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Comment Re:Anyone who reads (Score 1) 64

I hypothesize that the smoking linked gene might simply be "pushed out" due to the frequency of damage caused by smoking, so the gene might be expressed due to the exposure of tobacco/cannabis during youth, and in turn making them smell garbage/feces when exposed to it. Any time I run into people who still smoke, they smell absolutely disgusting it's smell that reminds me of campfire when you burn green/wet stuff. Cannabis smokers are worse, they smell like they rolled around in garbage juice or dog poop.

The celiac disease might be a consequence of the high-sugar content of bread in the US, and how quickly it goes moldy. When exposed to green mold too many times it likely causes the gene to get turned on and say on, and subsequently tries to get you to stop consuming bread by not digesting it, but it goes too far and doesn't send a signal of "I feel sick" to the human but rather" it isn't noticed at all until they stop being able to digest food.

Comment Re:Rust is a specialist language (Score 2) 166

Eh, nah.

Rust can replace C++ and Java, not C. Nothing can replace C because C is as close as you can get without writing assembly. You can not make C "memory safe" because the CPU is not memory safe. Rust is at the same layer C++ is. You can compile something in Rust or C++, and then decompile it back to C to see exactly how it works.

To that end, There is this really godawful paradigm of programming recently, even before all this AI crappy-vibe programming started to be a thing, where people advocate for their pet language that is not C, and do not understand why C can not be replaced. If AI vibe coding is so good, then it should produce error-free C code and you should no longer need any other programming language. I sincerely doubt this is what the AI programming is doing because very few people write "good" C code.

Comment Re:Rebuild in what language? (Score 2) 41

Wordpress is just an absolute terrible CMS. It's core feature is posting text and letting bozos spam the blog with millions of spam comments.
- Wordpress has no anti-spam solution
- Wordpress has no caching mechanism
- Wordpress relies heavily on themes and plugins to have any functionality at all, all it takes is one bad plugin to kick the tentpole holding the site up.

Why would anyone want to replicate this godawful design.

Comment Re:If only (Score 1) 102

Funny how that once-in-a-life-time switch to work from home, didn't stick, and all the corporate morons wanted to go back to the office, because they don't care about fuel and energy costs.

Like only a small handful of areas in the US/Canada would be able to switch to WFH at the drop of a hat, Metro Vancouver and Montreal, because they have automated metros. If it's automated, then going to the office to work and working from home just saves you commute time. If you have to drive, like most of the rest of the continent, you the employee are subsidizing the office.

Comment Re:For me, it is last few months... (Score 2, Interesting) 41

The answer to that is "absolutely not"

If you can't code worth a damn, then of course the AI is going to find a lot of "bugs" and many of those bugs aren't even bugs, they generate warnings in the compiler otherwise the program would not compile in the first place. The first thing you do when you want to eliminate bugs is "treat all warnings as errors"

You don't need AI for that.

I'm sure AI is useful for finding errors that don't show up as warnings first, but I can tell you first and second hand that your average open source project has thousands of bugs in them, and they're ignored because the compiler is allowed to ignore warnings, especially those about truncation and incorrect cast's.

Do not let the AI recommend solutions unless the code going into it is already 100% correct, otherwise you may simply be "unplugging the oil pressure light" rather than servicing the vehicle.

Comment Re:Good small step, but we need more (Score 1) 43

Yes they should, however I feel that onus is already on the uploader.

How to solve this is that AI generated videos should generate both visible and invisible metadata that clearly identifies the model and prompt. If a video is "prompted" and then just straight uploaded to youtube, then youtube can just automatically flag it as "AI" internally, and then look for the keywords of political/journalists. If there is a match, then it puts it in the list.

If the prompt is missing, eg post-processing is done to the video, then it needs merely look for upscaling artifacts combined with face identification. Like it's incredibily easy right now to identify AI generated video, because it simply looks like shit.

Comment Re:Seems like a good use of this technology (Score 1) 41

It's fine if you want to use AI to find errors.

You MUST NOT let the AI write the code. Whatever you submit, must be code YOU wrote. AI "vibe coding" is going to bloat and destroy a lot of products before people get told to stop doing it as their first tool in the box instead of the last.

Comment Re:Why not apply this to code as well? (Score 1) 47

This absolutely will apply to code, however I feel the question of "laundered" is what is really important here.

If one can merely launder a work through an LLM, to strip it of copyright, won't everyone do that to every creative work out there to effectively end copyright?

What's to stop people from making ML "covers" of music? How is this different from code? (Before you ask, yes, people have already been doing this for both the musical and lyric component of songs, making AI generated tracks of artists who didn't sing a thing, sing that thing.)

To that point, I feel that laundering code through an LLM should not be entitled to copyright, let alone any licence. Because we are talking about code now, but at some point this is going to become "laundering photoshop" that actually disassembles the machine code back into C and then transformed into Rust or something.

Comment Re:"harmful content" (Score 1) 86

No, "harmful content" has a mix of meanings, but it generally means:
- Porn (regardless of who it's sent to )
- Gore/Vore/Violent imagery (regardless of who it's sent to)
- textual depictions of distressing information (Doxxing)

Ultimately the harm from having E2EE is less than the harm from not. If you want to prevent harm to minors, stop letting them use these services.

Comment Re: Is Chrome really that unstable? (Score 3, Insightful) 31

That is blatently false. It means the QA is garbage if they are constantly fixing broken things every two weeks.

Like the most obnoxious thing I see in iOS software updates is "bugfixes and performance fixes" no details. Tell me why I should bother updating the damn app while I'm on my 5G, and 2 hours away from anywhere.

In most cases, these browser updates could be held off for a year, and nobody would notice a thing.

Comment Re:Adverts and films? (Score 1) 96

Yes however, most of these "AI generated" slop is 100% a prompt, and 0% human thought.

This is the danger. If you use AI in your film, television, music, or 2D images, people are going to take it, and go "you can't copyright AI generated slop". If you want to make a copyright claim, you're going to have to prove that you did not use AI at all. That means anything you want to profit from has to have a clear start-to-finish of your project. You can't reverse an AI generated image into a sketch and ink layer, and nor can you do this with 3D to generate a wireframe model.

Star disclosing your AI use now, because if you do not, people are going to use that non-disclosure as evidence of AI use.

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