Except for supply chain attacks. You get a foot in the door, and open the rest with impunity

This isn’t just a “people in charge” problem. Way too many developers are part of the problem by using LLMs for the wrong problems.

Lead poisoning has been my working theory to explain the last 50 years.

This is the simple checklist for using LLMs:

1. You are the expert
2. LLM output is exclusively your input

All other use is irresponsible. Unless of course the knowledge within the output isn’t important.

I haven’t seen anything yet. At work, the ones that praise AI the loudest are exceptionally highly correlated with the people who lack a good understanding of the core concepts. The ones that just float around cargo culting and looking busy by making noise.

That said, LLMs are still useful tools, that are highly misused. What they’re useful for, is a lot less than most think. The user needs to be the expert. If they’re not, they’d be better off reading a book on the matter (and how things are looking, it might have to be one written before LLMs came out).

That part threw me off. Last time i used it, I did incremental backups of a 500 gig disk once a week or so, and it took 20 seconds max.

Considering that FFI is very much a thing, I’m finding it difficulty to understand the point it’s trying to make.

It’s not the driver that kills, it’s the car. How are you going to assign man-slaughter charges to an inanimate object?

PS: The inverse is true for guns tho.

I’m impressed at the almost perfect correlation with the ones that consistently struggled with the fundamentals

You’re welcome. I want to apologize for my snarky tone. More often than not, questions on forums are not asked in good faith. Yours seems to have been.

FFS, this is quoting you:

One in every 20 computers. Not too shabby.

Then someone clarified.

No, Statcounter measures usage; not machines.

Then you derped back with

So the headline is a lie and it’s not 5% of market share?

Then I made the mistake of indulging.

Go fuck off.

In most places I’ve lived for the past 40 years, I could just walk to the store. I have now four to choose from, all within 10 minutes of walking, and the city center is about an hour away. Ther are also bicycles.

By having groceries, you can make food yourself, at home. You can do this many times, for each time you actually have to get groceries.

As for eating at a restaurant, collective transport ranges from obvious to absolutely necessary, depending on the population density. When my family go out to eat, it’s a lot more convenient to hop on a bus or tram to the city center. It takes half the time, if you consider parking, it’s cheaper, and you can have a drink or two as well. You also get to engage with each other, during transit.

In the less car-retarded world, food delivery is also easier to do with non-car methods.

In any case, and because I know the kind of responses people reply with… Please don’t. I just gave you some examples and a different perspective. Americans are culturally dumb as shit when it comes to considering the obviously better alternatives, in so many different aspects, and I don’t really care all that much.

Good question. How about you share what it is you don’t understand? “Market share” depends on some understanding. If it was “Linux machines”, there are more than 100 for every 1 of windows or macs. But fewer than one out of these 100 has a monitor, mouse and keyboard connected to them.

Ps: feel free to fuck off, if you’re going to be rude and ignorant.

I think it is acceptably incorrect. Linux machines are everywhere, in a lot more things than what most are aware of. If you counted all “machines” in the virtual sense, that runs one of MacOS, Windows or Linux, I’d be surprised if there is more than 1% for MacOS and Windows combined.

slightly more efficient that each person driving to the restaurant

Of course. But the correct solution here doesn’t require any individuals driving.

I think you skipped part of the sentence.

I think they’re referring to the online experience. Every single post about some “woman who does something intelligent / skillful”, with enough attention (and it doesn’t take much!), will contain guys being absolute shits.

Seems like the confusion can be attributed to assuming the discussion was limited to “being outside”.

Not to mention that you know that exact typeface and pixel perfect location where letters can be, so it should be relatively easy to go through each possible subsequent character and match the pixelated value.

That’s such a weird take, I’m not sure it’s not an attempt at rage baiting.

Certain types of advertising is illegal where I’m from. In particular: political adverts of any kind, and ads that target children.