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901.
by bgwalter 2y ago
Picasso (if he really said that) had a machine painting for him?
902.
by bgwalter 2y ago
Finishing sentences with a full stop would put me above 30, yes. EDIT: incidentally, Suchir Balaji was 26 when he held those views.
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by bgwalter 2y ago
First of all, Lisp, Fortran and COBOL had been around most of the time when assembly was popular. Assembly was used because of resource constraints. Secondly, you are not writing anything you get from an LLM. You prompt it and it spits out
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by bgwalter 2y ago
They are not building on the work of others, they are taking the laundered work of others.
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by bgwalter 2y ago
I like the "empty calories" metaphor. Sure, if you want to have a conversation with guard rails like at a Victorian high tea, maybe AI is for you. I don't have any use for a mechanical friend who refuses to discuss politics m
906.
by bgwalter 2y ago
[Replying to the quoted part.] So when it is convenient, the waterfall model is suddenly modern again? The waterfall model didn't work, because many inefficiencies and wrong assumptions are found when writing code . This is also the a
907.
by bgwalter 2y ago
This whole article reads like a comedy. Hidden accounts, login attempts from Russia (they can't afford IP addresses elsewhere?), and then there is this: "Berulis told KrebsOnSecurity he was in the process of filing a support ticke
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by bgwalter 2y ago
The term "research theft" is widely accepted in academia: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8356... The original researchers still have their ideas and work, it was "just&
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by bgwalter 2y ago
Reading the article, they took a verified C library generated from F* from Microsoft, vendored the code in CPython and wrote a C extension. And during the process they discovered that the original library did not handle allocation failures?
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by bgwalter 2y ago
This link contains a map of the coalition of the willing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq... You see Eastern European countries who were grateful for NATO expansion or wanted future NATO me
911.
by bgwalter 2y ago
Yes, an example: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/government-backed-... I also do not understand how Anonymous would sift through 10TB to confirm the validity of the claims.
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by bgwalter 2y ago
According to https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr... the top 0.1% hold $22.14 trillion and the top 1% hold $54 trillion. The total federal debt is around $35 trillion. So for sure
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by bgwalter 2y ago
I don't deny that there are some good packages, but I cannot see that it is easy to write robust software on Python in general, especially with the incompatibilities and bugs introduced between releases. Anyway, for the purpose of the
914.
by bgwalter 2y ago
There is no way that 23% of production software is written in Python. The TIOBE index, based on search engine queries, is useless. In Python it is simply possible to create large amounts of flaky software at a rapid pace. People don't
915.
by bgwalter 2y ago
That seems very likely. The benchmark should probably use a range that is guaranteed to be outside of the cached smallint range.