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Comment Re:"We're not really looking for what's true," (Score 2) 60

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

Comment Wikipedia has a vast number of errors. (Score 1) 60

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Comment AI FOMO (Score 1) 164

The CEO sees other tech companies getting giant boosts and is pissed that isn't him. Line going up for other companies more than his.

When in doubt, blind alignment to the hype of the day should, potentially get there. No room for nuance or actual vision to what would capture the indicated missing value, AI should just provide it... somehow.

Comment Re:How abysmally stupid do you have to be ... (Score 1) 61

was assembled by an artificial intelligence

Why the hell bother using an AI when you could just type what you would prompt into the comment directly?

To the point you put into the LLM, it's perfectly plausible that someone wiring up an LLM to their email and their bank account suddenly are at huge risk of a scam working. Whatever problems exist in the technical implementations the fact remains that folks greasing the wheels for their money to go out autonomously incur the risk of..... their money going out autonomously...

Comment Coding interviews are a waste. (Score 1) 152

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

Comment Coding will proper-die in about 5 years-ish (Score 1) 152

What companies will require is articulate people, who can tell the AI exactly what is needed. "Here's our budget (is it good enough?), here's our existing codebase, this is what we need. Get it done, fix any bugs or prior bad architectural decisions, use the highest industry standards for everything with these unique twists if they are secure. Let me, with a BS in basket weaving, peruse the plan and give you the OK."

Note: in 5 years, 90% of that line I typed would be implied obvious and not even needed in the prompt.

Comment Re: So what you are saying is ... (Score 1) 152

No, it's just the sort of thing that the UEFI design kind of does.

You load a bunch of stuff that all initializes, just in case it might be needed. One of the key optimizations in some UEFI implementations is trimming down the things that get loaded based on an early assessment of whether this or that would be relevant to the expected boot. For example, hit key to enter setup and suddenly it has to load all the things to make sure all the various menus work.

Kind of like setting up the NIC in the OS before anything asks for network access, so that every network access isn't burdened with having to set up the network access. If the driver is already loaded then a variety of potential UEFI network code could just use it (PXE, HTTP, iSCSI, various crap from vendors like pre-OS firmware download)

Comment vi is the best editor (Score 5, Funny) 101

I don't mean to spoil emacs big day and all, and I'll let you guys talk about it .. but vi is the best editor. emacs couldn't anticipate the coming of AI .. pretty much a settled debate now that vi is much more suited for prompt writing and editing your .md files.
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Comment Re:Alternative to SpaceX (Score 1) 17

Bezos started Blue Origin a few years before SpaceX. In fact Elon asked him for advice. Blue Origin moved at a glacial pace though. But all the concepts such as reusable rockets were already in Blue Origins plans. Reference: https://patents.google.com/pat...
As for Starlink we know that idea was either an obvious thing or taken from WorldVu when they went to SpaceX for launch services. https://spacenews.com/41755wor...

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