🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

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@vwbusguy

Common spellings are in the public domain.. that doesnt mean you can aquire them through a copyrighted source.

What I cant do is take a dictionary copyrighted in 2023, and scrape it and pull out all the spellings... In fact what i also cant do is take a 1807 dictionary and a 2023, scrape them both and only use entries that overlap between the two... Since i used a copyrighted dictionary, 2023 to compile that information it would be in violation, even if the data extracted is from the public domain.

The reasoning is simple, the dictionary **isnt** copyrighting the words themselves, it is copyrighting its curation.. They assemble experts who review old dictionaries and update them, their research into what word is or isnt still a word and what spellings are valid is what is copyrighted, not the actual word itself.

Think of it like this, imagine I wrote a book that was nothing more than a copyrighted list of names of public domain works. Just because the titles and works are in the public domain doesnt mean my list and efforts to make a compilation are in the public domain, it isnt.

@admin In the future (once we get to a procuction product) we will need people like that. It is at least a year away. For now we need super-seniors who are a bit of a jack of all trade.

Hit me up down the line if you'd like and ill see where we are at.

@vwbusguy Words are always in the public domain, dictionaries arent...

If all they did was import the 1806 dictionary you would have tons of incorrect words that have since been removed fromt he language in modern times... So thats not a solution.

Also the latest miriam webster is copyrighted, ALL of it... the fact that every single word in it is int he public domain doesnt mean the dictionary itself is in the public domain, it isnt, nor are entries that are archaic.

@hosford42

That's alot of words for saying "You have a nuanced outlook and dont just agree with the masses on one side or another of an issue"...

I am quite impressed with your ability to make a compliment into an insult, impressive.

@RushGirl

@admin

When I say beyond senior I just mean a senior programmer who is the best of the best as far as seniors go... Expert understanding of algorithms, coding patterns, someone who can be self-determined and own the project rather than just get told what to do, has architect abilities.. and understands some of the more technical aspects of computers like mathematics, data science, parallelism, distributed processing, databases, devops, etc.

I will check out the resume... if I hire someone it would be 100% remote and operated similar to how open-source teams operate just with accountability on deliverables.

I have two projects I am about to ramp up on and in the process of securing funding other than my own: one is RF/radio related, but all software (so writing things like modulation schemes, and digital protocols).. the other is an AI framework based on my own AI algorithms I invented but also requires implementation of existing AI algorithms as part of the overall system... When I say AI I largely mean Data Science, not AI in the scifi sense.

@vwbusguy

Right, but miriam-webster dictionary is copyrighted... your spellcheck I suspect is open source and even if it isnt likely doesnt have licensing on a dictionary nearly as complete as miriam webster... That may very well be part of the problem. As I said i often notice it has a lack of completeness even outside of variants.

@hosford42

I mean your link is a highly-biased non-news source... so even before clicking it I'm suspect it will be useful... But I suspect I know what conflict you are referring to anyway so I dont need to.

And no, it wasnt republican vs republican... it was democrat vs republican where 5 dissenting republicans could have been enough to swing it but nearly the entirety of democrats also opposed it so people are saying some nonsense where it was blocked due to 5 republicans disagreeing and ignoring the fact that other than those 5 all democrats and all republicans disagreed from the get go... so its kinda nonsense to blame the 5 republicans that dissented and not the 210+ democrats who dissented.

@RushGirl

@kilroy_was_here

That is a perfectly fair evaluation IMO. Principles should not be absolutes, like everything in life you need to consider the context to determine how to apply principles, they are just guidelines.

Some wars are very much justified to get involved in: WWII, WWI, Russia-Ukranian war... they do exist. The issue is when we **start** wars, and when we try to manipulate the world in nebulous ways in disputes which are morally ambiguous at best.

@admin

I might be in the near future.. but we need someone "beyond senior" in many ways so its a hard fit... I'd need to see the Resume.

@vwbusguy Ahh, in that case we are talking about completeness I guess. In that sense I agree, they tend to lack a lot of words, not just the variants.

@freepeoplesfreepress

We absolutely dont give animals the credit for how intelligent they really are.. The more I learn about animals the more I realize we underestimate them.

@lowqualityfacts

@RushGirl That seems like a pretty poor analogy... Two sides both disagreeing on a bill or law, and thus holding up the government, is not the same as some random people blocking traffic.

Not saying the republicans are innocent, but to think the democrats are sooo willing to compromise and make bipartisan efforts and its the republicans who are to blame is just not the truth.. both sides are polarized, neither side compromises anymore.

@vwbusguy Thats why spell checkers have US english and UK english dictionaries. If you want it to label both varients as correct then you just load both dictionaries.

@JamesC Yea but at least we arent slaves, our government cant tell us what to....... uhhh... never mind.