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The article makes a convincing argument that Haskell compilation is too slow for the fast code generation of AI. But python? I have yet to experience a RHEL major version change th…

That claim needs explanation. My understanding is that substantially less than 20% hold the controlling ownership of U.S. productive capacity.

As an ancient one (graduated college 1981), my use of AI is very conservative: look things up. Generate code I can read and understand in less than 30 minutes. This is working well…

I've seen copyright notices that explicitly forbid use for AI training. Would this "transformation" argument still hold in such cases? For example: No Generative AI Training Use Fo…

What is being licensed by the End User License Agreement (EULA) is the copyright on the code and its artefacts (executable bytes, etc.) - you can't have an EULA without having the …

Are there currently circulating cryptocurrencies that use quantum resistant cryptography?

The first amendment protects from U.S. government censorship (with exceptions for national security and commission of otherwise illegal acts, such as child molestation, fraud, or y…

I dealt with physical paper tape on only three or four occasions in the early 1980's, each time terrified of a jam or tear. It seems in this case it's a read-once operation, which …

As a subscriber to The Guardian, I have a very different experience.

This year, the first $15,000,000 of an estate is exempt from federal taxes, so unless it is on top of a different $14,000,001 in estate net assets, the estate tax (a tax on the est…

Explain to me how qualified immunity is better than any ill it is supposed to address? And how is it that if you sue the government and win, then the judgement doesn't automaticall…

The left hand scale is presumably dollars per ounce of silver. The right hand side is "margin requirement ($)". I can think of two interpretations of that, neither of which make se…

I've got Firefox 144.2 on Android; are profiles available there? If so, how does one use them?

My 2007 Corolla odometer has been at 299999 since 2019. I've replaced the transmission once, but the rest is original, aside from expected maintenance - tires, brakes, fans, etc. -…

If your colleagues just don't feel the benefit of the extra .lit file, is there a way to pull their changes to the derived files into your own .lit files and to keep the .lit files…

Nope. The current system may be misdirecting 95% of labor, but until we have sufficiently modeled all of nature to provide perfect health and brought world peace, there is work to …

And not only that, but most >>changes<< to software shouldn't happen, especially if it's user facing. Half my dread in visiting support web sites is that they've completely rearran…

I'm a python newby, so please correct the following: The first function looks quadratic in time and linear in stack space, while the second function looks linear in time and consta…

I do a lot of ansible which needs to run on multiple versions, and their yaml typing are not consistent - whenever I have a variable in a logic statement, I nearly always need to a…

That style is not restricted to Asian speakers. Reading (a translation of) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" with its deep recursive layers of introducing a …

I enjoy this humor.

Do these AIs know how to do test driven development? Can you tell them the code generated must pass these test? Can AIs assist in developing tests?