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I'm tempted to point this at the Linux kernel repo and tell it to convert it "to work on Windows" and see what happens...

jayd16 3y ago
Will it spit out WSL1 or WSL2?
PrimeMcFly 3y ago
It will be rewritten in .NET and rely on HyperV.
olalonde 3y ago
Rewrite in Rust for guaranteed 1st spot on HN's front page.
- transitivebs 3y ago
  this would be legendary. prolly going to fall on its face for something of this complexity, but "the next big thing always starts out looking like a toy"
- EGreg 3y ago
  Or in Brainfuck
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  - gailees 3y ago
    Has anyone tried it yet? Would be crazy if it worked.
    - cwalv 3y ago
      I remember when Siri was first demoed, a dev I worked with was convinced it was just like having human personal assistant. I hadn't seen the demo, but I was confident he was wrong. Haven't tried this either, but I'm equally confident it wouldn't work .. or even kind of come close to working
      - DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
        Siri was objectively better in the past - I remember using it when I got my iPhone 4S and being impressed with how it returned very relevant data from WolframAlpha and other sources - then it all dried-up and all Siri is useful for now is voice-control for my bedroom lights and phone alarm...
  - TT-392 3y ago
    As far as I have tried, at least chatgpt basically cannot do brainfuck. I think it might just be too far from natural language. It basically just gives you hello worlds with randomly injected characters.
    - tylercrompton 3y ago
      Doesn't ChatGPT excel at providing step-by-step instructions? That's kind of what Brainfuck is with only eight options for each step. I'd imagine that it could reach the end result using a combination of those eight options. Can it not?
      - TT-392 3y ago
        Idk, I'd get nonfunctioning code. With explanations of what every piece of code does. Just that the code it is explaining, is actually gibbrish.
    - YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
      I wonder why. GPT-3 could do brainfuck just fine: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/0cd6a652ed1f7811192db1f700c8f0e7-Abstract.html https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/0cd6a652ed1f7811192db... (though worse, for complex cases, to one of the compared systems - see figure 2) (oops, fully disclosure: the system in question is my PhD work).
- 0xpayne 3y ago
  Will use GPT-Migrate to migrate to rust ;)
gailees 3y ago
Did you try it yet? Curious how far it could get.
sigotirandolas 3y ago
Funnily enough, it seems like someone already attempted to do this around 20 years ago - search for "Umlwin32"

jayd16 3y ago

Will it spit out WSL1 or WSL2?

PrimeMcFly 3y ago

It will be rewritten in .NET and rely on HyperV.

olalonde 3y ago

Rewrite in Rust for guaranteed 1st spot on HN's front page.

transitivebs 3y ago
this would be legendary. prolly going to fall on its face for something of this complexity, but "the next big thing always starts out looking like a toy"
EGreg 3y ago
Or in Brainfuck
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- gailees 3y ago
  Has anyone tried it yet? Would be crazy if it worked.
  - cwalv 3y ago
    I remember when Siri was first demoed, a dev I worked with was convinced it was just like having human personal assistant. I hadn't seen the demo, but I was confident he was wrong. Haven't tried this either, but I'm equally confident it wouldn't work .. or even kind of come close to working
    - DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
      Siri was objectively better in the past - I remember using it when I got my iPhone 4S and being impressed with how it returned very relevant data from WolframAlpha and other sources - then it all dried-up and all Siri is useful for now is voice-control for my bedroom lights and phone alarm...
- TT-392 3y ago
  As far as I have tried, at least chatgpt basically cannot do brainfuck. I think it might just be too far from natural language. It basically just gives you hello worlds with randomly injected characters.
  - tylercrompton 3y ago
    Doesn't ChatGPT excel at providing step-by-step instructions? That's kind of what Brainfuck is with only eight options for each step. I'd imagine that it could reach the end result using a combination of those eight options. Can it not?
    - TT-392 3y ago
      Idk, I'd get nonfunctioning code. With explanations of what every piece of code does. Just that the code it is explaining, is actually gibbrish.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
    I wonder why. GPT-3 could do brainfuck just fine: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/0cd6a652ed1f7811192db1f700c8f0e7-Abstract.html https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/0cd6a652ed1f7811192db... (though worse, for complex cases, to one of the compared systems - see figure 2) (oops, fully disclosure: the system in question is my PhD work).
0xpayne 3y ago
Will use GPT-Migrate to migrate to rust ;)

gailees 3y ago

Did you try it yet? Curious how far it could get.

sigotirandolas 3y ago

Funnily enough, it seems like someone already attempted to do this around 20 years ago - search for "Umlwin32"