Not like IPv6 solves anything with lots of ISP blocking inbound IPv6 connections.

Wait, you believe that government builds sewer pipes, gas systems, plumbing, roads? All of these things were and are built by private companies and should be built by private companies, not governments. Nothing should be done or built by governments, there shouldn't be any government employees, all government employees should be fired, all government regulation need to be abolished. People will rebuild everything, there shouldn't be even such things as government enforced zoning laws.

The enshittification continues. Ruin things in the name of profit.

The uncomfortable truth is that a significant portion of the population prefers the enshittified feed, otherwise it wouldn't be profitable.

The Reddit algorithm is really weird anyway. It is an illogical mix of "recent" and "popular" that sometimes includes things that are neither recent, nor popular.

For programmers, you need to be able to get the computer to do what you want it to do (with code).That is the baseline. There are other things that can be learned, but without that baseline, I'm going to need to review literally every line of the candidate's code (if they get hired), and I'd rather not do that.

It depends on what I'm trying to determine. If I'm trying to determine if they can use AI, then yes I will let them use it.

If I'm trying to determine if they can think (or control the computer), probably not. If they are having trouble, one of the interviewers can pretend to be AI and give answers. In the past I've had one of the interviewers pretend to be auto-complete, since the candidate depended on that, and I care if they can logic, not if they've memorized all the function names.

Right that is the real problem isn't. Google has not yet worked exactly how to stuff enough ad impressions to make money without destroying the utility the user is getting out of the experience to the point they are likely to abandon Google for a traditional search engine or go pay for Chat-GPT or something.

Really 'ad words' in AI summaries ought to be "easy" from an implementation standpoint. The 'problem' is doing its going to use even more tokens that need to be paid for.

I agree

The winners here are going to be people with actual hardware IP (Nvidia, Apple, others), people with actual hardware fabs, and likely Google and Meta. I predict despite the current crazy valuations the Magnificent-7 eventually end up acquiring the leading AI labs.

The real costs are in building models, not hosting them comparatively speaking and that picture only improves as the energy infrastructure and hardware markets gradually align to the volume demands. The labs are already just reselling the hyperscallers computer, there is no reason those guys are not going to take 'good enough' models and beat them on price.

Having the 'best' models is an asset someone with existing SaaS, Marketing, etc business on the hand can leverage and by extension justify the expense. That is why I see OpenAI and Anthropic eventually becoming acquisition targets once the gold-rush investors capitulate on their valuations.

The option is for them to get directly into the datacenter biz (not contracting for them and agreeing consumption commitments but actually building them and owning the dirt all they way up to the roof top chillers. Anthropic seems to be trying to make that play but I still don't know where the revenue will really come from...

I have to use Wayland, you insensitive clod!

I give a coding interview to determine, "Can this candidate get the computer to do what they want?" Coding problems are a quick way of determining that. Of course, I could give them a month long task and see if they can complete that, but no one will tolerate that.

If a person can't manage to give reasonable, logical instructions to a computer, the LLM isn't going to help.

"Clearing the neighborhood" ought to include also the possibility of two planets in the same orbit on opposite sides of the sun. In any case I was hoping to start good conversation and I think I succeeded.

There are multiple proposed definitions for "clear the neighborhood.'

And it turns out that your logic is better than the IAU, also.

That's what happens when you get a dwarf boat.

That is interesting. It seems to imply that organic matter from Earth would also land on our moon, just with a much smaller probability.

Nobody should be working for any government, givernment jobs should be stigmatized, people working for government should be stigmatized, gobernments shouldn't have employees. People working for governments should be scared that other normal people will find out.