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Re:I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3) by bruce343434 on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:04AM (#40968009)
With the up and coming browser LLM API, you could just have the LLM translate everything on the frontend. One of the few tasks that LLMs are consistently good at.
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Re:I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3) by taeric on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:12AM (#40968062)
I feel this successfully upgrades a gun into a canon?
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Re:I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3) by TeMPOraL on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:29AM (#40968192)
A modern artillery gun, where each shell costs upwards of $1K apiece, and lord have mercy on you if it ever goes off inside the barrel.
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Re:I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3) by layer8 on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:16AM (#40968606)
LLMs are not “consistently good” at translating UI text, because a proper translation requires understanding the application and the application context of each piece of text.
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Re:I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3) by colejohnson66 on Monday July 15, 2024 @12:27PM (#40969254)
Yes. Context is very important. Otherwise, you end up compressing files into a "postcode file".[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36231313

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