Some neural nets have been good at solving sticky programming problems. Whether finding game cheats, doing voice recognition, modeling proteins, or other tasks humans haven't done well at.

But an LLM is more of an information retrieval tool, so tasking it with clever algorithm design is asking the wrong tool the wrong question.

Then there are the people who complete in programming challenges. In high school I would sometimes stay after to do the ACSL competition tests - no big deal, the school was a five minute walk, and it helped my buddies who wanted a high team score.

Then they implored me to go to DC on a trip for a national competition our score qualified us for. This seemed so bizzare to me as a fifteen year old kid - I could stay in a run-down motel and take tests this weekend or go camping in a state forest with friends. I let them down, in a way, but the ask was totally alien to me.

I have nothing at all against people who enjoy such things but it's a subset of the algorithm minds.

So we now have the results of some competitive coders vs. the wrong tool for the job.

OK, mildly interesting, but does it tell us much?

I don't see rolling release as a big problem, but then, I have root on ZFS and another Linux install on a separate disk. I can snapshot before any update, and if it blows something up, I can revert.

To my mind it doesn't matter for a corporate context either, because you can test and then deploy.

I used Debian with systemd until I had a boot problem which I couldn't solve without a debugger because it breaks early boot logging. Then I fucked off to Devuan because fuck that.

It's really stupid that you think that's what I said.

It's also really stupid that you think going to the mainstream news will separate you from misinformation.

Candidate A: hardworking successful and respected prosecutor, Senator, and Vice President. Exemplary record of promoting health care, voting rights, and reducing gun violence and crime. Full understanding and adherence to the rule of law. Well educated. Articulate as a court officer should be.

LOL...good one,always start out with a joke.

Oh man...especially good is that "articulate" part at the end there..hehehe.

Thanks for the morning laugh my friend....

PBS News Hour is pretty solid

Pretty solid left leaning for sure...

Yup. And as the brain reduces receptors to compensate for the increased dopamine levels you get an increased craving for more drug hits. So just like opiates, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine, people just keeping coming back again and again for their next Fox hit. It is essentially a drug addiction, just with a different delivery mechanism.

I guess no different than those fans of MSNBC and to some extent CNN, eh?

The trustworthy news media train derailed when Walter Cronkite left.

Uncle "Walt" had a good bit of bias back in his day too.....

The best thing that came out of it besides nano-chum was conclusive proof that billionaires aren't any smarter than the rest of us.

You're being dishonest and dismissive about the existence of paid support options for Linux. You know what it's called when you do the very thing you complain about, right?

This is the exact opposite of my experience. Most of my Linux upgrades have completed successfully, while most of my Windows upgrades have failed. They either failed and self-reverted (taking hours to do so) or they acted like they succeeded and then the system didn't work right, and maybe didn't even boot. Most IT departments never, ever do an OS upgrade in place; they do a fresh install, make an image, and deploy it.

Windows persists despite being shit all day because it has operational inertia, and for no other reason.

Provide them training and logistics support, I'd guess. Oh wait, you said to, not for.

Came to say something like this. Perhaps they should have done this study BEFORE claiming they were going to AI all the things.

Intel is failing at GPUs like most of us knew they would. They simply are not competent at... well, frankly anything anymore. Their performance advantage was based on willfully compromising security in ways that they were warned were harmful before they did them, but they deliberately chose to do them anyway; and on superior process technology, and their process technology is no longer superior and hasn't been for a whole bunch of years now; and of course, on anticompetitive actions which have been proven out in court time and again. AMD would have outcompeted Intel a long time ago if not for those deliberately illegal acts alone, let alone all the other bullshit.

Intel is circling the bowl. They're big enough that it might take multiple flushes to make them go down, but they're still a turd.

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You don't even know who he's getting the news from, but you're sure it's not the highest quality. You don't even know what you're attacking to defend your world view, but you're happy to attack it anyway. That's deeply insecure behavior.

If you reliably get good news from a specific source, then you can reasonably trust that source, until such a time as they show themselves to be untrustworthy. This isn't as complicated as you want it to be in your defense of the mainstream news which we can see lies to us constantly.

The funny thing is thinking that the person you're talking to blindly accepts anything they see on social media because you decided that's what they're doing in order to support your argument in the absence of any evidence or facts.

The well-known independent journalists who were providing actual news on Twitter are now providing actual news on Bluesky. They are far more reliable and useful than the major news outlets in the USA, who don't cover stories of actual import and give a corporate spin that defends the actions of oppressors.

Over"site"? That's your problem, you trust news because it is on a site with a three letter TLD, which is fucking stupid. There is no meaningful oversight of mass media, and there never was. Even when we had the "fairness doctrine" it was easily evaded by simply not covering some stories, or having an idiot present the counterargument. The nation's largest news outlet spews lies continually, without pause or remorse. And here you are, simping for that mainstream, in an effort to borrow legitimacy.

We know they do, because they frequently repeat things they heard there as if they were fact. Perhaps they confuse that chemical response with truthiness.