Oh I heard about that one, but didn't realize it is part of that "big beautiful tax bill"? Kind of crazy.
So is this like free-for-all now for anything AI related? Can I can participate by making my own LLM with pirated stuff now? Or are only the big guys allowed to break the law? Asking for a friend.
The law doesn't matter, since the bill also prohibits all judges in the USA, every single one, from enforcing almost all kinds of injunctions or contempt penalties.
(§70302, p.562)
> 70302. Restriction of funds
No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
Doesn't that just require that the party seeking the injunction or order has to post a bond as security?
It is a smaller part of a whole collection of addons I've been working on meant for helping with animating character assets from Daz Studio in Blender and then bringing the animation back into Daz Studio.
Eventually I want to have a zero effort way to get characters from Daz Studio into Unreal or Godot with FACS morphs, JCMs, etc. already setup.
Would you mind sharing some contact information for these companies looking for C developers? I have been working as a contractor myself and while I currently seem to have no problem finding projects involving javascript, companies actively looking for C developers seem to be little shy in my area.
I suspect you are from the US, and I am from Europe, so this might be a problem. But still, if you are willing to write me an email, my address can be found through my github account that is linked in my profile.
I'm based in the southern UK right now, and a place I am leaving today is looking for C folks. They seem open to contracts. The work is not that interesting, being mostly small pieces of maintenance. The money is OK though.
If that's interesting, reply in the positive here and I'll ping you the details of the company and the agency I've been working through. They have a bunch of people from around Europe, and AFAICT one travels in from Germany each week.
Sure, that sounds interesting, and I guess just asking is not going to hurt anyone. Since I am from northern Germany southern UK should not be completely impossible to reach.
Instead of mapping to Escape (or Control) I prefer mapping Caps Lock to ISO Level3 Shift, also known as AltGr. That way I get a whole new type of modifier that I can use to assign custom functionality to.
For example I map AltGr+j/k/l/i to the arrow keys so that I can navigate code without taking my fingers of the home row, regardless of the editor I am in. I also have AltGr+h mapped to Backspace, AltGr+m is delete, AltGr+u/o are home/end and so on and so forth. It opens up lots of possibilties.
At the USB HID level, AltGr is merely the right Alt key; the interpretation is just host software.
If a keyboard physically has two keys labelled ‘Alt’ and two labelled ‘AltGr’, then at the protocol level both ‘Alt’s are (indistinguishably) USB LeftAlt and both ‘AltGr’s are USB RightAlt.
(Mac keyboards' ‘Option’ is the label for USB Alt and acts like Windows' AltGr.)
Apart from the label, AltGr is identical to right hand Alt. The difference is all in software. For example, if you tell your computer you have a UK keyboard it will treat right hand Alt as AltGr.
German Keyboard. Yes, there is an AltGr key on my keyboard but I map that one to Control actually...
In fact I swap my Alt and Control keys, and don't use AltGr for its original intent at all, because using AltGr+7/8/9/0 on the German keyboard to type {[]} is horrible. I use an english layout (which I modified with my AltGr+j/k/l/i thing and a bunch of other tweaks) instead.
Same for me, and I have this mess: https://github.com/rakete/cute3d/blob/master/ninja_cute3d.py to show as proof. I am kind of cheating though, because I am not really building anything, I am generating a ninja build file and then use that to do the actual build.
Works flawlessly on Linux and Windows and is fast too!
AutoHotKey was already mentioned, which I use on windows. I have been looking for an alternative that I can also use on Linux and Mac OS and found SikuliX (http://www.sikulix.com/). Note that I have no idea if either AutoHotKey or SikuliX are actually capable of replicating the functionality of Keyboard Maestro since I've never used Keyboard Maestro.
Also recently I found a cross platform automation system written in go that looks promising: robotgo (https://github.com/go-vgo/robotgo). I might try to use robotgo to replace the AutoHotKey scripts in my own little Unity3D command line tool unity_do (https://github.com/rakete/unity_do) in the future. So I don't have any experience with it yet.
Exactly the same for me. I had ChosunTruck bookmarked but Europilot looks much nicer at first glance.
Another related thing that I wanted to check out is this: https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim although that only gives you the sim and you have to do the machine learning part completely yourself.
Seems weird to me to include snapchat in a list together with antibiotics and cars. And I think it kind of demonstrates your own point.
You did not name any specific antibiotic products, or car manufacturers, because those are not really that significant.
The underlying inventions though are the real technological leaps forward that, as you say, are like air: so common that we overlook them all the time.
Snapchat is just a product, I think the real invention that you overlooked is the internet.
