How is WebP “patent encumbered”? It’s an open format.

I suppose you don’t believe that a kid invented Wolfenoot, either.

What makes somebody’s sexual orientation political?

The trick to avoiding recursive functions is to avoid recursive functions.

I use qbittorrent, and it has a function that lets you move the torrent to another location. So, the files will move over, and it doesn’t break the linkage with the client.

It can’t be copyright. They just used the wrong term.

Copyright only applies to created works. Wouldn’t the owner of the copyright to you be…your parents?

There’s an extension for Firefox called DownThemAll that lets you pause and resume downloads, as well as a bunch of other cool stuff like being able to filter a page of URIs for a filetype and enqueuing them.

Reminder that “git” is not an acronym, so there’s no need to put it in all-caps unless you’re YELLING (which you might be).

What a lot of people seem to be missing is…you don’t need to create a computer that mimics a human brain. We have tons and tons of human brains already. There’s no shortage of them, so there’s no need to program a synthetic one. What we do need is a super-advanced computer brain. It isn’t going to think like a human, and that’s good.

Sure, but wouldn’t that mean we’d also have to completely understand how a human brain works? The last I heard, the most advanced brain that scientists fully understood was like a flatworm or something.

We know it’s not? How? How do we know that?

To be fair, that isn’t what it was designed for. A competent AI would simply call up a calculator app, have it do the calculation, and then report back the result.

Because it’s so much easier to tell robot to do thing than to do thing yourself.

I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to.

Why are you asking if you already know the answer?

What did you read about the founder?

in the pocket of big butt plug.

That isn’t a pocket

cat and ls have canonical short names to save disk space on the systems they were created for.

I thought it was to save on keystrokes due to slow transmission speeds.

Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don’t have to spend time configuring it.

I’ve never run into a Java evangelist. Every opinion I’ve ever heard about Java is something like “Yeah, this sucks”. I always thought that people put up with it because it’s write-once, run-anywhere, but so is, y’know, Python.