He's some guy who works for Tim Apple I think.

Nah. The problem here is that the studies I've seen suggest skills atrophy when people become reliant on AI. So the likelihood is that Torvalds will, ultimately, deteriorate to that junior software dev you intensely dislike.\

The good news though is that if you're a C programmer, then even if you're the kind of C programmer who thinks Rust isn't necessary because only stupid C programmers make mistakes, unlike you, you're perfect (etc, you've seen the type, and would not touch a line of their code), you will probably be a better C programmer than Linux Torvalds within a year or two.

Alas, it won't be because you're any better at C programming.

> Is it? We have no means to test for this.

Oh FFS. It's a mathematical algorithm. Implemented on a rock. It's 100% abstract. So no, it can't feel pain.

You're so desperate to be "clever" you've gone around the circle right into the unimaginably-stupid zone.

Have you considered though the possibility that some of the smartest computer scientists in the world might also be incredibly stupid. I mean, this is the impression I'm increasingly getting as people who know how the fucking technology works insist that they're found the solution to sentience and it's... word prediction algorithms.
 

Here's a little sticker for knowing what Firefox is tho. You must be good at computers.

If Meta is going all in on AI, maybe it'll cause them to collapse when the bubble bursts.

Mediocrity has worked for them since the late 2000s, as it has for companies from Microsoft to MacDonalds. Google once had a decent search engine, and Apple a decent set of personal computers, but both at some point said "Fuck it, let's be sub-mediocre" and lost virtually no market share. Mediocrity is where it's at, why change now?

There have been numerous articles about it recently. You have the internet. No need to stop the class just because you're the only lazy ignoramus around here.

It seems to boil down to "They valued their user's privacy and so refused to use a company that funnels some ungodly portion of the Internet, decrypting and the re-encrypting it, through its servers."

Just because a "solution" to a problem exists doesn't make it appropriate or better than nothing "CommunityMember".

What question do you think was being answered by that wall of text? Because it wasn't a question the GP was asking.

"So Goldfinger, I suppose you expect me to talk"

"Good catch! You're absolutely right. You're right to push back, I am not expecting you to talk. There are several reasons I can't expect you to talk:

1. You're well known as a spy who is uncorruptable and has been threatened by far worse than a laser table.
2. You would likely spend the time trying to escape, rather than answering my question.
3. I would not be able to trust any answer you give anyway, because you would be seconds away from death while it would take much longer for me to determine if your answers are true.

In fact, I expect you to die. You not being alive any more would solve several issues, such as preventing you from interfering with my plans in future, or killing me by shooting out a window in a plane causing me to be sucked out into the air.

Would you like to ask me how to escape from the laser table, or how to find Pussy Galore's phone number?

you're an old and bitter man, and you've only yourself to blame

and I'm old too and a loooong time c++ professional dev (and still am) and somehow the idea of change or the word 'Rust' doesn't make me shit my pants

I feel bad for you

Patents, buddy. Developers know things better than you do. Plus other reasons, but I suspect you'll just handwave them all away because you're very very smart. It's definitely not vastly better than JPEG XL.

There's no possible way you're a programmer.

Yeah that changes the context somewhat. There's a difference between "We should remove the bi-annual time change, it's unhealthy" (which I agree with and would like to happen) and the wishful thinking "WhAt iF iT wAs SuMmEr aLl yEaR rOuNd" crap that seems beloved of legislators and others who sort of agree that the bi-annual time changes need to go, but have the worst idea of how to implement it.

This paper isn't advocating for keeping bi-annual time changes. It's advocating for standard time. And I agree standard time is probably a better approach, even if some people get butt hurt about the idea of it not still being light at 9pm in the middle of August.