If he winds up being the prison bitch, he might be getting more dong than he bargained for.

Unless you're writing in a text editor where you have to manage the whitespace yourself, almost any IDE will take care of it for you automatically. Also, even if you were using some language where it doesn't matter, you should be using proper indentation anyway. I think it's a particularly good "feature" for new programmers because it forces them to structure their code properly and in a way that makes it easier to identify certain kinds of mistakes that other languages can hide. More importantly it eliminates the need to argue where the curly brackets should go entirely and prevents the kind of holy war being waged to this day and wastes everyone's time when it winds up getting discussed or argued over yet again.

Powerful, Good Battery, Inexpensive.

Pick two, or these days more like pick one.

I don't get what some people are doing with their phones that they think they need all of the latest and greatest. I can get it if it's just tech lust, but the One Plus 13 is only two years old. Unless you drop it without a case it should last for another six years. I e had my current phone for ~6 years now and it still works fine and the battery life is surprisingly good. Granted I'm not trying to run games on it or use apps that suck down a lot of bandwidth but I see no real need to replace it until either the hardware quits, or the more likely scenario where it stops getting software and security updates.

It could be for archiving the training data used for a model and not the model itself. If there's ever a major legal case involving an LLM then being able to show exactly what input was used in its construction would be very important. The data used to train a model doesn't need to be consulted too frequently once the training has been done. Since LLMs are starting to live outside of RAM now, it makes sense to kick the data that used to sit on disc out to tape.

The LLMs have injected enough training data that they can find something that looks rather close to a problem that's been solved once before and use that in most cases. It won't be perfect, but a human can usually tune it from there. I'm not sure if I'd trust a security audit from an LLM because they're incapable of doing actual analysis and rely on past data that's going to be heavily weighted towards saying that something is good. That may have been true in isolation, but not when the LLM has combined two pieces of code in a way that creates a vulnerability.

It will be interesting if the role of humans in software development shifts away from writing code and to verifying its correctness. There will still be a need for some human developers as no matter how good an LLM gets it can't produce output that wasn't a part of its training data. For computer games, there's a lot of repetition and getting one to spit out a 3D game engine isn't hard when it's been able to train off of thousands of examples. I'd say that building a novel experience for a what it would struggle with, but it seems that most people buying games largely want more of the same, so perhaps that's not a problem.

Microsoft has just laid off thousands of human developers across dozens of studios who were costing them money for very little in return. Even if the AI is not as good as what the best humans are capable of, Microsoft didn't have those people anyway. Maybe the AI doesn't save them and they're screwed either way, but as long as someone is making games that people want to play, the industry will be just fine.

Trying to suppress anything almost always has the opposite effect and makes people not only more interested in finding out what is being hidden, but also far more likely to believe that it's true.

It's usually far better (from the insidious side's point of view) to either ignore it completely or co-opt the messenger.

You probably had it easy. Did you also have to use your socks as mittens? Because let me tell you . . .

How many students are still doing that? Everyone living out of town rides a school bus and everyone in town has street lamps if they're not also getting on a bus. If everyone is that worried about it, move the start time for school so that it's light enough for kids who might be walking.

Let each school and community decide on a policy that works best for them instead of forcing everyone to use the same stupid system.

I'll admit that I laughed harder at this than I should have.

The other 9 out of 10 should be locked out as well. Frankly, it wouldn't be the end of the world if everyone regardless of age were also barred, but legal adults can make their own choices and engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors if they want.

I can only wonder in horror at what kind of even worse mind-rot shit the next generation will complain about their youth spending all day on.

This is only in the context of programming/computer related queries, but honestly, the AI search results from Google are better than their non-AI results. It's probably better than (or at least on par with) their non-AI results from a decade ago as well. That's mostly because their regular results degraded so badly, but they're probably never going to fix that. The citations for the AI answer to most technical questions are the page I was looking for. They probably don't make money from those searches though.

If vi was any good, they wouldn't need to improve it.

Not that filthy EMACS users are any better. Both should be purged. Nano master race raise up!

They use TSMC as does every other fabless chip designer, which for consumer chips right now is everyone who isn't Intel. But TSMC has fabs in Arizona, so even though they're a Taiwanese corporation the chips are still being made in the U.S. The CPU/SoC isn't the hard part of this, it's everything else. It's not that it can't be done here, but that it can't be done at the same low cost because not even fresh off the boat immigrant labor would work for the low wages that the Chinese workers are earning.

It's also a little telling though. Presumably these same employees were okay with (otherwise they would have quit, no) a lot of the scummy or deplorable things Google has been doing over the years. Perhaps this was the proverbial back-breaking straw, but I'd not automatically hold these employees up as models of morality. I'd wager that if anyone really did I to their reasoning that it comes down to the U.S. military having ties with Israel. I could be completely wrong on that, but I think the odds I'd get on such a wager would be closer to even than some would be comfortable admitting.