Will there be a flood of reddit users here today and tomorrow, I wonder?

I'm curious about this... given that it's trivial to get GPT to write in different styles, and that presumably can be automated, isn't it just a matter of time before it becomes an arms race?

Soon I'll have a thought, ask ChatGPT to turn my one-phrase idea into a 3-page memo to email my boss, only for him to use ChatGPT to summarize it for him into one concise phrase.

This may sound inane, but I think it's profound. Soon, a big chunk if not the vast majority of content will be AI-generated, and we'll use AI to filter it. The next evolution of crowdsourcing.

Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.

I also was surprised to see that a billion dollar investment will only create 100 jobs, but I guess the computers don't need that much maintenance once the facility is built.

Building the facility has just got to create more than 100 short-term jobs though, right?

My experience is that at the low end of that 20:1 ratio is the dead weight that should never be in the programming profession. Those are the people you should really fire. A more reasonable number between an average contributor and a top contributor is 2:1 or 3:1... and you sometimes see that big a gap in pay.

Linus, is that you?

My favorite example to answer this question is when laptops first became popular, and operating systems became aware of battery levels, both Windows and Mac OS had helpful dialogs that popped up to say something like "Your computer is about to shut down."

On a Mac, if you then plugged in the power cord, the dialog automatically dismissed itself because it was no longer relevant. On Windows, even though you just plugged it in, you had to hit the cancel button.

Now this one example isn't likely to change your mind about Windows vs. Mac, but it was one example of HUNDREDS that you would encounter with Mac products. They had a polish and a "wow that really makes sense" that just wasn't there with Windows.

Both operating systems were capable of roughly the same thing, but IMHO a Mac did it with greater thoughtfulness and ease-of-use.

There's a COBOL shop in my small town that contracts for corporations and the government. I know several COBOL specialists in their 30s. It's actually an extremely lucrative field to get into these days, with good pay and job security.

Rewriting all that COBOL code in some other language would be bound to cause major problems.

All you need is the --enable-alsa configure option. The resulting Firefox will prefer PulseAudio if it is present, but will use pure ALSA if it is not.

Really? I've not been able to find anything other than a new release. The patches might be in git, but they are not easily found.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.