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by uecker 9mo ago
Putting Chomsky aside, LLM do not seem to teach us much. Obviously, they are good at language processing and for just being trained on language they seem to appear surprisingly "smart". LLMs after training also have language bui
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by uecker 9mo ago
Thank you for the explanation. I do not quite understand this though and I am also not a Chomsky expert. But I do not understand why "this forces one into the position that whatever a LLM is doing ... is just an imitation of language&q
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by uecker 9mo ago
What hypothesis of Chomsky are you guys talking about? If it is about innateness of grammar in humans then obviously this can not be shown wrong by LLMs trained on a huge amount text.
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by uecker 9mo ago
I also do not use free software to then have to use something I do not like because the "this is the way the wind is blowing" (just becomes some parts of the industry wants something re-engineered in their interests)
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by uecker 9mo ago
You would need to monitor all your dependencies (and their dependencies), compile new binaries for all supported platform each time their is an issue (which you likely learn about later), notify all your user, and distribute improved binari
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by uecker 9mo ago
> > I am not complaining about what people do in their spare time. > Re-read your original post. You are absolutely complaining about what we do in our spare time. Then I am not sure how I have to understand this sentence: "Af
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by uecker 9mo ago
It is certainly influenced by the features of Linux software. If Linux does not support this then this preserves a platform as an escape route where this is not possible and this substantially reduces the incentive to provide certain conten
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by uecker 9mo ago
I am not complaining about what people do in their spare time. If the blog post said "someone does this because he likes to spend his own time on it", I would not complain. I am complaining about a) the justifications given whic
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by uecker 9mo ago
No
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by uecker 9mo ago
Wow, this is annoying. I really like Xfce, but there are plenty of minor things which would need improvements. Instead of fixing all these minor things, they waste a lot of their donations on a rewrite for Wayland / Rust - apparently f
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by uecker 9mo ago
I do not think it is difficult compiling against versions by using a container.
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by uecker 9mo ago
You call into dynamic libraries so that you do not need to recompile and distribute new binaries to all your users whenever there is a security issue or other critical fix in any of the dependencies.
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by uecker 9mo ago
Your implied claim that WG14 doesn't is incorrect, as you have been told before.
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by uecker 9mo ago
alloca is certainly worse. Worst-case fixed size array on the stack are also worse. If you need variable-sized array on the stack, VLAs are the best alternative. Also many other languages such as Ada have them.
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by uecker 9mo ago
It is on my list (also as a proposal to WG14). Sorry, I am a bit too overloaded currently. (If people want to help with such improvements - with either time or money, let me know.).
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by uecker 9mo ago
Again, you are not even addressing the argument I made. I never said CO2 emissions are not an issue, I said comparison of the results between a completed transition and and ongoing transition is obviously invalid. Obviously nuclear power ca
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by uecker 9mo ago
You are repeating talking points without understanding. First, there are different prices which also change in time. Also, the price households pay does not relate to generation cost. But even the wholesale price is does not necessarily do
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by uecker 9mo ago
Please cite studies instead of making random claims. You again just repeat your rhetoric. But let's first agree that you CO2 emission comment was an invalid argument before we go on to discuss other issues. As a start to discuss cost,
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by uecker 9mo ago
This is not about technical possibility, but about economics. The cost of nuclear is capital cost while operating costs are small, you want to run your plant at maximum capacity.
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by uecker 9mo ago
You are not addressing my comment and again instead switch topics and resort to rhetoric ("deeply irrational", "most expensive", "worst"). You should also say which price you are referring to, there are many
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by uecker 9mo ago
I agree that one should have phased out coal faster instead of nuclear. Also with nuclear one needs dispatch-able power because demand is also variable and one does not use nuclear for balancing. But one certainly needs more with renewables
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by uecker 9mo ago
Yes, and Germany's emissions for electricity production were double the amount a decade ago and are dropping as coal is phased out. So renewables do work. 1) Once the transition is complete it will also be close to zero. These number
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by uecker 9mo ago
The truth is that you need to set the decline of CO2 emissions to the progress of the transition. If you do this, you will see that emissions decrease accordingly to the rollout of renewables. If Germany had decided to build out nuclear, i
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by uecker 9mo ago
Thanks for confirming my comment about the intellectual level of this debate.
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by uecker 9mo ago
I see you edited your comment. But the CO2 emissions between a completed transition away from fossil fuels (France last century) and Germany (still ongoing) can obviously not be compared. With the roll-out of renewables there is a correspon
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by uecker 9mo ago
All you are discussing the wrong points. All your conclusions rest on the assumption that nuclear is the more cost effective solution, but this is not true (and we could discuss this). You did not notice the price drop in renewables? Germa
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by uecker 9mo ago
Your arguments are calling it "VERY stupid" and "insane". That says all about the rationality of your position.
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by uecker 9mo ago
Whether there is a real problem with high electricity was not the question, but whether it is caused by renewables vs. nuclear.
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by uecker 9mo ago
"remaining coal",This sounds as if nuclear did produce the majority. But it never produced more than 30% of the electricity in Germany. In 2000 it was 60% fossil fuels and 30% nuclear. Renewables today produce 60% and fossil fuel
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by uecker 9mo ago
The electricity price in France is artificially kept low, it does not say much about the cost of nuclear. Globally renewables have overtaken coal in electricity production in the first half of 2025. https://www.bbc.com/news

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