[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Also called "real estate"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The main verb is most often in the second position, the second verb you are referring to is a placeholder for an auxiliary verb that usually is a different form of a previously main verb

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Niche? Are you a lunatic? The 3D printing industry is one of the fastest growing fields in the world. 3D printing is getting cheaper and cheaper compared to eg. CNC machining. The industry is a very important one, because it allows you to create accurate parts much more quickly that to drill a block of metal. And all this not even mentioning that this required mostly general computer science skill, I hope you won't call the computer science field niche?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The chat GPT interface is literally the simplest part of the whole solution. It requires wiring custom GCODE compiler from vector text and of course converting text to vector graphics. I bet this guy easily could learn anything he wanted to use and is one of the creative guys this society actually runs on in the long term.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Nobody claims it's fine, it's just a personal example

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Not being aware was a simpler expression to convey "does not have any influence on that person". And no, it does not harm you. Please explain what difference does it make to you if someone does not buy the game or does not buy the game and pirate it. And better yet, if you think that the comparison should be between a specific human being purchasing the game or pirating for it, please explain how can you prove someone did have the intent to buy the game? Even if so, the person responsible is not the one making a decision to pirate, but the one making it available for piracy. I still disagree with this view of reality, but for me personally assigning more responsibility to the websites offering content rather than the users is a more sensible middle ground. The main problem for me is the idea of a "lost sale", whereas it is not possible to prove someone was going to buy the product. I've even seen some people suggest things like "if you are poor and can't afford entertainment then you shouldn't have entertainment", which is completely absurd, because in this case specifically piracy even more clearly has no negative impact on anyone, and just a positive one for the person unable to afford a product.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I do, but do note that all public research is funded somehow, though importantly it is public, so free to access. This is my idea of how all research should be conducted.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And an important thing I forgot to mention: you assume that piracy is some invisible force that makes customers not buy the product and inflicts purely theoretical losses to the company, while in reality the vast majority of pirates would not buy the product anyways, and some (like me) have bought hundreds of e.g. games, just because they liked the pirates version. Some studies have shown that piracy has a positive net influence on the number of sold copies. Saying that piracy loses sales is just a stupid rhetoric used by greedy callous companies to raise prices even more, though the product does not change.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Nah, you can just write whatever makes even a tiny bit of sense. It's just protection against bots

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
  1. If you only care about quantity, then sure, go ahead
  2. Then it's the customers' fault for still choosing this provider and paying more

For a living, I mostly write software and do research in mathematics, and yes it should be free. I don't necessarily say that there should not be an option to pay for using it for business purposes, but in my opinion it should always be possible to easily and legally get it for personal use. I cannot share the code directly due to NDA's, but it still should be public and accessible for any physical persons.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
  1. You baselessly assume patents are the same as allowing copying content for personal use
  2. If money is the only reason for someone to make content, then we are better off without it
  3. If a company changes prices and loses customers, it is entirely their problem, not the customers'. It's the definition of free market
[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

lemm.ee for general use, dbzer,0 for mainly piracy (I chose this option myself)

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