Despite my drive-by shitposts in the rest of this thread I want to make a serious point here.

There’s a large part of software engineering that thinks languages are chosen based on the problem, as a tool for a job.

They aren’t. They’re chosen based on the team, on how well the team knows and can use the tool. On how many people can be hired with the knowledge of the tool to work immediately.

Sometimes, even if the team knows C well, there can be a problem so different it’s worth using another tool. say python for some testing scripts on a C project.

But rust and C are too similar for this to apply. If you want rust to be used for the kernel you have to push for it to be more well known and used, so more Devs come into teams already knowing it well. Anyone agreeing to work on a team using rust is making a career decision that will be stay on their CV forever and you need them to feel good about this, that it will give them more opportunity in future.

It’ll take 20+ years because that’s how long legacy code is often maintained for and we already have 20+ years of future legacy code for C teams to deal with. We’re all making more future legacy C code than future legacy rust code too.

I’m trapped in C++ so I’m doomed but good luck C and Rust coders.

C++ is a semi automatic shotgun with 200 barrels pointing in all directions.

Junior Devs could never code, yes including us

Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.

It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.

The soul thing is very poor ground to argue on yes which is why I immediately spent the time to make a different one :)

At very best it’s an intuitive understanding of “procedural oatmeal” where the brain spots patterns in the output so quickly it becomes tired of the art and loses interest.

But I think that’s being generous and I think of lot of the time it’s a purely to stake a position based on identity and a challenge to that identity.

The wider issue is you have to generate that energy, and you have to be able to capture more carbon than that generation released.

As I understand it doesn’t at all. This is why it’s seen as analagous to a perpetual motion machine, it’s an endless chain of power plants capturing each others carbon to no end.

You could use solar of course, but then why generate anything with fossil fuels just to capture the carbon with solar? Just use solar.

It’s not any of those reasons, it’s because it can only exist by being trained on human authored art and in many cases you can extract a decentish copy of the original if you can specify enough tags that piece was labelled with.

The ai model is a lossy database of art and using them to launder copyright violations should be illegal, is immorally stealing from the creator, and chills future artists by taking away the revenue they need while learning. This leads to ai model art having not enough future work to train on and the stagnation of the human experience as making beautiful things is not profitable enough, or doesn’t give the profit to those with power.

In a brief statement, the UK government said it had not been able to add its name to it because of concerns about national security and “global governance.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8edn0n58gwo

No idea if thats a real reason or not.

Great at raising money, even better at giving it to nvidia

At absolute best it’s breaking even before debt service.

Maybe he’s still not just paying rent on some buildings and miraculously hasn’t been kicked out yet

The EU is doing great. It can pay for loads of stuff with the endless fines American tech companies rack up

I’m posting the same comment in two replies here now, terrible behaviour, but yes exactly this was an attempt to force a sale and get tiktok into American ownership.

It feels very neat that America would think tiktok would ultimately choose the option where it gets more money, but that the Chinese instead choose control.

The theory is the tiktok “ban” was an attempt to force a sale on favourable terms , but tiktok has called the bluff.

Thanks for writing this up, sounds even worse than I’d have guessed from the title.

The comments here show the real problem, adverts dont have to say why they’ve been selected.

All online ads should have to say which filters they matched to advertise to you. The advertising in most cases now is centralised into Google or Facebook, this is absolutely technically possible.

Waymo is running driverless (or at least remote monitored) taxis all over SF. that’s why they’re getting headlines, they’re out and being used at scale.

Thanks I finally understood this thread, kept thinking people were viewing the crocodile/duck/whatever from above

I’m glad it’s not just me

Yes as others said, the op mentioned notepad and you said notebookllm.

I thought you were talking about notepad and it’s new ai features.

You’re using the wrong tool.

Hell, notepad is the wrong tool for every use case, it exists in case you’ve broken things so thoroughly on windows that you need to edit a file to fix it. It’s the text editor of last resort, a dumb simple file editor always there when you need it.

Adding any feature (except possibly a hex editor) makes it worse at its only job.