[–] 3 points 1 month ago

Possibly intelligence and propaganda reasons. Russians have been linked to alt-right propaganda campaigns and the last thing the secret services want is for those efforts to integrate further into their country's society. A vacation visa also implies that the Russians will go back and the same security agencies would be all kinds of paranoid about what happens in the meantime

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'm not sure which open index the EU is planning on using but I sure hope it's not the Open Web Index because when I last had to use that it turns out that they forgot to embed the links that were contained in the texts they scanned

    As for why that's bad: hyperlinks are basically THE best way to figure out which content is relevant compared to other content. PageRank, the algorithm that got Google famous, is based on articles linking to each other to figure out which articles are the most valuable (it's the articles that the most people link to, similar to how in science, the most important papers are usually the ones with the most citations). Open Web Index doesn't have any of that information, it's all just text, combined with the link where the crawler scanned that text

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Depends very much on the language you're using. Haskell and ocaml do fall into that category, whereas erlang and scheme are also functional languages with fairly weak typing.

    If there is one thing that connects functional programming as a whole, it is that in FP, program flow is managed mostly through function application, instead of if statements and for/while loops.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I don't have much if an opinion on the rest of your argument but:

    probably before most people started realizing it was being trained off stolen artwork as well as a lot of the other problems with AI.

    This is the equivalent to those Tesla owners pasting "I bought this before Elon went crazy" stickers. Especially the creative industries were very quick to point out the problematic part of stuff like Dall-E and stable diffusion. Generative Graphical AI has never been approved of by the gamedevs I know.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    "Nightcore = sped up normal version" was always a bit of a derogatory term towards the genre as it started to pick up steam and people got more lazier with it

    As far as my experience goes, This was Nightcore proper. Admittedly not much has changed from the original, but it's still more than moving up the BPM slider

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  • Het woord "Noch" (feddit.nl)
     

    Ok dus ik ben net naar het toilet geweest en er schiet me opeens een brandende vraag naar binnen: Hoe gebruiken jullie het woord "noch"? Ik heb het namelijk in meerdere vormen gezien en vroeg me af of er een correcte versie is.

    De versies die ik eerder heb gezien zijn:

    • Ik heb het een noch het andere gedaan
    • Ik heb niet het een noch het andere gedaan
    • Ik heb niet het een noch niet het andere gedaan
    • (Ik heb het ene niet gedaan en het andere ook niet gedaan) (sommige mensen gebruiken het woord "noch" gewoon niet)

    Ik ben persoonlijk voorstander van versie 2, aangezien het duidelijk een opsomming van ontkenningen aanduidt, maar ik vraag me af of er mensen zijn die er andere gedachtes over hebben

     

    So today Unity announced changes in how they are going to monetize their game engine, and it is, rightfully might I add, poorly recieved Here is how much youtuber Dani would have to pay unity if they consider his games to gain over $200k in revenue Dani's hypothetical unity payments

    Now I don't know how much tracking crackers and re-packers remove from the games getting cracked, but if unity were to count cracked games as a valid install (and they will count every install of a game they are aware of), thn piracy could seriously bankrupt indie devs. Like, not just losing them revenue, but actively losing them money. While piracy is already in an ethical grey area, I think that is just a bit too much. So, I want to raise awareness of this, and with it I have 2 questions to ask:

    • Do the people that crack games make sure to remove the ability of unity tracking cracked installs?
    • If the answer to the previous question is "no", how do we make them aware of the fact that it is probably for the better if they do this?
     

    I think, especially in programming language communities, that there tends to be a preference towards making a static language for their compile time guarantees, and this is a pretty concrete counterargument as to why people find dynamic languages "easier to program in"

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