Bull. I've got a Mac from 2015 that's never had the OS reinstalled. It's the same vintage as the Linux install on my desktop. The fresh Windows 11 install on that desktop seems to do most of the things the OP mentioned.

Sure. You just require expensive human compiler writers.

Good news. "This country" is expanding! Again.

Right. Fortunately the bare human eyeball (aperture of about 5 mm; 8 g imaging system; 1300 g narrative generation system) resolves them no problem.

Is that the Brazilian case described on Slashdot a couple weeks ago? Where an American foot surgeon creatively interpreted some ordinary events to sell a book?

I wonder if the Zimbabwe and Australian cases you're talking about might be similar?

Because it's an American company and the US is a really weird outlier when it comes to religion.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Fwp...

The bible is pretty clear on morality. You do what your master commands and don't ask any annoying questions. For example:

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

Deuteronomy 20

Maybe not what we should be teaching AI. Or anybody, for that matter.

Why would an LLM need a langauge that's not machine language?

Also, your link is talking about going the other way and turning a program into a circuit then translating that into a transformer, then using that to execute the program, which is kind of interesting but holy shit inefficient.

That simile is pretty on the nose.

The conciseness of C and terse C++.

The performance of the former. Perhaps by excising some aspects of the latter.

It's possible to write very nice C++ if you just don't use some of the features. GCC even has a command line argument to enforce this reduced feature set: -x c

I clicked on this story to say this. Amazing.

It's interesting hearing this argument made about C. Way back when we said the same thing about assembly. Probably the originals said the same thing about machine code (and were actually right). Assembly pretty much got replaced as a language all but the very lowest level programmers actually write because computers got fast enough it wasn't worth the effort. C can be too. And C++ and Rust.

The whole "content consumer" versus "content creator" thing is silly. But your implied definition of "content creator" as someone who uses Acrobat goes right into hilarious.

Nope. Most people look at the price, size, and glance at what it looks like in the store. Many of the rest look at the price and size and make the opposite decision. I suspect the number who actually care is pretty small. Same goes for monitors.

And if you think you're one of the ones who it really totally does matter to, if you haven't calibrated your tv/monitor using a hardware colourimeter then no you're not.

What would those loyal customers do if you just didn't have anything to sell them? What would *you* do?

Supply and demand isn't just I-can-sell-it-for-more-so-I-will. Decreased supply means that vendors have less to sell so they have to sell for more to cover their fixed expenses like rent and salaries. Increased demand and/or decreased supply means there isn't enough for everyone at the original price; higher prices prioritize people who want it more.