The_Decryptor

It has been wild to see Linux users hope that the GPL is rendered unenforceable.

So, all the parents have to do is form a company then to employ their child?

You got a spare $80 million laying around to train one?

Companies generally already know if they’re hiring children

Corporate stuff and things like IoT devices were already exempt from the law, they didn’t need any changes.

iiuc it supported a nicer workflow than git did, but that’s not out of the ordinary as so does Darcs, Pijul, Jujutsu, Mercurial, etc. git is just “good enough” for people to put up with the rough edges, rather than learn a new tool that never has them to begin with.

It just never had the dev mindshare to catch on, it’s been a GNU project for over 18 years at this point and that hasn’t helped.

At one point their browser extensions would scan search terms entered on pages and spider any results that appeared. The Bing team found that and created a honeypot where Bing would produce nonsense internal links for certain search terms, and then they’d see the Googlebot crawl those pages within a few minutes.

If one day clang of gcc ships with a local LLM to lint code for security problems I would probably run it occasionally even on my hobby code despite being an AI hater.

Compilers already have deterministic linters built in, devs often turn them off anyway.

Quite a lot of the bugs being found in existing codebases show up as soon as you re-enable them.

Using an LLM to review patches does that, which is why he was receptive to the Sashiko bot.

Funnily enough, I was just reading a post from a dev complaining about the review bot and how it makes developing patches harder.

Previously review comments were from somebody who had experience with the code or subsystem in question, who understood how the whole thing worked. The LLM bot has none of that and will spit out nonsensical comments that the developer now needs to try to understand and verify, so they still have to ping other developers to see if the LLM output makes sense.

And it’s also not like the hardware is improving much either, we’ve effectively hit the wall performance wise with processors and RAM.

That’s literally what all these datacenters are for, we can’t scale the individual computer performance up, so instead we build more and more of them.

Something like this?

Apple used Pascal up until the System 7 era anyway, C was just one of many choices of the time.

If we didn’t have C, we’d probably have eliminated things like buffer overflows and out of bounds memory accesses decades ago.

The LLMs are wicked fast at reviewing code

That’s because it’s not actually reviewing the code, rather just producing text that statistically looks like review comments.

So it does look vaguely useful, e.g. if code has null checks, review comments usually won’t ask for them to be added, but it’s never actually reviewing, or understanding, or reasoning, or anything else people claim.

It’s like an actor playing a doctor in a TV show, they’re not actually diagnosing patients, they’re just following a script that looks like it.

Also shows how flawed and politically compromised the Jedi were at the time.

For all it’s (many) flaws, I enjoyed it overall, didn’t think it needed a second season though so no big loss IMO.

“Prompting” isn’t a skill, that’s just asking for what you want. Same way as asking a barista for a drink doesn’t require the same level of skill as making it.

But in general yes that’s how arguments and decision-making works, for any law. These things aren’t mathematical proofs interpreted by computers, they’re people you convince of your point.

Ehh, it seems pretty targeted to me, it’s defined to only apply to automatic apps or services, e.g. it specifically exempts manually created images.

Bans X from allowing grok to make naked pictures of celebrities but doesn’t apply to people using photoshop to do the same.

It’s not even something new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

That folder (or rather whatever serves its purpose) has been around since the beginning, so all the 16-bit applications at the time would look for OS libraries in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\.

Then 32-bit comes along, and you can’t exactly drop 2 files with the same name in the same folder, so the 32-bit ones got put in their own named folder.

Then 64-bit comes along, and it turns out way too many applications hardcoded the System32 path to change it, so they kept the name the same and inserted a filesystem redirection for legacy 32-bit apps so when they try to read from System32 the kernel redirects that to SysWoW64.

People say that but it wasn’t a deal breaker for the United Nations.

Defeatism just benefits them. We don’t need it.

It’s not defeatism btw, it’s opposition to the idea that people should have a say if their content is used to train an LLM.