Funny thing is, they’d be right but not realize that Trump is a part of it rather than the solution to it.

Not sure where anything in that link contradicts what I said. A character used in a logo is one of those cases where a character is used as a trademark, but it only applies to that logo. Having a trademark of a Mario logo wouldn’t mean that Mario couldn’t show up in works that aren’t by Nintendo, it’s purely the copyright that prevents that.

The part where it gets complicated is more about, for example, a video of Mario playing Palworld and saying “This is-a better than-a pokemon!” was used to try to imply Nintendo themselves recommended Palworld over Pokemon, since Mario is a trademark of Nintendo and strongly associated with them.

Trademarks are about marketing and the origin and/or endorsement of something. Copyrights are about the presentation and creative use of the copyrighted works.

That said, if trademarks are used in the creative work, it seems as though they would need to be removed for someone else to sell that work. So if steamboat Willie has the Disney logo as a part of its opening credits and someone else tries to show it without removing that logo, Disney world likely have a trademark infringement case. But they wouldn’t have a case simply because Mickey mouse could be considered they spokesman and is a character in it.

For the Nintendo ones, once super Mario Bros’ copyright lapses, “Super Mario” might need to be removed from the title for others to sell it to avoid infringing on Nintendo’s trademark. But the characters of Mario, Luigi, Mushroom Man, King Koopa, and the Princess would be fair game, either in the game’s original format or derivative works.

Yeah I liked the idea of Uber at first because taxis have been shitty for a long time and Uber was shaking up that industry.

But then I learned that Uber wasn’t making money and immediately realized that they were just looking better than taxis for as long as they needed to to drive them out of business so they can be even worse, while providing even less than taxis companies do. At least taxi companies have a relationship with their drivers while Uber was just a platform for connecting anonymous riders with almost as anonymous drivers and handling the financial aspect of it (so that they control it all as middlemen with control of the wallet).

So now I just use taxi services when I need a ride (while cursing the state of mass transit in North America and GM plus corrupt politicians for their role in making this like this).

Similar story with hotels/airbnb, though they’ve made it even worse because they are affecting the housing market itself rather than just the luxury service of staying somewhere while away from home.

A trademark is just a symbol used to show something was made by a certain entity. They aren’t about the things themselves.

Eg the Nintendo logo is a trademark but the characters like Mario, Link, and Sonic aren’t.

Though it can get a bit fuzzy when characters are used as trademarks, Nintendo couldn’t just say “Mario is our spokesman” to gain indefinite protection on him. But, even if Mario wasn’t covered by copyright, someone else couldn’t use him to act as if Nintendo endorsed their product.

Does this law allow for any standards progression or is it USB-c forever?

Who knows the connection between badgers, mushrooms, and snakes?

Rot is an essential part of our digestive process, assuming rot just means biological processes converting food from one state to a generally less appetizing state.

They are boeinged on the ISS.

Their age has given them more time to accumulate power and influence.

If they did that themselves, then they would know when a user was trying to access their porn from Florida, defeating the benefit a vpn would provide.

Feels like they are the same thing.

I think a part of it is the scale of the data used to train it means there wasn’t likely much curation of that data. So it might complete the text using a wikipedia article, a knowledge forum post, a forum post that derailed the original topic, a forum post written by someone confidently wrong, a troll post, or two people arguing about the answer. In that last case, you might be able to get it to hash out the entire argument by asking if it’s sure about that after each response.

Which is also probably how it can correctly respond to “are you sure?” follow ups in the first place, because it was going off some forum post that someone questioned and then there was a follow-up.

It’s more complicated than that because it’s likely not just rehashing any one single conversation in any response, but all of those were a part of its training, and its training is all it knows.

I don’t think he’s necessarily trying to dismiss this as express curiosity about that kind of reaction to that news and adding in other examples where the whole nation would have celebrated something.

