https://windowsforum.com/threads/windows-11s-major-update-new-compression-formats-and-security-challenges.351934/

If AI actually adds value, it should be trivial to demonstrate that value-add in a way that passes scientific rigor.

The underlying problem is that we don’t have a good way to measure code value. Software quality is most closely coporable to a weird combination of scientific paper, mechanical diagnostic, and toy instructuon. And we don’t have good ways to measure those, either.

There was apparently one study from Stanford:

https://medium.com/@manusf08/does-ai-really-boost-developer-productivity-a-stanford-study-of-100-000-devs-has-answers-4f64c64ebe97

Note that the headline is misleading – stanford apparently trainded an AI model to “rate code” in a way that agreed with some of their staff and then ran that on a bunch of projects. The “good at simple and new, bad at complex and old” matches my intuition, but isn’t really a stronger test than counting minutes spent in a project or dollars spent on programming with or without AI.

And all AI output is slop. It’s just that for some things slop is good enough.

~Which really should be an argument more for discarding those things than boiling oceans to generate more of them, but capitalism loves doing wasteful things~

Humans living is the whole point of civilization, though. We don’t need the LLM to pay for the techbro carbon footprint or olichsrch child abuse, so we should similarly exclude the human’s base sustensnce and survival from their budget.

You can include the human writer’s coffee, music, and writing snacks / cigarettes.

Deflation makes dollars MORE valuable, and thus discourages commerce.

There are some games tbat are sold on both steam and other platforms. Many of these games have external modding communities. Steam provides slick integration for “workshop” mods, which helps drive sales.

A few years back steam used to allow fairly open API access if you acquired the game elsewhere and just wanted the mods. And then they turned it off, but still allow direct anonymous downloads. A decision that only makes sense if they wanted to lock in any steam-adopted community to make going elsewhere difficult.

Turning off something people were using to avoid potential competitors is kinda exactly what would count as “monopolistic behavior” if Steam were to be ruled a monopoly by a court

I read it as “torrent isn’t stealing, but if it was id do it even harder because those guys suck”.

A billion 3-inch circular tailpipes have the area of a 1.5 mile tailpipe.

Which would be… Very big.

Depends on the data you want to save, and how friendly the apps that put it there are to the data being moved.

Assuming the data is all file-based and well behaved, and you’re an administrator on the local PC the steps would be something like:

1. Create the new local account and sign in once.
2. Sign out new account and in as admin.
3. Take a copy of the new account’s folder in C:\Users
4. Replace that folder’s contents with (a copy of) the old account’s contents.
5. Drop the new folder’s data over the old, replacing any conflicts.
6. Replace the permission for all contents of the new folder.

And, of course:

*Implement a real backup plan for any actually important files. Cloud service folders are ONE copy, and don’t count as backups of themselves.

Was this written by AI? Or is there some local sit-down restaurant with waitstaff that just happens to share a name with a famous fast food chain?

I don’t think there’s anything especially offensive about recognizing that (trans)gender affirming care would be covered under an expensive definition of transhumanism. Except for two key points.

• So would eyeglasses, any dental care beyond cleaning and tooth pulling, and any surgery that includes a graft or pin.
• Transition of apparent sex is not necessary to be transgender. A transgender woman doesn’t suddenly become a cis man just because you deny her HRT.

Republican hypocrisy on the subject essentially boils down to “poors and children are property, not people.”

The key phrase is tell a lie not speak a falsehood. All the magic does here is reveal his honesty or dishonesty.

And since he eventually becomes either a real boy or ordinary puppet, it’s hardly an infinite source of wood.

~Excellent point that the only things worth invading Earth for are those things found only on Earth.~

Calculation is a fundamental part of mathematics. You can’t get to caring about game theory or infinities without understanding calculation, and calculation itself has iterative components of counting, addition, multiplication, and formulas.

Children are trained by rote how to calculate so they can function in a society with strangers. The same skills that are of benefit to the current capitalist oligarchy would also be of benefit to a socialist republic, communist democracy, anarchist market, or technologist dictatorship.

The idea that basic skills are somehow tainted by their utility for the status quo is the dumbest idea in revolutionary thought, and is essentially the main culprit for the sort of atrocities that reinforce the anti-revolutionary impulse which props up the status quo.

That’s… Something.

Conflating mathematics with mathematic education after blaming numbers for both war and capitalism is a hell of a way to make an argument for student-led education.

Nobody except for DJs, producers, cover bands, and nerds known songs by their name.

(“My” is in the song itself, isnt it?)

LLMs are less human than monkeys, and so are not granted any copyright at all for any near-art created through them just as a human can’t claim copyright over what apes do with a camera.

The question isn’t whether or not the overgrown reddit-comment-simulator is original or not The question is if its output counts as writing and acting. And the answer to that is a strong no.

They didbt kill it. They issued a court ruling about how two conflicting laws interact whose interpretation could drive federated social media underground if commercial social media don’t lobby for a sane regulation that doesn’t treat the modern Internet like pre-internet print media.

So…

Some troll put together a fake ad, put it on a ad-sharing site saying someone was a prostitute, and the site took down the ad about an hour after the someone complained. But in that hour some other trolls copied the ad elsewhere, and so the someone sued saying the ad-sharing site should have stopped the other trolls.

The upset someone sued in file-sharing site in Romania, and rather than getting laughed out of court like a NFT dork complaining about right-clicking they got a favorable ruling, and now both halves of the fediverse are unlawful in the EU.

Why oh why can’t people use the right names for things?

Open Source didn’t die. NPM just proved its controls insufficiently trustworthy.

This is kin to red hat including a subscription check in their branded Linux distros and then screaming that “Linux is no longer free” just because one vendor wants to get paid.

Except, of course, that it’s even dumber that that because it’s about “enterprise IT”, where everything is either a billion dollar project or a hack put together by some salaryfolk in their spare time. (Or both, simultaneously.)

The progressive and conservative “movements” in the USA were named the same way Greenland was. By picking a word that would help appeal to low information folk.

Neither has any actual adherence to either change or tradition for the sake of such.

Aviation and computers are both dramatically English. For either Mandarin or French to supplant English as the world’s most widely spoken language we would need not just a large and wealthy segment of the world that natively speaks it, but a mechanism that encourages people who know neither French nor Mandarin nor English to learn one of the former and not the latter.

French has a bunch of former colonies and a considerable bit of history where it can be a useful shared language, but I don’t know if there’s anything beyond that which would encourage someone not going to these places to learn it for casual use.

Similarly, Mandarin is the second language of a bunch of non-native speakers who live or work in China, most of which are presumably Chinese natives whose first language was a different dialect like Cantonese.

(And I believe Hindu is in a common boat, where a massive chunk if it’s second-language speakers are natives of India with a separate dialect.)

It’s likely that modern English won’t reign forever as our species common language, but I think we’re more likely to see an English-mandarin pidgin take over than we are either modern French or modern Mandarin.