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It will melt in a furnace, but not in a normal open fire.

burn them

It’s pure gold, it won’t burn

I’m preparing to start a company, and as a single person who needs to quit a job to do this, having to wait for three-ish months starting when I start filing before I can actually do business is extremely annoying. It doesn’t have to be 2 days and 100% online as far as I’m concerned, but several months at full operating expenses just waiting until the last registration is finally confirmed is just not how we get more startups to start in Europe.

But you can already have a megacorporation on the EU level, the Societas Europaea (SE). Like Airbus.

This new thing sounds more like they want to make it easier for everybody else.

Yes and no… you’re basically saying that with support from China and Russia, they got to a point where they can build WW2 tech invented more than 80 years ago using pen and paper. There’s definitely newer tech that they can’t build (e.g. computers are imported).

As far as I know Tears of the Kingdom is capped at 30 fps and 900p on Switch 1 in docked mode. This update gets you this Switch 1 docked mode experience on handheld, so it should not get you 60 fps or any of the other improvements of the switch 2 upgrade pack.

notice that there’s no Lithium Polymer column…

There is no Lithium Polymer column because the page you linked explicitly only compares Lithium Ion batteries…

I’ve had some products that use ChoViva (fake chocolate made from sunflower seeds and oats) and they were ok. On the other hand my only memory of Hershey’s chocolate is just pain, even 30 years ago (last time I was in the US). So maybe it’s not replacing cocoa as such that’s the problem.

Dynamic swap and zswap aren’t really the same as efficient ram usage it’s just good ways to mitigate when you run out.

I disagree. If the OS automatically identifies unneeded pages and compresses them or swaps them out, it’s certainly using the physical memory more efficiently than if it wasn’t doing these things.

avoiding multiple versions of the same library is what distros exist for

But they can’t if the applications they want to ship don’t all use the same version. E.g. Ubuntu ships GTK 2, 3, and 4. Arch even still ships GTK 1 in addition to these three.

avoiding loading different frameworks is what Desktop Environments are for

What happens is you run KDE but then you still want to run Firefox so you still need GTK.

There are some advantages macOS can have but it depends on usage patterns and user knowledge:

• You don’t have to configure swap on macOS, while on Linux you can get into a situation where e.g. at install time you set up some default 2 GB swap but then it’s not enough and you don’t know that’s a thing that can be changed.
• You don’t have to configure compression for RAM or swap on macOS; on Linux you often have to know you can set up zram/zswap if you want it. Compression can make a huge difference for users that switch between memory heavy applications as long as they don’t literally switch every 5 seconds.
• On macOS, applications generally use the same frameworks e.g. for UI (because there is not much choice), and they can be loaded once and shared between all of them. Linux can share libraries too but users can run into situations where their applications use multiple different versions of Qt, GTK, etc. at the same time, and then you have stuff like snap on top that comes with its own copies of even basic system libraries. Containers also do this. As a Linux user you can avoid library bloat to some extent but “normal” users are not aware of it in the first place.

every 60 seconds, a minute passes

The last time a minute did not pass after 60 seconds was only in 2016 though, less than ten years ago

The rapture already happened, that’s why people are calling themselves Christians but never actually following Christ’s teachings. The actual believers are long gone.

Croatia has some of that too

I guess I was pretty happy with my Atari Falcon030 so the idea has my blessing…

It’s just my experience as someone who was pretty much forced to use AI for coding by my employer for the last few years. For the longest time it was completely useless. And then it suddenly wasn’t. I’m sure you’ll keep hearing this kind of story though, because people have different requirements and AI assisted coding or even agents don’t have to start working for everybody at the same time.

Sure. How much the language or features change is also important. For example Claude can build entire iPhone apps in Swift but you bet they’re going to be full of warnings about things that are illegal now and you bet if there’s any concurrency stuff it’s going to be a wild mix of everything async that ever existed in Swift. It makes sense too because LLMs are trained on code that’s, on average, outdated.

But what it’s good at and what it’s not good at is just part of what you need to know when using AI, just like with any other tool. I have projects too where it can at best replace google, so I don’t try to make it implement those by itself.

I mean if they came with a cool android body we could talk about it. It should at least be able to do cleaning and cooking. Otherwise my wife won’t like it.

Yes but that’s generally true for low end laptops. They may not always have unified memory on a soc in the Intel world but they don’t get a discrete GPU with its own memory.

The A18 is the previous gen iPhone’s chip. So the target audience is people who could do their work on a phone but want a bigger screen and a keyboard. For people who use the current cheap iPad (A16 with 6 GB) it’ll be an upgrade.

If you want bug ridden code with security issues which is not extensible and which no-one understands, then sure, it’s a practical use case.

This assumes you never review it, meaning it’s at best an argument against vibe coding. It’s not an argument against using LLMs for coding in general.

Additionally, I’ve been writing software for a living for almost 30 years, and I could say the exact same thing about a lot of human generated code I’ve reviewed during that time. I don’t even know how often I’ve explained basic stuff like “security goes in the backend, not in the frontend” to humans.

Let’s face it the only reason you’re saying “coding is a practical use case” is because you yourself don’t code, and don’t understand it.

I certainly do code and if I don’t understand what the LLM outputs it doesn’t go in the project.

I can’t see another reason why would assume the problems experienced in other domains somehow don’t apply to coding.

I’m a software engineer, I can’t judge LLMs in most other domains. I also don’t think there are no problems. A tool doesn’t have to be 100% problem free to be useful as long as you recognize the limitations.

So you’re going to have to pick your way through every single line it generates in order to have the same confidence you would have if you wrote it

I don’t see a problem with this. The post even mentions pulling code from stackoverflow, which is the same. But nobody ever argued that it has no uses in coding because you still have to read the code.

Honestly at this point any article just flat out dismissing LLMs for coding only reads to me like the author isn’t even trying to stay up to date. Which is understandable if they don’t like AI but makes posting about it a bit pointless.

A year ago I would had a similar opinion as the author but in the last 3-4 months specifically, it feels like AI based tools made a huge leap. I went from using short snippets for learning to letting AI implement entire features and being actually happy with the result.

There is however still a pretty big difference between what it produces for common problems vs. what it produces for specialized difficult ones. It’s also inherently better at some languages than others based on the availability of up-to-date training material. So you need some amount of breadth in your projects to accurately judge it.

If you only try some AI service in free mode on one thing every month, for example, you’ll just have this very polarized opinion that’s either “AI is useless” or “AI can do everything”, but you won’t have a good idea of what it can and can’t do.

Why? It’s an optional feature, if you don’t need your Octave programs to interact with Java you can disable Java support at build time. Loses some of the MATLAB compatibility (since MATLAB has this feature too) but you’re not required to use it.