Translating garbage code creates even worse garbage code. I remember years ago a company I was with hired a company to translate COBOL to Java.

It was still crap when it was all over and the project was flushed. The biggest sin was the naming conventions used by the original code were maintained.

I've migrated code from one language to the other, and the best end results I've achieved were when I reverse engineered the original code and wrote the new code from scratch. It took longer, but in the process we discovered bugs that were then corrected in the new code. I loved it when the QA people would come back to me and say the results weren't the same, only to discover the original program had an undiscovered error.

I'm sure simple programs can be converted this way. My prediction is the big programs that no one wants to work on will still be crap code no one wants to work on after being converted. If they even run right.

With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.

It's not that bad yet, but I think it is a lot closer than the average American believes it is. All the mechanisms are in place, they just haven't been fully employed yet because they're being pushed a little at a time so there's no big incitement to revolution.

It's too late for that, 'law enforcement' has unfettered access to Americans within the US. It doesn't matter what OS you use when they can just march in and disappear you.

Tech bros are difficult to classify. I think they might be the new version of the 80s finance bros; people who have control of an industry where money seems easy to make, influence and power come with the job, but who don't really have the expertise that should be required for the job... except mix that a bit with a toxic engineer personality instead of a toxic jock personality.

You need a national program pushing Linux right now. Windows is a backdoor into every company that uses it - Microsoft can install whatever it wants, monitor whatever it wants, exfiltrate whatever it wants.

365 is exponentially worse, because you can't even shut the computer off if you discover it's happening. Microsoft will tell you the data is, as per your local laws, in a data center in an approved region... but it's all accessible from the USA.

It's one call from the Trump admin away from being an active compromise. It's not like the Trump admin hasn't already been dumb enough, multiple times, to pull the trigger on things that only work once and then make everything worse for themselves going forward.

The baby killers always lie. Absolute scum of the earth

"Japan is preparing a nonbinding "comply or explain" code that would urge generative AI companies"

This has no teeth whatsoever

It honestly should... but 'good porn'. It can be the worst sex ed ever, but there's no reason it can't introduce kids to what sex is like - or should be like according to whoever is curating the 'good porn' collection.

It could be teaching kids a general level of comfort with sex to avoid some of the first time awkwardness. It could be showing some proper foreplay. Maybe filter out the 'twist the woman into whatever shape gives the camera a good angle and the guy best access to hammer her anus and then go ATM' stuff. Amateur couples porn that isn't targeting OnlyFans would probably be a decent starting place.

Now show me the parents who would sign off on that and I'll show you a bunch of whack jobs who could never be a large enough group to make it happen.

Whatever you focus on, you will get better at. You can play piano obsessively and never be Beethoven, but you will (eventually) acquire competence unless you have a significant mental impairment.

So why would we expect anything else from obsessive focusing during childhood and adolescence? Use your screens to watch interesting, thoughtful, or informative things and you're conditioning your brain with those things. Use them to indulge your worst social instincts on social media and you're going to get 'better' at that, which unfortunately means turning yourself into a miserable person.

Doing this as a kid, when you don't have a couple of decades of other experiences under your belt to soften the impact makes it worse.

 

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

1) The US doesn't have a left, it has a 'less right'

2) Never, outside a few weirdos so small in number as to be irrelevant.

3) Regardless of the first two items, what's your point? "Trump isn't bad because the Democrats would have done this too"? Because everyone is getting tired of that false equivalence.

Russia's been a brutal kleptocracy longer than I've been alive. It's slapped a fresh veneer on a couple of times, but that's about it. Despite this, after the burst of progress after WWII and the decline afterwards, here we are decades upon decades later and Russia is still able to launch rockets into space. We laugh at them because they're generally not consider as safe as other nations' space programs, but they do it. For a while longer, anyway.

Maintaining capability is a lot different from creating new capabilities. The US is diving so rapidly and enthusiastically into the kleptocratic model, combined with a revival of rabid anti-intellectualism, that I don't think it will be able to establish a lunar base before it finds it has lost the ability to engineer one.

You sound like an idiot

So powerful that Claude requires a billion little hacks to be optimized so as not to use ridiculous amounts of tokens. The programmers are so good they can't build those optimizations into the model to begin with.

AI was supposed to resolve these issues, not add to them. Claude is the worst offender of them all.