Comment Re:What's with the DEC logo? (Score 1) 78
I regard the DEC saga as another example of how good guys finish last in America.
There must be a systematic reason for that. I can't figure it out.
Comment Re:Does anybody know what the GUI ... (Score 1) 46
That was my question too. My guess is a hybrid/web GUI like Tauri https://tauri.app/
Comment Re:You keep using that word. I don't think it mean (Score 1) 46
LLMs aren't good at writing verifiable code and invariants.
That is, writing C with an LLM is basically guaranteeing that you'll have insecure code. Not in the least because much of the sample code has bugs in it.
That is, writing C with an LLM is basically guaranteeing that you'll have insecure code. Not in the least because much of the sample code has bugs in it.
Comment Re: I've grown to be okay with Rust (Score 1) 46
Instead we get to have holy wars over whether or not it's appropriate to have a language where if the indents get screwed up the code is completely ruined, and can't be fixed by simply running it through fmt(1).
It's not appropriate. Anything that is better is useless for corporate work.
Worse is better. Falsehood is freedom. Truth is terror. Python is
Comment Re:I've grown to be okay with Rust (Score 1) 46
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.
It doesn't. If you try to paste code, the IDE gets confused, which doesn't happen with braces.
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.
It doesn't. You're a moron, an idiot, and a heretic for liking syntactically significant whitespace. You are the worst kind of person. Trump probably likes whitespace. If you care so much about color, you're probably racist.
Comment Re:okay (Score 1) 46
Fonts are actually surprisingly small.
Comment Re:Climate engineering (Score 1) 10
I dunno...it's kind of telling that this is between Hawaii and California.
When you're ready to stop guessing and start looking at data, this is a good place to start.
In science, guessing is a good thing. Believing your guesses without looking at data is blind faith.
Comment Garbage patch (Score 1) 10
Comment Re:Data centers, data centers! (Score 1) 46
Good point.
Comment Re: They write themselves, folks (Score 1) 19
Notice I said most popular language. Objectively, Python is a terrible language and no good code can be written in it. If I only knew Python, I would want to replace all my effort with an LLM.
However, it will remain the most popular language as long as schools are teaching it to beginning programmers. It's the BASIC of the modern era (and only basic people choose it. Basic is an insult here).
However, it will remain the most popular language as long as schools are teaching it to beginning programmers. It's the BASIC of the modern era (and only basic people choose it. Basic is an insult here).
Comment Re:Let's get Funny? (Score 1) 82
Or are we too afraid of being called anti-Chinese or even racists? Or maybe it's manufactured fear of Chinese sock puppets overrunning Slashdot?
That does seem to have happened to me. But don't worry, I'll keep commenting no matter how bad my karma gets.
Comment Re:Great! A space race is better than WW3 (Score 1) 82
Iran is trying to blackmail its neighbors with the weapons it already has. If it got nuclear weapons, it would continue to try to blackmail countries, including the US.
Why was North Korea allowed to develop nuclear weapons but not Iran?
Their blackmail capability was/is much stronger than Iran's. North Korea could kill a million people in a week in South Korea with conventional weapons, if they so chose.
Comment Re:That's a bluff Google should NOT try. (Score 1) 77
Though gawd knows what sort of garbage the google is using now to justify the AI slop,
if(Maximize(revenue)==slop()) {
return this_is_fine;
}
Comment Re:Let's get Funny? (Score 1) 82
Hu is not really pronounced the way the English interrogative pronoun "who" is pronounced.
It is, the biggest difference being that the Chinese version has tones.
Having said that, the only joke that came to my weak sense of humor would involve a crew of Chinese astronauts with names that sound like English words
This one is tricky though, it would maybe require a draft and then 20 rewrites before people laughed.
Comment Re:Please don't say only 'the app' can do this. (Score 1) 123
Good point.
