Pretty simple really. You integrate it irrevocably into the commit process. Make a pull request? Copilot is going to have a look at it. Maybe even modify it. Put it in the toolchain anywhere you like, give no one an option to opt out. Done.

Which, you know, is just another way to steal training data to put coders out of work (it won't) and a way to fuck up someone's pull request if it actually does anything other than store it and analyze it. LLMs are all about theft of labor and then not even crediting it, because then someone can track down their own work and demand payment or compliance with GPL or whatever license. Tech bros are forcing it on us because they need free training data. They're not willing to pay for it because that might affect their bottom line. Anytime you use one of these LLMs, you should be getting paid for it. You're providing it prompt data that has a labor cost.

Right on, Gentoo. They can go pound sand.

The hell are you talking about? Do you even know what natural language processing is? It's a specific way of parsing a prompt that allows for unstructured language use. i.e.: No keywords, no formal syntax, enormous general dictionary. You don't use booleans. You don't use other logic operands. You just say it as you would to a person and it "understands" (spoiler alert: LLMs don't). Natural language prompting has been a unicorn/white whale/Holy Grail for decades, just like AGI.

Now that we've had our CS 101 lesson, in practice they're talking about saying "Write me [x] program" and AI spits out some boilerplate garbage like a bad coder grabbing libraries incoherently from everywhere and adding no cohesive structure of its own. AI will just do randomly seeded, but algorithmically organized, copy/paste. If we start committing libraries of that shit to a code base, eventually the predictive language soup will collapse under its own weight, because it is randomly seeded. There's not going to be a through line. No intent behind it. No Linus bitching anyone out for the garbage code it's writing.

  It'll look like what Windows has wound up with with sxs, except there will be no way to figure out how to organize side-by-side in the first place.

You think uncommented code is bad? Wait until you see that shitshow. Gentoo is dead on here. This is a code stability and structure issue. You use AI enough, and you will have neither.

...go right?

Pffft.

One thing I've learned from the past 10 years of supporting Windows 10/11 is it's almost always software. I had a problem with a keyboard doing runaway repeats on the Windows Hello PIN entry screen, and I swapped keyboards till I was blue in the face until I realized that it was the supplemental support software (SetPoint) which was causing the fault. Yes. Software is even screwing basic I/O devices now. It's a solved problem and software developers still manage to out-clever themselves into system instability.

It is sometimes hardware. I had some kernel panics on my new machine that black screened it. I ran MemTest86 and found out that the RAM was clocked down to 3800MT instead of the 5200MT it was supposed to be getting. It was failing on the first pass. Isolated it to the second channel pair. Blew out the slots. 90% Isopropyl on the sticks. Reinstall RAM. Done. Passes MemTest86 without a hitch, through multiple passes. Last time I checked, I did 4.

And I'm still getting black screens from memory exceptions. Just less often. The RAM is now fine. I had the problem because Windows is screwed up. The hardware fault made it worse, but the software is also fucked. (Last time it faulted was during a compile. I heard the POST beeper go off and thought "Oh no. Not again.")

Software people, ie: Linus, think it's hardware. Hardware people think it's software. Generally, these days, the hardware people are right. Hardware is very reliable, and I've rarely had a recent memory stick actually go bad.

I don't know what the definition of "accountability" is in climate research, but a threefold error is terrible science, it should have been caught in peer review, and everyone involved owes the scientific world an apology.

"We're still right, it's a terrible problem," only shows clear bias towards demonstrating there is a terrible problem, and that's how they missed this. All of them, peer review, everything. It's a massive methodology screw up that can easily be accounted for in STATA or whatever they're using. It is a solved problem to identify statistical outliers and compensate for or eliminate them.

What's "terrible" is this is more fodder for climate deniers and people with general scientific trust issues.

The only appropriate answer is, "We all made an egregious mistake." Don't tell us you're right, because that tells us that you went into statistical analysis with a foregone conclusion. Even if it's the correct conclusion, and it is, it reflects badly on the entire scientific community if you fuck up the evidence. Worse, some will assume you fucked with the evidence.

Mea culpa and STFU. Let the adults cover your butts and your reputations.

Download Microsoft Powertoys (not to be confused with Sysinternals). Universal, unformatted text paste available. No more shuffling it through Notepad.

There are a lot of quality of life features in it. All I do now is hit CTRL+ALT+V and plaintext, universally for the most part.

No. That's what Regedit (I use Registry Workshop) is for. There haven't been flat-file text configs since, I dunno, Windows 3.0? Everything beyond that, Windows 95+, it's just legacy jank. I like that 3rd parties refuse to use the registry, especially if it's a portable app, but I wish they'd let you know when they do. And then there's the whole AppData kerfuffle. Is it in Local? Local Low? Where the hell did you put your text config file?!

