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The FAQ addresses these questions: https://openjdk.org/legal/ai
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Less effectively, I presume. I’m not in the US.
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> internships where you've worked at a real company writing real code Though why would companies make that nontrivial investment if they can use AI instead? Furthermore, I’d argue that learnin…
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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This might make sense if power companies would bear the environmental costs, but they don’t. That’s one reason why it is a political topic.
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So they look hot?
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Self-hosted GitLab.
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That was basically my point. The choice probably was already made by the nomination, and the senate had no way to demonstrate that they would confirm for other reasons as well.
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Were there any nominees that acknowledged that the election was lawful?
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> How can we possibly make use of these breakthroughs if we don’t understand them? I mean, arguably the development of LLMs matches that description.
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Because “just” is doing some heavy lifting.
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> the sandbox is so secure that you can pretty much go wild -- the AI cannot introduce a significant security bug. This can only be correct when the application can’t affect anything outside the sa…
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Something to bring up with your manager for the next salary review.
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As I wrote, it could be integrated into Photos. Or they could make a Clipboard app that integrates it. Apple isn’t foreign to turning OS-wide functionality into apps, like Files and Passwords and Prev…
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You can read up the history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Intel_Inside . Nowadays the considerations aren’t exactly the same anymore as 20-30 years ago, but by some me…
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Regarding stickers on PCs, once one PC manufacturer added a sticker for feature X, they would have an advantage in physical stores over the other manufacturer’s PC next to it, because consumers overwh…
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It’s good to have options.
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I disagree. It was annoying to always have to delete the screenshot photos that you really only wanted to have on the clipboard to paste somewhere, or only wanted to extract text out of. I was very pl…
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I went through this around 15 years ago, even migrating my parents from Windows to MacOS on the promise of simplicity and better UI. No, it’s not simpler or more intuitive, instead it has its own worl…
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Always look on the bright side of life.
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Earth overcoming the sickness that is homo sapiens is a long-standing meme. The ideas that species can become extinct (Cuvier) and that humans are hurting the planet (Humboldt) have existed since arou…
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Now everyone who feels rewarded by LLMs will conclude that it demonstrates their expertise. ;)
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The appropriate response in that case is to tell them what to use, not to use it for them.
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> Right now it seems that's what people are doing with AI. […] This too shall pass. Except that it’s difficult to imagine an even more general tool that would replace AI in this role.
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In that case, it would be better to suggest to the asker that they can ask the AI. Otherwise why would they ever start? Always asking Slack is easier.
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> enshittification squared I thought AI is an exponential?
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They may be random, but are they secure?