Computers work with 1s and 0s. We have decided as a society that certain combinations of those equate to being copywritable. This ruling seems to be saying the result of a calculation cannot be copywritable? Wouldn’t creative tools like movie editor or photoeditor disagree? So then is the ruling actually saying these specific values used in this instance are not copywritable, changing the health to 100 for e.g., because there is no human creativity in the result of that value?

So if a programmer used an original work of art to define the state of health in the actual code, and verified the value matches the 1s and 0s that represent that work of art (thus it only ever comes down to boolean check in the logic side, and the value of the variable is never set to something simple like 0 to 100, it was using a huge amount of RAM and a very slow comparator operator.

Yea, I went there.

I’m not explaining it properly. Imagine instead of 100 hp, there is apple bananas. That isn’t really a mathematic representation in the same way that the cheat code can change. It would be a copyrighted work of art. It wouldn’t be trivial to build an hp system to do this (in fact it would be a large undertaking), but I am not asking about practicality, just what the law would find.

I mean what if you didn’t use 20/100 for the value, you used a symbol (in the code as the value). Would it still apply?

What if the health values are human creations like special symbols or works of creative art?

Would you say it’s ant-antarctic?

I can’t tell, is the flaming skull headed towards earth and we’re seeing the reflection in the astronauts’s visor, or is the astronaut’s skull ablaze (in which case does he have a small head?)

Site note - did we just stop including prompts because they are super secret?

Don’t get in the middle of an angry mob and their target lest ye become their target, or something.

Why would it have a chunk missing after all this time? If it did could we even tell? Whatever it was isn’t still in the area so being far away may not mean much. Circular orbit is probably biggest reason it’s likely not Mars, although it could have evened out relatively recently.

This simulation shows the Mars sized object merging with Earth so there goes that theory.

Nitter link not working. What’s the jist?

You’ve got to be a bot, replying to super old content and at lightning pace. Get lost!

That comm looks abandoned? Last post was 9mo ago.

1. Do you get to pick your attire or are they strict and you have to wear a specific uniform?
2. Sharing a room sounds pretty cramped. Are you allowed to have a pet or any companionship like that?
3. Are you essentially off duty at home or are you on duty all the time? As in, could you go out and have a life?
4. Is this a contract that has a specific end date or is this kind of an open ended situation?
5. What do you plan to do if/when the contract ends?

Thanks for doing the AMA!

I think they mean Mars could be Theia.

What is the tmpfs for?

Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.

ll

Is an alias for

ls -al

yea?

The tools “up there” could be made to rival the capacity and accommodate the man hours required to more science than we do now. The problem is it’s hard and expensive and nobody wants to try because of that fact. It’s becoming easier with cheaper launch vehicles and better communications infrastructure. Now we need folks to start identifying the best locations to send new observation satellites and then start building and launching them.

Your take is very conservative and counter to technological progress and I don’t appreciate the personal attack. We can have a meaningful conversation without that crap.

Yes, extraterrestrial telescopes are hard. And, we need more of them. And we need to give access to amateurs.

Imagine one orbiting each planet and what we can observe.

As technology advances, our ability to observe the universe from space far surpasses ground-based telescopes. While I appreciate amateur astronomy, let’s acknowledge that satellites like those in low Earth orbit can occasionally interfere with surface observations. Instead of criticizing their presence, perhaps we could focus on working together to minimize disruptions and support continued space exploration – after all, observatories like JWST are pushing the boundaries of our understanding.