I appreciate you pointing this out. Today is literally my first day on the job after 5 months, but I'll throw some cash their way after a check or two.

Idk. Been doing it for nearly 20 years and before that I was doing IBM's take on VBScript for another 10. So I have my own perspective there. I've only ever had to parse massive xmls when doing web apps, and for web backends I really only like Java and NodeJS.

But everyone is entitled to their own take. I would imagine there is a streaming parser in other languages as well.

Maybe look into StAX?

You made a lot of points here. Many I agree with, some I don't, but I specifically want to address this because it seems to be such a common misconception.

It does and it doesn't discard the original. It isn't impossible to recreate the original (since all the data it gobbled up gets stored somewhere in some shape or form and can be truthfully recreated, at least judging by a few comments bellow and news reports). So AI can and does recreate (duplicate or distribute, perhaps) copyrighted works.

AI stores original works like a dictionary does. All the words are there, but the order and meaning is completely gone. An original work is possible to recreate by randomly selecting words from the dictionary, but it's unlikely.

The thing that makes AI useful is that it understands the patterns words are typically used in. It orders words in the right way far more often than random chance. It knows "It was the best of" has a lot of likely options for the next word, but if it selects "times" as the next word, it's far more likely to continue with, "it was the worst of times." Because that sequence of words is so ubiquitous due to references to the classic story. But over the course of following these word patterns, it will quickly glom onto a different pattern and create a wholly new work from the original "prompt."

There are only two cases in which an original work should be duplicated: either the training data is far too small and the model is overtrained on that particular work, or the work is the most derivative text imaginable lacking any flair or originality.

Adding more training data makes it less likely to recreate any original works.

I am aware of examples where it was claimed an LLM reproduced entirely code functions including original comments. That is either a case of overtraining, or far too many people were already copying that code verbatim into their own, thus making that work very over represented in the training data (same thing, but it was infringing developers who poisoned the data, not researchers using bad training data).

Bottom line: when created with enough data, no original works are stored in any way that allows faithful reproduction other than by chance so random that it's similar to rolling dice over a dictionary.

None of this means AI can do no wrong, I just don't find the copyright claim compelling.

Stop plagiarizing my life experience!

Not that I'm the dev or anything, but I can't even find any gestures that work with the sidebar open other than to swipe back to the post list. I don't know if what device you're on has anything to it with it, but I thought PWAs worked the same regardless of device.

I had an A500 and the 40MB drive was as expensive as the computer.

I will get curry with you.

I can definitely account for 1.

Seems like he's commenting that that is the gist of the original picture: "Look at my dumb wife who sent me to get the exact same color."

I think it's actually funny / great that everyone is ignoring the misogyny and taking the wife's side without comment, just assuming the guy is a little bit dim.

Which is great considering the original post was likely staged for misogynistic humor in the first place.

I can't tell is it's the same color or not, but switching from a semi-gloss to a flat or eggshell will definitely make a difference.

Sometime between 2013 and 2018. Had to answer it myself. It got at least a couple dozen upvotes and a lot of people finding it useful and asking follow up questions.

It's deleted now. To be fair it was probably really outdated. But my account seems to be completely gone now. Maybe it got hacked. I haven't been there in a long time.