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541.
by blibble 11mo ago
because then some mid-level manager gets a telling off and/or has to pay the SLA out of their budget
542.
by blibble 11mo ago
telecoms, wired broadband is competitive and has variety of different levels of service at different price points water/electricity/gas have been abject failures railways have been a mixed bag some things are better (quality of se
543.
by blibble 11mo ago
if there's 4 H100s in there, that's effectively a gold bar in terms of value just sitting there in a vehicle that is unmanned and unguarded, which anyone can summon to a dodgy warehouse what do you think will happen once this beco
544.
by blibble 11mo ago
you can even identify the slop in printed newspapers by looking for em-dash!
545.
by blibble 11mo ago
they will it's the first result on google for just about anything technical I search for
546.
by blibble 11mo ago
if it's unwanted then it is and the ffmpeg maintainers say it's not wanted so it's slop
547.
by blibble 11mo ago
Google internally maintaining a fork that attempts to track upstream has a ongoing cost that increases over time vs. spamming OSS maintainers with slop reports costs Google nothing
548.
by blibble 11mo ago
which license is that then? because other than public domain they all require at least displaying the license, which "AI" ignores
549.
by blibble 11mo ago
and training on mountains of open source code with no attribution is exactly the same the code models should also be banned, and all output they've generated subject to copyright infringement lawsuits the sloppers (OpenAI, etc) may get
550.
by blibble 11mo ago
isn't that the entire "AI" experience, in a nutshell?
551.
by blibble 11mo ago
> I'm just an AI researcher, what do I know? me too! what do I know? (at least now we know where the push for this dreadful policy is coming from)
552.
by blibble 11mo ago
> The statement that correctness plays no role in the training process is objectively false. this statement is objectively false.
553.
by blibble 11mo ago
you have decades of experience of reviewing code produced at industrial scale to look plausible, but with zero underlying understanding, mental model or any reference to ground truth? glad I don't work where you do! it's actually
554.
by blibble 11mo ago
did Samsung not realise that HBO's "Silicon Valley" was supposed to be satire? guess they tuned out before the fridges inevitably get rooted and ended up as part of a botnet
555.
by blibble 11mo ago
> Why did you remove your original comment of "time to use another password manager"? Do you lack the courage of your convictions? Why not make the change yourself? because I thought it was a bit mean spirited and toned it down
556.
by blibble 11mo ago
> We take no shortcuts. I mean... they are isn't that the point? not as if "AI" leads to higher quality is it > Certain more esoteric concerns about AI code being somehow inherently inferior to “real code” are not based
557.
by blibble 11mo ago
given the anti-user behaviour of modern Windows, shouldn't microsoft.com be down as malware too? after yesterday's reveal[1]: facebook should certainly be down as "scams" [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
558.
by blibble 11mo ago
they only win when they're able to anti-competitively lock out their competitors by bundling because their products are universally shit see: Teams
559.
by blibble 11mo ago
> You can't self-host these days -- your emails will get stuck in every kind of spam filter there is, and you'll always have cause to wonder if your emails are received by their intended recipients, or lost to the abyss. this i
560.
by blibble 11mo ago
delphi had that sorted
561.
by blibble 11mo ago
it's not exactly what they did, because a "bazooka" is easy defeated by the same ratchet mechanism the other side will never push enough at once to make bazooka style retaliation the correct strategy
562.
by blibble 11mo ago
I'm not sure the US wants to bring attention to its massive trade surplus in services if I was the EU I would have responded to the threats of goods tariffs with a threat of service tariffs that will start off slow and increase every m
563.
by blibble 11mo ago
> Objectively not, given they're able to outbid all everyone else for the same land. they're often subsidised by hopeful governments, and every tax they would pay is offset by "licensing" it's not a level playing
564.
by blibble 11mo ago
a fence and some rent-a-cops won't stop anything but a trivial revolt
565.
by blibble 11mo ago
they're the worst use of land possible even housing produces far more economic activity than a shed full of servers
566.
by blibble 11mo ago
> But yeah, I'd be down for at least some code of ethics, so we could have "do no harm" instead of "experiment on the mental states of children/adolescents/adults via algorithms and then do whatever is most
567.
by blibble 11mo ago
I am being serious... the damage certain software engineers could do certainly surpasses most doctors
568.
by blibble 11mo ago
anyone wanna form a software engineering guild, then lobby to need a license granted by the guild to practice?
569.
by blibble 11mo ago
> It’s cheaper for Microsoft to push this junk and claim they’re doing something this has been the microsoft business model for 40 years
570.
by blibble 11mo ago
I suspect the other 4 eyes are somewhat less willing to do the US regime's bidding these days

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