[–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No because just copy-pasting, or god forbid gEnErAtInG notes defeats the purpose of the note. Reading an existing note is secondary to having written it in the first place, because by writing it I can think about the topic and process different lines of thinking which may spawn other threads of interest or related issues.

Your example of git is one where I would particularly benefit because I could write about how git is structured or how a particular command works using the docs as reference and then find a difference between my understanding and the docs that I wouldn't have found by reading just the docs or just my notes. This isn't theoretical, it's happened to me every time I've started writing something on a topic.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    It's funny because I've worked with ruby on rails my entire career and can barely see how he built the tool that such an open and inclusive community formed around. He was always an outlier in that setting and even more so now. My understanding is that he's not very involved with the project and even if he was it would be pointless to boycott it since he doesn't gain anything from it anymore. Hey and Basecamp on the other hand, yeah, neither are seeing a penny from me.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah but from an interviewing perspective it's a win-win. Either the guy answers the question for those elections more clearly, showing that he only has a problem answering the one about 2020 and therefore clearly doing it because of the orange man, or he still refuses and he looks like he can't answer simple questions.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I have the same model waiting to be built and went down this rabbit hole. Part of the problem is that the British tank museum read some descriptions of people who operated in or around the tanks and they all said something like "duck egg blue" or "sky blue". So when it came to paint their preserved Matilda tank they painted it with a best-guess shade that people later argued wasn't correct, but because it was in a museum it must have been right and it's been replicated on models and depictions ever since.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Surprisingly measured comment section on that article (at time of writing). Given how harmless this software is it's a pretty easy conclusion of "if it puts you in harm's way, don't use it", and as the other commenter here says, it can always be forked if people don't like the political messaging.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Anyone I talk to about this agrees that the IP theft itself is not a problem but the difference in punishment between the big tech companies and the average person. If someone in a basement had made chatGPT or equivalent, they'd have been put in prison for life, or fined into oblivion. OpenAI does it and suddenly one of the richest companies in the world says "if anyone even thinks about suing or holding them to account we will defend them with our literal army of lawyers". Then China does it and suddenly IP matters again.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they've grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.

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