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A pretty weak essay. The arguments are couched in questions… which all either have ready answers or imply strawman arguments that few are making. I suspect it’s emotional and indir…

"Aggressively Against LLM Usage" is the wrong way to think of it. If my hobby is running, I would refuse to use a car to do my morning loop. Not because I have anything against aut…

I don't think the internet as we know it is going to survive generative AI. Before, the simple existence of the content of some basic level of quality was a strong signal of effort…

It's quite common in enterprisey environments. For one thing, bigcorps in regulated areas like it a lot. They push hard to get it required by the regulations (in practice if not di…

Yes, the CVE system is broken. LLM-generated CVEs is making it even worse. I suppose all these fake issues and the many more that have absurdly elevated severities could be conside…

There's not much there. Trying to guess what's going on from what is there... looks like conflicts are raised on a per row basis, and the app resolves the conflicts. Per-row is goi…

No mention of conflict resolution? I suspect it's far too naive to be useful for anything real.

Eh, you might want to know what you’re talking about before calling people stupid. E.g., OP says with their repo, “ Hi everyone, I'm nsix, an indie game developer and open source c…

Not to mention the moral concern. IP law (like a lot of other things) has been skewed toward the interests of business, even when that conflicts with fairness or societal good. For…

I'm a lot more worried about the US government than China's -- it has a lot more direct impact on my life and is largely controlled by billionaires who do not have good intentions …

> If we ignore declarations etc. and only consider statement lines that read or write memory, then any such line of Zig (or C, or C++, or any other unsafe language) Surely it's obv…

FYI, companies are typically getting alerts/reports of mentions on the web on various subjects of interest to them. While they may just be focusing on trends/aggregate info, they o…

Not every line of zig is "unsafe".

It seems to me, Codeberg sees no value in AI slop and doesn't want to spend significant amounts of its limited resources hosting it. The author talks a lot about what they want fro…

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Here's some important accompanying advice: * If you aren't profiling, don't bother Otherwise, you are going to be wasting plenty of time on "optimizations" that don't actually do a…

You can’t poach talent, because companies don’t own their employees. You can steal trade secrets, which is what this case is about. (If you’re going to suggest a full rewrite of IP…

I actually think this wouldn’t be that helpful. The developer still needs to ensure they apply their set of pragmas, whether that’s a single edition pragma or a set of pragmas. And…

Isn’t healthcare is the prime example of government run programs being much more efficient and efficacious than privatized ones? The US has a massive tangled hodgepodge of private …

Vite pumps out major versions -- that is, breaking changes -- at an incredible rate. I don't want to be a vite upgrade engineer. I'll try to pass on this if I can.

It was just a matter of the right amount of money going into the right person's hands.

> I am still surprised that people expect to own digital content, forever Well, that's how it's sold. The buttons say something like "Rent"/"Buy" not "Short Term Rental"/"Indetermi…

Being rich doesn’t make you unhappy. But spending your life pursuing an unsatisfiable goal (because the goal is “more”) probably isn’t good for your happiness. Not to mention, ther…

Is that really what you think I said? It’s probably more productive to read with the goal to understand rather than the goal to misunderstand.

Sigh . Yes, it depends on context. Like everything. Yet, what’s the point of pedantic digressions that distract and muddy rather than clarify and communicate?