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Comment Thank You, Amjad Masad! (Score 1) 168

It's comforting and refreshing that new people occupy the spaces that other left. (Steve, wherever you are, I'm looking at you ).

The iPhone is stagnant for a long time now and we left alone with this anxiety of not having novelties whatsoever.

What's life but to be on the brink of the new technology breakthrough in computer science?

Now, I hope you could keep your pace on exciting and novelties announcements for years to come!

May the hype be with you.

( this should be considered as funny as my previous post )

Comment LLM To The Rescue (Score 2) 112

In my humble opinion,

I think that he should first create a framework in Perl to translate all of its code base into a meta-code representation.

Then, train a LLM with this meta-code data and with StackOverflow.

Finally, start asking question to this model about how to perform this migration.

Of course, choosing Vi instead of Emacs was not the problem here but its main benefit and wisdom.

Comment Symbiotic Condition Applies (Score 3, Insightful) 66

chatbots are just another presentation of what it's already in StackOverflow. It can be considered as "another view" of the same data. The thing is, chatbots do not produce new knowledge. If you ask it a question regarding a new technology it will produce crap output since it will be "guessing."

Unless these chatbots really have AI, they will then need humans to ask question for new technologies in StackOverflow and then have those answered questions fed back to chatbots.

StackOverflow's affluence will fluctuate between the rise of new technologies until chatbots are more than patter matching on steroids and began to think and understand the world around them.

Comment Stockholm (Score 1) 117

Stockholm provides the best balance between urbanization and nature. Not only that, it provides the right stimulus to its citizens: amazement, excitement, inspiration, happiness, curiosity, comfort, enlightenment and a sense of connection to something greater than oneself: a sense of belonging.

Comment Re:How is this guy getting a paycheck? (Score 1) 63

If the entire tech sector went to AI, how could there not be a productivity gain? Code would be cranking out at a far faster rate than it is now, bugs would be found and fixed more quickly, usable software would be available far earlier, and more cheaply, for healthcare and retail. That in turn increases productivity across multiple sectors. And this is only code. Think of the equipment which could be produced: routers, switches, NAS, etc. Security should be improved as well since better methods could be developed. And let's not get into the extra productivity from tech support which could provide useful answers to questions.

You just described the ideal scenario of AI. That's also the "bubble."

None of that is going to happen today, nor tomorrow, nor even in 10 years.

What this guy is saying is: "Look, we inflated the AI hype to such a higher degree that the expectations are going to fall hard and short against reality.

Comment Just Follow DeVault Advice (Score 1) 155

As an alternative, he has proposed starting anew, without trying to wedge Rust into legacy C code. He wrote that "a motivated group of talented Rust OS developers could build a Linux-compatible kernel, from scratch, very quickly, with no need to engage in LKML [Linux kernel mailing list] politics. You would be astonished by how quickly you can make meaningful gains in this kind of environment; I think if the amount of effort being put into Rust-for-Linux were applied to a new Linux-compatible OS we could have something production-ready for some use cases within a few years."

The worst case scenario? Tech companies (Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, Intel, ...) start writing device drivers and maintain this Rust kernel and then the Linux kernel will be just porting that code into their own. Pretty much like the *BSD developers are porting code from Linux.

Comment Windows Is 'Insecure By Design (Score 1) 63

This Day on Slashdot:

Windows Is 'Insecure By Design,' Says Washington Post Posted by timothy on Sunday August 24, 2003 @11:34PM from the tradeoffs-are-everywhere dept.

If after 21 years of making several OSes revisions Microsoft still have problems on the security side, (without mentioning problems on all of the other sides too), why would be this time any different. Instead, couldn't it be just a PR stance to keep doing the same thing for another 21 years?

Comment Servo (Score 1) 69

I will keep repeating this: Rust was created at Mozilla to address the vulnerabilities found in Gecko engine written in C/C++ and to leverage on concurrency programming. Servo was the project in which Rust should have been proven right. It was never finished... after 12 years.

Rust is propaganda, a political stance, a social stance. Rust is anything but a programming language.

Rust should be considered the same as Cryptocurrencies, A.I. Hype and Virtual Reality headsets.

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