The researchers in the academic field of machine learning who came up with LLMs are certainly aware of their limitations and are exploring other possibilities, but unfortunately what happened in industry is that people noticed that one particular approach was good enough to look impressive and then everyone jumped on that bandwagon.

The impression that I got from this article is that even the author of imake feels the same way, and is only maintaining it out of consideration for legacy software still using it.

Who would have thought that there would be a context in which GNU Autoconf and Automake were considered the modern way to build software?

I concur, photographic information is already standard for international travel, so this is really not a big deal. I am way more concerned about things like proposed changes to require visitors to list their last five years of social media accounts.

No, scratch that. Even black holes radiate out the information they receive. M-Files doesn’t.

That is an amazing zinger!

I was also a bit surprised to see that Vala is so widely adopted, but it is a very natural fit when you consider that it was specifically designed to use GObject as its OOP implementation, making it essentially a “native” speaker in GNOME.

No, you have it backwards. If the total pot for athletes is considerably smaller than the total pot for medical professionals, than redistributing it amongst medical professionals would not significantly increase their individual incomes because there are so many of them that each would only get a small share of it.

I barely trust natural intelligence with anything relating to security.

Specifically, the Team17 kind that shoot at each other.

Yeah, in my opinion they should not have been obsessing over getting COSMIC to work before releasing 24.04.

“Unalive” isn’t being used for political correctness, it is being used because algorithms actively penalize content using the words “kill” and “suicide”, so using “unalive” instead is a way to work around censorship.

I was not going to downvote your comment despite disagreeing with it, but since you are now citing your downvote/upvote ratio as proof that most people support your position, you now get downvotes from me.

That’s why in video games I smash everything in order to be safe.

It may have taken a while, but the Year of the Linux Desktop has finally arrived in 1969!

Here I came expecting to hear from the Rust-haters and the Wayland-haters, and instead I got to hear from the MIT License-haters!

There were plenty of people who were not Nazis in Germany when the Nazis took over the country.

In fairness, Anthropic needed some way to bundle up to stay warm in the upcoming AI winter…,

You have my deepest condolences.

Ah, that was some clever wordplay, given that one of the definitions of capital is “of or pertaining to the head”!

most people only have empathy for their immediate family and friends. that’s normal.

Speak for yourself.