people doing other things too.
So you object to its current implementation, not to the principle itself, which is what I was replying to. I agree it's absurd, especially when the rights can be transferred to corporations, which cannot even create.
> No one is entitled to be a songwriter, movie director, or author; society needs people doing other things too.
Provided a friend of mine agrees to let me borrow (and copy) their media containing music / movie / book / whatever, what entitles you to interfere with such agreement?
Especially since that agreement didn't involve you.
There's no $deity-given right to control what happens to stuff you wrote / designed etc, once it's been published. Copyright is, sorry was, a legal construct meant to promote people creating artwork.
Once it overshot that intent bigtime, there's no justification for keeping it around. At least not in its current form.
I want copyright to be completely abolished and patronage to re-become normal and common. Most of my favorite artists already distribute most of their work for free and rely on the latter.
The comparison with money is interesting but not equivalent to copyright infringement. The closest valid application of the concept of counterfeit to songs, for example, would involve using them to make media and its packaging look like any original packaging, and also try to sell it as the original. If you're not doing this there's no counterfeiture.
>what entitles you to free access to any song, movie or book?
Does this sound profound to you? When you see yourself type it out, does it seem like you've really came up with a zinger?
What entitles them to come in and police my hard drive platters with "you can't write that sequence of bits to storage, that's our sequence of bits"? It's sort of a weird idea, sounds kind of medieval. Like King Cnut has granted them license to "the birds in the forest, and the timber, and the water that runs through the meadows".
Your question is a loaded question founded on a false premise that the author of the content has an innate right to its viewership. There is no such innate right.
Also, the argument that you made elsewhere about "damages" is nonsense because there is no damage from someone viewing what they were never going to pay for anyway, and there also is no deprivation.
It is not. Abolishing copyright completely, as the parent seems to desire, implies free access to songs, books, movies.
> a false premise that the author of the content has an innate right to its viewership
If you pose it this way: can't creators decide who gets access to their creations? Is it not inherently theirs? What's the difference with e.g. a piece of bread?
> there is no damage ...
So it's legal to steal stuff that you were never going to buy anyway?
> can't creators decide who gets access to their creations?
If it's on their physical property.
> Is it not inherently theirs?
No. For example, a creator of a song does not own my hard drive.
> What's the difference with e.g. a piece of bread?
Operating system calls used in copying data locally and sending/receiving network data locally/remotely fail on pieces of bread, but don't on a series of bits that when given to an .mp3 player make sound.
> So it's legal to steal stuff that you were never going to buy anyway?
Saying somethng is stealing X is a false premise if the owner is not deprived of X. Saying X is depriving Y of future profits is false unless you know for a fact that X was going buy anything from Y.
You might have heard of other languages. They tend to import words but adapt spelling and pronunciation. Sometimes even meaning. Your own language has them too. I also bet you spell quite a few place names and countries according to tradition, not by any official spelling.
I'm hardcore FF, and it used to be a bit slower than Chrome, but nowadays the difference is barely noticeable. And on very large pages (e.g. big tables), Chrome is a lot slower than FF.
The UI is just better overall. Ever since Chrome came out with the "unified search bar" imho Firefox was behind in usability. Firefox just follows. Like recently didn't they add tab groups after Chrome implemented them?
Isn't Brave based on Chrome?
Personally I think it is really stupid to choose a browser based on privacy. I choose a browser based on usability. Whats the selling point of Brave? That it hides ads?
Safari's OK if you're on Mac. I'm on Windows 11. Chrome looks tight, the tabs look great, my bookmarks bar looks great and I can fit a ton of bookmark folders on there. Firefox looks worse in almost every way.
My main problem was that our hosting company offers cheap Linux servers, but with a shared CPU that even doesn't support v2. We pay more now, but you could still run into that problem.
Or on purpose, because the CPUs with AVX are more expensive. Or historical: the hardware for this kind of service may have been old, and you can't tell people that if you buy today you get a processor with AVX, but tomorrow you may get one without. I haven't checked if they upgraded their low-cost options in a while.
You can try to execute POPCNT. If it does not fault, its presence is only hidden via CPUID.
Live migration support may be the reason why they stick to the baseline. That's most likely to be migratable across different CPU types. Although with a bit of effort, you can figure out what is support by your fleet and configure that into the hypervisors.
I'm skeptical that pre-SSE-4.2 etc. CPUs are economically viable for running customer workloads due to electricity costs.
Either it's a misconfiguration, or it's intentional (only providing a "bare-bones" machine for the lowest price level, even if the underlying hardware would support more)?
Isn't there a thermal cost to AVX instructions? Or, thinking of other reasons, if you're splitting up physical hardware into a "vCPU", it it possible that AVX doesn't map cleanly?
It really did start in the time frame. Facebook opened in 2006. Twitter already existed and grew rapidly in that period. There were messengers. And because everything was slow, I suppose it could even take an hour to doom scroll Slashdot.
Go's selling point is most definitely performance, but relative to implementation effort of a given application. This is opposed to languages that focus more on maximum performance at any cost to implementation, or maximum convenience at any cost to performance.
It's not the kind of performance expectations where processor-specific SIMD support really matters (although nice if it's there)
Go's performance goals are to have much faster runtime than any interpreted language and faster build times than most compiled languages. It's a reasonable stance.
Basically a political answer that answers nothing.
It isn't performance compiling, as that is only surprising for those that never used 90's compiled languages like Modula-2, Object Pascal, Clipper and co.
It isn't performance of code execution, as even GCCGO could beat the reference implementation, unfortunately now stagnant since no one cares to update it beyond Go 1.18.
And to go back to the article, as pointed out there,
> The Go toolchain does not currently generate any AVX512 instructions.
I'm in the no-AI camp, but for this case, I find it interesting, especially since there's little obfuscated C online, and LLMs cannot infer intention from the actual code. Did you spot any entries with LLM support?
Also, the reverse is interesting: how well can they guess the function of the obfuscated code?
Yeah, Claude, Grok and Gemini immediately recognized it as a SUBLEQ VM (and worked out from there all the details), only chatgpt got stumped and just said it was a "visual simulator".
All the big labs have plenty of proprietary (i. e. paying PhD holders good money for writing stuff) and synthetic training data now compensating for the lack of "naturally occuring" SUBLEQ and similar stuff.
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