Over time, people change the weapons they use to hurt each other with. What used to have nothing in common with words meant to hurt now demands mental energy to decide whether it is an attack. Political correctness is…
There are lots of parts of analysis that really matter for readability but aren't used as inputs to other analysis phases and thus mistakes are okay. Things like function and variable names. Letting an LLM pick them…
The expected outcome of using a LLM to decompile is a binary that is so wildly different from the original that they cannot even be compared. If you only make mistakes very rarely and in places that don't cause…
My view is that you cannot sacrifice other peoples' lives and belongings, and call it good, without also sacrificing some of your own. It does not actually have to be "an eye for an eye", the sacrifices do not have to…
While "Empathy for the homeless" can situationally mean talking nicely about them, it also means stopping, blocking, and undoing directly terrible actions against the homeless. Bulldozing peoples' stuff is in fact…
> This is a gross oversimplification. So after emailing, do you wait for the rust bindings to be fixed? Do you just get your changes merged regardless? Does the rust bindings maintainer have a say in what form your…
Straightforward intelligence boosting genes are valuable enough that unless they are very recent, they should already have spread everywhere. It's more likely that developing brains have a huge number of potential…
The article says almost exactly the same things you complain about it not having. In pretty much the same order.
Sometimes people write rage-inducingly stupid code that you then have to support forever. So I get why they do things like that. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040115-00/?p=41...
old.reddit.com seems to still be working. I can read the comments on there, but I can't for www.reddit.com
The author of the article has had their understanding of systems eat their understanding of humans. Every time they make a realization about people, it immediately gets turned to getting more understanding and control…
Over time, people change the weapons they use to hurt each other with. What used to have nothing in common with words meant to hurt now demands mental energy to decide whether it is an attack. Political correctness is…
There are lots of parts of analysis that really matter for readability but aren't used as inputs to other analysis phases and thus mistakes are okay. Things like function and variable names. Letting an LLM pick them…
The expected outcome of using a LLM to decompile is a binary that is so wildly different from the original that they cannot even be compared. If you only make mistakes very rarely and in places that don't cause…
My view is that you cannot sacrifice other peoples' lives and belongings, and call it good, without also sacrificing some of your own. It does not actually have to be "an eye for an eye", the sacrifices do not have to…
While "Empathy for the homeless" can situationally mean talking nicely about them, it also means stopping, blocking, and undoing directly terrible actions against the homeless. Bulldozing peoples' stuff is in fact…
> This is a gross oversimplification. So after emailing, do you wait for the rust bindings to be fixed? Do you just get your changes merged regardless? Does the rust bindings maintainer have a say in what form your…
Straightforward intelligence boosting genes are valuable enough that unless they are very recent, they should already have spread everywhere. It's more likely that developing brains have a huge number of potential…
The article says almost exactly the same things you complain about it not having. In pretty much the same order.
Sometimes people write rage-inducingly stupid code that you then have to support forever. So I get why they do things like that. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040115-00/?p=41...
old.reddit.com seems to still be working. I can read the comments on there, but I can't for www.reddit.com
The author of the article has had their understanding of systems eat their understanding of humans. Every time they make a realization about people, it immediately gets turned to getting more understanding and control…