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Re:Sora is here on Monday December 09, 2024 @06:05PM (#42371573)
Re:CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop on Monday December 09, 2024 @04:16PM (#42370614)
"Just don't make mistakes!"
Re:RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video] on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:12AM (#42347435)
I really don't understand people's obsession with this fact. Every game that was developed on consoles before the playstation was also written in its machines assembly language. It was extremely normal at that time.
Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:07AM (#42347419)
Yea they can't edit assembly because they have reliable tools that work 100% of the time, always. They don't have to manually inspect the output of the assembler every time they write any code. This is not even close to the same thing as LLMs.
Re:Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:32PM (#42342620)
"Dave" by itself is basically the same as in c++, just a pointer to a string literal. Dave.to_string() is like std::string {"Dave"}, it allocates a heap based string from said literal. So you can use "Dave" perfectly fine if you just want a string literal.
Re:The Two Factions of C++ on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:40PM (#42285714)
No, it would be impossible to make C memory safe without just making a new language.
Re:Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:26AM (#42088062)
You voted for the rapist felon buddy. Please go ahead and explain your definition of fascism.
Re:Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:41AM (#42076144)
Think that was sarcasm.
Re:Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company on Thursday November 07, 2024 @04:11AM (#42075007)
The Geometry Transform Engine is a separate chip. It's a Cpu co-processor, all it does is some basic linear algebra. The Cpu uses it to perform that math faster and then it writes it back to ram where it ships the data off to the actual Gpu, which is something completely separate. (I've written a PSX emulator).
Re:ChatGPT Search on Sunday November 03, 2024 @12:52PM (#42034672)
Chat gpt will not always return the correct answers, thats a fundamental limitation of how it works since its non deterministic. So just saying "it worked for me" means nothing.
What...? You guys will take any possible chance you can to whine and cry about minorities having a job wont you?
Were they aware of that at the time though? If I'm remembering right they cut him out right after the allegations emerged.
Re:We played Valve's new shooter, Deadlock on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @06:06PM (#41240342)
This game only makes sense as "online only" since its pvp. Do you just want it not to exist?
"When" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Re:DARPA: Translating All C to Rust (Tractor) on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:54PM (#41113461)
What are you talking about? Yes it's impossible to have UB in safe rust unless theres some obscure compiler bug or something. This isn't a controversial statement.
Re:LG and Samsung Are Making TV Screens Disappear on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:24AM (#41107143)
They are absolutely cheaper. You can get a pretty decent 48 inch TV for ~$200.
Normally when you search you can look at many different results. With "AI Search" you just have to trust the magic box, which you already know is wrong a lot of the time.
Why would anyone want to purposely read AI bot content?
Re:Converting Codebases with LLMs on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:17PM (#41019443)
No?
Weren't they just getting better mostly because they were being scaled up? There's no way to do that once you've exhausted all of the data. Besides progress has slowed down at this point anyway.
I tried asking it to compare 9.11 to 9.9 using a python sandbox and it wrote the python code and then told me the result of the code would be 9.11 > 9.9 without actually running it. lol.
I did read the article.
Re:Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @08:25PM (#40991522)
Oh give me a break. Renewable energy advocates are "authoritarian" now? Lmao. What will you guys come up with next.
Re:I am starting an AI+Education company on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:47PM (#40981642)
I just asked chatgpt: "comparing 9.9 and 9.11, which is larger?"

and it responded:

9.11 is larger than 9.9.

When comparing these two numbers:

    9.9 can be written as 9.90 to have the same number of decimal places.
    9.11 remains 9.11.
Comparing digit by digit:

    The integer part (9) is the same for both.
    The first decimal place (9 vs. 1): 9 is larger.
    The second decimal place (0 vs. 1): 1 is larger, which makes 9.11 larger overall.
So, 9.11 > 9.9.
Re:The All-American Delusion of the Polygraph on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:51PM (#40978684)
Sorry buddy, evolution is a fact.
It doesn't indicate anything. There's no proof or evidence yet. It's just OpenAI spokespeople hyping themselves up.
Re:I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3) on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:54PM (#40972517)
What you call "bloat" is how other languages handle complexity that C necessitates that the programmer handle. Enjoy.
What's the context of the quote? What positions?
No, they shouldn't be allowed to fuck over their customers at ever turn so they can be greedy. The suggestion that we should be more worried about how much money the AT&T execs and shareholders make over their needs of their 100 million customers is bizarre.

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