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_hcuq

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    This is great. Love the small web filter. Well done! I will be using it.

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    Comment #44054886

    When I got my first job in 1986, the company had a tool that allowed non engineers to write code. Of course it didn't work. They could write code, but it ended up as a buggy, unrel…

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    Comment #43519286

    Like the OP said "LLMs are bar none the absolute best natural language processing and producing systems we’ve ever made". They may not be good at much else.

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    [flagged]

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    Comment #43029481

    Don't forget your Elon salute.

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    Comment #43029465

    Flagged of course . Bruce Schneier is one of the most respected cyber security experts in the world. But his opinion is no longer welcome on HN.

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    Comment #42868144

    They should be happy. Now that can provide that amazing AI much more cheaply. They don't need half a trillion dollars worth of Nvidia chips.

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    Comment #42868098

    Don't sell your soul, is all. But survive. This too will pass.

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    Comment #42783886

    Would be logical for US would bomb TSMC facilities in Taiwan in the event of invasion.

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    Comment #42308218

    Maybe programmers at companies using Perl get together and raise the issue with management? It is a bargain. Imagine the cost of having to rewrite all that Perl.

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    Yeah. I just wrote 600 lines of SQL using a macro processor. Took 10 minutes.

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    Comment #41931455

    Yep, plus learn SQL and you can use it everywhere. Every language has it's own (multiple) language specific ORMs.

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    Comment #41929228

    I think the problem starts when you have no real life community. You are prey to the algorithms with nothing to balance them out. You may be ok, but I know a few people who have be…

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    Comment #41929199

    Ideally you read the news like you check the weather forecast.

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    Comment #41860236

    Yes. The problem is the current law. Which needs to be changed. Make these predatory contracts illegal.

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    Comment #41229658

    You are right. This article explains it perfectly. https://doctorow.medium.com/the-long-bloody-lineage-of-priva...

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    Comment #41010210

    Ok... Would a Linux based infrastructure be more resilient. Does Linux require Crowdstrike style AV software?

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    Comment #41010193

    "would be blacklisted, deplatformed, or deamplified by consolidated authorities" Sorry. Not true. You have Black Swan (Taleb) and Drift into Failure (Dekker) among many other books…

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    But there is not a yes or no answer to the headline question, so Betteridges law does not apply. From the wiki link you provided, here are examples of where the law applies: "Is Th…

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    It's not a generation, it's a type of person and a cultural attitude. The majority of older people own nothing and had no say in the running of the world.