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METR measures the longest software engineering task a frontier model can complete successfully half the time

Longest? Yes, they actually use actual wall clock time. I don't think this metric makes any sense. I don't know about the others, I stopped reading at this point.

I did that when I was younger and internet forums we're still a thing. The difference is that I had to do actual research, which often took me half an hour or more, to solve the problem for the asker. I got knowledge and "the feeling of being a notable figure" as you have said. The other side for the answer. I believe my answers were good.

The difference is that nowadays people can just skip the research part and copy-paste Llama. No value added.

People spamming Open Source repos with AI PRs aren't trying to help Open Source, they're trying to build a brand

I am certain many of them honestly believe that they are doing the right thing and that they are helping. After all hey, they implemented a feature or fixed a bug for the community! It's a grim worldview if you think they are all just selfish.

Love systemd timers 2 months ago

To be honest it looks rather easy to digest? I can sort of guess the meaning without documentation.

For cron, despite years of looking at it, I can never remember what those numbers mean and I need to Google almost every time.

If they had any spine they'd kill themselves

Please never type something like this again.

Same should apply to any ex-Russian military, any foreign ex-intelligence too. This isn't a harsh take.

This is a harsh take. And why foreign? Should NSA employees kill themselves too? American soldiers? What a wild take.

I am shocked you think letting people starve is OK. The word you are looking for is "revolution" or "uprising" - people will fight for the right to live if you deny them food.

It's a way to distribute Linux (the kernel) and userland packages in a way you can install. Therefore it's a Linux distribution.

Americans (and not just the US) think they still have the influence on the world they had in the 1980s when their economies were a much larger proportion of the global economy. Americans have no idea what the world looks like from Asia which contains most of the world's population and generates a third of global GDP.

ve AI narratives, but in reality all of that WILL wither down to...

Looks like you're pretty sure of that. Every time I see argument like this delivered with confidence I wonder how is it different from, say, digital calculators. Or better yet, books - Greek philosophers moaned that young people will stop understanding anything and just check books when they want to know anything.

It's worse, often the saying goes "don't click on suspicious links"/"don't open suspicious attachments". If I (target of such hint) knew the link was "suspicious" I wouldn't click it! Users are not opening suspicious attachments, they open (what they think is) important invoice or message from their boss.