If anything, he seems to be saying that the invention of the polio vaccine is in the same class of news as the others, not that people were only celebrating the polio vaccine because they were happy about these other events that were well passed or still to come in the future.

These ones plus “this is a duplicate of <link to question that is only kinda related and doesn’t address the specific problem being asked in the newer question>”.

Fuck busy body moderators. The people you “have power” over can see how stupid and incompetent you are and being able to shut down forum conversations about it doesn’t hide it, it just means people know not to bother saying it where you’re looking.

They meant they wanted a game set during the conjunction of the spheres but didn’t know if witchers were a thing yet at that timeframe in the lore. The wording made it seem like they were talking about your first witcher idea but they were talking about a different alternate timeframe setting they’d like to see.

Yeah, this should probably be approached from the angle of “someone might do this, so we should do research to be prepared”.

Research ways to improve containment to reduce the chance of an accidental containment breach.

And research ways to quickly determine the weaknesses of such synthetic lifeforms if a breach happens anyways. Also to be prepared in case someone deliberately weaponizes it.

By the way, this kind of thing is why IMO if we ever do find extra terrestrial life, attempting to make any kind of physical contact or even land on the planet might end up dooming both our own species (and maybe all current complex life on Earth) as well as any complex life on that other planet. They could have basic forms of life that are entirely different from our own and completely invisible to our immune systems.

Though it would probably also have cool results in a few hundred million years, after microbial life has evolved defenses and perhaps some hybridizations.

Yeah, knowing how science and tech journalists often have little idea what they are talking about and the description itself, I’m skeptical that this will be as revolutionary as it’s being presented to be. I’d love to be wrong, though.

And it does sound like extra speed is possible. It sounded like the magnetic platters in hard drives are too magnetic, and spend some time compensating for undesired electromagnetic effects that occur while reading the platter. Which makes sense because it’s spinning fast while another electromagnet tries to read it and electromagnetic fields moving relative to each other are known to react and interact. Part of that would be how it works at all, but there could be another part that counteracts that and maybe requires time to stabilize or multiple passes to give an accurate average.

Though this is pure speculation, I don’t have much in depth knowledge of how magnetic drives work, other than it involving neat tricks like spinning, magnets, and probably some sort of sorcery or witchcraft.

Thing is, if they have backups, even editing data doesn’t do anything. Or they could even just have it set up to only display the most recent version but still keep each edit on the db. Wouldn’t even be hard to implement. Hell, it wouldn’t even be that hard to implement a historical series of diffs so they don’t have to store the full comments for each edit if the edit is a small one.

Like if I wanted to run a service that made it easier to find interesting data, part of that would be to flag deletes and edits as “whatever was there before has a higher chance of being interesting”.

Once something is posted, IMO just assume that it can’t be unposted and trying to unpost it might work similarly to the Streisand effect.

Even here. Sure, the source is open and I’d bet looking at the delete and edit functions would make it look like everything is fine. But other federated servers don’t have to run the same code and can react to delete and edit directives from other servers however they want. The main difference between this platform and Reddit in regards to control over posted information is the fediverse can’t prevent entities from accessing the data for free (albeit with less user metadata like IP and email).

Exactly. Oh and I also just remembered another angle: their anti-linux stance. They used to make games with native Linux support, but as I understand it, they’ve even removed Linux support from some games that already had it, trying to keep the Microsoft monopoly going. I wonder how much money ms is giving epic for that.

Same reason why a lot of the non-steam handhelds are non-starters for me. And yeah, I can live without games that depend on Windows kernel-level anti-cheat.

My backlog is so full I could keep entertained even if I ignore every single game I don’t currently have in my steam library. Hell, I even ignore some that are there when I realized they have denuvo or something like that after buying and the refund window has already passed when I do notice.

Lol I stayed away because the anticompetitiveness was immediately obvious (they should have opened with the free games but showed their hand early by starting with exclusivity deals), but I’m not surprised it gets even worse.