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Everything is a derivative work.

It's $240M total for all >550, to make the title less clickbaity.

Just because you misunderstood the title doesn't make it clickbait. It seemed pretty obvious that it was a total amount.

It's amusing to see a concept that is explained simply in a few lines, become an entire bachelor's thesis.

I'm not. GCC started out as a work of idealistic licensing purists and was deliberately "obfuscated" to make it hard to extend and embed. That stance has since been softened considerably, but the code generator is still far more complex than it needs to be, and I think that has made it harder to modify for efficiency. Clang is far less ideology-focused and its structure makes implementing optimisations easier.

On the other hand, I find MSVC and especially ICC output to be quite decent, although I have never seen their source code.

Having inspected the output of compilers for several decades, it's rather easy to tell them apart.


Is the background noise real, or is it also AI-generated to make you think that it's a human?

The background noise is a recording for sure, no AI needed, just a background noise audiofile in a loop would do.

Why though? It adds nothing positive, it only makes me sure it is a scam call.

I assume it's to make it seem like an actual call center rather than a scam. I recently got two phone scam attempts (credit card related) that sounded exactly like this.

I built a voice AI stack and background noise can be really helpful to a restaurant AI for example. Italian background music or cafe background is part of the brand. It’s not meant to make the caller believe this is not a bot but only to make the AI call on brand.

You can call it what ever you like, but to me this is deceptive.

Where is the difference between this and Indian support staff pretending to be in your vicinity by telling you about the local weather? Your version is arguably even worse because it can plausibly fool people more competently.


It doesn't have to be. You can configure your bot to great the user. E.g. "Aleksandra is not available at the moment, but I'm her AI assistant to help you book a table. How may I help you?"

So you're telling the caller that it is an AI, and yet you can have a pleasant background audio experience.


you actually answer unknown callers?

Yes. I own a business.

Also, it only takes one legitimate collect call from a jail from a loved one and now I'm all in favor of reform in our jail system.

No, it does not cost over thirty dollars to allow someone accused to call their loved ones. We pay taxes. I want my government to use the taxes and provide these calls for free.


Yes. Sometimes it's a legit call. Not often, though.

Example of legit calls: the pizza delivery guy decided to call my phone instead of ringing the bell, for whatever reason.


I worked door dash for a couple of days and there were multiple people who wrote in all caps to not ring the door bell. Why? I have no idea.

Probably because it make their dogs go nuts.

Sleeping children or shift workers, too.

I see that as a manifestation of Buridan's Ass --- when they're very indecisive about it, they will naturally try to measure more.

The "s" stands for "stupid".

But it's fortunate that they realised the main attraction to x86 is backwards-compatibility, so attempting to do away with that will lead to even less marketshare.


EU or RU.

Once he was off the forklift, he “ran away” without checking on You.

I don't think this is a matter of just fining the company. He should be subject to a criminal court.


by forklift it can mean a "pallet fork" which is somewhat unlikly to kill someone, or monster that would squish a human like a bug. driver probably caught a flash,too late, felt the bump, glanced at the mess.....panicked the bigger machines will flatten a pickup truck, and because the operators sit so high up, the smaller gear have masts flying flags.

the real irony would be if the forklift opperators phone call, was getting the gears from his supervisor for not bieng fast, enough.


I'll just send an image and not bother with a PDF.

(Note there's also other metadata in a PDF, which you may not want your recipient to know either.)


There's also metadata in the image files. What specifically would be sensitive in the pdf with screenshots metadata that is also not present in the sceenshot image metadata?

PDF has something called an "info dictionary", which most mainstream PDF-writing software will fill out with various bits of info that you might not want known.

Image files usually have substantially less metadata by default, unless it's one taken by a camera.


Screenshots specifically tend to have very little metadata

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