> it suggests that these tools might actually be better at delivering the perception to the user of increased productivity while real productivity gains are lower, or maybe zero, or maybe negative in some cases. Or that…
Lol, no. We discourage her from using the computer because she's been scammed* so many times. Generally speaking AI is not uniformly perceived as this awe inspiring boon to those of her generation. Often it invokes fear…
> You would expect only people who have a very high opinion of themselves to not feel the need to use AI. Please explain why my 82 year-old mother-in-law needs to use AI. Is it just so you won't consider her arrogant?
Ex-googler here as well. I'm not sure the distortion was worse outside of the core business. In the peripheral businesses (if one can call them businesses), I think you had more of an opportunity to ponder the larger…
You mean as a distraction from the point being made?
I said "harkens". Of course that structure never appeared on a punched card, and was designed with the unix block size in mind.
> The code, but not the function, occurred in multiple places in the V6 kernel and userland. Yep. The code is essential given the design of the direct structure, which harkens back to the fixed-width data fields of…
> No other data structure works like this. You can't mess this up in an array, because no function that manipulates arrays is just going to keep going until there is a null. This is patently false. Sentinel markers are…
strncpy appears somewhere around the Unix v7 time frame, however only as function in the standard C library. It is not used in the v7 kernel itself.
> You can spread propaganda and poorly sourced zeitgeist and be among friends but if you try to have a genuine conversation about programming languages you are made to be unwelcome immediately. Indeed. And the ignorance…
For many people who live in bad days, the thing that passes is their life.
IP licensing and certification are entirely separate from access to standards documentation. Of course certifying conformance to a standard is going to have a cost. But publishing documentation that has already been…
> ... not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, So it would be okay for AI to rescale a sofa to appear proportionate to other furniture in a typical room, even…
> AI just makes it easier to get the information people were already consuming. This is clearly false. By now it's evident that AIs can hallucinate in ways that contradict their training data. That means that, beyond…
Rather like the people crafting the submissions to your 5 day old account
Oh ffs. How does one draw a line from Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Steve Wozniak, Bill Joy, even Linus Torvalds to 'terrifying overlord'? The fact is that those people who were closet 'terrifying overlords' weren't…
There's no "supposed to" here. Humans, (including governments) are inclined to do bad things; both law and technology are necessary to restrain those tendencies.
Arguably more like soft wired CPU logic, since the contents of the plugboards were not uniformly addressable words.
Absolutely. The real moral liability here rests with any organization still using SSNs as a form of secret or authenticating credential. Spend the legal fees to go after these people and the problem will be truly solved.
> Over the course of the next 5 days, they sent me 5 onboarding marketing emails and I could not opt out of any of them. Such consternation, all for the want of an email filter.
Lol, I had a similar thought as well, but more along the lines of "We're coming for you next, JavaScript!" But the effort is certainly an exquisite rearrangement of the deck chairs, no?
Right? Just gross...
I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.
Lol. Unfortunately VCs and ever-so-ernest founders are impervious to irony. Best to just let them get their grift on and just be happy it isn't your money they're boondoggling.
Completely unnecessary retort. At no point did anyone in this thread state that sorting legos was a major problem of society. Rather, the GP merely implied that some parents would love to have a robot to sort their kids…
> it suggests that these tools might actually be better at delivering the perception to the user of increased productivity while real productivity gains are lower, or maybe zero, or maybe negative in some cases. Or that…
Lol, no. We discourage her from using the computer because she's been scammed* so many times. Generally speaking AI is not uniformly perceived as this awe inspiring boon to those of her generation. Often it invokes fear…
> You would expect only people who have a very high opinion of themselves to not feel the need to use AI. Please explain why my 82 year-old mother-in-law needs to use AI. Is it just so you won't consider her arrogant?
Ex-googler here as well. I'm not sure the distortion was worse outside of the core business. In the peripheral businesses (if one can call them businesses), I think you had more of an opportunity to ponder the larger…
You mean as a distraction from the point being made?
I said "harkens". Of course that structure never appeared on a punched card, and was designed with the unix block size in mind.
> The code, but not the function, occurred in multiple places in the V6 kernel and userland. Yep. The code is essential given the design of the direct structure, which harkens back to the fixed-width data fields of…
> No other data structure works like this. You can't mess this up in an array, because no function that manipulates arrays is just going to keep going until there is a null. This is patently false. Sentinel markers are…
strncpy appears somewhere around the Unix v7 time frame, however only as function in the standard C library. It is not used in the v7 kernel itself.
> You can spread propaganda and poorly sourced zeitgeist and be among friends but if you try to have a genuine conversation about programming languages you are made to be unwelcome immediately. Indeed. And the ignorance…
For many people who live in bad days, the thing that passes is their life.
IP licensing and certification are entirely separate from access to standards documentation. Of course certifying conformance to a standard is going to have a cost. But publishing documentation that has already been…
> ... not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, So it would be okay for AI to rescale a sofa to appear proportionate to other furniture in a typical room, even…
> AI just makes it easier to get the information people were already consuming. This is clearly false. By now it's evident that AIs can hallucinate in ways that contradict their training data. That means that, beyond…
Rather like the people crafting the submissions to your 5 day old account
Oh ffs. How does one draw a line from Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Steve Wozniak, Bill Joy, even Linus Torvalds to 'terrifying overlord'? The fact is that those people who were closet 'terrifying overlords' weren't…
There's no "supposed to" here. Humans, (including governments) are inclined to do bad things; both law and technology are necessary to restrain those tendencies.
Arguably more like soft wired CPU logic, since the contents of the plugboards were not uniformly addressable words.
Absolutely. The real moral liability here rests with any organization still using SSNs as a form of secret or authenticating credential. Spend the legal fees to go after these people and the problem will be truly solved.
> Over the course of the next 5 days, they sent me 5 onboarding marketing emails and I could not opt out of any of them. Such consternation, all for the want of an email filter.
Lol, I had a similar thought as well, but more along the lines of "We're coming for you next, JavaScript!" But the effort is certainly an exquisite rearrangement of the deck chairs, no?
Right? Just gross...
I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.
Lol. Unfortunately VCs and ever-so-ernest founders are impervious to irony. Best to just let them get their grift on and just be happy it isn't your money they're boondoggling.
Completely unnecessary retort. At no point did anyone in this thread state that sorting legos was a major problem of society. Rather, the GP merely implied that some parents would love to have a robot to sort their kids…