It’s not very good at it though, if you’ve ever used it to code. It automates and eases a lot of mundane tasks, but still requires a LOT of supervision and domain knowledge to not have it go off the rails or hallucinate code that’s either full of bugs or will never work. It’s not a “prompt and forget” thing, not by a long shot. It’s just an easier way to steal code it picked up from Stackoverflow and GitHub.

Me as a human will know to check how much data is going into a fixed size buffer somewhere and break out of the code if it exceeds it. The LLM will have no qualms about putting buffer overflow vulnerabilities all over your shit because it doesn’t care, it only wants to fulfill the prompt and get something to work.

std::vector<std::vector<bool>> is how I stored the representation of a play field for a Tetris game I made once.

Started messing around with it some time in 2003, on Mandrake Linux when I was 21 years old. Experimented and ran servers with various distros in the years since but it didn’t become my daily driver until about 2014-15, with Debian.

It was enough for yo mom ohhhhhhhh!

j/k

The world is going to be absolutely fucked when the older engineers and techies who built all this modern shit and/or maintain it and still understand it all retire or die off.

Gotta save that stock price somehow. Activate investor bullshit machine.

The article is about Altair BASIC. That one was actually homegrown.

I remember some dude on the Internet with a jar and an MLP figurine that might be able to help you out.

Who asked for this? Did y’all ask for this? I don’t remember asking for this.

Looks around room in confusion

KDE since 2002. KDE 4 lyfe.

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Jokes never translate well. Even between somewhat-related languages, like western European ones. Best to just not.

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The people with most of the guns are the ones who want this shit. The left in this country disarmed itself and shot itself in the foot, pardon the pun.

It’s full of “communists” that blindly excuse every damn thing that states like China and Russia do just because they dress themselves in red, or used to, and oppose everything western in an attempt to be “anti-imperialist”, ignoring what Russia is doing to Ukraine at this very moment. Hypocrites and dogmatic ideologues who can’t see nuance in anything.

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick”. - Mikhail Bakunin

Actually, my distaste for Big Tech is nothing new. It’s been building for decades.

First, little stuff like the inkjet printer that you invited into your house that claims to need, “Just a little more cyan, bro. I’ll print your black and white page after I get my cyan. Come on, bro.”

That’s because it needs to print the tracking dots on every page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Einstein: “E = mc^2! We can power our shit cleanly for cheap for thousands of years!”

Humans: “Hehehehe critical mass go boom!”

Another big part is learning how to set it up in a way that it’s functional and productive the first time and then STOP FUCKING WITH IT.