Maybe the reason some people prefer AI is that people like you think it's okay to take their free project and call them a "fucking shithole".

We have seen the same thing happen with Linux. The famously toxic community that turned a lot of people off using it has been replaced by AI that answers questions in a helpful way, and the result has been an increase in market share.

If you want human interaction, be a human that people want to interact with.

Keep in mind that the leap hour won't happen for thousands of years, i.e. it's just a fudge to satisfy some legal requirements but in practice it's never going to happen on the timescales that humans can plan for.

The typical example is something like a GNSS receiver. While many GNSS modules do work with leap seconds, the device itself needs to be able to cope with 61 second long minutes.

Yeah but aren't they just finding it because they're using the work you already did? Even the stuff you have directly published is similar in scope isn't it? Yeah an AI is good at pattern recognition and there's a pattern their. So it recognizes it.

The problem seems to be that AI just finds shit loads of stuff that is difficult or impossible to exploit and it's going to be difficult to figure out what's worth fixing. There are tons of maintainers complaining about the deluge of bugs and the inability to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Still it's distinctly possible that an entire class of vulnerability researcher is about to lose their jobs along with the shitload of other people. And I don't know what the hell we're going to do about that except another world War and maybe killing two or three billion people and blowing everything up so we can all have jobs putting it back together. Either that or good old techno feudalism where 99.9% of the planet lives in horrifying abject poverty.

You won't be able to get the hardware much longer. If all else fails they just won't let you have it. Maybe they'll say you're going to create child porn or that you're going to create ghost guns or who the fuck knows what I don't care about they're going to take it away and there isn't really anything you or anyone can do to stop them.

They have the military and they have the militarized police and nobody is going to take that away from them. So eventually they're just going to take software and computers away from us all. I'm hoping to be dead by then because God knows I don't see anyone stopping the Epstein class from pulling that shit. We're all too busy freaking out about retail theft and trans girls in sports we didn't care about 5 years ago and frankly don't particularly care about now. Oh and the furries. That's the next big moral panic. Ooga booga look at the furries.

The real problem is going to be when it starts infringing on Adobe patents. Or fuck just encroaching on adobe's software business.

If AI code actually works then it basically renders every software company on the planet irrelevant except the handful that make the AI software. And honestly since the algorithms are well understood and open source then unless they can keep the hardware out of people's hands then eventually people are going to make software with it that gets the job done and you're not going to use AI for every single little thing. You are not going to use an entire bottle of water every time you want to make some minor edits to a video or when you want to do some light photo editing.

It is going to be interesting to see what they do to lock it all down if our collapsing economy doesn't make it all a moot point first. I mean if any of this crap actually works we are going to start running out of jobs really really fast. And I don't think anyone has ever come up with an answer to the old who's going to pay for it line when it comes to socialism.

If anything else you're not going to get the old farts in charge of everything to agree on letting shitloads of people with no work to do to sit around playing video games and drinking beer. They will just quote that stupid Thatcher quote at you and then look for the shooting people dead every chance they get. They will eventually run out of ammo before the world runs out of people with nothing to lose but in my experience those old boomers and gen xers are pretty much done with life anyway. And God knows the Epstein class isn't going to leave anything for us

The ones I know of that do not have an existing human-led decomp really really suck. Lots of bugs and lots of problems.

There are a few that are just fine but coincidentally they all happen to have a human led project that came before them.

What I'm saying is is that I am extremely dubious as to the effectiveness of these AI tools. As far as I can tell the results have been kind of shit. And the AI assistant translations have also been crap but that's to be expected. AI can just barely translate simple business docs.

That said the tools have gotten pretty amazing. Too amazing. We are seeing PlayStation 5 and switch games with ports to PC and it's only a matter of time before Sony and Nintendo come down on everyone like a ton of bricks. Meanwhile the fans can make amazing things with open tools but if the big guys try to do the exact same thing they always seem to make shit.

I do like how Sega has been quietly ignoring the fan projects for Sonic though and often encouraging them. I played through Sonic unleashed maybe a year ago and it was pretty impressive. The extra polish took a game that is less than perfect and made it pretty fun. I want to give the ports of the Arabian themed Sonic game a try and I'm really hoping Sonic colors sees a Port soon. I have the official PC version but it's pretty iffy with random starters cropping up and then going away and I've never been able to completely resolve it.

Responsible, yes. But it was a mistake that resulted in no harm that couldn't be easily undone. Criminal prosecution usually requires intent, or negligence.

It's something you buy to show off that you can buy it. A status symbol and a way to attract girls and to make men think you're successful whether you are or not.

You can't really do that with Android phones because they all look the same.

And yeah you should be deeply deeply ashamed of your $120 Samsung phone.

Then again I was pretty pissed off spending $500 to get a OnePlus 13r and had to replace a family member's phone recently and ended up needing to spend $700 for a OnePlus 15r just to get a modern Qualcomm chipset with that sweet modern Qualcomm modem. There was a Samsung phone I tried out initially but the battery life just stank on ice.

God help me if this phone dies because the only option in America right now for a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 that I know of is that Samsung phone with the shitty battery life and the high price tag and these stupidly expensive red magic phone. I think Asus still makes a rog phone but they are signaling that they're going to exit the market and their phones are stupid expensive too anyway.

I don't want a gaming phone I just want the modern Qualcomm modem because the signal in my area sucks balls and the higher quality modem works much better. It was night and day going from a mediatek chip to this thing.

But you don't attract a lot of chicks by walking up to him and saying, hey baby I've got Superior wide band reception... In my pants!

Playing devil's advocate, I'm sure they would argue that the customers know that their technology is experimental.

I don't think many people are buying them outright. They come with cellular contracts.

Anyway, Samsung released a better version earlier this year, and I think Xiaomi have one too. The form factor is interesting for certain uses, but there are more established players with experience, and of course a better OS. First gen Apple products are notorious anyway.

I'm not fan of OpenAI, but prosecuting for unintentional bugs that only lead to financial loss which can be put right easily enough seems excessive. It's not like when Boeing kills people through cost cutting.

The Optimus robot demo from a few months ago was fake too. At the end the remote operator took their VR helmet off, and the robot copied their actions.

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The special versions with the 0.5 second 0-60 aren't road legal in the US, and definitely aren't in Europe. No Autobahn for you.

No word on price but Xiaomi and BYD have longer range and very, very fast EV supercars that are insanely affordable. The Xiaomi one sells for about 50k EUR in China, and is coming to Europe (doubtless at a higher price) next year. Hilariously they used the same naming convention as their phones, with the top spec being the "Ultra".

It's not just Reddit. There are two main problems with leap seconds.

1. A lot of software just can't cope with the time being 23:59:60. It's bad enough that Google, for example, extends the length of all the seconds in the hour before the leap second, because that's less problematic.

2. Because there is no way to predict leap seconds, devices have to be updated when they happen. Internet connected devices can pull the information from trusted sources, other devices need offline firmware updates. We know how manufacturers love to support devices for decades after sales are discontinued.

This is really good news. UTC is always going to be TAI - 37 seconds, and Unix Time - 37 seconds. No need to query the offset now. If you are building RTC code, set the epoch to 2020 and you don't have to think about leap seconds at all.