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What is "de vice" supposed to mean?

Haven't you heard? Ideas are cheap. It's the execution that will make or break you. Are you the first who thought, "Google is successful, let's just go and clone their business"?

I would pay a thousand dollars a year

More incentive to keep up enshittification, lest your appreciation of de-shittification wane.

I'm just not mathematician enough to convert that into a C function. Let alone one that is both efficient and reasonably accurate.

Absolutely. Nothing on the internet is ever forgotten, and "they" will use it to hang you one day.

and pray your filenames don’t have spaces

`find` has `-print0` and `xargs` has the matching `-0` flag for this. So this specific argument makes me doubt the author knows their tools. Stopped reading at this point.

people have to be burned by something really bad personally

That's why e.g. cross-generational learning rarely works. If culture or technology still allows it, you have to repeat the stupidest mistakes of your parent generation to learn the same lessons. "Learning from the mistakes of others" in your own generation equally hardly ever works. So much less if the lesson involves falsehoods you wanted to believe.

While police just use fleets of drones. Hardly any backlash there.

the government in Singapore is genuinely popular.

Easy to say when the opposition rots in prison.

All those designer weenies need to justify their existence.

Yes, when a human does it. With an LLM, the "trust me, I took extra care" is extremely doubtful. If LLMs could do that, they might as well use unsafe languages.

And don't forget the bugs! You have to do a bug-for-bug replication if you want to emulate reading MS file formats.

And as if all of that were not head-exploding enough, I'm still searching for an implementation of the zeta function for complex arguments...

The point of compiler-based checking would be that you know for sure. If you have to bet, all bets are off.

Borrow-checking the dereference of a stale pointer won't be worth much, though.

What's the point of using Rust in the first place when you disable the compiler feature that protects you the most?

"make it compile" is a pretty good target.

But only as far as "make it compile" is a good predictor of runtime behavior. In C++ for instance, I can "make it compile" and it still crashes at runtime or does other undesirable things.

So did you find out how to save tokens yet, or are you still spending tokens on the search for the answer?

And while you're at it, solve the halting problem.

and sign it with my real key

That's the kind of irresponsible foolishness that makes it hard for me to take you seriously.

Nothing to do with you, but I wish I could just say "I don't believe in the thaumaturgic power of AI" to achieve a similar effect.

Another factor is that huge organizations break the horrible things they do down into a multitude of tiny little pieces where none of those working on them see the full load or the complete picture of what they are doing. This makes it easy to either lie to themselves or genuinely not know about what they're involved in.

Makes perfect sense. Who wouldn't want impunity for aiding and abetting murder?

Panic switches off the rational part of your brain and makes you act without thinking. Better for anyone who wants to manipulate you.

No case-by-case handling can negate the energy costs and other side effects of datacenters, for instance. Your arguments are sophistry.

A visual depiction of the ad’s transformation from different angles

How does the ad know from what angle I'm watching? "We're always watching" must be literally true!

Anyway, gotta love British humor.

I don't understand why

A self-definition as an intrusive peeping Tom is not easily overcome.

Why does the `i` after `h_` need a curly but not after `\sum_`?

A pity that HN can't render TeX or MathJax or whatever.

Not enough AI.

An AI is a constructed mind.

Even that goes too far. At best, it's LARPing at having/being a mind.