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Oh how the wheels have turned.

Has science gone too far?

Having long time perspective, seeing the wider context, talking to people, having vision and taste. Curating and sanity-checking the results. Security and trust.

The reasons are many.

I believe that the assumption that customers reviewing the output artifacts is "the final boss" is wrong. If AI use spreads, customers are also likely to use AI to review the artifacts. Vision, taste and curation remains, though.

I wonder why they don't have a "Buy now" button on their website.

I am all for taking AI out of education, like China recently announced that they will do.

Even if a tool can only be used for lobotomizing humans, the usage of the tool is where the main blame should be placed.

Calculators and computers are creating engineers that can't think without them either. There are many problems with AI, but from my point of view, the title has not thought things through.

FT2 was written in Borland Pascal 7 and TASM, btw.

OpenAI has "open" in the name without being anything similar to "open source". Additionally, they have not rejected using their technology for automatically killing people and for mass surveillance. I deleted my OpenAI account, and it felt good. Recommended.

Referring to "the normal people you know" is purely anecdotal evidence and can't be used to infer anything at all about "side-ideology". Perhaps you only know people that don't care about the environment?

Now we can have operating systems that write the drivers they need at boot.

Ah yes, thousands separator.

Yes, but cencorship is also politics. What happens if someone just tries to stay apolitical and "work safe" and are still cencored? Any attempt at fighting this will be categorized as "political", "difficult" or worse.

Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers.

Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.

Fax is still hard to hack, so some organizations have kept it alive for security.

Just real-time text translation and annotating faces with names would be cool.

How many games do you use on Windows that you can not use on Linux?

It was a good 16 year-ish run.

"breaking things down into the right primitives" is the real key to programming. There are many books and web pages about algorithms, but I wish there were more searchable and browsable resources for how to approach problems through primitives.

A wrong downdetectordowntector is worse than a 500 one. :D

Yes.

Weird that https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ isn't reporting this properly. It should be full of red blinking lights.

Because ie. a forum thread that contains this often have better answers, and LLMs are trained on data from the Internet. It's just statistics.

Try adding to the prompt that it has a PhD in Computer Science and have many methods for dealing with complexity.

This gives better results, at least for me.

Lean Linux distros also have goals?

Does running NetBSD on VAX from 1979 help to reduce e-waste, though?

Does NetBSD really help reduce e-waste any more than Linux already does?

If you got married this month you will have 12 wives in a year, who knows?

I gave it a spin. First it complained about aspell dictionaries, then I tried installing a package in an effort to improve the prompt from simply saying "murex":

    murex » murex-package install https://github.com/orefalo/murex-module-starship
    \* Getting package from 'https://github.com/orefalo/murex-module-starship'....
    Error in `murex-package` (0,1): protocol handler for HTTPS has not yet been written. Please use git in the mean time (you can do this by specifying a git extension in the uri)
    .murex_modules » murex-package install https://github.com/orefalo/murex-module-starship.git
    \* Getting package from 'https://github.com/orefalo/murex-module-starship.git'....
    Cloning into '/home/aroedset/.murex_modules/murex-module-starship'...
    Error in `murex-package` (0,1): \* Package 'murex-module-starship': Error loading module `starship` in path `/home/aroedset/.murex_modules/murex-module-starship/starship.mx`:
                              >   \* Missing required executable, builtin or murex function: `starship`
    .murex_modules »      

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