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"Patently offensive" carries some weight there.

To those from Puritan backgrounds its probably offensive. To less prudish backgrounds, probably not.


Autotrace [0] is in a similar space. It's list of output formats mean its fairly entrenched into this incredibly niche space (along with Inkscape).

For a lot of people, tools like this are only part of the journey of what they're doing. So how you hand off the file to keep editing will matter.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/1/autotrace


You've never seen an SAP database where the business object had a couple hundred fields? Its pretty much required if you're touching international data.

Salesforce by default comes with some where your tables have 50 columns before you start tweaking anything.

100s is not unusual. Thousands happens before you realise.


How many DRM-heavy websites do you use? Widevine is a buggy thing.

Chromium has better handling for bitflip errors. Mostly due to the Discardable buffers they make such extensive use of.

The hardware bugs are there. They're just handled.


By what?

With Discardables. When Blink's allocator detects a fault in a memory section it swaps it out for a new one, and taints the old so it is only reused when no more remains.

Live objects get swapped between Discardable buffers quite frequently. They're not expected to stay at the same position in memory.


I think I sit in another camp. A lot of my engineering efforts are in working around bad hardware.

Better the user sees some lag due to state rebuild versus a crash.

Most consumers have what they have, and use what they have. Upgrading everything is now rare. If they got screwed, they'll remain screwed for a few years.


Alsup absolutely did not vindicate Anthropic as "fair use".

> Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies. [0]

It was only fair use, where they already had a license to the information at hand.

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...


Or hoping to get ahead of the Windows 12 requirements.

Place it under the jurisdiction of existing public speech requirements of a company selling communication - advertising.

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