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Comment Re:We also need better programmng (Score 1) 77

My retort was to challenge that - to point out that fronteir LLMs are now much better at writing software than most programmers. That is objectively true.

If it is objectively true provide your evidence. Given such an extraordinary claim it shouldn't be that difficult.

It doesn't "feel true"; it _is_ true.

Your assertion _is_ absurd on its face.

There are some bright and accomplished people here. That's part of what makes the place interesting and valuable. There are also a lot of drive by haters.

You sound like the goonies in our marketing department.

Comment Re:data || GTFO (Score 1) 77

Throughput Vs latency. Hardware RAID tends to be fast for processing large volumes of data, but the overhead increases the latency.

It's a bit different with DRAM though because the controller is complex and built into the CPU. AMD, for example, already transparently encrypts data in RAM with no performance loss, all in hardware.

Comment Re:We also need better programmng (Score 1) 77

I can say that both of them certainly eclipse _me_ so greatly that I can't be seen on any map that is zoomed out enough to show both of them. And while I am a relative nothing, I've had a handful of patches accepted in my life... and I've secured a few software patents in my day. That puts me in above-average territory. But there's more accomplishment gap between them and I, than there is between me and a person who cannot code at all.

There's no harm in admiring outstanding people. A particular fault of our age is that men do not know how to truly compliment and admire greatness when they find it.

ESR is a great man. DHH is a great man. My world and our industry is better for both of them. When they say that LLMs have completely changed the way they do the thing that they are better than almost all other human beings at... you should listen.

Please just put a sock in it. You keep spewing inane rhetoric about AI even in places where TFA has nothing to do with AI. You can't support your statements objectively and so all you have left are lame ass appeals to authority and generalized claims lacking any useful specificity.

There are a lot of people here who spent decades working various domains you've never even heard of it doesn't fucking matter that one person is more popular than another or their code is used by more people than someone else's... or fucking patents...Jesus Christ.

Comment Re:We also need better programmng (Score 1) 77

I agree we need better programmers.
We have better programmers.
The frontier models _are_ better programmers than all but the very best.

A rough estimate is that the best LLMs do software engineering about as well as IQ 150 software engineers do it. That makes them better at it than the vast majority of people who write code.

People see an AI do something they dont like and then conclude "the AI sucks". But lets use honest weights and measures: Human programmers make worse mistakes, and make them more often, and iterate 1000x more slowly.

I wish everyone saying LLMs are not even AI and everyone saying LLMs are as good as "software engineers" with 150 IQ would lock themselves in a room and beat each other senseless until they both started making sense.

Comment What's with the rush to judgement? (Score 2) 185

Heinz's prediction was made 24,080 days ago and there are only 35 days left on the clock. If in the immortal words of airman Dougherty Jesus H Christ we're still here after Friday 13th then fine go shit on his grave... until then I fully intend to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Submission + - Boeing's touchscreen flight controls for 737 draws backlash from pilots (aerospaceglobalnews.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Boeing is offering a drop-in replacement for the Touchscreen Control Display Unit (TCDU) on the 737 MAX and NG airliners. The old panel of buttons is replaced by a touchscreen, with no other changes to the button configuration or layout.

Professional pilots have blasted the move, claiming touchscreens are much harder to operate in turbulent skies. Others say the tactile feedback from physical buttons gives them more confidence when operating in high-pressure situations.

Comment Re:Safer? (Score 2) 74

You think LLMs would write "Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:"? You think LLMs like writing sentences that end in conjunctions that express incomplete thoughts? Do you think LLMs write "high frequences", "naively pairs", call H.265 X.265 (I was thinking of what you refer to it as in ffmpeg), imbalanced parens after "lacks motion vectors",etc?

Don't get me wrong, I am a LLM user, I absolutely do use it sometimes for search, fact checking things I'm writing, spelling/grammar checks (clearly not that time, lol), etc. But I write my own posts.

Comment Re:Day after midterms (Score 1, Interesting) 185

Maybe the real end of the world, if Trump reacts badly enough.

Population growth is levelling off and we will end up somewhere between 10 and 12 billion by the end of the century. It's sustainable as long as we are careful... Which we tend not to be. Most of the growth is in Africa, which has a lot of scope for it.

In fact the main reason population is still growing is people are living longer. The global fertility rate has dipped below 2.1, the steady state level due to childhood deaths.

Comment Re:Safer? (Score 5, Informative) 74

Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:

JPEG XL advantages:

Licensing:

JPEG XL: Fully royalty-free (Open source / Apache 2.0)
HEIC: Proprietary patent minefield (MPEG LA, Advance, Velos; royalties apply)

Legacy JPEG Migration:

JPEG XL: Lossless, reversible bitstream transcoding (~20% smaller); fast enough for real-time web servers
HEIC: Lossy re-encode only (generational quality loss; cannot reconstruct original JPEG)

Fine Detail & Textures

JPEG XL: Retains sharp text, fine lines, subtle textures, and film grain
HEIC: Video-derived coding (HEVC / X.265). Tends to smooth out high frequences and smudge grain.

Software Encoding Speed

JPEG XL: Extremely fast; highly parallelized SIMD architecture
HEIC: Exceptionally slow and computationally expensive in software

Software Decoding Speed

JPEG XL: Fast, lightweight multi-threaded CPU decoding
HEIC: Heavy CPU overhead (without using hardware acceleration)

Progressive Rendering:

JPEG XL: True progressive decode; smart saliency algorithm to focus bandwidth on critical details first.
HEIC: None; full file must be received and decoded before display

Lossless Compression
JPEG XL: Dedicated modular mode; vastly outperforms PNG and WebP
HEIC: Ill-suited; you basically have to try to do lossless compression with an inherently-lossy format

Bit Depth & HDR

JPEG XL: Native HDR; up to 32-bit floating point per channel
HEIC: Typically capped at 10-bit or 12-bit integer

Max Dimensions & Scaling

JPEG XL: Up to 1B x 1B; efficient viewport/crop loading without full decoding
HEIC: v5.2, 4096x2160; v6.2: 8192x4320; a tiling hack allows up to 16384 x 16384

Channels & Color Spaces:

JPEG XL: Arbitrary color spaces (hyperspectral); unlimited extra channels (alpha, depth, thermal, masks, CMYK, etc)
HEIC: Rigid container; limited auxiliary channels and standard video color spaces

HEIC advantages:

Rollout / acceleration:

JPEG XL: no dedicated hardware acceleration (thankfully, it's not as important because it's so much more efficient). Software adoption still rolling out.
HEIC: Hardware silicon (ASICs). Default capture format on modern iOS/Android; native capture in Sony, Canon, and Nikon cameras

Video:

JPEG XL: Supports animations (GIF/APNG replacement), with some optimizations** (it's not just a series of stills), but lacks the full set of optimizations that a proper video codec has.
HEIC: Container naively pairs full HEVC video tracks and audio with video.

** - JPEG XL can store up to 4 reference frames in a buffer, with multiple blending modes from the references (add, replace, multiply, etc); has subframe bounding boxes ("dirty rectangles") for when only part of a frame changes; invisible frames; modular deltas (differences between frames); etc. However, it lacks motion vectors (e.g. detecting a feature drifting across a scene and simply having to encode "move it" (followed by any needed deltas). So it's great for "GIFs", but if you wanted to encode a full movie, it'd be significantly larger than e.g. HEVC.

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