Many Win32 and AMD64 programs have plaintext configs, as do games. You still need a text editor. But for Microsoft stuff, I highly recommend Registry Workshop. Faster search. Undo. Multiple search windows. Really good stuff.

You can literally tell Notepad to shut it all down. All of it.

Figure it out. It's in settings. The settings keep changing, but you can dock it all down to no-AI, no tab memory, does "exactly what it used to, and no more."

And if that's not good enough for you, get Notepad++ already. It's a much better text editor and can do markup and automatic indentation of code with a closeable tree. Most of what I used Notepad for was editing .cfg, .ini files, and scripts, and I expect that's what many of us do here.

Only people who don't understand computers will need to swallow this. Nerds, if that's still Slashdot, don't have to. Be a nerd. Shut it down.

Exactly. It's not just the cost of production, it's the cost of transportation/POS management/convenience/etc. TCO.

Anyone telling you that it's a bargain is only looking at the numbers... poorly. Poorly because it doesn't save enough money to bother in the first place when we had a $6.8 T budget in 2024. Kilobytes or megabytes on a multiple terabyte drive aren't worth the bother.

I mentioned the scale comprehension problem in its own thread. In a $1.8T discretionary budget (2024), you're talking about saving 1/16th of a peanut by going to coins. It's not even whole peanuts, guy, and 1/16th is charitable; it's far less than that.

$1 bills are fine as they are. We have much bigger fish to fry. You probably want to save at least $10 billion (0.556% of the discretionary federal budget) before it's even worth bothering.

There's no sense making everyone retool and reprice for such meager savings. It would only be change for change's sake (see what I did there?)

The federal budget last year was $1.8 T discretionary. That does not include mandatory items, which brings total spending to $6.8 T. This is worth a few megabytes on a terabyte SSD.

If I did my math right, 0.003% of the federal budget. At two decimal places, it's zero. As in 0.00% of the federal budget.

Big numbers are not big any more. It's a scale comprehension problem of the human brain. Any time anyone talks about how much so many million dollars is saving us, think about your disk drives. This is 56MB on your 6.8TB disk.

If a politician is not talking billions, they're saving us essentially nothing.

Not when it's illegal. If there's evidence, the DOJ should arrest Biden. Now.

Justice is the operative principle here. Did you learn how that works in high school or watching Bat-Man? Demand the DOJ bring Biden to justice if you are so inclined.

Spoiler Alert: There isn't evidence, there is no indictment coming, it's not "turnabout." What's happening now, in 2025, is blatant political persecution that would justify granting asylum to its victims in most countries. Nobody would have gotten asylum under Biden, because he didn't illegally persecute his political enemies.

This guy. This guy literally fired federal prosecutors to find others who would comply in their absence. Should tell you all you need to know. How many Biden firings over a specific indictment? Yeah. None. You clean house at the start of your term, not when a competent prosecutor gives an opinion that opposes political goals.

Lie. There are exactly zero political persecution cases ordered by Biden. That's because he had an independent DOJ. You can rationalize all you like, and think that Google searches reveal only facts (they don't), but there is no "whataboutism" here.

Jawboning social media to bury inconvenient facts and opinions? Yes. Senile old man and a coverup by his partisans? Yes. Stole the 2024 primary with said coverup? Yes.

Political prosecutions? Hell no. That's this administration. It has also pardoned violent criminals carte blanche.

The DOJ brought cases under Biden's term of office (note: Not "Biden's DOJ") because of profound evidence. People assaulting cops and defecating on desks. Someone apparently called and tried to strong arm votes they didn't get because they're a sore loser with severe behavioral health problems. People misrepresenting themselves as authorized electors. True mishandling and hoarding of classified documents. If you have a brain that isn't riddled with misinformation, or maybe parasites, there was freaking coup attempt called the "Green Bay sweep" that was narrowly averted by a just man unwilling to play ball with powers he didn't have. His own (previous) supporters then called for him to be lynched in response.

A violent attack on the Capitol was coordinated with this strategy as "public pressure." One man is on video running through the halls calling Nancy Pelosi's name as if they were Jack Nicholson in The Shining. A Republican senator, who plenty of my friends respect, was captured on video running for his life. There is documented video, audio, and written evidence to support indictments for all of that. Not everyone there was violent - a fair number of them weren't - but they also didn't have the sense to leave.

This was all allowed to happen by an executive that is sending in the National Guard at the drop of a hat to quell dissenters standing around and singing outside detention centers to have their grievances addressed. Actually, I've seen video of them cleaning public parks. Even they don't know why they're there.

It turns out that the people with true TDS are the supporters. You live in a deranged bubble if you truly believe what you say. Reality is a thing. Please walk toward the light. It's how you get out of the hole you're in. I won't assume what sort of hole it is.

More like ignorance. The TPM can be used for good or ill. Windows otoh, will use it for ill.

Actually, it's black death now. They got rid of the "blue screen." It actually does look a lot better, even if it is a kernel panic.