I do think it's still true in my experience that someone with the the capabilities to build useful things on their own tend to not stay very long at these giant companies, unless for specific visa reasons
depends entirely on the person. The startup life isn't for everyone, especially people with families that value stability and life balance over the idea of millions.
Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you're using youtube mostly on mobile device, or is there some other advantage here I'm missing?
It gives me no ads on mobile (both OSs), PC browser (without worrying about pre-roll or banner ads sneaking through a filter that breaks), Chromecast (without dealing with a pi-hole), and the knowledge that my spouse isn't having to deal with ads either (she wouldn't mind enough otherwise to deal with extensions), plus downloads on all those platforms, and background play without using an unofficial app. And it does that all while giving a bigger cut of money to people who make the videos than they would get even if I watched the ads.
Downloads and no ads on my mobile device (so I can listen while running) and on Roku on my TV. It also allows you to play videos with the phone screen off, which I don't think the free plan does.
And I’m pretty sure that it was meant to be a reference to the Wow! signal from the ‘70s. And I think at the end of the final book of the trilogy, a similar thing happens, except this time the virtual constructs of the characters get to go to Centauri via galactic cyberspace.
Surely not everybody's cup of tea but that line is one of the reasons why I like the original audiobook so much (the abridged version read by Gibson himself - not the Audible one). His voice gets distorted on reading the AI's lines to make him sound more eh AI'ish. It's just a silly little filter but it somehow makes the exchange between Case and the AI sound rather terrifying.
Personally I've used it more in the past week than ever before. And if Elon's tweets are to be believed, DAU is also at an all-time high. So i guess the answer is: if people are in fact leaving twitter, more are joining
Lost me at ‘if elons tweets are to be believed’. There is no reason I can think of where he would say DAUs are down. He just isn’t trustworthy with these stats.
I'm not sure if more are really joining — a lot of people are gathering to watch to car crash, though. It's notable how much commentary on twitter is about twitter right now.
GitHub copilot is trained on Open Source code bases, and regenerates OSS code in your proprietary apps, potentially breaking the licensing of the OSS code or your proprietary app.
A vocal minority of e.g. GPL proponents is just like, really really mad about it.
They tend to claim they are worried about open source. Really they are worried about a smaller sub-culture of open source who doesn’t want their code used for profit without being paid.
What about the sub-culture of open source who doesn't want their code used for profit without the result also being open sourced?
To put it another way, why should we have to treat Microsoft's EULA and licenses as ironclad while Microsoft gets to ignore licensing terms of code they want to use for their own products? Seems like an imbalance that's only possible because one side is more well-funded than the other.
English is missing some seemingly basic answer words too, which are present in other languages. Like no single word for unambiguously answering a negative question.
