iglou

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And now instead of understanding the functions, parameters, syntax and quirks yourself, to be able to produce quality code, which is the job of a software engineer, you ask an LLM to spit out code that seem to be working, do that again, and again, and again, and call it a day.

  And then I’ll be hired to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The things I have seen from devs who thought they could lie and pretend they didn’t use AI…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Turing test becomes absolutely useless when the product is developed with the goal of beating the Turing test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a professional software engineer, and my experience is the complete opposite. It does it faster and cheaper, yes, but also noticeably worse, and having to proofread the output, fix and refactor ends up taking more time than I would have taken writing it myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not having, as I said before, any issues with Gecko

  Good for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I say that as a web developer myself. Gecko has become problematic to work with. It’s not the web devs fault that Gecko is now full of odd quirks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If your only criterium is the presence of AI, then of course it doesn’t matter.

  But Firefox has been degrading far before AI was even hyped. Mozilla basically gave up on its development as they lost their market share. Full of bugs, poor implementation of new standards, terrible optimization… That’s why I switched to a Chromium based browser. Not because of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unforunately, there is no solid alternative at the moment. Firefox used to be great, but the quality of the browser has been consistently declining for years now. In terms of features, stability, and accuracy. The various forks I tested back when I couldn’t deal with Firefox’s issues had the exact same issues.

  At least Vivaldi is european.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vivaldi is Chromium based

  Yes. And? It is open source, and Vivaldi modifies it heavily.

  You’re criticizing browsers based on “Shitty Browser A” while promoting browsers based on “Shitty Browser B”. Both categories are heavily modified and just as viable.

  People need to stop being scared of Chromium-based browsers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. Micron ended their consumer RAM. Sansung here is just stopping producing something that is arguably outdated, and has a perfectly fine, already more available, most often cheaper or equivalent modern replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is the e2e encryption. The bridge basically decrypts your emails and makes them locally accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is technically impossible at the moment to keep your emails end-to-end encrypted and not have to use a bridge for your client of choice. It will only be possible if your client of choice partners with Proton to integrate them, or if a standard for e2e encrypted emails pops up and both Proton and your client adopt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because forking a buggy suite isn’t always the best choice? If they have the ressources, and they do, making their own is best for everyone. More choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not how the internet works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviousness? If you mass layoff your tech staff, you take the risk of more technical failures.

  A smaller staff cannot do the same work as a larger one, and I guarantee you they’re being asked to progress at the same speed. So, the tradeoff is on the quality of the product and the testing, not on the speed of development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, considering it is not impossible to geoblock per instance, they could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a single part of your answer is about how the brain works.

  Concepts are not things in your brain.

  Consciousness is a concept. It doesn’t exist in your brain.

  Thinking is how a human uses their brain.

  I’m asking about how the brain itself functions to intepret natural language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t answer the question you quoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course the “understanding” of an LLM is limited. Because the entire technology is new, and it’s far from being anywhere close to being able to understand to the level of a human.

  But I disagree with your understanding of how an LLM works. At its lower level, it’s a bunch on connected artifical neurons, not that different from a human brain. Now please don’t read this as me saying it’s as good as a human brain. It’s definitely not, but its inner workings are not so far. As a matter of fact, there is active effort to make artificial neurons behave as close as possible to a human neuron.

  If it was just statistics, it wouldn’t be so difficult to look at the trained model and identify what does what. But just like the human brain, it is incredidbly difficult to understand that. We just have a general idea.

  So it does understand, to a limited extent. Just like a human, it won’t understand what it hasn’t been exposed to. And unlike a human, it is exposed to a very limited set of data.

  You’re putting the difference between a human’s “understanding” and an LLM’s “understanding” in the meaning of the word “understanding”, which is just a shortcut to say that they can’t be compared. The actual difference is in the scope of understanding.

  A lot of the efforts in the AI fields gravitate around imitating a human brain. Which makes sense, as it is the only thing we know that is capable of doing what we want an AI to do. LLMs are no different, but their scope is limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are talking at a technical level only on one side of the comparison. It makes the entire discussion pointless. If you’re going to compare the understanding of a neural network and the understanding of a human brain, you have to go into depth on both sides.

  Mysticism? Lmao. Where? Do you know what the word means?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re entering a more philosophical debate than a technical one, because for this point to make any sense, you’d have to define what “understanding” language means for a human in a level as low as what you’re describing for an LLM.

  Can you affirm that what a human brain does to understand language is so different to what an LLM does?

  I’m not saying an LLM is smart, but saying that it doesn’t understand, when having computers “understand” natural language is the core of NLP, is meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is actually incorrect. It is also a language understanding tool. You don’t have an LLM without NLP. NLP includes processing and understanding natural language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Ha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don’t want glass furniture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck having that shitty tech win over Europe, where fiber is proliferating particularly quickly. We all know sattelite internet cannot come close to the speed and reliability of fiber.

  Plus we hate Musk.

  It’s good for remote areas and at sea, it’s shit everywhere else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. All that the stats do in this case is show what everyone knows: There is a racism problem in hiring.

  It doesn’t help prove anything in a court of law, and the multitude of excuses to hide racism make it almost impossible to prove that the true reason is racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not certain having data on people’s ethnicity is helping at all with discrimination on hiring.

  There is laws in France against discrimination as well. The problem isn’t that there isn’t ethnic data, the problem is that it’s really hard to prove that a candidate was rejected because of their ethnicity.

  I’d be happy to be proven wrong though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a small to medium company it’s not necessarily worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my own gitea server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I am assuming that it is actually a docker issue.

  Can you show your docker daemon configuration?

  Hard to tell where it is on your machine. Try ~/.docker/daemon.json, or maybe /etc/docker/daemon.json… Else look for it haha