deathmetal27

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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Jodorowsky you mean?

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Disco Elysium

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What happened in the 70s?

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh well. I'm too used to the "/s" for recognising sarcasm.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Genuine? Almost all his arguments are strawman and he contradicts himself constantly.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

One way I could see this being enforced is by mandating that AI models not respond to questions that could result in speaking about a copyrighted work. Similar to how mainstream models don't speak about vulgar or controversial topics.

But yeah, realistically, it's unlikely that any judge would rule in that favour.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Alsup? Is this the same judge who also presided over Oracle v. Google over the use of Java in Android? That guy really does his homework over cases he presides on, he learned how to code to see if APIs are copyrightable.

As for the ruling, I'm not in favour of AI training on copyrighted material, but I can see where the judgement is coming from. I think it's a matter of what's really copyrightable: the actual text or images or the abstract knowledge in the material. In other words, if you were to read a book and then write a summary of a section of it in your own words or orally described what you learned from the book to someone else, does that mean copyright infringement? Or if you watch a movie and then describe your favourite scenes to your friends?

Perhaps a case could be made that AI training on copyrighted materials is not the same as humans consuming the copyrighted material and therefore it should have a different provision in copyright law. I'm no lawyer, but I'd assume that current copyright law works on the basis that humans do not generally have perfect recall of the copyrighted material they consume. But then again a counter argument could be that neither does the AI due to its tendency to hallucinate sometimes. However, it still has superior recall compared to humans and perhaps could be the grounds for amending copyright law about AI training?

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Not built, learned.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's what I meant. Microsoft created the Office Open XML format as an open standard, but they don't follow their own standard and make their "extended" version of the standard as the default.

Other Office suites like Libre Office support this format via strict mode, which is not selected by default when you save these files using the Microsoft Office suite.

Technically even Google does this with Chrome: Open standard JS but they also use custom components, sites that use these components break on other browsers.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Xlsx is actually an open standard, but only if you use strict mode, which Microsoft conveniently does not make the default option when saving. You have to choose it explicitly when saving.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

 

I have been working in the IT industry for the last 13 years and I was diagnosed with ADHD around two years back.

As part of my job, I have to look at a lot of code. It used to be that I used to write a lot of it, but recently since getting promoted, my work now revolves mostly around reviewing the code others wrote or sometimes enhancing someone else's code.

The problem comes when I come across some extremely convoluted legacy code. For example, like a function hierarchy with 10+ levels of function calls across several hundreds of lines. This causes me some problems understanding what's going on because it's nearly impossible for me to follow every branch to understand which part of the code needs fixing. After a while traversing the function calls I often forget how I got there and have to retrace my steps (I use debug breakpoints but it doesn't help much). I also tend to get distracted with ideas of how to re-implement the whole thing with best practices rather than focus and work on delivering the fix that I am expected to do. This severely hampers my turnaround time and I'm sure my supervisors are frustrated.

What baffles me, however, is that my other colleagues look like they have no problems working on this codebase. So I cannot really blame the badly written code before my supervisors.

So I just wanted to ask anyone here who has ADHD, works in IT/Software Engineering how do you cope with a situation like this? Also, does medication help here?

I used to be on Atomoxetine, but after experiencing a nasty anxiety attack, I stopped about a month ago. Not that I observed any major improvements while I was on it.

PS: Apologies if the context does not make sense to any of you non-IT folks. I can clarify if you ask.

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