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by tjr 10mo ago
If all humans were suddenly wiped off the face of the earth, AI would go silent, and the hardware it runs on would eventually shut down. If all AI was suddenly wiped off the face of the earth, humans would rebuild it, and would carry on fin
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by tjr 10mo ago
I first learned about em dash reading the GNU Texinfo manual in the 1990s. Now I have to wear a red, slightly long horizontal line on my shirt, and passersby shun me.
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by tjr 10mo ago
I've worked with RMS a good bit over the past few decades, and, in my interactions with him, he has always come across kind, helpful, and professional.
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by tjr 11mo ago
In the age of AI coding, the code itself doesn't matter, much less the code formatting. Just so long as the result functions correctly, we ostensibly never need to see the code again. Perhaps this is in fact the ultimate code formattin
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by tjr 11mo ago
You can have AI write automated tests before writing the code, so it can QA itself.
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by tjr 11mo ago
I say retroactive not because the law changed, but because the law was never written with AI training in mind. I don't think existing copyright laws fit this situation, and I feel applying this interpretation to works already under cop
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by tjr 11mo ago
Maybe pointless, but I for one disagree with such rulings. Existing copyright law was formed as a construct between human producers and human consumers. I doubt that any human producers prior to a few years ago had any clue that their work
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by tjr 11mo ago
Ah, I see where you're coming from. I've been hearing a lot of people talk poorly of aerospace as a whole recently, due to some Boeing issues, and I misread your comment as such. Apologies and thanks.
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by tjr 11mo ago
Not involved with this particular matter. What I would want to see is logs of the behavior of the failing subsystem and details of the failing environment. This may be able to to be reproduced in an environmental testing lab, a systems rig
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by tjr 11mo ago
As an aerospace software engineer, I would guess that, if this actually was triggered by some abnormal solar activity, it was probably an edge case that nobody thought of or thought was relevant for the subsystem in question. Testing is (sh
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by tjr 11mo ago
It's popular to mock aerospace engineering, but it's usually quite robust. Even if people still sometimes make bad decisions.
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by tjr 11mo ago
The earlier Peanuts animated specials had marvelous jazz soundtracks by Vince Guaraldi (and later others, after Vince's passing). Not sure if jazz trio is the most obvious music to accompany cartoons, but somehow this music blended exq
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by tjr 11mo ago
I think the point remains, if someone armed with Claude Code could whip out a feature complete clone of Microsoft Office over the weekend (and by all accounts, even a novice programmer could do this, because of the magnificent greatness of
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by tjr 11mo ago
If true -- why? What would be the advantage?
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by tjr 11mo ago
No doubt! But I was surprised specifically at high end audio production systems that are Windows-only, as that particular industry tends to lean pretty Mac in general.
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by tjr 11mo ago
Getting off-topic here, but which one is that? Mac has been generally very friendly with audio production systems.
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by tjr 11mo ago
Agreed. If the application is actually useful -- even if only slightly -- I strongly suspect I wouldn't think anything of paying $5.
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by tjr 11mo ago
I am reminded of Dijkstra's remark on Lisp, that it "has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts." (I imagine that this is not limited to Lisp, though some languages may y
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GenAI for Computing Careers: A Sunny Take(cacm.acm.org)
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by tjr 11mo ago
Without going to look up the exact quote, I remember an AI researcher years (decades) ago saying something to the effect of, Biologists look at living creatures and wonder how they can be alive; astronomers look at the cosmos and wonder wh
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by tjr 1y ago
I'm not sure that Common Lisp looks less dead, but rather, more eternal.
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by tjr 1y ago
A lot of people fly. It's pretty common to be a fractional owner in a relatively inexpensive airplane and use it one day a week or some such.
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by tjr 1y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen people do just that. Say, "I've tried it, it either didn't help me at all, or it didn't help me enough to be worth messing with." But pretty consistently, such claims are met with accusat
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by tjr 1y ago
Unfortunately, RTX did not respond to our vulnerability report. The account was disabled. Some sort of acknowledgement of the report certainly would have been good here, but at least they did disable the account. I presume the reported vu
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by tjr 1y ago
Did the AI company tech workers get summoned into existence in 2023? Would they not have most likely been working somewhere else? And what about jobs lost (or never created) due to AI itself? Would not Google/Amazon/Meta have cont
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by tjr 1y ago
I doubt it will ever fly in the US given how strongly the US economy relies on AI. How strongly is that? Would it really be that catastrophic to return all business processes to as they were in, say, 2022?
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by tjr 1y ago
I decided to indulge in a Dunkin' pumpkin donut this morning, what with it being late October and the weather actually now fall-like. Apparently they have already discontinued them!
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by tjr 1y ago
LLMs are not a someone This is in line with my disagreement over the fair use rulings. Most people who published works that have been used to train AI systems, created those works and published them for other people to consume and benefit
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by tjr 1y ago
On top of which, the most popular systems are proprietary applications running on someone else's machines. After everything GNU showed us for 40 years, I'm surprised programmers are so quick to hand off so much of their process to
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by tjr 1y ago
I think that programming languages (well, at least some of them, maybe not all) have succeeded in being good ways of expressing programmatic thought. If I know what I want in (say) C, it can be faster for me to write C code than to write En

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