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If you have an actual criticism of my argument you'll need to be more clear to be understood.

Well - not really a circle. I keep saying the same thing over and over and you keep throwing arguments at it, unsuccessfully.

Right. And what I'm saying is I refuse to believe the Linux kernel approval procedures are that inefficient. Therefore, your belief "bottleneck was most likely not mechanical code …

The lag there is not due to the review time. How many maintainers were involved? 300? Because I'm still finding it hard to understand how the work of 300 people handling 300 commit…

My apologies. I did not want to be downvoted for promoting my own material. https://github.com/qarl/qscreensaver

> An LLM is not a mechanical automated system. Pretty sure that's exactly what LLMs in coding harnesses are.

Yes, I understand the difference in rigor. I refuse to believe the six year delay here was getting people to test a patch. Which, actually, Claude Code will also do quite well.

Well - except in this conversation it's incredibly relevant. It took six years to do this work when the work is likely mostly mechanical and could have been done much more quickly …

It's a shame you're misrepresenting what is actually going on. In another comment here I explained that I have run a test: asking Claude Code to add a substantial feature to 270 di…

I ran a test where I added a "light" mode to xscreensaver: unique changes to over 270 different C programs. It mostly did an amazing job in a short period of time. EDIT: Of course …

Am I going to be the first person to ask this after five hours? Really? Wouldn't this work be extremely easy to implement with an LLM coder?

To be fair - I'd be more shocked by the result that a physical process can solve NP complete problems. If that were true, I'd have expected Mother Nature to have exploited it a lon…

Ooooohhh! Yes, now I understand why I was getting those downvotes. Thank for you explaining what you meant by "you’re conflating nationality with hosting model." It makes so much m…

Azure serves DeepSeek V4 Pro, about 10X cheaper than GPT-5.5.

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My most sincere apologies for shortening "the vast majority of Chinese models" to simply "Chinese models". I can see now why I was being downvoted - you have explained it eloquentl…

The model we're discussing (Deepseek) is open weight.

Well - yes - we're on the internet. You always have a choice to run your software in foreign countries. But it's still erroneous to claim that it isn't a choice.

The real advantage of the Chinese models is that they do not phone home at all. They run locally unlike their US competitors. So odd that your erroneous criticism is at the top of …

> There's no important difference, you have no evidence for LLMs being a "someone" any more than you do for a god existing. Well... When I ask god if he exists he has never respond…

I think I've been pretty clear about the uncertainty and my decision to err on the side of caution. But hey - you do you. I guess I just don't understand why you guys seem to hate …