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Cloudflare workers provide a good free tier

It depends on what you want to do. I myself use hostinger to host my NodeJS app. The downside is nodejs are only supported on their business tier web host. To be fair, it is more appealing than VPS with the same price for the infinite bandwidth alone

Whoops, my bad. I didn’t see the need for it to be free

Use aurto to have auto update of AUR package

Same with me. I didn’t feel the need to choose or confirm something every boot on day to day use. If I need to boot somewhere else, then I could always go to the BIOS/UEFI

Yes, that is called a pacman hook. As you expect, it is easy enough to add. You’re welcome to discuss your pull request to the arch maintainer.

Because it adds something that is not essential, so it is not “simple”. If package A depends on package B with an incompatible license then it needs to provide a means to specify alternate packages. Arch follows upstream with best effort possible, so changing dependency could be seen as breaking that. However, pacman already supports choosing alternate packages during installation so technically they could add it, but how many percentage of users are needing that convenience? Not to mention the arch team will need to maintain said list of alternatives for every dependencies. If you want, you can add it yourself via pacman hook to prevent you from accidentally installing non free software, or write a wrapper for pacman, or use other distro like Parabola.

Well, because Arch tries to be simple and pragmatic. The way the official repo is organized speaks volumes about its philosophy. Just read their FAQs

My bad, not FAQs, but their explanation page

Phone processors do post processing when taking a picture, even with the “no filter” selection. So yeah, it is understandable sometimes people can mistake a picture as “AI” since the artifact from said processing can become apparent

Arch does not have official FOSS only repo. And IIRC, that is by design

No, the cat on the left has visibly bigger body and somehow that makes me chuckle

It’s cute for the two small enough cats. But its funny when its the big cat

No. Normally the kernel doesn’t get updated in the network during training. They are called hyper-parameters. They do affect training, but they are not updated by the training algorithm

In the context of machine learning, usually a list of numbers that is arranged in a certain way, and is used for mathematical operation. You can think of it as a transfer/transform “function” that takes data as input, and spits out the representation of said data in some other way (that we usually don’t know until the training is finished and we analyze the result)

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That’s… what I’m saying. Clean room implementation is legal. You accidentally arrive at the same conclusion independently. And yes, it is tedious to do it but it is legal.

How so? People come up with the same idea all the time independently of each other. When doing clean room implementation (the ideal best case), you are not liable if what you create at the end matches 1-1 with the original. You never know anything about the implementation detail of the original. Academia also acknowledged independent discovery and publication of many things. Why would clean room implementation be different?

I always see people with the argument that the developer labour is somehow being exploited. But have you never thought that maybe, just maybe, the person in question does not care? He just wanted to publish his creation and be done with it. He does not care if people are using it. That’s my case. I don’t care if people want to use my piece of cryptographic library. Just be aware that I am just some random dude, providing no support nor warranty. I make the library for my use cases and it works fine.

Does that term come from linguistics? I’d like to learn more about it

Isn’t the term already exists now? Executive Dysfunction