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Comment The slow bit... (Score 1) 53

It's not just having the sped up Python code, it's really about the inclusion rate for libraries. Many haven't even caught up to 3.11 yet, let alone 3.12. Seriously, how many coders out there are still using 3.9 or older because "it just so happens I need this 1 library that hasn't been updated since a fair number of Tuesdays ago". It's not just the language. It's how fast the rest of the community catches up to it.

Comment The real victims of legislation. (Score 2) 57

These Large Language Models are happening, whether we like it or not. They can happen in full public view, or they will happen behind bunker walls.
  Let's say we regulate the piss out of it (like all other possible human endeavors) it would likely wind up being a broken, pathetic, and pale imitation of what it could be. Meanwhile, the unscrupulous types (you know the ones) will be building and deploying fully unfiltered monsters to loose whatever havoc they wish to unleash.
The real losers are once again the general public. Saddled with a brain dead AGI, and still squeezed between the fingers of Power and Sociopathy.

Comment News fLASH! (Score 1) 109

If GAI is anything near the hype and promise, ALL industries are going to be disrupted at very fundamental levels.
  This represents a historical shift in the ways we have employed technologies in the past, It affects individuals, companies, governments, and humanity as a social whole.
  The disruptions we see today are just the 1st scratches on the surface.
  The close relationship of gaming and computers guarantees that it's the low hanging fruit in the race to optimize everything.

Comment Re:Amazingly progressive. (Score 2) 40

I appreciate your distinction, however given the histories of such agencies (CIA, NSA, DARPA, FBI, etc.) going well beyond what I would consider moral, I no longer have any trust that they are even bound by the 'safeguards' we know, let alone the ones we haven't yet even considered as a societal whole.

Comment Re: as written, this violates laws of Physics (Score 1) 41

It isn't. I can't use a cell phone as intended (held close to the ear) as continued use like this starts to invoke epilepsy like symptoms. I have to use wired earbuds. Funny not so funny thing is we are already constantly bathed in 60hz radiation, not to mention radio, microwave and roughly everything between and beyond. Well... assuming you don't live in a Faraday cage.

Comment Dicks are hard. (Score 1) 526

Print "Hello World" There! Grats, you're a programmer! Now write a program that solves the universe (with at least 3 examples) being sure to test for all edge cases. Part of the issue is that programming isn't a one size fits all cookie cutter problem. Once you get past the very basic basics, the amount of necessary comprehension needed to progress skyrockets geometrically. Combine this with the derth of intermediate level training and it leaves many trying to program bleeding edge software with "hello world" skill kevels. (Full disclosure: I'm not a 'pro', just a self taught ol' skool hack)

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