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by jmull 2mo ago
> kneejerk "correlation does not equal causation" The article (and apparently the researchers too) advances the idea there's a causal link here, even though one is not shown by the research. They go so far as to generally
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by jmull 2mo ago
This current story is likely just the latest lie.
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by jmull 2mo ago
A pretty weak essay. The arguments are couched in questions… which all either have ready answers or imply strawman arguments that few are making. I suspect it’s emotional and indirect because the author understands how poor its arguments
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by jmull 2mo ago
"Aggressively Against LLM Usage" is the wrong way to think of it. If my hobby is running, I would refuse to use a car to do my morning loop. Not because I have anything against automobiles, but because that's not my hobby. Al
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by jmull 2mo ago
I don't think the internet as we know it is going to survive generative AI. Before, the simple existence of the content of some basic level of quality was a strong signal of effort, which corresponds strongly to value. If it's the
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by jmull 2mo ago
It's quite common in enterprisey environments. For one thing, bigcorps in regulated areas like it a lot. They push hard to get it required by the regulations (in practice if not directly). Although it's quite inefficient, it becom
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by jmull 2mo ago
Yes, the CVE system is broken. LLM-generated CVEs is making it even worse. I suppose all these fake issues and the many more that have absurdly elevated severities could be considered an attack on the system itself, stripping it of credibil
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by jmull 2mo ago
There's not much there. Trying to guess what's going on from what is there... looks like conflicts are raised on a per row basis, and the app resolves the conflicts. Per-row is going to make it hard to handle a lot of data models.
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by jmull 2mo ago
No mention of conflict resolution? I suspect it's far too naive to be useful for anything real.
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by jmull 2mo ago
Eh, you might want to know what you’re talking about before calling people stupid. E.g., OP says with their repo, “ Hi everyone, I'm nsix, an indie game developer and open source contributor trying to make a living from my work.” Perha
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by jmull 2mo ago
Not to mention the moral concern. IP law (like a lot of other things) has been skewed toward the interests of business, even when that conflicts with fairness or societal good. For all its flaws (IMO), the free software movement tends to be
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by jmull 2mo ago
I'm a lot more worried about the US government than China's -- it has a lot more direct impact on my life and is largely controlled by billionaires who do not have good intentions toward the rest of us. And, to me, this letter c
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by jmull 2mo ago
> If we ignore declarations etc. and only consider statement lines that read or write memory, then any such line of Zig (or C, or C++, or any other unsafe language) Surely it's obvious that's trivially untrue? Also, literally n
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by jmull 2mo ago
FYI, companies are typically getting alerts/reports of mentions on the web on various subjects of interest to them. While they may just be focusing on trends/aggregate info, they often sample messages too. This has been going on f
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by jmull 2mo ago
Not every line of zig is "unsafe".
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by jmull 2mo ago
It seems to me, Codeberg sees no value in AI slop and doesn't want to spend significant amounts of its limited resources hosting it. The author talks a lot about what they want from Codeberg. And I suppose it's fine to wish someon
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by jmull 3mo ago
Here's some important accompanying advice: * If you aren't profiling, don't bother Otherwise, you are going to be wasting plenty of time on "optimizations" that don't actually do anything useful. Just come up w
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by jmull 3mo ago
You can’t poach talent, because companies don’t own their employees. You can steal trade secrets, which is what this case is about. (If you’re going to suggest a full rewrite of IP and anti-trust law, you should at least have an understandi
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by jmull 3mo ago
I actually think this wouldn’t be that helpful. The developer still needs to ensure they apply their set of pragmas, whether that’s a single edition pragma or a set of pragmas. And they still need to understand and carefully choose the prag
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by jmull 3mo ago
Isn’t healthcare is the prime example of government run programs being much more efficient and efficacious than privatized ones? The US has a massive tangled hodgepodge of private companies, having poor coverage, very high prices, and qui
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by jmull 3mo ago
Vite pumps out major versions -- that is, breaking changes -- at an incredible rate. I don't want to be a vite upgrade engineer. I'll try to pass on this if I can.
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by jmull 3mo ago
It was just a matter of the right amount of money going into the right person's hands.
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by jmull 3mo ago
> I am still surprised that people expect to own digital content, forever Well, that's how it's sold. The buttons say something like "Rent"/"Buy" not "Short Term Rental"/"Indetermina
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by jmull 4mo ago
Being rich doesn’t make you unhappy. But spending your life pursuing an unsatisfiable goal (because the goal is “more”) probably isn’t good for your happiness. Not to mention, there are very satisfying ways to contribute to things you think
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by jmull 4mo ago
Is that really what you think I said? It’s probably more productive to read with the goal to understand rather than the goal to misunderstand.
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by jmull 4mo ago
Sigh . Yes, it depends on context. Like everything. Yet, what’s the point of pedantic digressions that distract and muddy rather than clarify and communicate?
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by jmull 4mo ago
You are kidding yourself if you think this is a liberal vs conservative issue. The current FCC chairman threatens the broadcast license and to block deals of networks who air shows the president doesn’t like. These threats appear to have le
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by jmull 4mo ago
This bill is about enhancing the protections of lawful free-speech under the US constitution. Generally speaking, we deem various kinds of speech that harms people as NOT protected under the first amendment, and that kind of speech would no
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by jmull 4mo ago
I wouldn't worry so much about it. Why spend time even thinking about something you don't want to buy?
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by jmull 4mo ago
"So you can imagine how astonished I was last month when an American politician said that it was impossible to earn a billion dollars..." Paul, playing dumb doesn't suit you. The first definition of "earn" on merria

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